Rachel Dillin
Rachel Dillin
racheldillin@yahoo.com
Stillwater, Oklahoma
We were about to hire Rachel after spending a lot of time interviewing her, giving her a 2nd chance when she screwed up on the pre-screen files (she didn’t complete the 2nd page), etc.
Now I find out she never even read all the paperwork prior to being interviewed because had she read it, she would have known that our interviews aren’t 5 minutes. She is now complaining about the long (1 1/2-2 hour) interview even though it clearly stated that’s how long our interviews are. Then she had the nerve to say the interview isn’t being paid for LOL, who in the WORLD pays someone for an interview???
If she can’t even read & understand simple paperwork, she would NEVER have been a good editor, or book compiler.
Prior to the interview I had felt her communication skills were a bit off, as she said she would be available on the Saturday after 2 pm. At 4 pm she wasn’t anywhere around, & at 6 pm she suddenly appeared saying she was going for dinner. I couldn’t put my finger on what was bothering me, but I went ahead & interviewed her anyway. My mistake, there were starting to be a few signs she isn’t the type of person we hire at our company.
During the initial 15 minutes of the interview, she said she had absolutely NO PROBLEM being tested to see if she could work with us (we require everyone work for 5 free hours before we will establish if they are skilled in what they said they were skilled in, & are able to communicate, can follow instructions etc. We do this because of all the problems we’ve had with people like Rachel. We no longer feel that hiring someone online is just like hiring someone offline, you gamble a lot because of the loony types of people who are online.).
When the interview was done, she stated she wanted the job, She had also agreed to being paid $8/hr. long before the interview even, in fact I stated this when she was first given the hiring ad for the book compiler position. Now she is trying to make it seem like we are in the wrong because SHE doesn’t like our hourly rate & it’s beneath her, so she clearly lied from the getgo, as her original hourly rate to edit our scipt was only $10/hr.
When the interview was done, she even went so far as to sign ALL of our required paperwork, when all of a sudden this morning she sends me a very unprofessional accusatory e-mail. She almost sounded like a little child accusing me of not being able to pay for work, wanting her to work for free, me not wanting to go through oDesk, & then it turns out the ONLY reason she wanted the job was to get a presence on oDesk, NOT because the position sounded interesting, she liked the company, etc.
We feel she is one of those freelancers, we RUN FROM. Ones who doesn’t understand what is going on, one that puts words in other people’s mouths, one that doesn’t know what she wants & fliters back & forth. Perhaps I shouldn’t have given her a chance because she hasn’t worked in a while since she had been pregnant, but I tend to not want to judge women just because they were pregnant.
She now just wasted about 3 hours of our time, but this is good, better to waste the time now than to hire her & find out later she’s got emotional issues we can’t deal with.