Last week I went to an interview for a job I found on Indeed. The job was dispatch for transit and the pay was $18.25 so of course I was interested.
I get there and wait for like 15 minutes because they weren't prepared. I can see the lady currently doing dispatch purposely ignores the first call and answers only if they call back so that was the first red flag. Anyway they pull me into another room and I was doing the interview with two supervisors. Right off the bat, they tell me the pay is actually $15 an hour and A RAISE OF 50¢ EVERY TWO YEARS. I should've left at this point but I figured I would see how the rest of the interview goes. It felt like an anti interview.
They tell me that I would work afternoon shifts and since our town doesn't have a school bus system, I would be doing dispatch as school is letting out. Then they tell me that consisted of at least 400 calls in a few hours. That does not sound fun at all. They read my resume and see that I have experience in IT so they then start talking about how I could help them fix their tablets on the transit busses. I'm obviously not doing that as it's not my job but I go a long with them and see how much worse this will get.
I answer their stupid questions like anyone would and blatantly try to play myself up and be humble and I tell them, “I'm looking for a company to grow with and one with room to move up.” They tell me that they've been there for 11 years and they're now supervisors. It just kept getting worse. Only part that mattered was benefits but it wasn't worth it at this point. I told them I'd call them the next day about maybe doing some shadowing because they were pushing hard for it and I get nervous during interviews.
I call them the next day and tell them I'm not interested. The lady says, “do you mind if I ask you why?” And I told her, “well first you start at $15 an hour so I would be taking a pay cut from my current job and 50¢ every two years doesn't even come close to inflation.” She asks me how much I would want to be paid, I said at least $17 an hour but at this point I definitely didn't want the job. She got real quiet after I told her my number and so I told her I'm not interested. The job doesn't sound enjoyable and that was that. Afterwards I had noticed they changed their pay listing on Indeed to $15 an hour so it wasn't misleading but I really feel like I dodged a bullet with that one.