Something I called an experiment

I can't say I was excited during that week of interviews and testing and when I was led to believe for a while that I was going to work for this company. I was excited to finally be able to buy things I really needed (which haven't been bought yet, only the phone sponsored with Steem), replace some ragged clothes, etc. Also glad that it wasn't customer support/call center, a position I want to avoid at all costs.
But can a person, does one have the right to want to avoid working positions, and choose, nowadays? I think not. When I think about the people I know, now and back over the years, I don't think anyone has ever been out of a job because they wanted to choose. Even teachers have become shop assistants until they find a way to escape abroad. No one has persevered like me - "I will not work onsite in this small town because the jobs here are low skilled and the wages are minimal with minimal, half or no insurance; I won't work online for a call center either because it's the only remote job I can find and it's a meat grinder that ruins health and psyche in a short time and enslaves with bad contract conditions, etc."
I don't know, I must be wrong. I probably am. So I really hope things change soon.

So, the position in this company I am talking about since the last post was in an unfamiliar field and sector for me, and I searched for an interview of the owner of the company, in which he said that the training of employees takes longer because of the more complex matter - property management in Germany with all the expenses and invoices, balancing accounts, etc.
This was one of my first questions at the first interview. Not so much because of the "complexity" of the matter, but to show that I was interested, I dug up everything I could dig up on the Internet about the company, including this old interview with the owner. "Everything is possible to learn", was the expected response, despite the longer training period.

And I must say that the subsequent three-day exam puzzled me quite a bit, because doing it, I was actually forced to familiarize myself with the material - quickly, in three days, but in depth, extracting the specific legal and accounting German terms even from Wikipedia, from the sites of companies serving the German market, etc. I think that this was actually the point of this exam and from then on the idea of ​​continued and very long training seemed pointless to me.
And the disappointment afterwards was even greater when I was rejected because I wasted so much time and effort in digging and reading and solving problems... which then served me nothing.

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That was part of a backstory. And now - the present.

As I told you in the previous post, I saw this same job posting twice more within a few months. And in the end I couldn't help myself.
Even when I saw it for the second time after 4 months, my partner told me to call them. But what reason would I have to do that, I thought, since they don't call me? That's why I didn't call. But when shortly afterwards I saw the ad published once more, I said to myself, what the hell, all is lost here anyway, nothing more to lose than what has already happened before. And I called the HR manager. On Monday this week.

I quickly told her my name, said I had applied for the position in April. She asked me if I was interested again, I said that I thought they would call me after they last insisted that we "keep our good relations for the future", therefore I'm not sure if I have any reason to be interested in this position again. So I would like to know why they preferred another person in my place, what didn't reach me in the interviews and the exam, after being told that I did well, where should I focus, personally I would like to know what is my weak spot in my interview performance and where I need to work to perform better in future etc.
From a purely human point of view, so to speak. I would even say that if the reason they rejected me at the last minute was completely personal, you know, I'm interviewing this person who seems to be doing well, but there's something about them that I don't like, and I can't explain it, or I can... if that's the case with me, I'd like to know that too, there's nothing wrong with that, it's even human. But I didn't say that. I didn't have much time to say it.

The HR manager told me that she wants me to give her time until tomorrow to give me an answer to this question. She wanted to review the documents again and recall the case, talk to her colleagues.
But she did answer my other question - why do they keep posting the same ad for the same position. "Our business is growing," she replied, and that was the most expected possible answer from her. Even if that's not true, and I believe it's not, she's not in the position, power, or willingness to tell me: we made a mistake in selecting an employee that time we rejected you, and we're trying to correct that mistake by looking for a new one. Of course, we can't admit this mistake, that's why we didn't call you back. That would put us at a very disadvantageous position. (Indeed, in this case I would have asked for a very high salary, that's for sure.) And now we have this problem that fewer and fewer candidates show up for interviews and our chance of finding a person is decreasing more and more. We've already interviewed everyone we could in the very first interview...

Oh no, that's just in my imagination. An employer and his highly paid managerial staff would never say such a thing. And as we all know, the employer is always on the winning side, he always comes out of the situation in the end. With a profit. Or at least with less damage for sure.

Well, I called this call an experiment. I don't think it was pleasant for anyone. A frantic job applicant calls to ask why she was rejected - I think that's how I could be perceived. Because who calls to ask such questions? Especially when everyone is aware that this person/me will never have anything to do with this company I'm calling to ask for their opinion. No, I'm calling to ask for an explanation.

I spoke to the woman at 3:37 p.m. I think there was enough time until the end of the working day for her to call me with an answer. But she said "the next day", so I expected her to call me the next day.

Well make a guess - did she call me?😂

I think that was totally expected too. She didn't call me back. For a while I hesitated about what she had told me the day before - whether she would call me or whether I should call. Then I said to myself - I have to write a post on Steemit, 😆 so I won't wait another day. And at 5:47 p.m. I found the company's working hours on Google Maps, saw that it was until 6:00 and called. The woman did not answer, but then called herself at 6:01 p.m.

She said she checked with the other manager who was present at the one interview and that's why she was delayed in responding. I imagined him simply telling her: "Don't call her back. Just leave it at that, she'll give up."
Of course, that's how you deal with potentially crazy people.😅

But here I am again insisting and calling, so she begins: "I'm telling you in all human terms that the reason we didn't hire you was because you just don't have experience in this field - property management. We have already seen that a person who has no experience can hardly cope, and in fact cannot cope at all. It was neither your knowledge of German nor the problems solved in Excel that caused us to reject you. Neither are any lapses in interview or behavior. Just your lack of experience. We are currently looking for someone with experience. That's it."

"You do understand that the probability of finding a person who meets all your requirements tends to zero", I say.

"Yes, we are aware of that. This is exactly why we continue to post the ad, waiting for our ideal candidate.", she replied.

So, their business is not "growing", as she stated the day before. They just keep looking for the same person they did in April.

"But if in the meantime a new position comes up, more suitable for you, you can apply to us again, I repeat again, let's keep our good relations for the future.", she continued.

I said something like it was helpful for me to know that I'm not eligible to apply for this position again (after all!), she confirmed, I thanked her for her time. And that was it.

So, I don't know if you can get into the details of the case that make it so absurd. First, I told you about the extended training of employees, nowhere in the ad was mentioned a requirement for experience in the sector and the HR manager herself told me in the first interview that everything is taught - isn't that true?
The fact that they were choosing between two people then and chose the other, also without experience, who did not work out, did not give me an answer to the question of why they did not hire me then. However, now they have already changed their strategy and are looking for other things. They are looking for a person, understandably, with experience in everything who does not have to be trained - the dream of every Bulgarian employer.
When I called the first time and quickly said my long name, she never once asked me to repeat my name again so she could write it down or anything, which makes me think that even the job applicants weren't that many in number from the beginning, and she remembers me well, but she is not allowed to give any company information to outsiders, so she had to "consult" with another manager what exactly to answer me. Instead of just telling me: we hired this person then because he/she is so-and-so and you didn't seem to have those qualities...

I don't know why I'm angry actually. Maybe because of the dishonesty. Although no one should ever expect morality or honesty in business. Am I really crazy?
My partner said: "This is just not your company."
And I should even be glad that they didn't choose me. This was better for me.
But I seem to have calmed down a bit only after writing all this. It might seem a little confusing or a lot to you, but as I sorted it out and got it down, things got a little clearer in my head, and I'm really glad now that those people didn't hire me then. After seeing some of their true face both then and now.

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Pictures I have used for this post of this gorgeous fish restaurant on the coast are just for illustration, not relevant to text, as you already know my posting style.😊

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