Las Vegas: Hundreds Line Up for Shot at Fewer Than 50 Jobs at New Fast-Food Store
December 20th, 2008Via: Las Vegas Sun:
If president-elect Barack Obama could have stepped out of the flat-screen TV on the wall of the Holiday Inn Express on Rainbow Boulevard on Monday, he would have come face to face with the stark reality of the economy.
As rain pelted the roads and Obama announced more Cabinet appointments, close to 500 people filed through the hotel lobby, hoping to get a job flipping or serving burgers.
Today more of the same is expected, meaning that by day’s end close to 1,000 will have applied for no more than 50 $10-an-hour jobs at an In-N-Out restaurant opening at Tropicana Avenue and Tee Pee Lane.
Some wore ties. Some wore their pants too low. Some were balding. Some owed two months of mortgage payments. Some spoke openly of suicide. Some asked this reporter for a job. Some asked the manager at the hotel hosting the event for a job.
Of the crowd, Blande Pittman, regional division manager for the chain, flatly observed, “We expected a high turnout, because of the economy and all.”
But Sharell Hewlett, who will be one of the managers of the new restaurant and had the frontline job of handing out applications, said she found the range of applicants, from teens to retirement age, “incredible.”
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