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Do people not want a job?

cdiesel

cdiesel

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So, I had a receptionist quit about two weeks ago. No biggie, I had an application set aside from when I hired the first receptionist a few months ago that was a close number 2. Gave her a call, she was still looking for a job, great. Hired her. She started on Monday last week. She never showed up again.

So, I posted an ad on Craigslist on Monday and got about 200 replies in less than 24 hours. I scheduled 11 interviews for today. So far, I've had two people call to reschedule their appointments, one cancel, and now one not show up. Do people seriously not want to work or what??

I'm gonna hire a recruiter to go get me GG's receptionist!
 
cdiesel

cdiesel

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The last one DID! Lol

Her dad actually called me to submit her resignation. I called her for an exit interview to make sure nothing on our end was inappropriate, etc and she said she couldn't find a babysitter.
 
Letterbox Mike

Letterbox Mike

New Member
Interesting, we're in the exact same boat. We've gotten exactly one resume so far in over a week of pounding the pavement. People would rather draw unemployment as long as possible than actually earn a living. Frustrating.
 
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JimJenson

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You forgot to track the number of times you were asked if the job is off the books!

That's what I run into with running ads on craigslist. I suppose there's a certain number of people refuse to give up their unemployment.
 
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GypsyGraphics

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I hired a receptionist once... she lasted three days.

Day 1: she shows up dressed in a tank top, shorts and flip flops. I told her not to come to work again in her play clothes.

Day 2: She nibbled on snacks the whole day, even while answering the phone.

Day 3: She's telling callers she the office manager yet she needs help creating a very basic Excel spread sheet. Says what she meant, when she said she knew Excel is, she could get around a file that's already exists, just can't start from scratch.

Day 4: oh, yeah... there was no day four.

as for my receptionist (Mary umm Ann)... she's doing an ok job, but she's no better than i, at keeping chatty callers brief. doesn't seem to matter that she doesn't know anything about anything.
 
Dice

Dice

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This issue has always fascinated me. Not showing up for an interview is beyond me. The Lower the skill set on the job the more people don't show up for the interview.

Now I did work once in a shady part of Boston, and we routinely would have people turn around and leave right before the interview. One Girl said she would be too afraid to leave at night.
 
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speedmedia

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Hell yeah, why work when you can enjoy early retirement thanks to our government...It is much more rewarding to sit on your fat a** than to work hard.

Heck we have more people that try to equate if it is more lucrative to stay home or pay for gas/transportation than work... Pretty sad!

Thanks,
Kurt
 
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TheSnowman

TheSnowman

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Maybe part of our economy tanking is not the fact that people were "laid off" as much as the fact that they don't want to go back to work cause they make just as money "out of work" as they do showing up. There are a ton of lazy people out there. I just can't imagine not showing up for an interview. Why would you call to get the interview in the first place?
 
AUTO-FX

AUTO-FX

New Member
the lower the skill set the less common sense. i had a low skill set employee who's worked slowly degraded to "fire me" and when i did, he came into the office and attempted to pummel the snot outta me.he was much bigger than me. we rolled out the door and into the shop and he stopped when of the other guys came running over. He had the nerve to show up the next day after the cops told him not to enter the property again, thought he could just say sorry.
 
cdiesel

cdiesel

New Member
That's my whole point. Why even look for a job, submit a resume, schedule an interview if you have no intention of going to the damn thing. You wanna waste your time, go for it. Leave my time alone!
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
  • Maybe they suddenly got a better offer.
  • Maybe they heard about you and your ways.
  • Maybe they decided to go away before they got fired and couldn't collect anymore.
  • Maybe they got sick.
  • Maybe they saw your place from the outside and decided it looked too much like work.
  • Maybe when they got to your place, they saw you and RAN.
Yeah, that's the ticket........................... :ROFLMAO:​
 
Letterbox Mike

Letterbox Mike

New Member
AUTO-FX said:
ps, he applied for unemployment several times and finally got it. unbelievable.
Click to expand...

That's the worst.

We had to fire somebody back in the spring for blatant negligence while he was on a 90 day probation period for sucking at his job. Everything was documented, right down to a 2 page report for every mistake he made. Every documented incident had his signature on it.

When we let him go (mind you while still under probation) we documented it thoroughly, he signed that he acknowledged he was being terminated because he failed to do his job as agreed to.

Yet he still applied for unemployment. And the amazing thing is they're giving it to him. We refuted his claim twice, the third time they did a phone "hearing" with us, him and whomever makes the decision. The guy actually said on the phone "they fired me because I couldn't do my job right and messed everything up". They still gave him unemployment. Un-f'n-believable. At that very moment I lost what little faith I had left in me in the whole system.
 
SignManiac

SignManiac

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I had an employee who parents owned a competing sign company. They were nice people, but he said he'd rather work for me instead????

I needed help and hired him because he supposedly had experience and I needed help bad at the time. After a while he showed his true colors and was a whiney ass bitch trouble maker. I had five employees at the time who all got along great, except for him. He managed to piss off everyone here that worked with him.

Lucky me, he comes and gives me two weeks notice to take a job as an outside sales rep for a local sign supplier. I was very happy when he gave notice because I didn't have to fire him and I had two good people waiting in the wings for his job.

As soon as he gave his notice, I called one of the prospects and told him he could start in two weeks when the other guy was done. Next day, I was out on the road and when I got back to my shop, he comes running up to my truck, before I was even out of the door, and asked me if I'd hired anyone yet. I said yes, and then he says, well I can't quit now, I failed my background check with the sales rep job that he thought he had in the bag.

I said, I'm sorry to hear that. He says well you're not going to let me go are you? I said I had no choice, his position was already filled. Talk about pissed off. He would have stuck me with a knife if he had one. Needless to say, the next two weeks were hell until he left.

Month goes by and I get a notice from unemployment that he was filing a claim. I contested it because he quit for another job. Besides, he went back to work for his parents and was trying to collect unemployment while working under the table.

It went to mediation (three way phone interview) and in sworn testimony, he lied through his teeth saying he was fired unfairly, and that everyone here was out to get him. In the end, they shot him down and said his testimony was not credible. I provided a witness (good friend and customer of mine) to go into his parents shop where he was working at time, and place an order with him for business cards, showing he was working while trying to collect :) What a piece of crap he turned out to be. At least unemployment saw through him, that's the only consolation I got from that. Only bad thing was I liked his parents and they no longer speak with me. He's still working for them last I heard.
 
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