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Extremely Informal 'Interview'

  • 02-06-2011 2:04pm
    #1
    BlueNemo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭


    I was asked to meet with a man about selling strawberries on the side of the road around the local area. I realise this isn't the most "formal" types of jobs, but I did expect some sort of interview process. Instead, I was asked was I free this evening, 9pm, to meet him, in a public place. He said he needed someone to work for him tomorrow and the weekend as somebody was sick.

    I picked the most public place I could think of, the shopping centre, as I was pretty unsure about this 'interview'.

    Am I right to think of this as slightly dodgy? I haven't done many interviews, but they sure as hell haven't been outside the local shopping centre at 9 at night!


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  • #2
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Do you know the guy? How did you get introduced in the first place?

    In fairness its sitting at the side of the road selling strawberries, he isnt exactly gonna be worried about where you see yourself in 5 years. Prob best not to expect a contract or payslips either :)


  • #3
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    BlueNemo wrote: »
    Am I right to think of this as slightly dodgy? I haven't done many interviews, but they sure as hell haven't been outside the local shopping centre at 9 at night!
    Nine is probably after he's shut shop, so to speak: the strawberry operations are only really open during the day. Make sure you're cheery.


  • #4
    murphym7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭murphym7


    Don't sweat it and don't waste paper printing out your CV - you ain't gonna need it.


  • #5
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Buffman


    Ye, I think the word 'interview' is probably too strong a word even. He just wants to meet you to make sure you're not a whacko.:)

    O ye, and if you do get the job, bring a good book with you!

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  • #6
    efab
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭efab


    I got the same call today except he said I got the job and I have to meet him in the town in the morning!:/ ..sounded quite dodgey tho..did you meet in the end???


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  • #7
    BlueNemo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭BlueNemo


    Something came up that I couldn't get out of and I wasn't able to make it in to see him, so I repeatedly apologised and explained the situation.

    His tone got quite angry and replied with 'So where does that leave me?'. Again I apologised for wasting his time this evening. All I heard was 'For **** sake!' and he hung up on me.

    Now that, I found extremely rude!

    Did you meet up with him in the end? Good luck if you're working with him anyway.


  • #8
    useded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭useded


    Hey, apologies about the bump.

    Just wondering if anybody has heard anything about this work at this time of the year? I thought I had a contact but I have seemed to taken down the wrong number. Hmmm.


  • #9
    Croppy Bhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭Croppy Bhoy


    It's this sort of distrust that is ruining the country. Just meet him for god's sake, not everyone is a rapist/paedophile/drug addict


  • #10
    BlueNemo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭BlueNemo


    useded wrote: »
    Hey, apologies about the bump.

    Just wondering if anybody has heard anything about this work at this time of the year? I thought I had a contact but I have seemed to taken down the wrong number. Hmmm.

    I heard about it through Greenhill Fruit Farm
    Croppy Bhoy wrote: »
    It's this sort of distrust that is ruining the country. Just meet him for god's sake, not everyone is a rapist/paedophile/drug addict

    Nice to know you think one girl feeling uncomfortable about an interview is 'ruining the country'.


  • #11
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Not dodgy at all

    Drive anywhere around Ireland during the summer and especially close to Wexford and you'll see teenagers out with a book/ipod, a table and a chair and selling punnets of strawberries.


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  • #12
    bmarley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭bmarley


    Sounds like a handy job and should be off the cards too. I wouldn't see much wrong with the "interview" process, wouldn't think there would be a whole lot of takings you could run off with. Top up your tan:)


  • #13
    Croppy Bhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭Croppy Bhoy


    BlueNemo wrote: »
    Nice to know you think one girl feeling uncomfortable about an interview is 'ruining the country'.
    I was quite explicitly talking about that attitude, rather than you single handedly bringing the nation down.


  • #14
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    The way I picked up on the post was that the OP seemed to be a bit wary about meeting a bloke at night?

    Maybe I'm wrong.

    I would imagine that the kind of "interview" would be perfectly normal in this kind of job. As someone else said I wouldn't really be expecting contracts and payslips. But still a job is a job.

    I would have met him but maybe get a pal to sit in car at shopping centre just in case.

    I reckon he just wanted to meet you for five minutes, make sure you have a bit of cop on and probably would have got you to start work the next day.

    :)


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