I'm not sure if I've PL'd what my job is on KF, so I'll just describe it as catering to children. We work with kids, we handle money, and we keep the place clean. Those are the big 3 tasks, probably in that order.
There are so few employees at my workplace right now that it's starting to become a problem. We were already hiring ever since our last guy left, but lately we've been getting kind of desperate.
About 2 weeks ago this skinny black guy in his mid 40s comes up to me and hands in an application. I thank him and let him know the manager will be in touch with him soon, and normally this is where the encounter would end. Instead, this guy hovers around and starts going off talking about how he worked at the nearby arcade until they fired him, but that they only fired him because "they're a bunch of petty bitches," and now he wants to explain something to my manager before she looks at his application. Everything there was already a red flag, but even if it wasn't his application was pretty bad too. His only job history was Such-n-Such Arcade, no phone number or start/end date for employment, and his only reference was his girlfriend. In the available hours section he wrote in "will discuss on phone" instead of putting in actual hours.
So while I'm already 100% sure he's not getting the job, I'm not gonna make that assumption on behalf of my workplace and just tell him our manager doesn't work on-site and that she'd call him when she had a chance to look over his application. He didn't accept that and refused to leave until I called my manager and told her he wanted to talk to her. She couldn't talk because she was busy, obviously, and I just repeated to the guy that she'd call him later. He finally leaves and I text my boss a while later to let her know I only called because he wouldn't leave unless I did. I felt like such a dumbass.
A few days later on my next shift, the Creepy Guy showed up again and asked if my boss had a chance to look at his application and talk with him on the phone. My coworker, who I was taking over for, was visibly frustrated so I told the guy in my nicest retail voice to kindly fuck off and wait like I've already told him to. Turns out my coworker has told him the same thing, and so has our third coworker who was there the day before. Creepy Guy, which we were now calling him in the employee group text, has been coming by every day to ask if our manager will talk to him. He stands a few feet away and waits for a new employee to show up then immediately badgers her to talk to the manager.
Eventually our boss finally calls him. Creepy Guy immediately cuts her off and tells her right out of the gate that HE IS A SEX OFFENDER WITH A PENDING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGE but that he can totally be trusted around kids and that his girlfriend will vouch for him because he's good with her son and blablablabla-- it's batshit insane!!! Turns out the reason Such-n-Such Arcade let him go was because they got his background check after they hired him, and when they found out he was a sex offender they fired him on the spot. Creepy Guy figured that if he got ahead of the background check and talked to our boss first, she'd get his side of the story and would make an exception when she learned what a great guy he supposedly is.
So obviously he wasn't hired, and now he's banned from our workplace as well as the building we're in, because as a sex offender he's not even supposed to be near the building let alone inside and looking for work. While not all male applicants are bad, it seems like every bad applicant is male. This isn't even the first fucking sex offender, just the first one that's specifically a pedophile. If it were up to me, every male application would go straight into the garbage. I just can't trust any man trying to work with kids isn't a fucking cretin.