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A professional man in suit standing near office buildings for an interview.
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"I went to a job interview, they wanted me to work a full day for free. I left."
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The silhouette of a man walking away from the camera through a brightly lit outdoor hallway, representing the end of a bad interview.
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With certainty, though, a candidate needs to be evaluated in a way that is fair and honest to all parties, and a working interview, especially one that is unpaid, reeks of insecurity from the hiring team.
When this job candidate was asked to come in for an interview at 10 am with a manager, they instead found a busy manager who had no time for them, as they were going to spend the day chasing around a group of trainees who made up the bulk of their team for that day. Without even so much as a "hello", let alone a chance to talk about even the most basic expectations from both parties, they were going to be expected to work a full day on their own before sitting down for their “interview” at the end of the day.
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A well-dressed man in a suit looking thoughtfully toward the horizon. Tall office buildings behind him emphasize the corporate setting of his recent job interview.
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There are so many red flags here it is hard to count them all: The number of staff that called out leaving only trainees for the supervisor to chase around all days, all screams of an organization that is relying solely on manipulation tactics to corner desperate candidates who are willing to be exploited all to keep up with a “meat grinder” of a workplace that is shedding staff at a rate of turnover higher than it can keep up with. There's even more cynically, a chance that this whole thing was just a way to get them in the door, and this is how the company seeks to cover for staffing shortages. That one seems like a little bit of a stretch, but one would have to wonder just what sort of toxic management structure is behind all of this lack of support and frantic decision-making.
Of course, situations like this probably do happen for real reasons, and who knows what a willingness to help out could do for your career potential. But, at the end of the day, you need to be able to judge these situations for yourself on the fly. And even if this was all just an honest misunderstanding and some bad on-the-spot judgment.
Even, say, if this was just a one-off and the worst day of the manager's life, it still raises questions as to the company's prepardness and levels of organization.
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