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So I recently visited my local Blockbuster store where I spend at least two hours a week 15 minutes at a time deciding which season of which show I just have to rent so I can catch up on some pop culture seeing as how I've living under a rock for the last 5 years - or at least it feels that way sometimes . So anyhoo I'm there and I happen to notice a HUGEsign in the window claiming that this store is " NOW HIRING ". Now this sign has actually been there for at least the last 3 months and seeing as how every time I go to this store, day or night, weekend or not, I only see one of the same 3 employees, and two of them are the manager and asst manager-respectively, so I am inclined to believe that this place could use a few more employees. So any way the only reason I even took any notice this particular visit is because my psycho boss fired me from my last job recently, which you could read all about in my last posting. So I go in and rent my flicks and ask the manager for an application. He tells me to apply online, that's the only way they do it these days, and also he tells me "Yes, we are still hiring." And yet when I visit the blockbuster website you have to practically hire a PI just to find the link to apply for a job and then they tell you there are no positions open but feel free to apply anyway for any future openings and once again fail to provide any way of doing so. So I decide to contact "Customer Care". Now apparently Blockbuster uses this term pretty loosely. After you have managed to fill in all required fields ( you know the usual stuff, name, rank, serial number, social security, what was the name of your first childhood pet and who really killed Kennedy?) Then you actually get to type in your question or complaint and when you click on submit, then and only then does the computer inform you that there is an error on the page. Call customer service you get bounced around to 16 different departments after being put on hold listening to Muzak that makes you want stab a fork into your ear and you are then instructed to - yes you guessed it - "Please log onto Blockbuster.com where you can click on the Customer Care link and submit your "concerns". I'm tellin ya' if for some reason you ever feel it necessary to actaully attempt finding resolution of any issue with Blockbuster I would suggest finding a very large muscular person to first punch you as hard as the can right in the nose because after that anything these A**HOLES put you through won't seem quite so bad, or at least relatively painless.