The Job Interview

by R.T. Lawton

About the Author: R.T. Lawton is a retired federal agent with over 140 published short stories to include 44 sold to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. He also has six story collections in paperback and in e-format for Kindle and other e-readers.

Excerpt

Eighteen-year-old Junior McClendon sat straight up in bed when the alarm clock started blaring country western music over its radio speakers and tried to remember why it was he had to get up this morning. Oh yeah, the job interview at a hardware store. High school graduation was coming up fast, his mother was moving to Florida in a couple of days to live with her newest boyfriend and there was no room for Junior in her new family situation. 

He sank back onto his pillows. No real sense in getting up. He’d already sat through ten of them interviews in the last few days with no luck at all. Half of the problem was he didn’t have the skills that companies were looking for, and the other half was the companies didn’t have jobs to go with the skills he did have, which weren’t many. Seemed getting high scores on video games didn’t count for anything with job recruiters.

It was frustrating. What made him think this week’s job search would be any different? He might as well rob banks for a living.

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