Employers can say some strange stuff, too

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I can see that I've become "one of them"...an old fuddy-duddy. I'm shocked at the misspellings, poor grammar and punctuation I see written here. Usually, being able to write a decent sentence is a requirement for high school graduation, which many employers look for these days....

I feel really badly about your experience. Usually, states have an office (paid for by TAXPAYERS) that deals with employment discrimination (EEO, maybe?). Also, plaintiffs' attorneys usually collect their fees from the employer, not the employee. You might want to at least check it out.

i went to a job interview on july 7th for a company i wont name for a part-time job well they had me in for frist one at 10:45 well i was a little early and i ended up waiting on the hr woman to get done then after frist one was over i was asked to come back for 2nd interview at 2 that day went in and waited even longer for the manger of the dept. then was told at end of interview i would be contacted by the next week for 3rd and final interview well after i didn't hear from them i called up there 4 times left 2 mesages for hr woman and 2 for manger and to this day i still haven't heard anything from ether person now to me this is no way to run a store and for that matter has soured me on a store i loved to shop at

When I first moved to Wisconsin, I received an interview from an employer whom felt it was necessary to ask about my "living situation" in depth. I knew why he was asking the question(s). He wanted to ensure that I wouldn't up and leave in a few weeks and I did everything to ensure that my move here was permanent. Still, he went on asking questions like "do you live with your mother then or have you found your own place?" which were not relevant to the position I was applying for. Finally, he ended the interview by saying "well, to be honest, I'm not really sure I like your living situation".

One week later, after being hired by the competition across the street, he called me back and told me I was "hired". I told him that I had just accepted a full time job from the company across the street, in which he responded "so when can you start?". Apparently, ignoring what I had just said. I proceeded to repeat myself and he proceeded to repeat himself...

Finally, I ended the phone conversation and any chance of getting hired by that company by mocking the interviewer and saying "to be quite honest, I don't think I like your companies management situation".

I work for state government and was in my state's capital for a job interview and decided to stop into an office with the department I was currently working for on the other end of the state. I asked to speak with the office manager to inquire if there were any positions available, just in case I didn't get the other job. Long story short, the manager had just that day requested a list of applicants to fill a position I could transfer into. I said "what a coinsidence." She immediately said that she doesn't believe in coinsedence and that I was directed to her by God. I thought that was a little nutty, but I agreed with her (I really wanted the job) She hired me on the spot. I still work for the department. She was fired a couple of months after I was hired. LOL

I was interviewing for a "bookkeeper" position at a local motorcycle dealership owned by two brothers. Things were going well when one of the brothers said, "We kinda have the reputation for being hard to work for." I replied, "I've heard that." The other chimed in with, "We've even been called a**holes." "I've heard that also," I said. The response was, "So, what makes you think you can work for us?" I told him, "If I can work with (name of former employer) and his boys, I can work for you." We all had a good laugh and I started the next day. I was really excited because I 've always had a thing for this particular brand of motorcycle and from what they explained the job to be, I could do it in my sleep. Turns out, the gal who was there for 5 years before me didn't have a lick of bookkeeping background. Their books were such a mess, it was like the library had been hit by a tornado. Plus, no one really knew how to run their computer system and they refused to send me for traiing. They had already spent the money on the previous woman. They didn't want to make that mistake again. It took over a year to get everything to some kind of order, but with no training, verbally abusive employers and a poorly managed outfit, I finally had enough. When I called the external accountant to tell him I had left, he said I lasted longer than he expected. He also said I was a good accountant and offered to be a reference for me if I needed him.

I once was interviewed for a local photographer who loved my portfolio, my attitude, and qualifications, but he promptly brought to my attention that I was, in fact, a female. After explaining that in the studio they do jobs that only men can do such as: painting, build sets, haul equipment, and use power tools. He ended the interview with a "thank you" and a final statement of "we don't hire the female type." Nice.

As an English major, I once replied to an ad seeking a "technical writer" with only the street address listed, only to drop off my resume at a car dealership! It turns out, the person at the desk who writes up the repairs and whatnot is also called a technical writer. But once I had figured out my mistake, one of the current "techincal writers" said they needed someone in the admin office, and he would submit my resume there.

I got a call a few days later asking if I was available for an interview -- in an hour. I agreed, hopped in my car, and met with the office manager. She spent 30 minutes telling me all about the job and how easy it would be for me, since I had "office experience" -- I had worked in a call center for a merchant processing company for a few years. She never asked me a single question about my experience or abilities. Finally, she proposed that I start work with her on a trial basis, where, after two weeks, if either party was unhappy we would terminate the employment. I was unsure, but figured a week or two couldn't kill me. And she wanted me to start the following day.

I quickly learned that I had been hired to try and take over the work of a contractor who would go over the incoming and sold cars and ensure that all the DMV paperwork was in order. My boss had no idea what this contractor did, so she couldn't train my in my position. She wanted me to figure it out on my own on the sly, so that they could stop paying the contractor! I worked the remainder of the week, doing what I could, and in the process heard so many horror stories from the one other office employee that I resolved to leave as soon as possible. Fortunately, over the weekend I was offered a different job I had interviewed for, and I was able to leave with a few day's pay and a great story!

Everything your writing is sooo true! I've been there too

And here I thought things had changed. They just disguise them better. Out of high school I applied for a summer job which involved a lot of math skills. I wasn't hired because as a woman I "might get married or might get pregnant, not necessarily in that order". But the real kicker is - the guy they hired was someone I had tutored in math!

I interviewed for an admin assistant job at a bank once. My resume was flawless and I had lots of experience already from previous jobs, it was just a job answering phones and handling clients that came in to see a financial adviser. I was beyond qualified for it and just wanted out of my current job because of a problem coworker. The person who interviewed me barely glanced at my resume and then launched into a speech about how "this is all great and I know you're qualified but here at (bank) we want to make sure you're the right personality type for the job." He seemed positive and then sent me on my way to take a mandatory personality test on the computer as part of the interview process. I did not get the job and am very glad. The person they ended up hiring got stuck on switchboard duty for weeks during a slow period. No thanks!

I once applied for a position as an apprentice residential appraiser (after completing all required courses) and was told "you purse carriers are not cut out for this line of work" I thought WOW, how rude!

it possible to complain to the Better Business Bureau or to your state hiring authoirty for these bozos? I know my 4 hours to apply for a job given to the bosses kid is my loss, but it still makes me mad to waste my time because the business doesn't want a discriimination lawsuit filed. It is so discouraging to file for a job that is pomised to an inside person, just so it looks legal and I am left hanging there, twisting and looking and wasting my time...these companies usually interview 10 or so folks, and then hire their own..how convinient they compiy with the labor laws but waste my time, and yes and I can see what is happening when I look at the job sites listed

I think these stories are hilarious. I wouldn't have been able to believe them if I hadn't experienced many of them myself. I understand that in this economy, employers cannot respond personally to each and every person who sends in an application. However when you take time out of your day (and many times, time off at a current job), and spend good money getting to an interview, a potential employer should take a couple minutes to write you a short note or email and thank you for coming out as well as informing you that you didn't get the job. That is my number one pet peeve, when employers cannot even tell you that you aren't in the running and that you should stop wasting your time trying to follow up. They get annoyed when people bug them to death about when they're making a decision, but potential employees aren't important enough to be kept in the loop? Please. If you need a new employee that badly, you should do everything in your power to make a good impression--too many times we hear the opposite of this, that potential employees need to be the ones making the impression, but from a lot of your comments, the employers are the ones making bad first impressions. I'm glad its not just me experiencing all this crap!
And can we get off the church/homosexuality topic? From the directions its taken, it doesn't have anything to do with this article anymore.

At age 19 and in the early 1970's, I was employed at a prestigious law firm. I was told that my duties included: making coffee, serving it to the lawyers and clients in real mugs on a serving tray after first taking the coffee orders (cream? sugar?), then washing the coffee pot and mugs at the end of the workday. I ran errands to pick up food for entertaining clients using my own car. Never could use my lunch hour for lunch only...had to answer phones for an hour while the hotshots had their lunch, eating in between calls. The final straw came two years from date of employment...I was assigned an additional lawyer to work for and I was told I would have to stay late and serve dinner to the lawyer and his clients that were attending zoning meetings. No overtime. No comp time. What the 'f' was I? A legal secretary or a waitress?! Walked in one day, said sayanora, picked up two weeks pay and never looked back.

This didn't happen to me during an interview; I had been employed at a Jesuit school as an IT person for 9 years. At one time, I worked full-time, plus carried a 16-credit college class load (part-time..sort of, haha). I more than satisfied my job duties and my college classes.

I was later diagnosed with bipolar illness, which is treatable. Under the ADA, an employee with an illness or disability may request certain job re-arrangements. I only requested one...to be able to come in later in the morning than 8am, staying of course my full 8 hours. Being able to keep therapy and doctor appointments that unfortunately were in the middle of a workday, but still working my 8 hours. I was denied. Three weeks later, I was summarily dismissed. Yes, I could have filed suit under the ADA laws, but I don't have the kind of money a lawyer would have cost me. I would have won, too, as this was blatant discrimination and unlawful firing (I wasn't told the reason, just that my services were no longer needed) from a supposedly caring, Christian school...actually a college that is well-known nationally.

In responce to Sylvester from Feb. I couldn't agree more. The only thing is when you apply to a company that is "customer service oriented" and you never hear back from them in any way, shape, or form. I guess we aren't good enough to purchase their products or services huh? That or is it that they are just blowing smoke up our a$$ about really caring about the customer? Either way if you can't be professional enough to at least send a quick e-mail saying thank you for your time but we have choosen another applicant, I don't think they understand ANY customer service and believe that they don't even want you as a customer. No name given to the insurance company that did this to me but they are in DeWitt, Iowa and sell their service accross the nation.

Have you ever heard the song by Shaggy, "It Wasn't Me?" He states that even though a woman saw him in the process of cheating with her own two eyes, that it wasn't him. That is exactly how immature your response was. Please don't make a comment, be undeniably proven wrong, and then respond in such a way. It's exasperating!

I found an ad on Careerbuilder for an office manager for a real estate company. At the time I was working as the office manager of a recruiting firm and my experience was in line with the ad requirements. I received a phone call setting up the interview for a couple of days later. Prior to the interview, I realized that I hadn't printed out the ad from Careerbuilder. I went online to pull it back off, but the ad was gone. When I went to the interview (which was with a man who *strongly* resembled the food critic from Ratatouille - in looks, accent and attitude), the owner asked me my qualifications. I began talking about my office management experience. He interrupted me (rather churlishly) by saying that the job was to source real estate, not manage the office and why had I bothered to waste his time? Um, because you advertised for an office manager....he then asked me if I wanted to do the job. It was for little money and I would have had to work with him...Needless to say, I said no.

Once I interviewed for a position in Richardson,TX where manager interviewed me first and liked me. Then he asked some of his colleagues to interview me as well. One of the interviewer was clearly a new hire there, fresh out of college.. so he went on to ask me some "text book" questions and when I replied, he laughed at my face not knowing that he is the ignorant one. Not everything that happens practically is there in the book. I found out later that he had referenced his friend for that position and was trying to find a reason for them to not hire me...
So much for the interview process!

I have to reply to the "many or some would say most" comment about Christian/Evangelical ministries hiring gay employees. I object to the exclusive verbiage you used. No, I am not an employer. I am an individual that simply refuses to generalize about any group of people, regardless of race, creed, color or sexual orientation. To say that when Christian based employers ask if a candidate is gay only hoping that the answer is yes for the reasons you listed is extremely bigoted.
Too many times these types of comments get brushed off as one person's opinion, when in reality they are infectious and very hurtful.
Thanks for letting me speak my piece.

ChimpImp...a job can just be a job sometimes...lol

I worked for an personal injry attorney in Raleigh, NC who really prided himself on being this nice guy but would do stuff like come on to female associate atty's THEN fire them if he couldn't screw them, not invite minorities to gatherings at his home but invited all the whites which REALLY made them get treated badly b/c there were bad white ones that felt like "why should I treat you with respect when even HE doesn't?" I got fed up and left--most attorneys are snakes but don't hide behind the "nice guy" bullcrap...

I was asked several times what my parents did for a living (i.e. what favors can your parents do for us?/what socioeconomic class are you in) and two male interviewers told me I wasn't "bubbly" enough for a position at 2 separate companies. Do they want a Playboy bunny or someone who can do the job?

Fresh out of college, I applied for an internship at a well known PR company in a large Midwestern city. It was a four hour interview process (complete with tests and two different sets of interviews). I knew it was a red flag when three of the four people they informed would be interviewing me did not show up (they had three replacements at the last minute).

One of the hiring managers stated that, "If you don't get the job, there is no need to go home and slit your wrists."

They said they didn't know how many internship positions would be available, but it would be around 7-10, and that they were interviewing 20 people. One lady said, "Consider yourself lucky because we had 80 applicants for this term."

They said they would let me know in 3-4 weeks if I got the job. I waited and after no response in 3 weeks, I contacted them. They said they found someone else. The reply email they sent was generic and did not even address me by name. I thought that was a little rude considering 4 hours of my life was wasted and they couldn't even be prompted to let me know I didn't get the job (if I was so lucky).

When asked by a prospective employer, "Where do you see yourself in five years?". Look straight at them and say "I want your job.". This doesn't apply to interveiws done in human resource department. Only interveiws done by a potential 'boss'. I answered that at a group interveiw at a construction company one time, the interveiwers couldn't write fast enough. I told them slinging a hammer and riding a shovel wasn't what I wanted to do the rest of my life. I wanted to go to work and keep my clothes clean and dry, keep my hardhat shiny and new. They offered me the job but the details of time off couldn't be worked out.

You can be gay and be an evangelical Christian. In fact, many evangelical Christians are gay, and vice-versa. There is no correlation between sexual orientation and religious beliefs.

I had an interview a couple of years ago for research job in a public library where the interviewer - a manager in this library's HR department - told me that I shouldn't expect to get hired because my astrological sign was one that wasn't cerebral enough to adequately address the academic rigors of that particular job.

I love this comment. I have seen so many ads written like this. I had a receptionist from a doctors' office call me to set up an interview. She asked me twice what type of experience I had. I told her my previous positions required the same skills that the job required and my externship. This whole time I had the ad from the newspaper sitting in front of me and it did not read "experienced required". She kept saying I'm sure the ad read experience required. I had to correct her twice. The doctors' office should not have someone calling potential employees about a position unless the person callin g is aware of what the ad reads. Then she wanted to argue with me about the ad!!!!!

Handwriting analysis is routinely done in France and is taken very seriously. In Japan, one's blood type may affect employment.

So you don't eat shellfish I take it.

I am a nurse. I was given a "scenario" in a job interview where I just gave a 15 yr old boy with a broken leg an overdose of a certain pain medication by administering it incorrectly, and what would I do? I was in so much shock at the stupidity of the question - 1) I would not do that, I am much more careful than that and 2)Is it acceptable to make that kind of mistake here??? - that I couldn't think to tell them I'd give the boy Narcan, a medication that temporarily reverses narcotic overdose. I knew I'd blown that interview but I still reel with the very thought that scenario might be acceptable there!

My favorite:

I was told that I'd be working with a bunch of Italian designers that cussed a lot and would yell at me. Was I OK with that?

I asked if I could yell back at them. I got a sour look.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't get an offer.

I was once asked by the CEO of a Software Development company what my favorate cuss word was because they used them openly there.

How is being gay and being apart of a ministry so "diametrically opposed to one’s own beliefs"?

I am gay and a minister for the Presbyterian Church. Just because some of us are gay does not mean we do not believe in God nor do we want to spread his good word. Many of us "gays" love the Lord too.

Why would God judge us so harshly? Why would God damn us to hell for commiting our love to another human, no matter thier race or gender?

I've been told to my face...."you are to old for the job". I replied - folks that are 22 don't have the 35 years of exp. you are looking for.

QUALIFICATIONS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO MEET.

I am amazed how many positions asked for experienced in items that only previous employees can have. Things that read 3+ years experience in RQNF Systems. To find out that they are the only ones in the world that have it. Even my current employer asks for at least a couple of years of experience in an internal software and what is funny is that the software was released last year so NO one has years of experience in it. Another thing I see is when they try to merge 2 positions together and offer less money that either position separate.

And the icing in the cake is when they ask for opposing requirements. Things like: tall, strong individual needed for installs. This person should not weight less than 150 lbs as many locations have ceilings that do not hold much weight. In addition, this person should be able to lift over 75lbs of equipment.
In other words they are looking for a person with characteristic of an ant. Now the kicker: the job will pay $10/hr. So in addition, to be strong tall freakishly strong skinny contortionist suicidal spider man, you had to be desperate for money (hey actually Peter Parker fit that description, maybe he will apply).

Finally I like the one that ask for a laundry list of specialized (and sometimes very expensive to acquire training or certifications) and at the end pays very little. So you have to be a genius in the field that is a moron in finances (ie do not knot what yourself is worth).

I have seen many job ads requires many years of experiences and finally realized that recession has redefined meaning "entry-level". "entry-level" indicates the level of pay, not the level of experience and qualification!

Many employers do not pay the interviewees travel expenses for the interviews any more. After spending a big chunk of my unemployment benefit on travel to a out of state interview, I was told that they decided not to fill this position at this time!

sounds like the "Lisa Clark" i had the pleasure of working in the same establishment with. Thank your LUCKY STARS she showed her TRUE self before you were sucked into working for her!!

While applying for a delivery job I filled out a questionnaire where 2/3 of the 60+ questions asked me if I was a pot smoker, thief, or approved of such behavior. It was obvious that they had had problems with that before. I found it rather insulting that they wanted to waste my time with that form instead of asking me to my face. Anyone who is not too baked will answer "that is illegal & I would never do that" By the time I was half way through the form I didn't want to work for them even though I don't smoke pot or steal. I thought it was interesting that they didn't seem to care about drinking and driving.

still sheep

The bible does mention homosexuality in the new testament. If you read the letter of the Apostol Paul of Roman chapter 1. This chapter speaks about homosexuality and lesbianism that is against God's law. I do believe that Got does change people and forgive their sins, but homosexuality is a blasfemy against God. God hate the sinner but hate the sin.

From Romans:
Ro 1:21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. (AIDS perhaps?)

Go read your bible Joshua and quit taking some other idiots word for what it says. There is no reference to homosexuality in the new testament only the old. But then I suppose you follow strictly all the old testament teachings and laws just like every one else that thinks the bible has an opinion on human sexuality. Learn to read and think for your self sheep!!