It’s not that people don’t want to work, it’s people don’t want to work for you.

I used to work in a human resources department for a fairly large company. We would fly in engineers from all across the US. Candidates would have to interview with several people within the company, starting with an interviewer in the HR department. This gal would have people wait for over 45 minutes before she would come out to get them. I asked her why she did this and her reply was she just wanted them to wait. Infuriating and embarrassing she would do such a thing. Her manager never called her on it.

Managers be wondering why they have no people when the pay is literally too low to live off of and they treat their people so poorly, but insist we're supposed to deal with it. Nah. You have people that wanna work. Those people also wanna be treated like PEOPLE

Good for you. Stick to your principles. He is sneaky & a liar. Why would you or anyone want to work for that company. They have no integrity.

The owner is likely to have been a clinical narcissist and experienced absolutely zero insight no matter what O.P. did or said to him.

I'd be very annoyed but while I think not showing might have annoyed the manager in that moment, him knowing it was out of revenge may have just reinforced his views. Sometimes it's better to be blunt and rude to get across a point.

He doesn't show up late to find patient people. He shows up late to find desperate people that'll put up with anything for 11 bucks an hour.

This smells a bit fishy. If this guy had been doing this for a while the job sites would have some others saying the same thing. Secondly, word in the industry travels incredibly fast and I would guarantee the school would have knowledge of this practice and know to tell students not to waste their time let alone promote it. Thirdly, like I said the field is begging for workers right now and if your a good employee you will get bombarded with all sorts of offers $40+/hour, paid relocation, $10k+ signing bonus, etc. If this was real NOBODY would work there because they have 20 other offers on the table already.

Call the secretary and see if she noted when you arrived and when the manager arrived, although I am sure you have that information. Since, for his business purposes, as he admitted, and not your own, he caused you to spend your time, outside of that scheduled for your benefit, you should bill him for those hours, at the standard consulting rate, which is typically $65 per hour. See how he reacts to that.

The unfortunate thing about this, is that it's likely the Career Services department isn't going to follow through on any report of that company. It becomes he said-he said without recorded proof, and they'll continue to send [graduates] there.

In response to the last comment posted with this article (DRoseDARS) unfortunately HR is there to cover HIS (the boss's) @$$, not the other way around. I hope this person can find someone decent to work for!

Did the guy ever check back or not I'm just curious, cause if the manager was lying he'd of got told on probably from the first time it happened. Maybe he was getting applicants to see who would show up and it end up being what's advertised.

Can you hire some writers that know how to write correctly?

I left my job making $17 dollars I don't want to work 72 hours one week and and 60 hours the next pulling 5 or 6 12 hour days as 'mandatory' OT in a 110⁰F building. This is what's happened to jobs that used to pay for production now they people extra to work 7 12 hr shifts and make it seem like a good deal and it is I'd you don't care about your family or want a life or just be healthy after 5 to 10 years and the Safty says BTW our biggest cause of workman's comp we won't honor because it's not an immediate injury it may be caused by actions outside work and I'm like WTF out side of work I'm here more then I'm at home so I would say work has more than 50% cause for wrist or knee surgery but nope easier just to get rid of the mule with a bad knee

Well he has proven from his own lips that he is a lier and a manipulator. Sounds like a normal boss.

I would love to read what Alison at askamanager.org would say about this one

What state was this?

Search “(company name) employee reviews” and be lead to a few websites that may save you experiences such as this.

The US has a slave labour mentality that has cemented with this younger generation of managers. Unlike many westernized countries especially those of the common wealth that have supportive and very protective labor laws the US has few The minimum wage is discusting and proves that people are nothing but Kleenex for companies that pay s**t wages. I've been through interviews like this with one that came in and didn't apologize for being an hour late just grunted and sat down grilled me with very personal questions. I stopped him and told him to go "fk" himself. There is no job on the planet that is worth servitude! Yes we need a revolution globally to end an unfair distribution of resources. Gawd your story angers me because I know fks like this guy.

I really find this hard to believe. As a manager myself, I have interviewed many people. No hiring manager in their right mind would EVER post false information or wrong pay to get candidates in for an interview. My time is too valuable to be wasted on immature games, and I know many other managers who would say the same. Not to mention the possible legal repercussions. I question if this actually happened.

So this guy writing this story is uptight and ungrateful. Let's starve ya for a while and see what kind of work you do and for what kind of money. Got a penny says you dig dog s**t barehanded for a piece of bread a day lol