I interviewed with a small telecom company a couple weeks ago. First phone interview went great, in-person was good as well. Got the job offer, started today.
Boss noticed that I was dropped off – I said that I don’t have a car right now. Later on, he starts asking when I might get a car, because they need someone to be able to run supplies out to techs on job sites. (There was nothing in the job description about that. It presented as a strictly in-office job…and even WFH a couple days a week.) I said that I didn’t have the budget for a vehicle now and had no timeline as to when I would.
They told me it wasn’t going to work out. If they’d taken the time to look through the paperwork I filled out, they would have known I don’t have a vehicle. They could’ve asked in the interview. But they failed to mention this very important detail.
So I’m home with my cats, feeling pissed off. I did send an email to the company when I got home advising where they could mail me a check for the 5 hours I was there. I’d they don’t, I plan on reporting them to the labor board or whoever.
Good luck to them on finding someone for an $18/hr office job that requires transporting telecom crap around.