So I've decided it's time to become a crazy plant lady and I'm trying to get a job working with plants. Now I've just applied everywhere home depot included. And I've had not one but two interviews and I just had to share.
So when I applied I later got an email saying you're hired but in a different department. Ok weird but I'll go in see what's up. So I do and apparently I'm hired for a a part time flex position. I'm respectful and tell the interviewer that I need a set schedule and a flex position is just not worth it. I also told her that hours like that are just unacceptable. Since it's a no go on that bullshit I leave. A day later I get another email saying I'm hired again this time in a different department for full time hours. And I just had to see what was up.
Onto today when I go in. Interviewer tells me it's for another flex position but full time hours. And that they needed someone with open availability from 5am to 11pm at night. I laughed and told the interviewer I had already been in and that it's crazy they would even offer flex hours. But now they've wasted my time and I'm annoyed so I'm not as nice as before. I proceed to tell the man that they are expecting people to have no life. About how it's insane these companies think they get away with stuff like this in this job market. That no one's going to take this position. That I shockingly have a life and I need to plan around my job.
He also tells me that they did have some people doing part time flex hours but they didn't last. So they were hoping people would last with full time hours. I told him, “I can see why they didn't last. I don't think offering full time will work either.” He then tells me that they just had so many people to work around they just needed someone to fill the gaps. (So apparently flex people aren't important enough to work around.) I asked him point blank why don't you just hire more people. He told me. “Well we just need a couple of days covered because of people we already have hired.” (So you're working a skeleton crew and you're trying to stretch it further cool.) I also expressed how that would lead to clopens. He assured me that the associates don't work that only management. And that he had closed the night before and was in at 5 this morning. He just needed someone to come in when needed and they only had one more of these positions filled. (Oh so management is picking up slack and they want to put that burden filled by someone else whose not getting management pay.)
I can't tell you how many times I laughed during this interview at the sheer ridiculousness and disrespect. I even managed to go on a tangent about how there's not enough people to work since so many retired early and companies need to face facts as well as the fact the local Starbucks is trying to unionize. And how companies need to treat their employees like people. While I was leaving because ya I was not accepting this job the man told me that he guessed they were just looking for some with no life but there were a lot of people like that. The audacity. I hope he works more clopens because the disrespect.
So I guess this is the new trend to try to extend the skeleton crews. Too bad for the companies that it's not working. But I did have fun laughing in that managers face.