Our son Randy is a safety inspector who makes more money than he knows what to do with. Recently, Richard has started taking classes in order to become a safety inspector also and has been putting in applications for jobs. One company texted on Easter Sunday to say they had availability and would like to interview him using the internet. Okay, I get it. After 2020 many have relied more upon technology for interviews using zoom or facetime or whatever. Monitoring a lengthy questionnaire does not qualify as an interview in my opinion.
I was bothered that the “interview”
was to take place on Easter day. After all,
he had just received the text message. Usually one will set up an appointment and
not just willy-nilly create a spontaneous message through text. We had gone
down to Ashland again as Jaime had left her wallet in the car and figured she
would need it before we visit with her in a month. I think he saw Sunday as just an average day
and didn’t seem to care about it being Easter.
So he decides to do the “interview”
which I didn’t really feel good about and would have at least waited until
Monday – the fact that the company was willing to compromise any Sunday but
especially Easter made it feel like a company would be self-oriented and not
care about employees. I don’t know how
many questions Richard had answered before he was asked for bank information so
the company could be certain about direct deposit.
Fortunately, Richard did not provide
the “needed” information but instead entered that “by law I cannot provide the
information until I have already been working at your company”. After more prodding on the company’s end,
Richard typed in “I will not answer anymore of your questions as both you and I
know this is a scam.”
It infuriates me because not all desperate job hunters are wise enough to stop feeding information. Just like jobhat – asking over a hundred questions ( including social security number) in their “application” . When a person is filling out the application he/she/they does/do not yet have the job and does not need to provide social until he/she/they has/have the job. I hate that people will prey upon the weakness of others. I hope they are all caught and crucified at their own expense and not that of the taxpayer.
Job Seeker Beware!
