Let me run a scenario by everyone on The Escapist:
You're looking to find a job somewhere. You find a decent place that looks like it may pay well, and it's a good atmosphere. You politely introduce yourself to the manager, and the conversation starts, "Hi, I'm (so and so). I was wondering if you had any job openings here?"
And with a straight face, they say back to you; "We're always taking applications."
There are few things, very few, that set my teeth on edge, my blood on fire and my eye into stinky mode quite like this exchange. I didn't ask the dumb sob if he was taking applications, and in this information, my question IS NOT ANSWERED! It is nothing but an automated response, and it is a thousand flavors of stupid! I would understand if he didn't know, in which he would tell me, and the conversation would proceed from there, but not that overused, apathetic, piss lazy pile of erucberwncxdrdcfgvybh!!!!!11!!1!11!