B.O.P @B.O.P - 2mo
Had a job interview scheduled for today, the manager who was supposed to interview me never showed up on the call. Fine, things happen right? I figured I’d see an email or text explaining the reason for not making it and an apology from him for missing it. A few hours later I get a text from the recruiter that scheduled us telling me he couldn’t make it and Friday works instead. No email, no text, no call from the manager who had me sitting on a zoom call bridge for 15 min waiting for him to show up. I told the recruiter to throw away my application, I don’t want to work for someone that doesn’t have the decency to reach out or even retroactively reach out to apologize. A respectable leader is someone that has human decency and to me, it’s not worth a pay raise for someone that doesn’t respect my time. Know your worth kings 🫡
UPDATE: The recruiter is now begging me to reconsider to reschedule. I expressed my feelings to the recruiter about how this was handled, and how no apology or anything from the manager was received before rescheduling, so of course now 4 hours after the interview was supposed to happen the manager texted me to apologize. What would you do in this situation? I don’t want to be harsh but I feel like the recruiter told him to reach out to apologize and so it feels disingenuous. Still leaning towards backing out.
jimbocoin 🃏 @jimbocoin - 2mo
Depends on the pay and how much you need it I guess. If the cost of trying again is low, may as well. Maybe the manager has a good story.
Hmm on one hand I am sympathetic to someone that may have had a rough day, and things happen, but on the other I expect a high level of quality in the people around me like you said and I am in a place in my life where I don’t need the extra money or need a new job, I am still working for my current company. The way I see it, If you’re a manager and need to be told to apologize to someone after you blew off the interview with them, I don’t know if that’s redeemable. While I appreciate the gesture of the apology, this clearly didn’t come as a sincere apology given that I told the recruiter this is a reason for backing out.
mleku @mleku - 2mo
this is almost the central way in which debasing money manipulates people - by making them unable to take time off while they change jobs
I would definitely play it like this if it wasn’t for other concerning factors at play here. While I originally overlooked this due to the high pay, the company in question just went bankrupt earlier this year and have now restructured and secured funding so are still in business. Given that this company has had major issues just in the last year and this happened, I get a feeling that this isn’t where I want to take my next career step into.
