Employee Kindly Takes Resume Knowing Damn Well There Aren’t Enough Shifts To Go Round

PETE CLARK | Melbourne | CONTACT

The unemployment rate in Australia is 4.5% according to the April figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Daniel Reynolds, a recent media and communications graduate is one of the 692,500 people currently unemployed. 

His typical unemployed daily routine consists of browsing job finder websites for about half an hour until concluding that he probably should have done a trade. 

Followed by a short walk to the shops to get ingredients for a minimal effort dish that is currently trending on the internet. 

But not today.

Mr Reynolds has decided to go old school and physically hand in his resume to a small business. 

He once naively believed that completing a communications degree would be his ticket out of hospo. Now he’s found himself right back where he started, outside a quaint, trendy and excruciatingly overpriced cafe. Resume in hand. 

He takes a moment to collect himself before nervously entering the cafe, high off the smell of almond croissants, he harnesses enough courage to approach one of the teenage staff members to discuss potential employment.

“Um excuse me, I was just wondering if there was maybe a manager present I could speak with,” he queries.

The young barista informs Mr Reynolds that she would pass his resume on to a higher up but she knew damn well that there weren’t enough shifts to go round, let alone shifts to spare.

Reynolds quietly scampered out of the cafe, without buying anything as the purchase of large coffee with alternative milk would financially cripple him.

The Advocate spoke with the seemingly optimistic young man shortly after his application.

“Well I think that went well,” he said.

“Unemployment has given me some time to think and you know what? I’d rather return to barista life than take an entry level comms job making TikToks for a real estate firm.”

“I’d rather make coffee than content,” he shrugged. 

More to come.