Crappy Employers - This is who's hiring now?!

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I think that if an employer calls an applicant and schedules an interview, the employer should actually show up to the interview!! !

I wasn't the one who got stood up but I'm really beside myself that it happened to anybody at all. The guy calls an applicant, schedules an interview, forgets the time of the interview (has an hour off), changes the venue of the interview, treats the applicant like a jerk that's inconveniencing him, and then doesn't bother to show up at all. WTF? Why call the person at all?

I had almost the exact opposite happen to me, Keep in mind this was 20yrs ago.

I recieved a phone call to come in for an interview. The lady called me in the evening and asked if I could make it to interview the following day at 8. Getting off the phone, all I could think of was, hair cut, what will I wear. I didnt even think am or pm, really who has interviews at night. well restaurants do...
I showed before 8am and said I'm here for the job. the 2 ladies there looked at each other kinka puzzled, one got up and said,"no one told me, but I'll be right back". She returnen with...the boss. I introduced myself and explained that the one who called failed to mention am or pm, and presumed I knew..same time ish tomorrow.
Well I was the only one that showed at 8am, he had me wait, as he was in the middle of a report.and he would interview me So went thru a normal but still uneasy interview as a result of a time misunderstanding

I left thinkin I messed up, before 1pm they called and gave me the job! So I had it before anyone else interviewed.they got the we filled the position call instead....

...An engineer neighbor of mine was shown a blueprint of what that company made while on the plant tour He found an error on it immediatly, Got that job. ! no it wasnt a trick blueprint with mistakes made to see if someone found it, It was one that was being built



In most cases the interviewer has this process in addition to their standard duties. And from what I've seen most cant do even that.


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I once applied at a job and got hired. When I showed up to fill out the W-4's, I was told they lacked the paperwork showing I had actually been hired. After about an hour of them calling various offices, I was told to come back a few days later.

I returned, was given another runaround, and then told to come back next week.

This went on for three weeks before I simply gave up. I discovered that the woman who had hired me and several other people, had quit later that week and taken all of her paperwork with her. All of us were caught in an odd limbo. Curiously, her nephew, whom she had also hired, was the only person whose paperwork was intact.

The best part: when I filled out my taxes, I discovered that this company claimed to have paid me $117. Apparently they could not figure out that I had been hired, but the accounts department didn't realize this.

One time I got an invitation for an interview for a really interesting job at an hospital. When I showed up they told me that the job was discontinued, so I could not apply for it apply any more. I was really pissed off, just travelled 2,5 hours by train to get there to hear I was not needed. Besides that I never got my travel expenses reimbursed, which is customary in The Netherlands when you get invited to an job interview.

Complete bastards. Never applied for a job with that hospital again.

My worst story....

1. Applied for a job hiring one full-time and one part-time. At the interview I said I was willing to accept the part-time position but that I really wanted the full-time position. Got offered the job. I asked and was told I got the full-time position. I turned down a long-term full-time temp job because of this offer. Showed up and found out I got the part-time position. Didn't take the job because of how pissed off I was over it.

2. Applied for another job. Made at least 2 trips over 700 miles away for testing and interviews. Submitted an extensive background investigation package (over 30 pages) going over most every detail of my life. Was given a "conditional offer of employment" and accepted. All I had to do was "satisfactorily complete" the remaining steps of the process. I knew that would be no issue since all that remained I had passed before for other employers. The background examiner told me I passed. Last stage was an intense one-week of testing before being told to report for training. Got a call practically one day before I would depart to go for that one week of testing and they told me they were taking back their offer of employment. Reason? I wasn't the "most competitive" candidate. BS. I was more than qualified and they didn't even have enough people to fill the number of positions they wanted to hire.

The worst thing that happened to me was getting hired as a bookkeeper for a grocery store chain that was remodeling one of their stores. After 2 weeks of training, I found out that they were getting most of their old employees back at that store, so they weren't going to use me and others who were hired. Those returning included the bookkeeping staff. I think that in the end, they wasted money training us if they knew their old employees were returning.

It took me well over a year to find another job, which is one I still have because at the moment, there's nothing else out there, so I think it's better to work one day a week at a crappy job than not have a job because it's giving me experience instead of having gaps of employment.