Waiting for the hiring decission

All things being equal, I'd give it until Thursday before uou contact them. It's a holiday week and it's hard to know what's going on over there...more than likely, a lot of people are taking all or some of the week off and shit has still gotta get done. Cut them some slack for a couple of days before you 'prod' them.

Good luck, by the way!

Yeah congrats on how far you have gotten so far.  Good luck! 

 

I would wait. Until Friday morning actually.  With people out and building to a holiday, they may not have their ducks in a row yet.  Promising "we'll get back to you on" is stupid and never accurate.  Personally, I think anything sooner from you is jumping the gun - especially if you are the only candidate as they say.
 

Good on you for trusting your instinct. Congrats!

YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

 

Fucksake. Now I want to watch Speed Racer again.

Well I gave horrible advice hah! Glad you went with your instincts! Many congrats! Good luck in your new job! Maybe this boss won't put holes on walls and keep politics at a minimum?

I've had a situation now for over a week where I sent my resume for a job and had a woman email me saying she was on the East Coast but was vetting resumes for this West Coast position and wanted to interview me over the phone the next day.  I said great and said I'd be available anytime.  The next day I got no response to my email and no call, so around 1pm (which would have been 4pm for her) I emailed her a follow up.  I was relieved when I got a response saying she had been busy and wanted to do the call the next day.  Great, I said, once again adding I'd be available any time.  The next day, which was Friday...no call.  Finally I get an email that she once again can't do the call and asked if I was available this Monday, anytime after 11am.  This time I decided to give a time, saying let's do the call at 11am.  She said fine.  Monday comes around.  11am, no call.  12pm, no call.  I sent her an email, and she responded that she had gotten pulled into a meeting and asked if we could do the call at 1pm.  I said great.  1pm, no call.  2pm, no call.  Finally toward the end of the day I got an email saying she once again got busy, asked if we could do the call Tuesday and also asked "is this fun for you?"  I'm like, what the fuck?  I said I understood how things could get and would be happy to have the call Tuesday.  No response to that email and no call or email today.  The fucked up thing is I still don't even know what the company is.  The listing was anonymous.  I sent her an email toward the end of the day saying I assume there once again isn't going to be a call, and asked if the position was still available, adding I'd like to know who the company is.  No response to that but it was past 6 in her time zone.  I mean if this is a test to see how interested I am in the job it's pretty fucked up and tiresome. 

Sounds like someone fucking with you for sport, Mike.  Have you checked this person out to ensure that she's legit, because it almost sounds like a prank at this point.

 

 

There's your eject button right there. If you've gone through all this for a job opportunity for a company who haven't even told you who they are, that flags their business style as unprofessional at best, and illegal at worst. Besides, all this trauma just to get the interview? Imagine what it might take to get them to actually pay you.

 

Had an interview today for a training position at my company. It's a much, much more appropriate use of my skills than the hellish call centre monkey job I have now (Which I've gradually realized is doing me more damage mentally than the meager pay allows). I've been waiting for a year for a training position to come up, and now that it has and I've gone for it, and done the interview it kind of scares me how badly I want this. I mean, to the point where if I don't get it I can see myself walking out on the company, dry bank account and lack of backup job be damned.

 

Well... Maybe I won't go that far. Yet. But to me, I'm in a job I can't stand and is driving me insane, and this is kind of the last opportunity these people have to keep me as an employee. It's the fact that I need this to work out so much that makes me nervous, I guess.

How did you find out about the position MikeShaynePI?  In the past five years my wife has been laid off a half dozen times.  There were points at which she scoured even Craigslist for jobs. Every damn one of them turned out like this.  They didn't advertise the job correctly, never replied back to her and/or a plethora of other issues.
 

Craigslist is truly a wretched hive, only to be used as a last resort. Of course I totally used it several times during my more desperate periods of unemployment, even managed to grab a couple weak contract positions out of it. But some work is better than no work, I always say.

 

Two years ago I managed to grab my first paying job in desktop support, doing a PC refresh project for banks around Ohio. Scored the job from a Craigslist listing, which actually managed to list legit company/contact info. The project was hilariously brief, lasted all of 3 goddamn weeks, they then called me sporadically for the occasional PC fix job the rest of the summer. Not the best experience, but I took what I could get.

 

Last year I landed another contract job, again off a Craigslist listing. Same deal, contract agency put out a listing with actual company info I could investigate myself. Trust me, this is a rarity. Another PC refresh project, this time lasted for 3 months, almost seemed like a real job until the project suddenly ended without warning and I never heard a word from them again.

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can find work from Craigslist, but.... I wouldn't recommend it.

MikeShaynePI this sounds like you are dealing with an independent recruiter, not an HR person at the company in question. In my experience recruiters are people who are kicked off of used car lots for being too sleazy and dishonest.

 

And Craigslist yeah. Back in the day (early 2000's) it was the place to look for good Tech related jobs in the Bay Area. Now, it is total shit.

 

I'd look at GlassDoor.com (which offers reviews of the companies by employees) to vet possibles, and LinkedIn both for Job listings and networking (in this environment you are best off learning about positions from people you know).