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I have value Constant rejection from the job search is bad enough, but when I spend money on gas to get to interviews, only to be made to wait for nearly an hour, I begin to lose my faith in the entire process. This might sound like an exaggeration, but I assure you it is not. I’m not certain if it’s my Aspergers or what, but when I set a meeting with someone for a specific time I do not expect to show up and be met with confusion, and left to sit and wonder for nearly an hour. Such was the case today; I had a 9am interview with S but when I showed up I was informed that S doesn’t come in until 9:30am. It wasn’t a “She’s running late” scenario, it was a “She doesn’t come in until 9:30am” type of thing. If that is the case, why the fuck did S set the meeting for 9am? I wound up waiting until 9:45am. The lady I’d spoken with on the phone, who had set the interview time, showed up eventually. She spoke to me very briefly, and said something about paperwork that I didn’t quite understand, but by then I was pretty upset. I smiled and said, “No worries” and then she disappeared into an upstairs office for a while, leaving me to wait even longer. Eventually a lackey from a different department showed up and introduced himself, but by then I had lost all interest in working for the company. The complete lack of respect is something I cannot condone, and won’t willingly place myself in the middle of. If that’s the way they treat potential employees, I can only imagine it getting worse, not better, if I were to be hired. People that cannot do something simple like set an appointment and keep it are in charge of entire sections of stores, yet I am not qualified to restock a shelf because I committed a crime nearly a decade ago, and smoke marijuana. This particular business happened to be a grocery store, and I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen shelves improperly stocked, or sales tags left when they should have been removed. Sometimes lazy employees will take another product and line a shelf with it, rather than leave an empty space, which winds up being misleading when it comes to price. It just shows the people in charge aren’t doing their jobs, and my experience just trying to get an interview is likely not unique. Workers are treated with little respect by managers, and the bad feelings just roll downhill from there, with most employees feeling resentment toward the company they work for. Of course if management had its act together things might be different… I am fucking fed up with this bullshit routine, but I can’t step away from it for a single moment. I am in debt to someone I love and respect, and until that debt is paid I cannot give up. So tune in to see the next installment of how absurd my search for employment has become.  |
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