This happened about a year and a half ago, but I never knew where to share this story.
I have been teaching music lessons privately for nearly a decade at that point, and I do that on my own time as a self-employed person, but I wanted something to supplement income on my off days. On my resume, it is clear that I have private teaching experience.
Applied through Indeed for a secretary position at a tutoring center. The director calls me. She says she's very intereste in my teaching experience. I told her “well, I do have teaching experience, but not in math and reading” (which is what this tutoring center specializes in. I have never taught a child how to read and I am very bad at math, I am not qualified for this position, that's why I applied for the secretary job. She says “Oh, well teaching is all the same.” (RED FLAG!) She offers for me to come see how things run and maybe I could sit in and see if it's something I'd be good at.
I said “I'll give it a shot, why not.” She asks me to be there, Monday at 4. Sounds great.
I walk in the door at 345 on Monday. “Hi, my name is complacentviolinist, I'm here to meet with [director's name].”
The woman at the desk hands me an application and says “she'll be right with you, if you just want to fill this out and sit in the waiting room.”
I said “I've already filled out an application.”
She says “Oh, okay. She'll be right with you.” So I sit in this room, by myself. There are kids running around everywhere outside the room. I get bored and don't think it would be professional for her to walk in and me be on my phone, so I fill the application out anyway to pass the time. After 20 minutes I poke my head out, she's nowhere to be seen. I waited for an hour and fifteen minutes, as I had a student coming to my house for a lesson at 530 and I am starving.
After an hour and fifteen minutes I go back to the secretary. She looks surprised, like she forgot I was there, and she said “Are you done?”
I hand her the application and said “I was done quite some time ago, but I have to be somewhere at 530.” I explain that I applied to an administrative position, and she's like “oh yeah we need someone to cross train on my job, but our immediate need is teachers” and then says “I'll tell [director] that you had somewhere to be, it gets crazy around here at this time!”
I was baffled that they had such disrespect for my time, and then framed it like I was the one not on everyone's schedules.
If anyone's kid needs tutoring, you're better off getting it from an older kid in their school, not a company that undoubtedly charges too much for bureaucratic nonsense and who is willing to hire someone with no experience teaching in the field for minimum wage. Teaching music is difficult and intersectional, but I have no clue how to teach kids algebra or phonics. Massive red flag, folks. Phew.
Sorry this isn't a crazy thrilling story, I just had to share it somewhere.