Unpaid work trial day?

LadyMissA

warehouse wrote: »

I wouldn't employ you.

I wouldn't either thanks

scheming_gypsy

I can't see any attitude in your first post.. but
1 - they wont get £100's worth of work out of you as you'll be new and not exactly 'working'. So they might get a tenners worth out of you.
2 - if i wanted the job and it wasn't going to cost too much to do (ie travel) then I'd go.
I've done a working interview before but it was only half a day; i got the second half of the day after the other person had done everything and left me nothing. I actually got up and walked off because the agency had lied about the rate just to get me to do the interview.

System

Personally, I would jump at the chance! Yes, they can tell from your references that you 'can' do the job (or you wouldn't have got this far in the interview process) but that's a telling remark "how well I interact with the team."..You AND the other person might have a similar skill level and experience in doing the job, but they will be looking at which one of you works well with the team they already have.

An unpaid day with a 50/50 chance of it leading to a decent job? It's a no brainer to me.

zzzLazyDaisy

OP, from your posting history it looks as if you could start a fight in an empty room.

LadyMissA

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

I can't see any attitude in your first post.. but
1 - they wont get £100's worth of work out of you as you'll be new and not exactly 'working'. So they might get a tenners worth out of you.
2 - if i wanted the job and it wasn't going to cost too much to do (ie travel) then I'd go.
I've done a working interview before but it was only half a day; i got the second half of the day after the other person had done everything and left me nothing. I actually got up and walked off because the agency had lied about the rate just to get me to do the interview.

No they said they want to see me do the job and there is no one currently doing it.

Will cost me £10 to get there and back

thanks for all the replies, wish I never asked and prob with my bad attitude I wont get it anyway after 2 interviews and a trial day but still.

hcb42

if you are not working now - do the day, nothing ventured nothing gained. you dont know if they have two candidates, or one, and they just want to see you in action as it were.

If you are working now, I might feel differently about it.

(speaking as a hotelier here)

EDIT: £10 is small change when compared to a job paying £xxxxx?

LadyMissA

Purbeck wrote: »

An unpaid day with a 50/50 chance of it leading to a decent job? It's a no brainer to me.

I have no idea how decent is it as they haven't told me the salary etc

Blackpool_Saver

Not sure if it's attitude but you seem to think you are too good to do a trial, this probably why they want to try you out to see if you can work in a team, instead of it being all about what you have to offer, even tho' you have a lot to offer.

LadyMissA

hcb42 wrote: »

EDIT: £10 is small change when compared to a job paying £xxxxx?

not when I do not have £0.10 let alone £10

thanks anyway

scheming_gypsy

LadyMissA wrote: »

No they said they want to see me do the job and there is no one currently doing it.

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what i mean is; it's not like stacking shelves where beans go with beans and don't put the cat food in the freezer. You'll need to know their system and how it works in their office so you won't be able to just sit down and start working like you've been there 6 years.
What you can do will be limited till you know the job