Helping a friend get a job is a good thing right?.....?

Question

This is the story. i applied at the Airport for a retail cashier position, and a friend needed a job also, so i told her to apply there too, then we needed to get drug tested & background check. Then the hiring manager was taking a while to tell us if we pass, my friend then called her and asked her what was going on, so she checked if we passed and we both did, the next step was to get finger printed, and we went. I received a call from the manager saying that my finger prints where ok, but my friend didn't. So my friend called her asking if she passed, and she told her yeah, then all of a sudden i didn't hear from my friend or the Mgr, but i called my friend and she told me she was working already BEFORE ME! I was like OKAY WHY?!? When i had applied/got interviewed BEFORE her! What do you all think?

She told us that we both got the job, and when i found that she got the job i phoned and msg the mg asking why she started working before. She returned my call saying that she doesn't want me to think that she never wanted to hire me, but i told her ok then why i haven't started working then? She also told me that tomorrow i can then begin work, but i couldn't due to a medical reason & told her i'll phone her in about a week but i didn't So i kinda gave up on that job... So its been 2 months i still have no job but i want to call the mgr and ask her if she is still wanting to hire me... Should i call her?

I passed my finger printing too.

Answer 1

Were there many jobs available at once? Usually employers don't hire on a first come, first served basis as jobs come open - they hire on the basis of preference. Therefore, it could be that something about your friend - her work history, her communication skills, her personality, etc., put her higher on the hiring manager's preference list, and she was considered to be the best candidate for the job. This doesn't mean that you might not eventually get a job when others come open, but the fact that you passed the basic tests doesn't mean that they have to hire you. It could also be that the specific shift, or the skills they needed, were a better fit for your friend this time around. What you did was a good thing. It is possible that you wouldn't have gotten a job there even if your friend had never applied, so don't blame her or assume that it was because you tried to help her that you didn't get the job.

Answer 2

May be you feel bad but there is nothing indicating backstabbing of foul play. Managers aren't fair all the time, when they have two candidates with similar skills then they choose the one they like more or they just flip a coin, so to speak. About her finger print check, first you must know that finger prints is not like in the movies, in real life takes time and is not perfect, the computes usually gives 5 or ten possible matches and then they must be checked by human eyes; so just because they didn't check by the time you called it doesn't mean they didn't check later.

Since you didn't call again when she told you and waited too long (sick or no sick) they see that as a bad sing from a possible new employee, don't waste your time calling they are not going to take you, they can't save the position for you when they have many other people on line waiting to take the job. Sorry but you had bad luck by getting sick and not showing up for work; and not calling when you said you were going to it made things worst; employers don't wait they just call the next one on the list; they are not going to hire you after all those mistakes from your part, move on.