Applied for this job on Indeed and they quickly wanted to set up a phone interview. I responded with the automated date and time they sent to me for a phone interview two days from this point. The following day I get a message on Indeed that read: “I see that we had an interview scheduled for today that I was unaware of, my apologies. If you could please contact me directly at …., I would love to reschedule for an in person if possible. Please email me. Thank you.” I then sent an email stating the interview was not for another day and included the screen shot from Indeed with the interview time and date.
The person then responds to adjust the time to be 30 minutes later. Fine, no big deal. I respond to confirm the details and address. Less than 10 minutes after I sent the email I get a response back stating “I apologize but I wouldn’t want to rush your meeting and I feel like squeezing it in tomorrow may do exactly that. What does Monday morning look like for you?” My thought is, you scheduled it and I said it is okay, why change it when I was originally scheduled for an interview anyhow? I then responded and said sure, Monday was fine and got a new day and time for the interview scheduled.
It is now Friday, the day my initial interview was supposed to be, and I get a missed call from the business 15 minutes after my originally scheduled interview. I call back and ask for the person who left me the voice mail (which is different from the person I was emailing) and she said she was calling to conduct the interview. I told her it was moved to Monday and being done as an in-person interview. I get the “oh, I did not know” and get an excuse why the person never told her. Not my concern.
I respond back how disorganized the whole process has been just for a first interview. The person I’m talking to (who, come to find out is the owner) gets very defensive and doesn’t want to admit fault on their end. After a few more words she tells me it may be best I don’t come in for the interview so I hang up.
On Tuesday I get an email from the original person I was emailing: “I reached out to you last Thursday and left you a message on your mobile. I was hoping to catch you to apologize for the confusion last week….I never had the chance to update the owner on any upcoming interviews I had scheduled while she was out of the office. Therefor when she was going through emails from the past week and saw the one sent from indeed when you scheduled through the website (those emails go to her, not me, which is why I contacted you about rescheduling in the first place), she had no way of knowing that our interview had been rescheduled. I apologize for any confusion and/or frustration this may have caused.” So, yes, the process was disorganized. But the owner did not want to admit that to me on the phone.
I turn to Google to leave an accurate review of my experience and mention it is disorganized, a small critique was not handled professionally, they deflect, and go on the defensive. The person I was emailing responded to this review and apologized for miscommunication. Then stated I aired my frustration “with such inaccuracy and fabrication.”
You can’t be serious, right? Remember, you are disposable and the owner rules with an iron fist. Don’t protect them. Because they won’t protect you. And if something as small as a mix up on an interview date/time goes this bad, I can only imagine how bad it must be to actually work there under that person. Thank God this happened before going any further with them. Also thank God for one-party consent states so I have the phone call recorded.
And if you made it this far, my title is directly taken from their response to my Google review…