In Bowling Green? Looking for a summer job?

- don’t come in wearing a dirty shirt.

- don’t walk in with four of your friends, ignore the counter guy’s
greeting, whisper and giggle furtively for five minutes in a cluster by
the front door like 11-year-old girls about to go ask Clay Aiken for a
tampon, and THEN come up and ask for a job.

- when told the place in question isn’t hiring, don’t go “aw, man. you
sure?” If I really DO need an employee but I’m suffering from a bout of
temporary amnesia, it’s probably going to still be affecting me four
seconds after the first time you asked.

- have a basic grasp of the English language, decent posture, and the
ability to talk without sounding like you’ve got a dog-choking wad of
Bubblicious in your mouth.

- conversely, don’t offer a full-on resume on expensive stationery when applying for a record store clerk job.

- most importantly, remember that - especially in a small business
where the owner is usually there all the time - it’d help your cause if
you’d ever set foot in the place prior to asking for a job. Don’t you
think the owner of such a specialty business would already have a pool
of resourceful, knowledgeable REGULARS to hit up first? People who
already have a clue about what that business is all about?

Hope these are helpful to those of you out pounding the pavement today.
Especially the one about the dirty shirt. I mean, for Christ’s sake,
really.