@Hypocrisy_Central It was the local cinema honey. I had sent my CV out everywhere, I so desperately wanted a job, and I got a phone call from the cinema. They were going to be interviewing for some newly created positions (they’d changed owners) and wanted to know if I’d like to attend. I said yes and when I arrived I went to the desk, said who I was and why I was there, was told to wait, and a young lad in a suit. He must have maybe been in his early 20’s but he looked like he was about 12. Anyway, he came out, looked at me from my head to my toes, clearly taking in the fact that I have a cane and wear straps on my hands/wrists due to arthritis and ignoring that I was wearing a very smart suit, and that my qualifications (college and uni) covered a full page of my CV lol, and he said “we don’t hire people like you”. I did say to him he better be saying they don’t hire brunettes, because otherwise I’d make sure both him and his company were held accountable for what he’d said and he said “prove it” and walked off. He was right, I didn’t have witnesses to back up what he said. Only my word. I cried all the way to our local job centre, where I saw Suzanne who had helped me with my cv. She was the disabled rights officer, and I told her what happened. She said she was sorry it had happened to me but that she heard stories like that a few times a week. Anyway, I kept trying, and eventually I got a job. Not a great one but I love doing it (well, most of the time lol). I won’t ever forget though how it felt to be looked at like I was some kind of bug, and then treated like I was worth less even than that.
hugs xx