You have a job! You start 10/30! Oh wait, just kidding. FML

[lolc]

Sorry I just need to vent. I am stupidly upset right now.

I have been a SAHM for a long time. Recently got hired with a company who offers work-at-home opportunities. They hired me after a phone interview and after I passed all of their screening (background check, drug test, etc). I was offered a part-time position (which is what I was looking for and told them so from day 1) for one of their reps/sales agent positions (with a cable/satellite provider). Ok, great! Extra Christmas money or money to go to savings, excellent!!

I was told the training starts 10/30 and it's going to go on until 12/21. The training would be more hours than I would be working but it's 100% required training. I agreed to it and had almost 3 weeks to prepare.

My daugther's preschool made a special exception (considering I'd be working and all) to take her for their before and after-care hours. Which, by the way, costs me additional money (but if I'd be working, then no problem!)

I also had to buy a headset and a USB that met their specific requirements (which I could only find on amazon, which means returning it would cost me $$ in shipping).

So here I am... less than 24 hours before I am supposed to begin working... and I get a phone call. "We're really sorry, but the client you would be working for has made an error and doesn't need the amount of call center reps they thought they would."

......"So...... then I won't be starting tomorrow?"

"No, sorry. We have two other positions that start training on Monday though..." (Both are full time and require you be available at their beck and call 7 days a week, 7am-2am!!! So I had to turn that down of course).

Are you f**king kidding me!?! You couldn't tell me this 2 weeks ago!? "We were just notified by the client 45 minutes ago." 

F*** you.

[biscoffcookies]

Oh, man, I'm so sorry. That is so frustrating and sucky. Will your daughter's preschool be understanding and let you withdraw from the before/after care without having to pay?

[Deleted]

I'm sorry--thats horrible!

[wanderlustfoodie]

I'm so so sorry.

[winnied]

Ugh, I'm so sorry. That is total shit.

[jerseyjaybird]

I'm sorry---that's awful.

[justjen]

Wow. I'm sorry - that sucks

[womet]

Wow. That's really shitty of them. But if that is a sign of how they run the rest of their operation, be glad about it. It still sucks to have made all these plans, and to be expecting that additional money to then have it taken from you. Sorry.

[Poeticxpassion]

Is this alpine access? I had this happen to me with them.

[FishChicks]

This may be an awful question, but do they pay for training? If so, can you at least attend the training so you'd recoup some costs and be ready for future opportunities? Or is the training company-specific?

[KaraOrNot]

How shitty. Sorry.

[bostonmichelle]

Wow! I'm so sorry. That is awful!

[steph96]

How terrible! Is there any way you can post a review of the company (maybe on GlassDoor or something similar?) to alert other people about this possibly happening to them?