What a waste of time this is

[2ndAugust]

Applying for lots of jobs, offered an interview for an admin job, Finance company, local to me, flexitime, no salary in advert but thought I’d go along anyway to find out more.

Within minutes they were asking why I hadn’t applied for team leader position as I was clearly qualified for it, I didn’t know there was a team leader vacancy, asked me to come back and meet a manager week after which I did.

Spent an hour and a half listening to him waffle on about himself, barely asked me anything, for to the end of interview and before I left i asked do some guide on salary of administrator vacancy or team leader. £16k admin £21k team leader, and they slip in that the flexitime means you can start between 8 and 9, and leave between 5 and 6, this is not my understanding of flexitime at all!!

This was a week ago, I have just had an e mail (Sunday afternoon) to tell me I haven’t been successful. Including interview prep, I’ve waste 3-4 hours on this bullshit!!

Feel like replying and saying well actually I wouldn’t even have attended an interview if I’d known all that.

So irritating when you are job hunting!!

So, you are limiting yourself only to jobs where there aren't any core hours?

That's my understanding of flexi time.

bit confused

what's your understanding of flexi?

I would normally guess it would be

start between 8 and 10

finish between 4 and 6

but I would always check before applying for a job. I've had a couple of jobs where they've said "well officially it's flexitime but at the moment there's too many late people on that team so we'd like an early person" ... at which point, I'm out.

sadly the job ads often have the HR blurb on them so I've learned to always call up and speak to someone because applications are so time consuming.

My understanding is 8-10 and 4-6 like you said.

With junior age children it can really help.
My main gripe was wasting so much time when they are paying roughly £4K under what everyone else is.