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hopalongcharlie (hopalongcharlie) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-11-19 15:22:00

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character: charlie weasley, character: genie de la lune, character: tristan travers, status: complete

OPEN THREAD: Interview Day
Who: Charlie Weasley, NPC Bobbi & OPEN
What: An assortment of interview candidates
Where: Wingbeat
When: Wednesday 19th November
Rating: SFW (potential for language)

Charlie had stuck on rather smarter clothes than usual, meaning he'd put on smart trousers and a shirt rather than jeans or combat trousers and a random t-shirt. Bobbi had given him crap when she arrived to help assessing people's bar skills if they got past the initial interview and wanted to work the bar. She was better at the fancy stuff than he was, sadly she was also one of the people who had given in her notice and would be heading off to take up a job in Spain within a month.

"You've got the tea and coffee on?"

"Yup. Biscuits are on the tables too. Let's hope you get a good bunch. Otherwise you're going to be screwed when we leave you." She gestured towards the tables and stools just to the side of the bar that people usually flooded to with their drinks and to get off their feet. With the lights up the black tops with glowing dragon designs looked a little odd and gaudy but they worked well as a waiting area.

Charlie was going to take the candidates up to his office one at a time and let the candidates use the tables as a waiting area. Plus with Bobbi around to take in today's delivery and keep an eye on them he was sure everything would be just fine. He was just hoping he'd find at least a couple of people who would fit into his eclectic team. Plus Bobbi herself was a bit of a test. She was a muggleborn lesbian with a look best classified as somewhere between goth and punk with spiky bright white hair with multicoloured streaks. She looked sort of like a stiff breeze could knock her over but she could hold her own pretty well with wand or even fists if she had to.

"Let's see who turns up then," he said, grabbing the notice he had made and opened the front doors, charming it to stick to the open door.

The sign read:

Open for Interviews
2pm-6pm
Please come in and wait at the tables near the bar.

He'd added a couple of extra anti-theft wards just in case anybody got any ideas, but there was almost nothing on the premises outside of his office that would be easily removable other than the contents of the bar, and Bobbi was on hand to keep an eye on that.

Please add your own tags and threads to the downstairs chatting amongst whoever turns up. If you'd like to do the interview bits open up a thread for your character and Charlie in the upstairs bit if you can't catch me.

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	Waiting Downstairs hopalongcharlie 2014-11-19 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	Charlie was initially around to welcome the earliest candidates through the door. As soon as they had more than one arrived he planned to take them upstairs one at a time for individual interviews. For now though he was sat at the table furthest into the corner, sipping a cup of coffee and waiting to see who turned up. (Reply to this) (Thread)

Tristan and Open If Someone Wants to Hop In (Around 4:30)

alliterative
2014-11-19 05:01 pm UTC (link)

Tristan stood outside Wingbeat, off to the side, staring down at his pathetic little CV. He had no work experience, and the piece of paper he'd spent a lot of time working on reflected that. He'd put down his Hogwarts achievements (such as prefect and then Head Boy), as well as skills he thought might come in handy for either position (such as organisational skills that might be useful for either the cloakroom or the bar, and an attention to details and a skill with potions, which he thought might be useful in mixing drinks despite his lack of experience there). He used his brother, his cousin, and Vikesh Moon as references, silently thankful at least one of his references wasn't family, though he was thankful for Julian and Pandora as well. His probation worker's name and contact was on there as well, along with a brief note about his conviction, incarceration, and release. If it weren't for all of that...

If it weren't for all of that, he didn't think he'd be trying to get a job anywhere, especially not a night club. He had nothing against night clubs, or so he assumed. He'd visited Wingbeat the other night, and he didn't find it to be as horrible to him as he thought it might be. But that had been a Sunday, and Sundays surly weren't the most popular nights at clubs, right? He chewed his lip as his stomach knotted, both nervous about possibly getting a job here and possibly being rejected.

He'd just come from his meeting with his probation worker, Alden Anderson, told him about the interview and his other attempts to find leads on jobs. For some reason, he'd seem sceptical that Tristan would follow through with anything, and part of him wanted to prove Anderson wrong. Even if he was rejected at every turn, he was going to try. He was going to ensure that that man was flooded with owls asking about him, that his hand cramped from having to write reply after reply. That... well, mostly that Anderson saw he was trying and might find himself a little inconvenienced at times by the random owl here and there with requests for information from potential employers.

Sighing, Tristan steeled his nerves and adjusted his robes -- simple, black, and about as professional as he figured he could get without looking like he was going to an interview at a law firm or the Ministry. He double checked his watch (half-four. Still plenty of time before the interviews were officially closed), held his head up (but not so up that he came off like he was looking down on anyone), and made his way inside the club for the second time this week.

The club definitely looked different during the day than it had during the night, though he supposed that was in part because of the open interview. It wouldn't make sense to keep candidates quite literally in the dark. He noticed details here and there he hadn't noticed in the dark, and he idly committed them to memory. Spotting where a few others were seated, presumably waiting for their turns, he wandered over to am empty black top, sliding himself into the seat. He carefully slipped his CV into an envelope he'd gotten from Anderson, set it down on the table. He gave a few nods and polite smiles to some of the other potential employees and began idly tracing the glowing dragon design on the table.

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	Interviews Upstairs hopalongcharlie 2014-11-19 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	All interviews were being held in Charlie's office at the far side of the upper floor. He'd made sure the office was clean and tidy for the day and brought each candidate up one at a time. (Reply to this) (Thread)

Genie's interview

wolfinboots
2014-11-20 01:52 pm UTC (link)

Genie was one of the first to show up. She might occasionally present as flighty, usually in her requests for time off, but she really was a very hard worker. She was also very well versed at 22 for how to get a job. She was dressed smartly but not overdressed, considering it was a club she was applying for (hopefully, she thought, she could still dance sometimes, and pick up hotties like Julian. MAybe even him again, in fact). She had her CV printed out -- it had taken ages to get the printer working again, but it had been done -- and her normal friendly smile on her face. The new moon was upcoming, and so her eyes rarely glinted with flashes of gold, and the wolf was nearly at her most agreeable.

She styled her hair up but nice. After reminding herself not to flirt with him, she walked in. She smiled in greeting to the redhead, extending her hand when she was close enough. "Hi, I'm Genie de la Lune," she introduced herself. "But please, call me Genie."

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Re: Genie's interview

hopalongcharlie
2014-11-20 03:12 pm UTC (link)

"Pleased to meet you, Genie, I'm Charlie Weasley, come on in and take a seat," he said, shaking her hand and gesturing to the right hand chair in front of his desk. He had decided to pull his own chair into the front half of the office. It wasn't like the job was especially formal most of the time and he knew that interviews could be pretty intimidating and he usually tried to avoid that unless he was trying to keep order.

He held out his hand for her CV. "I'll read that in a sec if that's okay with you. First I'll tell you a bit about the club and me, and then if you could do the same for you. Tell me a bit about yourself, about your experience."

"Okay, so as I said I'm Charlie Weasley, I'm the owner of Wingbeat which has been open for just over three months now. We open Thursday to Sunday every week, Thursday is LGBTQ night and I've got plans for occasional theme nights or weekends on our other regular nights. I started the club after I lost most of my right leg to a dragon bite," he said slapping the decidedly non-flesh part of his leg lightly. "I worked with dragons in Romania from when I left Hogwarts until my accident. The club is doing well, we work as a team and help each other out as much as possible. I try to treat everyone fairly with what hours they want and you can feel free to ask Bobbi downstairs about me as a boss."

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Re: Genie's interview

wolfinboots
2014-11-21 02:03 am UTC (link)

"Not a problem," she said, crossing her legs in the seat she'd taken at his invitation. She handed it over to him; they'd had a few nice-weight papers left from the last stuff they'd used for tags for the soaps and stuff they'd sold at a fair. "It's pretty much all Muggle establishments, but I don't foresee that being a problem, honestly." She might as well be upfront with that, but she was also truthful; a club was a club and a restaurant was a restaurant, no matter where you were, in her opinion.

"I'm twenty-two, I'm new to London, but I've worked bars, restaurants and pubs pretty much since they'd allow me to work in them," she told him. Allowing and legal weren't always quite the same thing, given that she'd been just fifteen when she'd gotten stuck in the Muggle world after her attack, and she and Devon had started taking whatever jobs they'd been able to get. For him, it hadn't been nearly so much of a problem as her. "I've worked the bar, which is just like an awesomely fun form for brewing, which is one of my favorite things in the world," she said with another quick grin.

She listened when he spoke, head tilted slightly. Her eyes flicked to his leg and back to his face. Given that he seemed to have come back from such a loss, the wolf assessed him as strong in the back of her mind, instead of prey like it might have some. "You're doing very well," she said. "I was here last week, it was completely awesome." She tucked a stray curl back behind her ear, and reminded herself not to try to flirt with the cute redhead Weasley. "I'm all for teamwork and such. The only thing I usually ask is my family and I, we go on a camping trip every few weeks, something we've done since the war," okay, so it was the family she'd made for herself since the war, but it was true, to her, "and I like to take that time off, if it falls during the hours I'd usually work." Like, have to, whatever worked. She'd hopefully get at least six months out of this job before some wizard or witch, probably him, connected her camping trips with the full moon.

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Re: Genie's interview

hopalongcharlie
2014-11-21 06:08 pm UTC (link)

Charlie nodded along to her story, making a couple of notes on the pad he had picked up from his lap. He grinned at the compliment she made to the club. "I'm glad to hear you've been and enjoyed it. I tend to find it's not quite the same from behind the bar but we still have some fun, and you're always welcome to go and dance in your break if you don't want time to sit down." Charlie generally preferred to take a perch in the back during his breaks, particularly if he had to massage his stump.

"Bobbi's done some work in muggle places too, she says the only major adjustments are a few of the wizarding specific cocktails and alcohols, and the currency, so I don't see that being a problem with experience and a quick review."

He glanced at the current roster which was pinned to the wall and nodded. "Your camping trips though. Are they pre-planned or last minute, and how many days are you typically gone for? I'm not saying I can't work with that, but it's far easier if I can work the schedules for everybody out in advance. Most of my current staff have multiple jobs and need to make sure their hours all slot together."

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Re: Genie's interview

wolfinboots
2014-11-22 06:04 am UTC (link)

"Oh, I know it's not," she assured him. "But I've had fun on both sides of it before, so there's no issue there." And dancing on breaks would be great at times, she was sure.

"I'm a quick learner. The money is the biggest thing, but I can practice that at home before I even start. Once I start, it'll all come pretty easy. And while I'd prefer the bar position, I'm honestly willing to do my bit where needed. I'm a bit of a jill of all things, so to speak, so I can do it. I'm also stronger than I look, should I need to get involved in breaking anything up." She knew the drill; she'd worked clubs before. She wouldn't be admitting that she was more than strong enough to keep a large grown man from doing stuff, as that would be admitting what she was and she wasn't prepared to do that.

"Oh, they're never last minute," she said with a head shake that made her curls bounce. "I'll always be able to tell you at least two weeks ahead of time. The only emergency that may ever come up is my housemate Brighid's baby, and honestly there's always someone who doesn't work nights available, so it'd have to be something really bad to keep me from coming in. Is two weeks enough lead time?" she asked. "I mean, I can definitely try for more." The only reason she didn't want to give him the next year's worth of trips was the fact it would make it way too easy to figure things out.

"In efforts of honesty, I also juggle multiple jobs, but if I were to get here, my weekends would be reserved for here." She needed an in in the wizarding world, and she really, really wanted a job in it. She hadn't realized the level of what she missed, after growing up in Hogsmeade, until she'd come back here. It wasn't the same, but it'd be nice to... find her way there again.

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Re: Genie's interview

hopalongcharlie
2014-11-22 09:31 pm UTC (link)

"I'll keep that in mind," he said, making a note that she'd prefer bar work. "If that's your preference I'll keep that in mind. Like I said in my journal advert sometimes we have to switch it up a bit but mostly people get their preferences. Hopefully you wouldn't have to break up any fights, the security staff are pretty good and I know how to wield a good immobilising spell or three, and we generally hope that they won't actually break out in the first place." He'd been fairly lucky most of the time. They hadn't had any major brawls, quite a few minor scuffles and one or two moderate ones. His zero tolerance policy had got around though, as well as his willingness to actually ban people for causing a problem.

"Great, a couple of weeks is plenty of time to organise everything. A month would be ideal, but a couple of weeks is fine. And I completely understand short notice for sudden baby arrivals. I've got a few people I can call on if I need someone for one night."

"Like I said multiple jobs isn't a problem as long as you're turning up for your shifts," he said, making another note. Now it was time to consider the particular sort of environment he liked to promote at Wingbeat. "Okay, so some more conventional interview type questions for you."

"What would you consider your biggest strength and your biggest weakness?"

"If you were hired and when working a shift you saw a woman repeatedly flirting with a man who had clearly rejected her where her flirting includes a lot of unwanted touching: what would you do?

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Re: Genie's interview

wolfinboots
2014-11-23 07:34 am UTC (link)

"Like I said, I can be flexible." Her grin hinted just a bit of naughtiness, though for her it was quite the restraint, as she flirted as well as she breathed, and often didn't mean much by it except friendliness. "But a lack of fights is definitely a good thing." Especially with alcohol and sex involved.

"I'd let you know pretty much as soon as possible," she offered. "That's always been my way, I might like spur of the moment things but not with my work."

She uncrossed and recrossed her legs, still relaxed but attentive. "Biggest strength, let's see," she mused for a second. "Hard worker, I suppose. I don't really know how to slack off or anything, and I don't like to complain. I learn quick and apply it to whatever I'm doing well." She worried her lip in an idle manner for a second and continued. "Weakness? Hm, well, I have a temper, but I'll be honest, it's never really interfered with work, and I know when to walk off and cool down."

"I would inform her politely that her attentions didn't seem wanted and if she continued in that vein, her violation of the rules posted around the club would get her kicked out and banned and possibly the authorities called on her, and it would be in her best interest to find someone more amenable to her advances." She always found it strange that in some situations, her vocabulary grew to what she'd read and studied, but her every day wasn't peppered with such language.

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Re: Genie's interview

hopalongcharlie
2014-11-23 05:02 pm UTC (link)

Charlie resisted the urge to roll his eyes at the flirtatious edge to her voice. Just because he didn't care to himself didn't mean he couldn't recognise it. At least he could now. He'd been pretty oblivious for quite a while, which had led to some uncomfortable conversations with a variety of strangers and former co-workers in Romania alike.

He considered her answer carefully, nodding in understanding. It took a lot for him to lose his temper, but when he did it was spectacular. "I'm glad you're aware of your temper. I imagine working in bars and restaurants has hardened you up to it, but I'd far prefer my staff to walk away and cool down rather than fight with customers. Or each other. Mind you as long as you don't breathe fire I can probably restrain you," he joked.

Her response to the harassment question made him smile widely. "Great. I'm glad you've read up on our policies. That's pretty close to the usual procedure. I want to create an environment where people can feel safe whether they want to find someone to take home for the night or just spend the night dancing. Lengths of bans do depend on exactly what's gone on, and our policy is to always err on the side of believing someone who complains and giving an appropriate ban rather than letting a pest go free." Charlie was very pleased with this particular policy. He had spent far too long discovering how often people didn't want to take no for an answer, and more than one occasion where someone had done something meaning he had to remove hands from more intimate parts of his person. He didn't want a space which allowed that here.

"I think that covers what I need to know. Do you have any other questions for me?"

Charlie smiled and stood, reaching out to shake her hand. The interview had been fairly short but he felt like he'd got a decent sense of her. She'd admitted to some weaknesses but seemed to know how to deal with them. The employment history he'd spotted on her CV looked promising, and he was fairly sure if she matched up to that and could actually make her drinks well she was certainly going to make the short list. Might as well send her down for Bobbi to assess.

"If I could ask you to go and get Bobbi to give you a quick assessment of your bar skills? Nothing fancy, but it'll help me out if I'm not sure who to choose. Just before you go though, one last question: what's your favourite drink? Alcoholic or not."

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Re: Genie's interview

wolfinboots
2014-11-24 01:40 pm UTC (link)

“It has a bit. Nothing like customer service,” she said dryly. “I occasionally snarl, but I know how to manage myself most times.” She laughed softly and shook her head, curls bouncing. “Nope, no fire,” she assured with a grin. Just fangs, she thought to herself, but that would never come into play here.

She nodded firmly. “I like to know the place I’m to work in,” she said. “And I figured the decisions on that sort of thing would be made by you or at least someone higher up who is familiar with that sort of thing, so I’d inform you or whoever was in charge at the time and give my input and let you all handle it as it’s supposed to be handled.” She knew when things weren’t her job, most times. She knew she herself had boundary issues, which meant at places like this she was as watchful of herself as she could be.

Genie pondered for a long moment. “Is there a policy on tip sharing, should I deal with that? And also policies on going out with customers or coworkers?” She wasn’t even implying him, which was obvious enough. She’d learned long ago to find such boundaries so she’d know how she was supposed to behave at any given time. “I mean, of course, off the clock with the latter.”

She smiled and nodding, thinking an assessment was promising. “Not a problem, I’d be happy to do that.” She uncrossed her legs and smoothed her hands down her pants. “Favorite drink? Oh, hm, that depends on the day of the week sometimes!” she told him. She tilted her head, eyes narrowed. “But I’m a sucker for most all daiquiris and pina coladas, honestly. I like to experiment with flavors at home.”

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Re: Genie's interview

hopalongcharlie
2014-11-24 07:05 pm UTC (link)

"Less interesting than dragons and about as likely to hurt you in some cases," he agreed, equally dry. He'd discovered that the hard way when he'd opened the club. Thankfully a lot of his original staff had far more experience than he did.

He nodded. "Mostly it's me, but there are a couple of other staff with supervisory roles who have permission to issue bans." He trusted most of his staff to make the decision by themselves really, and they all knew the guideline ban times, but in reality it was more practical for bans to be issued by only a small number of people so they could be kept track of.

"Oh! Excellent questions. I've got a breakdown of how tips are split somewhere if you want to see it, but the basics are that I take an absolute maximum of a galleon and it's weighted towards the bar staff but everyone does get a cut. Anyone who gets an exceptional tip gets to keep it outright if they'd like to." He glanced over to his desk, knowing the guidelines for both things were both in his top drawer. All the staff had to read and sign them when they joined the team.

"As for getting involved with either customers or co-workers... both are technically permitted providing you're not neglecting customers to flirt, and it's not going to cause problems if a relationship breaks up and so on. Some of the staff are in relationships, and breaking into those isn't going to make you look good, but otherwise the harassment rules apply to staff too, only the consequences are going to be losing your job on top of a ban," he said. "Incidentally that consequence also applies to discrimination against anyone in the LGBTQ community or because of blood status."

"Good choice. I encourage experimenting with flavours if you'd be willing to put them on the board as specials, but you've got to get them past the rest of the staff who want to try them first!" Usually there were enough of the staff willing to try drinks at the end of a shift to check them out before they went near the customers.

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Re: Genie's interview

wolfinboots
2014-11-25 01:23 pm UTC (link)

She nodded and noted it in her mind. If she got on, she'd be sure to find out who to consult about such thigns, and make sure they were always involved. She wasn't sure she'd have the greatest judgment on such thigns, at least right off.

"If you want me on, I'd love to see it. I know some places do it different, even with those nice personal tips," she said, lifting a shoulder in a shrug. "I just want to make sure I'm doing it right and fair's fair." She tended to get good tips. She worked hard for them.

"I don't neglect the job, and if someone cheats it won't be because I forced anything, but I try to be careful of such things." Though of course there had been incidents. "Just wanted to know, so I know what's off limits. Boundaries are good." She snorted and looked at him, half a step from rolling her eyes. "I live in the Muggle world. Blood status means nothing to me," she said bluntly. "And I like pretty much anyone, of any sort, if you get my drift, so it's not going to be an issue for me. Worse that happens is I'll take offense if someone doesn't like the way I swing or my blood status."

She nodded agreeably. "If you all approve, certainly, that'd be fab. Always happy to have test subjects, I know my tastes aren't always everyone else's. I like to do theme and holiday stuff, too, so that should fit in with some of your thoughts, I'm sure."

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Re: Genie's interview

hopalongcharlie
2014-11-25 06:51 pm UTC (link)

He nodded. "Sure thing. I have it all written down and you'd be asked to sign it if you joined the team." He'd not had any complaints yet and he'd consulted all of the original staff when he was setting up since he'd not worked in a job where people tipped before.

"Well, if I take you on you'd be far from the only member of staff that fits somewhere under the rainbow umbrella or whatever you'd like to call it," he said easily. He didn't advertise his own sexuality to random people, even those he might employ, but all the staff had a good idea even if they didn't know outright.

"Yeah, we had some specials for Halloween, probably have some for Christmas too."

"Anyway, it was nice to meet you. I'll be in touch soon," he said, opening the door for her.

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Re: Genie's interview

wolfinboots
2014-11-26 01:45 pm UTC (link)

"Wonderful," she said. Sounded to her like he had everything in order, which was promising if she got on here.

She nodded. A place like this, she would be surprsied if she was one of the only ones.

Genie smiled warmly at him. "Thanks so much," she said. "I appreciate the opportunity, and I look forward to hearing from you." She really did. She mentally crossed her fingers for luck. She headed out the door and down to get her bar skills tested.

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