On Wednesday I made a trip to apply for a job. I won't name the business I visited, because I don't want to get into a legal dispute with them. An ad had been put in the local newspaper, saying that they had several jobs open, and that interested parties could walk in for an interview. I was an interested party, so I drove over, and walked in.
And that was as far as I got.
The interview did not go badly - rather, it did not go at all. I walked in the front door, down a short hallway to a door that would open to an office area. However, the inner door was locked, the lights inside were off, and there were no people inside that I could see. There wasn't even a receptionist (or an area for a receptionist that I could see). I was confused and troubled by this. I left, drove until I found someplace to park (on a public street, rather than a private parking lot), hunkered down and surfed the internet on my phone for half an hour.
After that, I drove back and tried again. The results were the same. I knew that there were (probably) people inside, as the parking lot had twenty or so cars in it. Deciding to cut my losses, I left and drove home. When I told my parents about this experience, they were also troubled by it.
For a business to stand so empty like this is not normal. At mid-afternoon, there should have been SOMEONE around, but there wasn't. As Dad put it, this is a major red flag, if not multiple red flags. It was speculated that this particular business likely wasn't doing well, and was simply trying to put up a strong front, so as to not lose (even more) customers.
You can put anything you want on a website, or in a newspaper ad. It's visiting, seeing it, actually BEING there that really shows what's going on, for all parties involved. You can see what you're getting into, and the employer can see what they are (potentially) bringing in.
Though really, isn't that always the case? You can only truly understand something by being there, by doing it, by actually engaging with it?
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