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Originally Posted by supershifty
Finally scored a job interview yesterday! Got all excited, ironed shirt and slacks, even donned a tie, that's a big effort from me - I'm a dag and more comfy wearing a potato sack. Job was advertised at a home brew supply shop only 10mins away from mine, 16hrs pw minimum but could lead to more hours - I'm up for that, it's a start and gets me out of the house.
Interview was going extremely well, dude explained what I'd be doing and it was all good. 4hrs/day, any random day of the week/weekend was a bit of a downer but hey, I'm keen for it and the role suited me just dandy.
Clincher came when I got told the job was at another store on the southside of Brisbane - 38km each way using toll roads. Thanks for completely wasting my time dh!
Geez, I hate that!
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yeah, some people just have no clue. They seem to forget that just because the interview is just down the hall for them and part of their job, that its an actual big inconvenience and often quite stressful for the interviewee.
I've had some absolute doosies:
One job I had already spoken to them by phone, discussed the job and preliminaries, and then they called back and arranged an interview. So at the interview we go through my resume, talk about the company, and then they announce that they have already filled the job I applied for by internal promotion but they want to consider me for the vacancy left by the promotion, a much junior role at a lot less money.
Peabody energy flew me across Australia (Perth to Mackay and back inside 20 hours) so I could have lunch with the Manager and he could say "thanks, I didn't want to say no without having met you."
But the best was Barrick. They wanted to interview me for a role, but they refused to do it by phone or teleconference. They flew me from Indonesia back to Perth (and return) for a 15 minute interview that could only be described as abusive, and carried on as though I was wasting THEIR time.