I had one that "got pulled into a meeting". Um, she had a meeting, with me!

I was eventually offered the job two or three weeks later, which I declined. In that time I had accepted a position with a company that had their shit together. This one had the nerve to ask "When were you going to tell us?" after ghosting me for weeks! I said, "I just did.".

Isn't this what Glassdoor started as? I remember it was a place to look up companies, find out how they tested employees, get interview tips, get salary ranges, etc. Then it got rid of anonymity and sold out and now it's just propaganda for the companies that it initially meant to review

Florida and Texas would like a word. Also, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Nah that goes to Utah.

It would force all employees to hire legally yes. And give immediate grounds for ice to punish employers who are not hiring legally.

I'm sure that's probably the case, but that's kind of my point.

Even if I landed another, better, job between my initial interview and my job shadow, I probably would have still shown up for the shadow because when else are you going to get a chance to peek behind the curtain like that?

I may not have pursued it any further from that, but to me being able to just show up and listen to 911 calls being handled for a bit would be too cool of an opportunity to pass up. I'm pretty sure I would have jumped at the opportunity to do that even if I wasn't trying to get hired.

But again, I'm biased, I work here and like my job so of course I think it's kind of neat.

A lot of things vary from one agency to another, but where I work I don't think most people would consider this a last resort job. Most of us are here either because this is what we want to do or because it's a good career builder towards other public safety/law enforcement type jobs.

For my part, if I have to work, I think this is about as good as it gets for me. I like the hours, the pay isn't amazing but it's livable, benefits are solid, and it's interesting and satisfying work.

It's also not the quickest hiring process since they usually wait until they have a few people to run a training class, it's been a few years now but I believe I did my aptitude test and interview in mid August (same day because they were doing a hiring event, sometimes they have to get scheduled separately) did my job shadow a week or two later with another short interview, got my conditional offer around mid September, had to do a drug, hearing, and vision test and a psych eval, and class started in about mid-late October, so about 2 months start to finish.

I have a friend who tested at the same time as me and got picked up for the next class they ran, so it was a couple extra months for him.

And some other agencies have extra steps in the process. More rounds of interviews, really in-depth background checks with interviews with the sheriff and a polygraph test and such (thankfully the agency I work for isn't like that since polygraphs are bullshit)

No not ideal for someone who really needs a job ASAP.

No more than for any other sort of job interview. They're not answering calls, they're sitting there listening.

And honestly I thought it was a great experience when I got hired, it gave me a real inside look to what the workplace culture was before I started here, and a chance to talk to and ask questions to people who are actually doing the job I was applying for instead of some HR/supervisor/deputy director type.

And since we obviously work 24/7/365 we can pretty much make any time work for these applicants, so they don't need to take off from work or anything to come in and do it. We get a lot of them on nights and weekends.

It's also pretty necessary to make sure people can handle it. It can get really intense at times, and seeing an incident unfold in real time is a very different experience than listening to a recording of a call after the fact. Class space to train new dispatchers is limited, and almost every dispatch center is constantly short-staffed, so we really need to make our hires count, and we lose plenty enough throughout the training process as it is, we don't want to spend a couple months training someone only to get them out on the floor to realize that they can't emotionally handle listening to, let alone actually handling 911 calls.

Did you miss the part where they were not answering any calls or doing any hands on work? The shadow is for the applicant to observe and see if they still want the job.

911 dispatch is not flipping burgers, peoples lives are at stake. They need to be on their toes and not have cold feet if they realize they can't handle the stress or are in way over their heads.

You must be 15 and never had a job if you don't understand that shadowing is not working for free.

what jobs are in OHIO? only reason to go is maybe college.

Same but with moving out of the US, ngl

One of my major goals for the next several months. Lease is up in december and i want to GTFO.

Weed! You can smoke weed there. So they have that…. But yes, they do suck already. Although I have noticed some sparks of change there, but shit like this will remind you that they are just sparks.

Or lives in a high cost of living area. My parents own a house that looks like garbage and has primarily unfinished walls (they're working on that) but is valued in excess of $1M because of the land.

??? What echochamber do you live in?

I have seen the depths of nHentai, someone is definitely into that.