Post by polished on Apr 25, 2006 11:40:03 GMT -5
Pardon me, I just have a need to vent in a public area ! My sister (whom I live with) is currently unemployed - thanks to outsourcing - and recently had a fantastic interview for a really nice job (the Accounting field) close to where we live. She meets this guy on a Monday, finds out he's been interviewing left and right for nearly a month and can't find one he likes, but says he likes her - likes her experience, likes her attitude, believes she's perfect for the job.
He tells her that out of courtesy, he has to let her meet with the woman she'd be working with, just to make sure the would like each other - but he assures her he believes they'll get along perfectly. Said woman is on vacation that week, but will phone on Monday.
Which she did - phoned that next Monday, had my sister come meet with her on Tuesday - they got along swimmingly, as they say, and chatted for an hour. She gave no indication that she'd met with or was scheduled to meet with any other candidates. She asked what the boss had said, to which my sister replied "he just said he wanted us to meet first." So she says that he'll probably call her then.
Wednesday, no phone call. Thursday, no phone call. Friday, I notice the job announcement has been removed from the web page, and still no phone call. I convinced my sister to phone him and ask if a decision had been made - she gets his voice mail since he's "not in yet" at 1:30 pm. She leaves a message.
All through the weekend we tried to remain hopeful. Then Monday comes, no phone call. Desperate and depressed, she phones again at 1:00 pm, he's "with a client" so she leaves another voice mail.
Nothing !
This man doesn't even have the BALLS to admit to her, via telephone OR email, that he picked someone else - or changed his mind, or whatever ! How hard is it to either return a phone call, or send an email (his original mode of contacting her) or send a freaking postcard saying Thanks, but no thanks ? It'd be one thing if he'd told her she was one of several candidates - we'd just assume he went another direction. But he TOLD her, to her face, that she was the ONLY one he liked, and was the only one meeting with the other employee.
Now he's so lacking in testicles, he'd rather avoid her phone call, refuse to return voice mail and ignore any and all protocols of polite society that would at least inform her she was not chosen.
I love men, in general. Where I work, I'm one of 3 women to 32 men. That's why, when I stumble upon one of the manly gender who can't even muster the courage to face a woman and tell her he's hired someone else, I just want to SCREAM! We're talking about the telephone, for crying out loud. He doesn't even have to look at her ! Or he could even email - the ultimate cowardly way to save face.
She's had to drive all the way back to Seattle today to meet with an agency in the hopes of finding something, and will have to pass this guy's business on her drive back. I'm hoping she'll stop there and force this jerk to come clean.
It's one thing to completely ignore a candidate you don't call in for interviews - but polite society usually demands you inform those you interviewed - via postcard if nothing else, that they weren't chosen.
Thanks for letting me vent. We now return you to your regular programming.
He tells her that out of courtesy, he has to let her meet with the woman she'd be working with, just to make sure the would like each other - but he assures her he believes they'll get along perfectly. Said woman is on vacation that week, but will phone on Monday.
Which she did - phoned that next Monday, had my sister come meet with her on Tuesday - they got along swimmingly, as they say, and chatted for an hour. She gave no indication that she'd met with or was scheduled to meet with any other candidates. She asked what the boss had said, to which my sister replied "he just said he wanted us to meet first." So she says that he'll probably call her then.
Wednesday, no phone call. Thursday, no phone call. Friday, I notice the job announcement has been removed from the web page, and still no phone call. I convinced my sister to phone him and ask if a decision had been made - she gets his voice mail since he's "not in yet" at 1:30 pm. She leaves a message.
All through the weekend we tried to remain hopeful. Then Monday comes, no phone call. Desperate and depressed, she phones again at 1:00 pm, he's "with a client" so she leaves another voice mail.
Nothing !
This man doesn't even have the BALLS to admit to her, via telephone OR email, that he picked someone else - or changed his mind, or whatever ! How hard is it to either return a phone call, or send an email (his original mode of contacting her) or send a freaking postcard saying Thanks, but no thanks ? It'd be one thing if he'd told her she was one of several candidates - we'd just assume he went another direction. But he TOLD her, to her face, that she was the ONLY one he liked, and was the only one meeting with the other employee.
Now he's so lacking in testicles, he'd rather avoid her phone call, refuse to return voice mail and ignore any and all protocols of polite society that would at least inform her she was not chosen.
I love men, in general. Where I work, I'm one of 3 women to 32 men. That's why, when I stumble upon one of the manly gender who can't even muster the courage to face a woman and tell her he's hired someone else, I just want to SCREAM! We're talking about the telephone, for crying out loud. He doesn't even have to look at her ! Or he could even email - the ultimate cowardly way to save face.
She's had to drive all the way back to Seattle today to meet with an agency in the hopes of finding something, and will have to pass this guy's business on her drive back. I'm hoping she'll stop there and force this jerk to come clean.
It's one thing to completely ignore a candidate you don't call in for interviews - but polite society usually demands you inform those you interviewed - via postcard if nothing else, that they weren't chosen.
Thanks for letting me vent. We now return you to your regular programming.
