What is UP with newspapers wanting a job application?

 As in job application in addition to a resume for something like an ME position?

Look, if you're hiring a receptionist, or a newspaper delivery carrier, I get it.

But, for something like an ME spot, especially at what appears to be two different semi-weeklies combined, where the ME is managing reporters? Come on.

Yes, I've only run across it twice in two years, but it's stll irksome.

Both were in Aridzona.

The first literally wanted a paper application, like going to work for Walgreens, as I've noted before. And, they only wanted it after initial interview. I refused, because I could already tell they were doing a mix of lowballing without specific numbers and slow-walking giving me numbers, on financials.

The second, recently? It was online, so there is that. But, it wanted references and all that jazz before an initial interview, or before even indicating you might make the cut for an initial interview. I didn't even get to the part about where they might ask me about my academic background, including dates of attendance, which is why you don't fill out such things.

Hard pass and I stopped completing it on page 2. 

I don't know how good or bad they are overall, but actually, I kind of do.

I applied long long ago at their flagship, then a seven-day daily in print. Copy editor position. I know that means nights. I also know that means one or both weekend nights. 

I still thought that I might have a five-day straight workweek and a "weekend" of some sort, as I had already applied a year or two prior for a copy desk slot at a similar-size paper here in Tex-ass.

Nope!

Five days scattered throughout the week.

Worse?

Could change from week to week.

Fuck that shit, and I'll name a name — Prescott. (I won't say which one I applied to this time.) Pay was also a wash after I allowed for cost of living differences.

I see the parent company, which I didn't know back then, has partner ownership with Wick on a couple of papers. Wick about whom I've written more than once before.

That's the third strike and you're out and I'm out of there before going there, I'm sure. It's been a full week since I emailed my resume and no response. That said, given that there's a reporter opening in Prescott, almost brand new?