I was just moved to a new town and interviewed for a job at a lease to own furniture and TV store. Additionally, I was doing some rec league work for a very small organization that was just finishing up a league. When I interviewed I told this company that if I got a job I would need a a week to either train and offload those duties or 3-4 weeks of two nights a week (tues and wed) that I would need to wrap up that job. They interviewer told me that would be fine.

Fast forward a week to when I was hired and went in for training. The owner was training me and going over documentation. He told me that my evening off was Thursday. I told him that I needed it to be Tuesday and Wednesday as discussed in the interview. He told me that wasn’t possible. I asked him if it was possible to consider doing it just the first week so I could let the other company know. He told me no. I explained to him that a commitment had been made and I needed at least one week of flexibility. He then just told me that it wasn’t going to work out for me being employed there. That took me by surprise. He then lectured me for 10 minutes about what advise he would give me if he was my dad to be more responsible and to decide what was going to be the best for me long term.

On conclusion I told him, “if I was your son I would tell you that you have to keep to the commitments that you make as a company and that you can’t treat employees this way.”

They sent me a check for ~$15, that I never cashed.

I got a job and several months later the guy that hired me started employment where I was working. We had a good conversation about it and he told me that this owner was very difficult to deal with and that was just his personality.

So glad I dodged that bullet.