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I had been invited for an interview for a maternity cover contract. Unfortunately the interview date was when I was away abroad for the week and asked them if we could reschedule to a later date.

This was the reply I got:

"Thank you for your e-mail.

Unfortunately due to holiday/diary arrangements we are unable to reschedule your interview.

If we are unsuccessful in making an appointment following the interviews, we will be in contact with you"

AIBU to send this back:

"Thank you very much for getting back to me. However, I must say that it is incredibly disappointing that not more effort can be made to re-schedule the interview. Unfortunately it does not give me a very favourable impression of the sort of person and company I would potentially be working for. I would therefore not be interested in an interview if you were not to find the right candidate with the current interviewees."

sp anonYmous

Sorry english not my first language!

Actually I say good on you to send it.

U r def doing the right thing changing it.
Imagine you sent that and upset the interviewer and they remember your name and they move to another company where you want a jjob - u wouldn't even get an interview

Believe me someone once never turned up and I stayed late and when I moved companies and she applied she never got on the list

If you've never worked in the public sector before, perhaps you should be warned at this point that flexibility really isn't its defining feature. Stability, continuity, predictability, a sort of monolithic comfort blanket if you will (a lot less these days, of course); but flexibility, no, public sector doesn't do that. Suits me fine. Doesn't suit everybody.

yabu, however I can see where you are coming from I made a mistake similar to yours but at interview stage..
Went for a job as a carer, never done it before (was in finance gave it up to look after my dad who has alz and now after two years he has gone into long term care)
So I thought Yes I can do the caring side... Went to the interview and basically made myself look like a real prat :)

Basically said to them.

"I do not mind being a carer for a year but I want the management side so want to progress very quickly"...

Needless to say I never got the job :).. what I am trying to say is that in this climate a pompous attitude is really going to get you nowhere BUT i CAN SEE WHY you replied like you did.

YABVU. Do you think they just sit about waiting to persuade you to work for them?

I once worked with someone with this attitude. Very briefly. She got sacked (and threatened with legal action) when she started a public campaign against the company for "making money" out of her. Errr....welcome to capitalism love.

britta: give OP a break ffs have we not all made mistakes at interview stage. It is a tough world out there at the moment and maybe we have to let our expectations of our working world go down...... Me personally why the fuck should I but it is not about me it is about the OP.......

not an answer to whether you are being unreasonable, but just for future reference, the job I currently do, I got invited for an interview and the e-mail said all reasonable expenses paid, I sent back a light hearted e-mail explaining that I lived in the US and as much as I would love a free trip home, I could see this would not under public service standards come under reasonable expenses, and did they have access to skype?
I got an e-mail back saying what is skype, I told them to ask their IT dept they would know what it was, and it was a film call so they could see and hear me, and I them.
within minutes I got a reply, yes, IT say we can do it, and that is how it was done, and I got the job.
could you not ask your travel company if they have skype facility and a room you can use?

I was told my suggestion went in my favor because I put forward a solution not a problem, and they would not have interviewed me if I hadn't come up with this as they would not change the date.

That (missingmumxox) is probably the best response in the thread - a possible way round this and yes, good point about you putting forward a solution that worked in your favour.

Well done, on the solution and getting the job. Let's just hope this place has someone aware of Skype, and can get it working behind their firewall, assuming there's a possibility of using it at the holiday destination too :)

Excellent missingmumfox it is probably too late but i will get back to them and suggestbit. Thank you very much.

Why don't you ask for a phone or skype interview? This is the 21st century, after all! We do a lot of interviews this way - it is easier to interview a few candidates this way than to try and reconvene a panel at a later date. I was interviewing last week and we did this for two of the four we were interviewing - one couldn't make it here as he had an exam in the morning of the interview and the other was on holiday. And one of the phone interviewees got the job - if you can impress over the phone, you will do much better in person, in my experience.