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Originally Posted by jricci13
My very sweet 33 year old niece put in a job application at Amerikanos Grille in Spanish Springs. She is new to the Villages so naturally I took her to the square to put in applications since she has extensive service experience. I sat at the bar and drank a draft beer while she spoke to management and filled out an application. She came over to me for a few minutes and sat beside me to get a couple of phone numbers for the app and then continued to be interviewed by the staff. She was told to return for work the next day at 2:30 p.m. (at lease that is how it was presented to her). I paid my bill and together we both left.
The next day my niece got dressed up and was ready to start her new job. I dropped her off at Amerikanos on the golf cart at 2: 30 and came home. Shortly after, I received a phone call from her; she was walking home and very upset. She told me that management had told her that she was not hired, she was to come in for an interview, and they were not comfortable hiring her because it was reported that "SHE STAYED AT THE VENUE AFTER APPLYING AND DRANK SHOTS OF FIREBALL AT THE BAR!". She pleaded with them that this was not true, but was told that she would not be hired. I
I was flabbergasted that they would make up such a story and went to talk to management. I attempted to angrily talk to the manager and let her know that this was false. My niece had never been to the square, drank nothing and I was sitting there the entire time she was filling out an application. The manager walked away and wouldn't even listen.
I have heard this kind of thing is common with the businesses in the square. Has this kind of thing happened to anyone else?
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Interesting.
The first thought that entered my mind reading the OP occurred far before the concluding paragraphs, when I read the phrase " I sat at the bar and drank a draft beer while she spoke to management and filled out an application. She came over to me for a few minutes and sat beside me to get a couple of phone numbers for the app".
That thought was "red flag".
Maybe the niece didn't drink anything. But appearance is reality. Had the writer of the OP sat at a table and ordered a coffee instead of at the bar drinking beer, I doubt this would have happened. Amerikanos was remiss in how they handled it (a phone call to the niece would have had the same result) but their reaction, in my opinion, was warranted--and prudent.