Biggest Pet Peeve of All

[trickykitty]

When I ask how much the position pays, at least give me a fucking range so I know whether or not it's worth wasting my time.

In most cases I have to drive alllllll the way out to your location, give myself a hand cramp filling out your application even though alllllll of that information is already on my carefully prepared and printed out resume, set up a time to come BACK to your location at a later date and make the trip all over again because you are inconsiderate of the fact that I'm already in person in your lobby at the time that I fill out that application, and put myself through the rigors of getting dressed up and prepared for a demeaning interview just to find out that you are paying $.02 more than minimum wage which I can make just by working at the gas station two feet from my apartment.

Don't Fucking Waste My Time.

I know that the final wage will be determined upon hiring, but if I get the impression that you aren't going to pay enough then just answer my question. I usually don't ask unless I have that gut feeling that it won't be enough. Give me a range that you would be happy paying me and I can decide if you deserve my time and not vice versa.

Yes, definitely the BIGGEST PET PEEVE OF ALL when it comes to job hunting.

EDIT: They're lucky they look like a sizable company and might actually pay decently. I think I'll still go through the crap to apply with them, but I really do hate going this route. At least I have contact information instead of just faxing a resume and never hearing from the potential job at all.

Comments

[mobobocita.livejournal.com]

You know, it's amazing, at my level it is one of the first things they tell you and if they don't? You just don't talk to them.

It's weird.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit more desperate if the company states outright that they are willing to work around my class. I just have a feeling that if they give me the runaround then their pay is going to turn out to be within my just enough to pay bills range rather than in my comfortable range.

Yeah...

[mr-rubix.livejournal.com]

I would generally not deal with any company that was not willing to openly discuss at least a RANGE of pay for the given position. But that's me.

Re: Yeah...

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Ditoo, but see comment to mobo above.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Most of the time, the bullshit of not letting you know about the pay rate has everything to do with the company already having decided to hire a family member or H1-B, and they have to play their own little game of pretending to look at the best available applicants. Hotels.com is notorious for telling applicants after the fact that they need someone with ten years of specific knowledge for $7.50 an hour, when the managers have already filled the position with some upper manager's son. (It's comparable to the bullshit of recruiters asking "Is $40 an hour all right with you?" as if you're going to turn down a significant raise. In actuality, they come back, claim "Sorry, we couldn't find anyone willing to work for less than $40, except for the person we chose for you at the beginning." During 2003, I'd get so many of these vermin that whenever I'd hear someone with an Indian accent, I'd cheerfully inform the person at the other end of the phone that I'd be glad to work for $7.50 an hour, and I might be able to go down to as little as $5.50. You could hear the strangled choke at the other end, and they'd never call back.)