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Bozo walks ten miles for job interview

ruggedtoast
ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
edited 26 February 2013 at 4:09PM in Debate House Prices & the Economy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284542/Art-Bouvier-Man-spots-Jhaqueil-Reagan-walking-10-miles-job-interview-gives-job.html
A teen's luck appears to have changed after a chance encounter with an Indiana restaurant owner during a 10-mile trek through ice and snow for a minimum wage job interview.
It all started on Friday, when Art Bouvier, the proprietor of Papa Roux, a Cajun restaurant in Indianapolis, was laying rock salt outside the establishment after an ice storm earlier that morning.


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Bozo

I cant believe this bozo completely fails to prepare for his job interview, sets off with no money and no idea where he is going or how long it will take him to get there, and then ends up getting a job, a years supply of bus passes and international celebrity.

I think Dairy Queen had a lucky escape.

I despair of this planet.
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Comments

  • Mr._Pricklepants
    Mr._Pricklepants Posts: 1,311 Forumite
    Eh?
    Bozo?
    The guy shows amazing commitment and you call him a bozo?
  • McKneff
    McKneff Posts: 38,857 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    It's a pity there wasn't a million more with his 'get up and go'

    Good for him.
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
  • shortchanged_2
    shortchanged_2 Posts: 5,546 Forumite
    Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »
    Eh?
    Bozo?
    The guy shows amazing commitment and you call him a bozo?

    He could of run the lazy !!!!!!.
    Why are we here?......................because we are not all there.
  • smartn
    smartn Posts: 296 Forumite
    I think fair play to the guy. We are all very ready to criticise youth for not trying and then someone shows a bit of get up and go and you knock him as well. He may not have access to the internet to plan his routes etc.
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    ... And good on the shopkeeper as well.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    Good free publicity for the restaurant owner.....
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    Just goes to show that persistence pays off.

    All the sarcastic comments are pretty pathetic. What's needed is more strength in the face of adversity rather than snipes from the side.
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Well done lad, good for you.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
  • exarmydreamer
    exarmydreamer Posts: 603 Forumite
    A friend of mine at 16 yrs, cycled 32 miles round trip to work at a cement factory. There are lots more like this lad, give the young a chance to show what they can offer. He's now 43, and has done very well for himself considering his parents never worked.
    Mortgage: Aug 12 £114,984.74 - Jun 14 £94000.00 = Total Payments £20984.74

    Albert Einstein - “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
  • BertieUK
    BertieUK Posts: 1,701 Forumite
    Wookster wrote: »
    Just goes to show that persistence pays off.

    All the sarcastic comments are pretty pathetic. What's needed is more strength in the face of adversity rather than snipes from the side.

    You're a bright one to talk of someone being sarcastic you take some beating...
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