Job Application Etiquette?

I’ve been having a difficult time finding regular employment. Nothing new. I began having issues in the workforce about 4 years ago.

Up until then, I had not had any extremely bad experiences working for anyone, and I’d never gotten any indication that I was a horrible worker or such. It was quite the opposite, actually. The only issue I can say I really had was not getting promoted the few times I tried. Other than that, work used to be an awesome place to be. I’d look forward to going to my job every day and interacting with my coworkers.

Welp, a lot changed for me after 2020. I swear, that year brought in a big flip in the overall atmosphere. Employment situations started getting very ugly, and I started losing side projects I’d had for over a decade. Now I am just a person trying to survive. I’m doing what I can and applying where I can while also trying to navigate a silent blackball and a variety of other mischief.

I think the biggest mistake I made in my entire life was ever walking in the doors of large corpo A. If there was one thing I could undo, it would be that. I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my life, but that’d be the first one I’d nix. There are just some doors one should never open. I experienced nothing but grief while I was there and had to walk away with nada. Then I got more grief. The place was a hell hole that reeked of its inhumane creator.

The last interview I had (2/11) was weird. I had only set up two interviews. I postponed one for the next week because I was a bit more interested in working at that place. The pay was a little less there, but that wasn’t the only factor I considered.

When I got there, the manager acted like he had no idea he had an interview for that that day, and then he scribbled my info on a piece of paper and told me he’d get back to me on the 17th. From the conversation we had, I felt like he had already assumed that I had “a bunch of other interviews scheduled” and could stand another rejection. It’s funny he used the same date I had rescheduled the other interview for to schedule his “call.” Made me wonder how he came up with that date. Hmm.

Well. I didn’t get a call and won’t be getting a call. I got rejected instead. 

I opened my email up to two messages. One was from the scheduling system, asking me if I wanted to reschedule, as if I had never even gone to the interview on the 11th. The other was a rejection message from the company, but it was from a state I do not reside in and would not have been working in. It was dated the same day I had the interview, the 11th. So much for getting a call on the 17th then, huh?

“After careful consideration …”

Really? How careful could they have been the same day I went in? Lmao. So careful they didn’t even mark down that I showed up, apparently.

I sincerely only had two interviews scheduled, and I’d have taken the job if it had been given.

So yeah, it hasn’t been working out very well, but I’ll keep trying. Not much I can do if folks don’t want to employ me. I guess they have their reasons. Next. 

Hey, I might end up making this a “funny” diary about all the times I get turned down for the jobs I need to pay my bills. I’m sure it’ll be entertaining and arousing to some.