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FRI 15 FEB 2007
I dropped the fantastic seattlest.com a line about my Mariner's story and lo and behold, they put it on their site. As of 7:10 PM Thursday evening, the blog has had 300 hits. Can a link on Deadspin be far behind? Whoa, turns out it's not. Deadspin.com is on board Friday morning, and the blog totals almost 700 hits in an almost 24 hour period.
The two common pieces of feedback I'm getting are:
1) "You should have brought a pen when you applied for the job." Really? You're serious? I've applied for many, many jobs over the years and this is the first I've ever heard this. That's usually because every place at which I've ever applied for a job has not been a pen-free zone. Even if I should have brought a pen (and I'm still not buying it), why is there only one blue PaperMate in all of Safeco? And if there's such a pen shortage, how come I found this for sale on mlb.com?
Edgar Martinez is spinning in his grave.
2) "They're gonna find out about this story and there's no way in hell you're getting hired." Of course, this is correct, although someone from the Mariners' human resources department calls the bar today. According to my secretary Adam, someone from the Mariners' HR department was calling to apologize. I'm not sure if he's kidding or not until I get this e-mail:
Jason,
My name is Marianne Short and I am the Vice President of Human Resources with the Seattle Mariners. I have tried to do some detective work here after I saw a blog that someone had sent me describing a situation that developed while trying to fill out an application at Safeco Field. I have narrowed the search down to you and hope I am sending this to the right person.
If you indeed are the person who was treated poorly from the receptionist, please accept our apologies. Even though the job was actually through our food vendor, Centerplate, your first contact with us should have been a much more positive experience.
I wish you luck in your job search, and in the meantime, if there is anything I can do please ask. I want your impressions of the Seattle Mariners to be positive as we don't like losing fans for any reason.
Marianne Short
Apology accepted. Sorry to not make this a long drawn out thing like I usually do, but I have an agenda. And we'll be back to our regular Blue Moon-related commentary a little later on.
PS -- In a follow-up e-mail, Ms. Short tells me that the receptionist is now armed with enough pens to write the Great American Novel. Okay, she doesn't put it like that, but you get the idea.
11:59 PM
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