You always seem to picture yourself getting a job as a nice and exciting
experience where you will learn and grow, but I learned the hard way. As I got into Sears,
I did not know that I would be passing through so many heart aches and unhappiness not
sentimentally, but emotionally. As I go on with the story, you will understand why I feel
this way and what lessons I have, earned that has changed me from being a shy girl to a
As it all starts in June 1998 as my cousin starts her job at Sears. She says its great
and I was thinking, " A job where I earn my own money and not ask my father!" So as
the months went by I thought about getting a job and I heard from my cousin that Sears
was hiring. I thought to jump in the occasion and apply. So I applied and no response
after 2 weeks. So what I decided was that I would fill out an application and put my
resume behind it and hand it in personally in to Human Resources to a lady named Mary,
the manager of that office. I did it 4 more times until one day I got a call from Sears
saying that I had to come in for training and so I did. After training, I started working
As I worked in Hardware, I had an conventional time down there. I was the only
woman at the time working in Hardware. The only problem was that me being a rookie
Melissa, the manager, was not very fond of me after a while. She had a look everytime I
would do some thing right that looked like a demon look alike. All she did was wear
black clothing everyday of the year, one time she came in jeans and all of us downstairs
were stunned. Melissa always had a good mood for the males but not for females. After
two months of being there she was constantly on my back, but I was the best down stairs,
I had the most PPP's (Product Protection Plan)! There was a time were she took two
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