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Vent/advice?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the one who posted a couple weeks ago about losing my job. I applied for several things, and got a call a couple days later about one of them. I did an initial interview with the HR lady, which seemed to go pretty well, then she wanted to schedule a conference call with the big bosses (who live out of state, where the company's headquarters are) so they could interview me.

We scheduled a day and time last week, and...I never heard from them. After double checking phone numbers/time zones and making sure I had the right info, I emailed the lady who was coordinating it all to see if she wanted to reschedule. I didn't hear from her that day or the next day, so I decided to just move on and keep applying for other stuff. After several days without hearing from her, I started to kind of get annoyed because like, okay, maybe they hired someone else, but at least have the decency to let me know.

Today my cousin's coworker's brother, who owns a business, came into their work to borrow something from his brother, and happened to mention that he's hiring for his company. She told him about me, and he apparently said that I sound perfect for the position and to tell me to email him. As soon as she told me, I got super excited because it basically sounds like my dream job. I emailed him right away, but it was after 6 pm by that point so I didn't really expect to hear anything tonight. I'm really hoping to hear from him tomorrow, though.

Anyway, right after that, I notice I have an email from the lady at the other company saying she "just forgot", not even apologizing or anything, and asking me to let her know when I'm available to reschedule.

Part of me is thinking of just completely ignoring it altogether because it took her over a week to even respond to me at all, and she didn't even apologize. Especially because I wasn't super interested in that job to begin with (but I need a job and was applying for everything I seemed qualified for), and even less so now that there's the option of this other one, which seems perfect for me. But if for some reason this one doesn't work out, at least that one would be something. But I don't want to email her until I hear from this guy, hopefully tomorrow. Part of me is like "meh, I'm not gonna worry about it, she took over a week to respond to me, it can wait" but that's also not the kind of person I am and I don't feel right about not getting back to her right away. But again...I'd much prefer the other job if it can work out so I don't want to email her until I hear from the owner of this other company.

I don't know, what would you guys do?

Re: Vent/advice?

[(Anonymous)]

IME this kind of thing happens all the time in jobhunting and it is *infuriating*. Companies will absolutely just ghost you with no explanation, and then still expect you to respond to everything ASAP. It's terrible.

However with that said - my experience is also that there's no such thing as a sure thing in jobhunting. So, my advice would be to respond to the rude awful lady even though she's rude and awful and you don't really want the job, just in case. If you need a way to pay the bills, you need a way to pay the bills. The fact that you're applying for other jobs doesn't have to enter the conversation at all. If you end up getting the other job, you can always just tell the lady "sorry, I've taken an offer elsewhere and I'm no longer interested in this position." After all they can hardly complain about you being rude given how they've already treated you.

Re: Vent/advice?

[(Anonymous)]

I would respond. And try to learn if their HR is just shitty but the company is actually ok. Since you are doing interview with bosses and everything.
Having choices is good, you are not being unfaithful.
But I would proceed with caution. This can be one red flag of many why you shouldn't take this position.

Re: Vent/advice?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd get back to the HR lady and reschedule. Even if the guy gets back to you, there's no guarantee that you'll get the job in the end.

It's infuriating when something like this happens to you! But it might be just one incompetent HR person and the test of the company is great. If the whole experience repeats itself, that information about the company that you can use to make your decision. But just for this one-off I wouldn't immediately pull out.

It's tough and unfair, but if you need a job, hurt pride isn't going to pay your rent.

Re: Vent/advice?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say you can afford to wait a day or two. I would not be surprised that even if you replied to HR lady immediately, she would get back to you asap as well.
When you got an interview at the other place, you can schedule a new app. with the shitty hr lady.

Re: Vent/advice?

[(Anonymous)]

Since she asked when you’re available to reschedule, you could say that you’re not available until the day after tomorrow, or even next week. Which would give time for you to hear from the guy. And if that doesn’t work out, you’d still have the rescheduled conference call. Because it important to hedge your bets in the job market, but they did give you the opportunity to reschedule to your convenience.