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Can they ask that?! The weather has been so weird today. It's snowed, hailed, rained and been really windy and cold. I was caught out a few times in the snow whilst out and about this afternoon. I wish the weather would sort itself out and get back to the warmer days we had only last week. I had an interview today after the Job Centre meeting. What a load of crap. I arrived 5 minutes early and ended up sitting there like a lemon for another 20 minutes after the interview time because the M.D. was on a phone call. If he knew I was coming why take the call if he knew it was going to be a long one. I get there early to show a good impression isn't it up to the company to show the same back to a potential employee? I don't care anyway, I was quizzed by the M.D. and the Admin Assistant I would be working with and they were really rather abrupt. Questioning why I've had so many jobs when I'm so young, I did start working straight after I got kicked out of school so yeah, got a few years of experience behind me. Then came the questions I really didn't like, way too personal for my liking - am I engaged, do I want to get engaged, is there any possibility of an engagement any time soon, do I want to get married, do I want children and a family and to settle down? What does all this have to do with my ability to file a piece of damn paper or type a few numbers in to a spreadsheet? Are they worried a huge big rock of an engagement ring may stop me using my left hand in my all-so-important work? I'm surprised they didn't whip out a pregnancy testing kit and ask me to pee on it there and then! This job I wasn't particularly keen on anyway and after playing 2001 questions I got fed up. Oh they also asked if I feel inferior in male company and like I shouldn't talk. Are they looking for some meek and mild girl to mould, or are they just scared I'll sleep with their highly male orientated emloyees? I'm a hooker, can't you tell? Oh and I was practically told they believe I had time off last year from work because I got paid for it! I don't know what all this was about but I'll be mentioning it to the agency tomorrow. I don't think it was right to ask such personal questions. Not only that, but if I get through the first round of interviews I get to go work there for an entire morning to answer the phones and file those ever so important documents free. Free of charge. Because I want to. Yeah right. Can they actually ask such questions, I don't even know if employers can ask personal questions like that. The interview was barely about my experience, skills or abilities. It was more about my family life and how I am around men than anything else. Think I might be telling them to stick the job where the sun don't shine. |