January 3, 2008
Adams Morgan Harris Teeter is Hiring
In yet another sign that the ridiculously long-awaited Harris Teeter grocery store in Adams Morgan is actually going to open, Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham has posted a notice on his web site that the store will hold a Job Fair on January 9 at the Columbia Heights Community Center on Girard St. NW. Both full-time and part-time jobs at the Harris Teeter are available, and applicants are asked to bring copies of their resumes and be prepared to interview that day. (hat tip: City Desk)
If by some chance you're unfamiliar with the saga of delays surrounding the Adams Morgan Harris Teeter, some background can be found here, a more recent update here, and an announcement about the traffic patterns surrounding the store changing effective Jan. 21 here. The last word on the store was that the opening is now set for "March, 2008." Those scare quotes aren't accidental, given how many times the opening of the 17th and Kalorama location has been pushed back over the course of three years of development. Still, with the new traffic patterns announced and intentions of bringing on real live employees this month, March seems like a safer bet than ever.
For more info on any of the Harris Teeter jobs, you can call 1-800-513-4936.
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Try April....
Fun Fact: All District residents seeking grocery store or pharmacy jobs must choose between two check-boxes on their job applications:
"Rude" or "Fucking Rude"
tentative woo-hoo
i dont understand how that building can be finished by march. seriously, they never work on it, ever!!! and it needs a lot of freakin' work!
Hairy Titty rocks. Puhhleease come to my hood sooner than later. Salsa Safeway is killing me with bad service, long lines, sketchy dudes out front "hanging out."
Hungeegirl...like I said, try April.
Is this going to be a full-sized HR, or a mini-me version, like the one that opened recently by Crystal City/Potomac yard?
ER...Harris Teeter, not HR.
@ChumayTriple: Are they scarier than the guys that hang out outside the O Street Giant?
Will they have self-checkout so I don't have to stand behind some senile batfart who's counting out pennies to try and buy a single stick of butter and a can of Ensure?
Any ideas of when the Harris Teeter on Penn Ave SE east of Capital Hill will open?
Will they have self-checkout so I don't have to stand behind some senile batfart who's counting out pennies to try and buy a single stick of butter and a can of Ensure?
Yeah, so you can stand behind some senile batfart who's trying to scan an apple, and then pays by inserting penny after penny into the coin slot. Have fun with that!
If they are able to even come close to the level of customer service I've experienced at other H-T's in the area, this store is going to be very busy. Because ALL of the other big grocery stores in the District are terrible. Even the Columbia Heights Giant isn't all that great.
DCfist - I have yet to see a batfart use self checkout at the grocery. The primary reason they go to the store in the first place is so they can have long, pointless, one-way conversations with cashiers, because the emptiness of their Hummel figurine-choked apartment mocks them. And how long can you just sit alone at home waiting to die, what with that cat just waiting to eat your face after you've croaked?
jtowns, originally Harris Teeter said the Penn. Ave store would open about 1 month after the Adams Morgan branch, so roughly April... we'll see.
"""Is this going to be a full-sized HR, or a mini-me version, like the one that opened recently by Crystal City/Potomac yard? """
Speaking of that condo project, (Market Square on Center Park, I believe), which has the Harris Teeter on the ground floor, is it me or could that possible be the most messed-up place to live in all of the DC Metro region? Can you imagine writing the flyer for the condos there?
Welcome to Market Square on Center Park, where you'll enjoy so many sights, sounds and smells that you'll be sure to write home about them.
Transportation aficionados will find living here a treat.
In particular, aircraft enthusiasts living on our eastern side overlooking the Potomac will enjoy the ability to view the highly intricate inner-workings of modern landing gear up close, as planes approach National Airport--all from the security and comfort of their verandas.
Planes not your thing? Well, you’ll be humming the City of New Orleans all day at work after the 700th VRE train ambles on by the week you move in. You'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.
Or perhaps automobiles are of interest to you? Just look out your west-facing windows and you’ll see so many vehicles moving erratically at high speed, you’ll think you’re in Akira’s Neo-Tokyo. If cars aren’t just a form of transportation, but a passion, you can always mortgage your future across the street at the Porche-Audi dealership. Ironically, the clients’ excrement there doesn’t stink, but the sewage treatment plant next to it sure does!
And convenience? We’ve got a Harris Teeter right here on site, which is actually more of a necessity than a convenience since you’ll barely be able to escape on the weekend when all of humanity is stuck in traffic in front of your home trying to get in and out of Potomac Yard. For the adventurous, however, the neighborhood boasts the gastronomical delights of such venues as Hopps, Don Pablos and THE International House of Pancakes. A Cullinary Mecca.
Welcome Home . . . to Market Square on Center Park!
I still do not understand why Arlington and Alexandria can't get together to just plop a metro station around the track near that Potomac Yard development.....What a tease it must be for all the people moving into those two new buildings...crystal city metro is so close, yet so far.
So what exactly is that smell emanating from across Route 1 and Market Square? There's some kind of processing plant, but it's way to small for sewage treatment. Is it a garbage transfer station of some kind? Or is that where they recycle the farts generated by customers at Don Pablos and Hopps? Because if it is, whatever they're doing, it isn't working. It's wide-open-ass from the rental car return to the Porsche dealership.
There's a JG Ballard story called Concrete Island about a guy who's car crashes on a median surrounded by perpetually flowing traffic. He's trapped there like Robinson Crusoe, and I'm always thinking of that story when I see those poor slobs who can't make it across Route 1.
G Lover,
You forgot one more thing. It is built on a Superfund site:
"At decommissioning, decades of industrial use had left the site contaminated with heavy metals and hydrocarbons, including diesel. It was immediately declared a Superfund site. In 1995 the Environmental Protection Agency approved RF&P's study and cleanup plan, and cleanup was declared completed by 1998."
Monkey:
It is indeed Arlington's Poop Factory. The large digesters are a dead give away.
job fair is not capitalized.
People applying for grocery store cashier and stocking jobs are expected to have printed resumes nowadays? Really? Wow, how far the computer revolution has brought us . . .
"Even the Columbia Heights Giant isn't all that great."
EVEN the Columbia Heights Giant? I find that store to be one of the worst. Admittedly, I have now been boycotting Safeway for 17 years, so cannot compare. But I miss my old 14th St Giant, and I go out of my way to go to the 9th and P Giant so I don't have to go to yuppie Giant, with its annoying parking, stupid and rude staff, and lack of variety in stock.
This is a first. Never met anyone who actually praises the Giant at 9th and P. I've personally experienced the cashier who picks up your item, looks at it, reads the label, says something like "oh, that's nice!", scans it, scans it again, punches it in manually, picks up next item, reads the label, etc.
The Giant at Brentwood is the worst Giant in the city. Why did they replace real cashiers with self check-outs? Now you have long lines and idiots trying to scan an apple when they're buying lettuce.
At least with the self-checkouts, you can give yourself a free Spanish lesson by selecting the Spanish option. Certainly more effective than what the DC Public School System is peddling these days. In fact, DCPS could save on those exhorbitant contractor fees by creating a language immersion class involving chaining kids to the self-checkout aisle in Brentwood and making theme use the Spanish voice to buy their Flaming Hot Cheetos, Rap Snacks, and pina colada blunts. They'd learn a foreign language while developing mad budgeting skillz.
RJ--I actually had a nice wisecrack about how the new 700,000 sq. ft. office space would be particularly convenient for the new lessee, namely, the EPA, since the Office of Land Revitalization would only have to go down to the ground floor to continue brownfields remediation on the former rail yard. Unfortunately, I had to cut them a break, since the CERCLA remediation has, at least on paper, been completed. I KNOW--TOTAL SHAME.