last minute job searching
Every day, around 4:30 and continuing on until at least 6:00 (so our voicemail says), it happens. People start calling and hurriedly asking for jobs. They aren’t people we’ve ever talked to before. Sometimes they’re recent graduates, or students home for the summer. Sometimes they don’t even know what we do and are looking for light industrial or clerical work.
But the common thread always seems to be, “Oh crap! Parent/Spouse is coming home soon and they’re going to ask me if I looked for a job today! I’d better call a temp agency or something…”
We get it a lot right after holidays too, after people have just had to sit through Thanksgiving dinner and tell their extremely successful sibling or cousin that they’re “between jobs right now.”