Stream Employment Application

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Name:

Address:

City:

Phone:    

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Education:

 

 

Experience:

 

ALL Positions

 

 

English is your

 

Second

 

Third

 

Fourth

 

Next

language

 

 

You are on a phone call and your cube-mate wants to buy drugs off of you. The person hands you a $50.00 bill and wants change. You should

 

Have the person wait while you call the Federal Reserve to make sure the bill is good

 

Shout, "For the last time, I am not giving you anymore free CRACK!"

 

Mumble "Customer service..." and stare vacantly into space while waiting for your lunch break

 

All of the above

 

 

A caller demands to speak to your supervisor regarding your attitude. You

 

Give him the number for the ASPCA

 

Transfer him to your cube-mate, who, while sniffing crack laughs hysterically at the customer

 

Refuse because he doesn't know the SECRET PASSWORD

 

All of the above

 

 

Computer or software sales

 

 

A manager approaches you on the floor and asks how much memory you need to run Windows 95. You

 

Pretend you don't hear them and walk briskly into the break room

 

Say, "Can't you see I'm helping another customer?!", and run off to the back to smoke a cigarette

 

Continue to stare blankly into space

 

Blurt out the first number that comes into your head

 

 

You pick up the ringing phone, expecting to hear your girlfriend and/or mother. A customer(!) asks if you support Photoshop 3.05 for Windows. You

 

Blurt "Certainly not!" in a loud voice, while checking your teeth in the reflection from your screen and trying to remember if you do or not

 

Snarl "Not my department!" into the receiver and slam down the phone

 

Play a game with the other agents- see who can get a caller to hold the longest by offering to "check the LBJ site."

 

Explain how you're really a software developer, and that your Visual Basic version 'Fotoshop' is really far superior and slightly less difficult to use

 

 

Audio/Visual

 

 

A kindly older gentleman asks to purchase the 15" monitor that was advertised in the morning paper for $99, a gift for his granddaughter's college dorm room. You

 

Tell him that, darn it, Dell just sold the last one. However, the top-quality 'SUNY'-brand monitor right next to it is only $225! When he points out the fact that the website shows 5,438 remaining, tell him they're wrong. If he asks for your boss, hang up.

 

Scoff at his selection. Explain that all the kids nowadays would be humiliated by anything less than a 60" Mitsubishi with Stereo Surround- only $3200!

 

Tell him Compaq has some, and they'll hold one. Then call Compaq and tell them to send him to Gateway. Repeat.

 

Invite him out to your car, where there's an 'Open Box Buy'

 

 

You're working at Road Runner today. Customers call about an outage in Houston. You

 

Nonchalantly tell them that, yes, even at 49.95 you can not keep them connected for any reasonable length of time.

 

Insist repeatedly that there is no outage, but that the Cable Leprechaun is angered by their new software

 

Fantasize idly of your dream job at Wendy’s. Someday, someday

 

Play Top Gun on your computer and turn the volume up so loud that you're instantly sterile

 

 

 

 

Employment Experience:

 

 

Have you been fired by Stream or any subsidiary of the Solectron Corporation in the last three years?

 

Yes No

 

 

Have you been involved in retailing in the USSR, North Korea, Thailand, or any of the former Soviet satellites?

 

Yes No

 

 

Are you 'computer literate'*?

 

Yes No

 

Can you:

 

 

Program your VCR?

 

 

Yes No

 

 

Use an ATM?

 

 

Yes No

 

 

Use a remote channel changer?

 

 

Yes No

 

 

Flush a toilet without assistance?

 

 

Yes No

 

 

*NOTE: If answer to any of the above is yes, please answer YES.

 

 

 

Expected salary:

 

$4.85/hr $5.00/hr $5.15/hr $6.00/hr*

 

*Your Masters is in  

 

Previous Employment:

 

For how long?

 

 

Thanks for applying to Stream. We're certain you'll be laid off in no time!


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