the best product placement EVER
By me • Sep 14th, 2007 • Category: job hunting, weird stuff that happens to meToday I found myself wandering a strip mall in Allen Park. Not for enjoyment, I can’t say they’re my favorite things in the world, but looking for employment. While I’m still looking for library or office employment I’m just too scared of the student loans running out in December so I need something, anything, to bring some money in now. I have filled out applications at Target, Barnes and Noble, Michaels, Starbucks, World Market, and Pier 1. Hopefully something else will come through, but right now as far as I’m concerned a paycheck is a paycheck, and I’ll volunteer to get library experience to put on my resume. So I was finishing a long day of groveling when I just got this feeling, and all women know exactly what I’m talking about, and decided that it would be a good idea to stop at Meijer on the way home to pick up some Midol, tampons, and a really good bar of chocolate. (what???? I told you I was stereotypical)
I was perusing the feminine hygeine section. You know, the one that is usually located at the end of an aisle, the one where you’ll see a guy pushing his cart, blissfully unaware, picking up some Q-tips, scratching himself, looking at cotton balls, picking his nose and three steps later panic when he realizes he’s surrounded by strange, unfamiliar, scary feminine products. The horror! I’ve actually seen men turn their cart around in the middle of the aisle and walk the 30 ft to the other end, just so they don’t have to walk through the 8ft long gauntlet of tampons and Monistat. That section.
So I’ve got what I need, but I’m in no hurry ’cause, well, no job yet. So I’m browsing, look up and next to the pain relievers I see this:
Yes, it is what you think it is, apparently you CAN get them at Meijer - see?
I’m so impressed, Meijer really IS one stop shopping. And I’ve never seen a product placed better in my life.
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Remember, volunteering in libraries right now = library job much faster–even good parapro jobs while in school. I have two friends who didn’t listen to that advice when I gave it when we were in school and it took them a looooong time to get jobs because they were completely green and only had their degrees after they graduated. They were competing against folks who had their degrees and had been working in libraries during school. Those folks got hired; my friends struggled. If you’d like to “job shadow” @ my place of employment, you are more than welcome to come out a day. I can show you the various workings. You couldn’t actually volunteer because of the oh-so-helpful-union, but you could certainly be shown different things, and I could introduce you to our various subject specialists if you want to pick their brains. We have a great bunch of professionals there and they are very supportive of grad students. Also, say the word and I can ask my contacts if they have any volunteer opportunities near you. Let me know if you applied for that Troy thing…I know the department head and will put in a good word, but I don’t want to just go and put in that word on my own and look like an ass if you hadn’t applied for that job. Next Weds. will the last time I’ll work there before the job deadline.