I applied online and then received an email from the manager of the department who asked to set up an interview. I received this email during Winter Storm Yuri here in Texas (in which, you know, people were freezing to death in there homes because there was no electricity for a week and it was 7 degrees out) and I was shocked that someone was emailing me during this crisis. I hardly had enough cell service to even see his email, because the cell towers were down as well to save electricity. I figured he must be out of town at the moment because no one in Austin right now could possibly be concerned with trying to schedule an interview, right? Wrong. (Like I was seriously worried about becoming hypothermic and running out of food). I politely advised that I was one of the many unlucky people who had no had power for 48 hours already and have no way to do an interview, and maybe things would be back to normal by next week, and we could reschedule for then. So we did. He sent me a google calendar invite and advised we would be doing the chat via Zoom. Cool, all things I had done before and I had used Zoom before. Interview day comes and I log onto zoom and have everything set up. and am just waiting for the link to the zoom chat (everyone else has always emailed it to me or texted it to me). I wait, 5 minutes goes by, then 10, and I reason it away as them just being busy and the will be with me soon. Then I get a text that says "hey I'm going to close out the zoom chat, looks like we missed each other, maybe we can reschedule" and I was sent into a panic and I quickly texted back "I never received the zoom link, can you please send it to me and I will log on?" and he then advised 1) he had buried it in the google calendar invite and I should have magically known it was there 2) The other interviewers had already moved onto something else (after 10 mins when we have a 30 min window scheduled?!) and we would have to reschedule. I couldn't BELIEVE the nerve of this guy. I apologized, even though this was not my fault, and said I would like to reschedule. He said we would get back to me later in the week with a time (interview was set for a Wednesday afternoon). I wake up Thursday morning to a text saying "Hey sorry we missed you again, when would be a good time for you?" and again was sent into a panic thinking when TF was this interview rescheduled, 5 (working) hours after our abandoned interview?! Why do you expect me to be free on such short notice?! I emailed him back and politely rescinded my application. No way in hell was I going to work under this guy. A freaking hot mess. I do know other managers and people at Peddle and they are much more competent than this particular manager, so they are not all bad by any means. But, I had to share this wild story because I have never experienced anything like this before.
