If there was a little update to the work situation I figure I have a couple ways to tell you about it without going the full new post route. I could add a comment to the initial post or I could edit the original post and just put it at the bottom. I considered both of those routes but finally settled on this new post route because... well, I think you'll understand.
I left off with the last post going to the recruitment event and emailing the state healthcare recruiter on Thursday. She sent me an email a few hours after I posted that on Friday morning asking which facility I prefer most.
I could immediately tell that we're the opposite kind of people when it comes to email. I start my emails out with a salutation including the recipient's name. I'm detailed on what I say and have it in normal sentence/paragraph format with proper sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation. I then end with a valediction including my name and information. Her reply was literally:
"Which facility do you prefer most? I can reach out to staff and let them know our background. I think that they would be interested in talking to you further."
I guess I should be happy that it at least is in proper sentence format, although I do believe she meant "let them know YOUR background" and not "our background".
Anyway, differences aside, I let her know that my initial prison was my preferred work location but that I'd heard they didn't have an opening. I was hoping that maybe she'd heard different, but that's just a shot in the dark. I then told her about the prison in town where I have the two friends working. Where I'd already applied but missed out on getting an interview. I only tell her that I had some friends there and that they recommended it to me. I then say that beyond those two, I'm mainly interested in working with a good team, which is true. I don't have a particular desire to work in any other facility. I just want to work and would prefer it to be with good people.
She replied back fifteen minutes later that she'd reach out to the HUM at the local prison where I had the two friends working. Twenty five minutes later she replies back.
She actually includes a salutation this time. Maybe she's been using her phone before so its just been quick replies and now she's at a computer where she can do proper typing. I don't know, but it's different. The answer though is what really catches me.
"I have reached out and they had recently interviewed you and went with another applicant. Would you like me to reach out to..."
The message goes on to recommend a facility that she's worked at and claims is a good team environment. But I couldn't get past that part:
"I have reached out and they HAD RECENTLY INTERVIEWED YOU and went with another applicant... "
Umm... no. No, I don't think that ANYBODY has interviewed me recently.
If you remember, my friend there said that they had set up an interview and then canceled it without reason. He later stated that he/they thought that I had canceled the interview. I didn't want to possibly throw him under the bus, so I didn't mention that I knew there was an interview before but that it had been canceled. But I couldn't just let this go as it is an absolute lie.
The first question is WHO is lying.
Even a moment's thought tells me that it can't be the recruiter. Imagine me lying to YOU, saying that YOU did something that YOU know YOU didn't do. It wouldn't make sense. I can understand a LOT of gaslighting techniques, but that's not one of them. You're not going to convince me that I did something when I didn't. Could it be the HUM? The head of the health care department at the facility? Maybe. Maybe she had someone that she wanted hired when I applied. She scheduled the interview with me and then canceled it all so she could just hire the person she wanted. And now, when she's asked about it, has to lie to cover up what she did (as that goes against the state rules). I mean, it's possible but that doesn't sit right with me. Anybody that's gone as far as getting promoted to the HUM position would know that you can sit in an interview, be all smiles and happy, and as soon as the applicant walks out say "Nope, I'll never work with that person" and not even have to talk to them again because HR does that part. So if all that's true and it wasn't the HUM... could it be HR?
The human resources department for this facility is big. It's the human resources for the main administration of the department and the human resources for all four prison facilities in town. I've butted heads with this HR when I worked in town before. They're the ones that assured me I would get a bonus for working at the facility and then a week after I got the bonus and spent it, demanded it back as I shouldn't have got it. And any time I asked for help, since I'd already spent it and it would be a hardship to get that amount of money back ($5000) they delayed a few days saying they'd look into it only to come back and demand the money be returned like I was some kind of ATM. After that whole issue, I screwed with them as much as I could. I even got other staff to screw with them. So maybe its the HR department lying, not wanting me to work there.
But even then, that's such a petty thing to do and such an easy thing to confirm. There would be phone records, email records, and messaging records on the state website about an interview. There are none of those things.
Regardless of WHO lied, someone did. I didn't want to come out and say that though, so after some thought on how to do this professionally I replied back to the recruiter:
"(Recruiter's Name),
I'm not sure what's going on. I haven't interviewed for any position within the MDOC in years. I did apply to (that facility) in June of this year but never heard anything in regard to that application. No call, no email, no message on the state job site, and certainly no interview. They can't say they chose another applicant over me due to an interview that didn't occur. I'd hate to think that I lost out on a job months ago when I didn't even get the chance to interview for it.
It sounds like they don't have a position though, so if (the other facility she recommended) is a good place to work then I'd certainly be appreciative if you'd reach out to them on my behalf. The hour and a half commute isn't as convenient as (the original facility's) ten minute commute would be, but it's still within my range.
Thank you,
(My Name)"
I think that gets the point across that I'm angry about it but also that I can move on. Hopefully the recruiter will look into it and find out what's going on. After all, the recruiter's only interest is getting qualified candidates hired and if someone is screwing around trying to get me (an OBVIOUSLY qualified candidate) to not work there, then it hurts the recruiter's job.
I haven't heard from her since then so I don't know where she's going with it. Either on the original facility or getting my name to the new facility.
I also reached out to my friends that work at that facility and got even more information. The nurse that had told me they'd scheduled an interview and then canceled it without reason told me that they never ended up hiring anybody. So not only did they lie about interviewing me, they lied about going with another applicant.
The whole thing has me going in a whirlwind of emotions. Anger, anxiety, depression, elation... I'm all over the place. Having the recruiter work for me is a good thing. She should be able to get me a job. Having someone lie about me interviewing for a position is a bad thing (whether its from incompetence or an honest desire to harm me). Is someone attacking me? Should I gear up for a fight? Should I buy more scrubs and get ready to work?
I just don't know. And to make it worse, that whole interaction from her first email to my final reply took less than two hours. My final reply to her went out at 12:39 on Friday. She had several hours Friday afternoon to reply and has now had several hours this morning/afternoon to reply... and nothing.
More anxiety.
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