Been applying for a lot of IT jobs recently and have had so many instances lately where in a week I maybe have 3-6 interviews, all phone calls or zoom calls and try my best to schedule them around each other so none of them overlap. It's insane how many people I schedule a time and day with days before, and I understand things come up last minute, but it will be 2:30 or so right when they are supposed to call and they don't. Check my email, and the person is like “oh sorry! I'm running late today, can we reschedule some other time this week?” It always strikes me as they forgot or something but it really annoys me and comes across as unprofessional.
When I had this happen just yesterday, I told the person “sorry, I scheduled this meeting around everything else this week, today was the main day I was available and I set aside the time and day to be prepared. I am still able to call until 5pm.
I'm just tired of this lol
Do they not realize how rude this is? I would rather someone calls 15 or 20 minutes late then tries to completely reschedule as if you have nothing else going on because you're job searching, which I feel is a whole job in itself. Anyone else have this happen and how do you normally handle it? I'm not desperate for a job but I usually give people another chance but it's seriously ridiculous to me how much this happens even medium to large size IT companies.