DGS2 who is at 6th form has been looking for a weekend job for some time but there is so much competition a great deal of patience and the ability to grow another skin is required.
He was delighted to get past the online application for shelf stacking in ASDA and actually get an interview yesterday. It was a lengthy process including a written test and a Q&A on stock control but he was confident he was doing OK.
For the final test they had to divide into pairs. He found himself working with a, shall we say, woman not in the first flush of youth (my age!) The task was to construct any building they liked out of sticks of spaghetti and a bag of marshmallows. 
DGS's partner was clearly not amused and as the supervisor approached, their creation started to list alarmingly. The spotty youth with a clipboard then asked in a very condescending manner, 'What are we going to call our work of art then?'
'The leaning bloody tower of Asda', she snorted as she stormed out, telling him where to stick his marshmallows. 
The good new is that DGS is somewhere up the top of a waiting list and they'll let him know when a position becomes available.
As I'm job seeking this so depressing - I'm not sure I could even begin some of these wacky tests.....
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