CrushDance
Banned
Summary:
A) Get called for a job which would pay higher then my current one.
B) Got there several minutes early.
C) Manager interviews some guy and offers him $9.25 while I'm sitting in ear range.
D) Manager takes forever to come talk to me even though the other guy cut into my interview time.
E) Manager offers me $9...to do a harder job.
F) Profit????
There's this place that I applied to that would pay much better than my current job. Everything went great(Application, callback, etc) and I was told to come in for an interview a couple days back.
I got there about 15 minutes early and waited before going up to declare my arrival for the interview. It was basically a guaranteed job for me anyway since my resume was a perfect fit for the position. Anyway, while I'm waiting another guy comes in horribly late for his interview I presume(because mine was at 2 and it was already 1:50). He asks for the person in charge on shift and she comes out to interview him. She didn't know I was there for an interview as well though and I was kind of ticked off at the other guy because I usually go to work and important things several minutes early in order to make a good impression.
So she interviews the guy and he talks about his previous work and how it was kind of hard for him due to school etc. And then she told him the benefits of working at the establishment and all the regular jazz. And then tells him that he'll start at $9.25/hr and that he can come on Wednesday for orientation.
I was happy since that's about what I expected and was a good amount for the job asked of me. He gets up and leaves and I go and up and present myself for the interview. She immediately calls me out by name and remarks about my timely arrival. She says she'll be right back and I go sit back down. About 20 minutes later she comes back and interviews me. Everything goes great and she says that with my work experience the job would be great for me. She then asks me if I preferred working in the front with customers or in the back(Presumably cooking and such). I say either is fine buy I'd prefer the kitchen.
And then she says "So we start at $9/hr..." with an absolute flat face. I didn't interrupt her anyway and listened to what else she had to say. She finishes and I tell her that I have some other applications out as well and if she could give me till the end of the week to see if i get any response from those. She said that'd be fine and that I could call anytime and they'd start me up right away. Wednesday rolls around and I receive no further offers. So I call and the person I speaks to says that no managers were in at the moment but that she'd let them know I called. 2 days go by with no answer, I finally received a call back though today and the manager I speaks to says that "We hired some more people over the weekend and we're out of room" And I said a loud WTF in my head.
She then asked me if I would mind transferring to some other locations(Way out of my living area) to work. I mumbled a "okay" and she said she'd pass on the info. I was kind of in disbelief and pissed that I'd lost a potentially good job with nice benefits. But I got a call later today from another company asking me if I was interested in working for them @ $10/hr.
so it all worked out. But I feel that I go cheated big time(And conspiracy theory screams race). I was well qualified for the job and everything. So why was I given a lesser offer? Especially when working in the kitchen would have been the more important and therefore higher payed position?
I don't like playing the race card, but it's all I can think of. And I'm not saying that's the reason...just the only one that makes sense to me. @_@
A) Get called for a job which would pay higher then my current one.
B) Got there several minutes early.
C) Manager interviews some guy and offers him $9.25 while I'm sitting in ear range.
D) Manager takes forever to come talk to me even though the other guy cut into my interview time.
E) Manager offers me $9...to do a harder job.
F) Profit????
There's this place that I applied to that would pay much better than my current job. Everything went great(Application, callback, etc) and I was told to come in for an interview a couple days back.
I got there about 15 minutes early and waited before going up to declare my arrival for the interview. It was basically a guaranteed job for me anyway since my resume was a perfect fit for the position. Anyway, while I'm waiting another guy comes in horribly late for his interview I presume(because mine was at 2 and it was already 1:50). He asks for the person in charge on shift and she comes out to interview him. She didn't know I was there for an interview as well though and I was kind of ticked off at the other guy because I usually go to work and important things several minutes early in order to make a good impression.
So she interviews the guy and he talks about his previous work and how it was kind of hard for him due to school etc. And then she told him the benefits of working at the establishment and all the regular jazz. And then tells him that he'll start at $9.25/hr and that he can come on Wednesday for orientation.
I was happy since that's about what I expected and was a good amount for the job asked of me. He gets up and leaves and I go and up and present myself for the interview. She immediately calls me out by name and remarks about my timely arrival. She says she'll be right back and I go sit back down. About 20 minutes later she comes back and interviews me. Everything goes great and she says that with my work experience the job would be great for me. She then asks me if I preferred working in the front with customers or in the back(Presumably cooking and such). I say either is fine buy I'd prefer the kitchen.
And then she says "So we start at $9/hr..." with an absolute flat face. I didn't interrupt her anyway and listened to what else she had to say. She finishes and I tell her that I have some other applications out as well and if she could give me till the end of the week to see if i get any response from those. She said that'd be fine and that I could call anytime and they'd start me up right away. Wednesday rolls around and I receive no further offers. So I call and the person I speaks to says that no managers were in at the moment but that she'd let them know I called. 2 days go by with no answer, I finally received a call back though today and the manager I speaks to says that "We hired some more people over the weekend and we're out of room" And I said a loud WTF in my head.
She then asked me if I would mind transferring to some other locations(Way out of my living area) to work. I mumbled a "okay" and she said she'd pass on the info. I was kind of in disbelief and pissed that I'd lost a potentially good job with nice benefits. But I got a call later today from another company asking me if I was interested in working for them @ $10/hr.
so it all worked out. But I feel that I go cheated big time(And conspiracy theory screams race). I was well qualified for the job and everything. So why was I given a lesser offer? Especially when working in the kitchen would have been the more important and therefore higher payed position?
I don't like playing the race card, but it's all I can think of. And I'm not saying that's the reason...just the only one that makes sense to me. @_@
). And I based my living expenses off the $8.25.