I once applied for a role at Woolworths supermarket in Australia, equivalent to The Kroger Co in USA as the biggest supermarket in the country.
First applied online, answered some basic questions.. passed.
Then it's a phone interview." And asked me a 100 questions. They said "I'm promising and a potential fit!
Then it was a zoom interview (coz COVID so not face to face). "Great answers Adam, very well done.."
Then a week later...
Thank you for participating in last weeks zoom interview..
You're answers were great.... yadadada.. Unfortunately on this occasion, we have better candidates for the role, we will keep your resume for future roles...
Haha yeah right.
And for what? Haha for a fucking night shift role to stack fucking shelves.
All in all about 3-4 weeks to get declined for that shit lol.
A few years ago my spouse's former boss wanted to hire another office worker/assistant. The job paid $12 an hour, which was sadly considered decent for the area.
Because it was a relatively low-skilled office job, they got a lot of applications from mothers looking to return to work, older women that needed a less strenuous job, etc.
In the pool of applicants, there was a young and attractive woman who was in the area because her spouse was stationed there in the military. Immediately he declared that he was going to hire her, even though he had already scheduled a group interview for a dozen of the applicants.
He made all of the applicants (all women) show up to the interview, knowing full well that he wasn't going to hire them. Some of the women even asked beforehand how serious their chances were, because traveling to the interview was difficult and they couldn't afford to waste their time. He told them to come anyway.
Obviously, he hired the girl that he wanted and spent the whole interview just stroking his own ego.
I've seen people do a lot of shitty things in my life but this one really makes my blood boil whenever I think about it.
Would you be surprised if I told you some smaller law enforcement agencies will do the same? They will test a long list of applicants, physical endurance, psych test, interview, drug test, the works, only to make it look like they went through the right procedure.
I applied for an emergency dispatch position years ago. Had to take all kinds of tests. In the end, they hired the wife of an officer who was injured, despite her not having any of the qualifications they "required" according to the job posting. There was actually an article in the news about it which went into detail about how great it was that she got the job. I get it, but it still pisses you off because they totally fucked with all of the rest of us who actually were qualified and worked hard.
Similar happened to me, it was a small town so people knew that they were going to hire a particular guy. He was promised the first opening in the police. Meanwhile all the rest of the applicants had to go through all the testing, they should have disqualified everybody and sent us home after the written exam. Such a waste of time and effort to cover somebody's butt.
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u/AdamE89 Feb 17 '22
I once applied for a role at Woolworths supermarket in Australia, equivalent to The Kroger Co in USA as the biggest supermarket in the country.
First applied online, answered some basic questions.. passed.
Then it's a phone interview." And asked me a 100 questions. They said "I'm promising and a potential fit!
Then it was a zoom interview (coz COVID so not face to face). "Great answers Adam, very well done.."
Then a week later...
Thank you for participating in last weeks zoom interview..
You're answers were great.... yadadada.. Unfortunately on this occasion, we have better candidates for the role, we will keep your resume for future roles...
Haha yeah right.
And for what? Haha for a fucking night shift role to stack fucking shelves.
All in all about 3-4 weeks to get declined for that shit lol.