I submitted on line for a few s Safeway's near my house. Three weeks later I get call asking if I was still looking for a job and If I would like to interview. I showed up at the store and they haphazardly had a few tables and chair strewn about.. I sat down with a lady they brought from another store to do the hiring. They were very generic questions, how would your ex-boss describe you?, how do you handle stress?, what motivates you?. Nothing unusual.

This particular Safeway is in South Lake Tahoe and the interview process was strange, at best. The manager took me into a partitioned room near the bathrooms where twenty or so disused desktop computers were sitting on desks unused, like a dystopian memory from 1998. She proceeded to read questions from a paper document, writing down my answers herself, as if she didn't even trust me to write things down. She then argued with me about having applied using Indeed. I had a confirmation email from Indeed, so I could have proven that I used it to apply for this job. But the manager was adamant that Safeway cancelled their contract with Indeed and they no longer listed jobs on that site. The interview only got worse from there. I was offered several jobs in different departments - all entry level. This would have been a survival job for me, as I'm way too experienced for such things. A day later, she emailed a rejection letter, and I was very relieved to see it.