I found an ad that they were looking for a cleaner helper, I went in; dressed nicely, professional resume in hand, was very well spoken, I used my manners and made myself at their dispose. I was offered to do a ride-along (a free day of work to see if I would make the cut) with them the following day (a Friday) and was there on time, PROMPT at 7:15am. I went in and gave them a harder days work than the guys helper did. I was very thorough, asking questions to get a feel for things, I was quick, I have a GREAT work ethic. I was doing more work than their helper was doing PERIOD. He was even annoying to the driver, always talking about drugs and trashy subjects, the driver would roll his eyes when the helper spoke. The driver was very nice to me, seemed to enjoy my company much more than the other fellow, he was teaching me things, I felt like I had the job bagged. I worked for 11 hours without pay or promise that it would ever be on a future check. We went back to the shop, I helped put everything away as I was supposed to and clean the truck, all the while never losing an ounce of energy. I literally did NOTHING that would make these people dislike me, I am VERY likeable. I was told I would receive a call about my schedule and once the cleaning and putting things away was done I went home. The weekend passed and I didn't worry too much, I called on Sunday evening and the guy told me if I didn't recieve a call Monday morning then to call them in the evening. Was never called Monday morning, I called them in the afternoon and left two voicemails, one for that line and one to the line that the voicemail refered me to if I couldn't get a response. I was never given a call back on Monday- mind you this is a professional carpet cleaning company... What if I were a customer? So I chalked it up to "maybe they are deciding". On tuesday I tried to reach them again by leaving a voicemail to both in the same ways, very polite voicemails with my callback number. I got a QUICK callback and they hungup. So I called again- no answer. Eventually I reached someone on their phones on Wednesday and I asked the guy what was up and he told me that they had a few ride-alongs during the week and that they may have hired on of them and that he would call his boss to figure it out and he would call me right back. I said "please call back either way, I need to know if I have a job or not". Was never called back. Here's my WELL PUT TOGETHER ASSUMPTION about this company. This company scheduled ride along after they already hired someone that week, someone was already being paid and didn't want the hassle of reversing it. ONE THING IS FOR SURE, they have TERRIBLE communication and wasted my FUCKING TIME WITHOUT A THANK YOU OR THE CURTOUSY OF CALLING ME TO LET ME KNOW THE JOB HAD BEEN FILLED. I was never paid, I bust my whole ASS for NOTHING. I wonder if they take people on ride alongs for the free labor like this all the time. They seem EXTREMELY shady.
ALSO I WILL ADD that the driver/cleaner ONLY "inch-by-inch" cleaned (HIS WORDS) "if the home-owner is there watching"- "because that's how O get my bonus". Otherwise he would run through the cleaning quickly and not very professionaly. read more