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Agreed, although I would expect a person applying for a job to be reasonably responsive. I personally would try few times and perhaps send an email saying I tried to ring. But to expect phone call to be "scheduled" is just daft - phone call is the quickest method of contact.
No, you can't expect someone to be responsive at any random time out of the blue. Every phone interview I've had was first scheduled via text or email.
Yes, you can expect someone who applied for the job to pick up the phone if you ring few times at different times.
No one is available 24/7, it is not reasonable to expect them to be. If you need to be absolutely sure that someone will definitely be available at a given time, you schedule it.
Or, you leave a goddamn message like a reasonable person. You know that voicemail was invented for a reason, right?
I don't believe he was called at midnight. It is called "office hours" and you are expected to pick up.
Not everyone keeps the same "office hours". In fact, I'll bet that what you call "office hours" is when I'm busy with my current job and thus cannot pick up. You don't know my schedule, you can't just make assumptions and then get upset when it turns out I may have other engagements. You might even be calling at a time when I already had something else explicitly scheduled!
It is called voice mail. You are expected to leave one.
These were intern applications.
I agree that he should have left a message or send a quick email after he didn't reach them on the phone. I strongly disagree that phone call should have been "scheduled".
Scheduling is how you can be certain that the person will be available at the scheduled time. If you don't schedule, then you don't know if they will be available, and so you have no grounds to get mad at them for not being available.
Every phone interview I've had was scheduled.
Phone call is the quickest and the most straightforward mean of communication. Assertion that these have to be "scheduled" is ridiculous.
If you don't schedule, then you can't guarantee they'll be available.
Every phone interview I've had was scheduled.
Oh for fuck sake 🤦
That's my line. I don't know why you're still defending this clown.
Yeah, looks like you are going to hang yourself with it.
Wow, that is a bizarrely violent thing to say. I don't know where your hostility is coming from.
My willingness to continue this conversation with you:
I don't know where your hostility is coming from.