I posted here before that I failed the M&S online assessment for a customer assistant christmas temp role despite having successfully worked there recently which disqualifies me from all M&S customer assistant jobs for the next 6 months, I think this whole situation is utterly ridiculous as surely the fact I've worked there successfully is the assessment they need especially as the questions are so irrelevant...
This puts me in a really difficult situation this Christmas. Its really important I do a christmas temp for financial stability and I feel it has to be a similar role as I don't have the knowledge to do it in eg... a clothes store or anything. The issue is M&S is the only store that has this amount of opportunities. They have their big stores within big shopping centres which are often close to train stations and stuff which is critical for someone reliant on public transport and their smaller stores do christmas temps too. All the other store chains, like Sainsburys, Tesco, Waitrose etc, their big stores are in locations difficult to access without public transport so there is only a small amount I can get to, and their smaller stores in my area at least that are more accessible don't have opportunities for christmas temps (like literally both smaller sainsburys I CAN access I have NEVER seen any opportunities there in years of searching). And night jobs are off limits because buses end at 10 unless they are in my area... Because of all this losing M&S is a MASSIVE blow...
With M&S I have been told I should contact the store I worked for and they might be able to override it but thats just that specific store, I don't see how I can bypass that in a store I have no connection to the manager or anything (post if I am wrong here) so I still have the same issue of being reliant on a small handful of stores if I can only recover this one...
So what do I do? I now feel insanely limited on what I can do and feel at risk of not being able to get a Christmas temp this year... I feel I am relying on a very small selection of stores in my area, and I need a way I can get it back up to the amount of opportunities I would've had with M&S. This punishment for one failed assessment of losing 75% of my opportunities this christmas (its literally that when you search christmas temp 75% of those that come up is M&S and last year that was the case for the entire sesason) feels very heavy and disproportionate and surely cannot be this bad... Also whats the best way of contacting my store manager about this to recover at least that opportunity?