Mellow Mushroom is NOT being so mellow!

I'm so bummed! A new Mellow Mushroom restaurant (pizza place) is opening up in my town and I had an interview there back in January after just moving to this town; therefore, needing to look for a new job. My interview went great and the dude told me I for sure had the job and to not do anything else because he would FOR SURE call me back in mid Feb! So I've been waiting patiently, you know, depending on this dude to call me back because it seemed so reassuring and promising. A friend of mine tells me today she got a call from them confirming orientation and when to attend, but I didn't receive a call. So I called them! I mean they were planning to call me after all. But dude says it was a "bad time" and he'd call me back in an hour. He never called. I tried calling him again, didn't answer. I sent them a message on FB, ignored.

They are just plain ignoring me now he could at least be professional and tell me perhaps, that NO I did not get the job and go on with his life. This guy is an owner, after all.


It hurts to be just ignored. Seems a bit unprofessional, too??? Totally the opposite of their "mellow, peace and love, karma is beautiful" atmosphere they try to make you think they are. What a jerk. and I mean, I'm 24 weeks pregnant...I need a job more than anyone :[ I basically waited a month for nothing. I'm so sad and even more sad this business just ignores people.

 

i'm assuming you gave them reasonable time to call or facebook message back?

is the store open now? is that where you called? if you called during lunch or dinner rush, they probably legitimately didn't have time to deal with you, and could have been too distracted to remember to call you back. if they are open, you could always go there and force them to talk to you.

or, maybe they found out you were pregnant. that's one of those shitty nobody wins situations, since they legally can't not hire you for that reason, but you're a terrible hire for that reason. so maybe they're trying not to hire you because of that and think that ignoring you until you give up on them is the best way to get away with it. if that is the case, i would say it's not worth it to fight it, because even though they can't legally discriminate based on that, they can easily make working there suck so bad that it's just not worth it for you.

i dunno, my advice is to just show up there and ask to talk to the hiring guy until you get a face-to-face, assuming they're open now. if they're not open yet, i don't really know what would be your best option.

 

of course man, I gave them plenty of time. I mean he said he'd get back to in "an hour" I gave him about 3-4. It showed activity on their FB page after I had messaged them too :/

but no they are not open yet officially. A couple of my friends got calls today confirming that they needed to be at orientation next week for training because corporate is coming in to train 2 weeks before they open in early March. I have no idea how they would find out I'm pregnant! It's not like it's all over facebook or anything and my couple of friends aren't like buddy buddy with these new guys in town so I'm sure they haven't talked about me or anything.

It just sucks...he pretty much told me I had the job and to wait for them to call me back, but nahhh. I'm just whining. I don't know what my options are...it's not very good business-like of them though :/

 

That sucks. Did you ever hear anything?