Why are interviewers so rude?

[vexorg]

When my daughter was 17, she worked for Tescos in the the evening while at college. They offer 3 month job experience work, but paid £12 an hour for till work, and even paid that for 2 shifts of trainng at the start.

At the time I did think that's not a bad wage for what they do.

[Envoy CDX]

Sadly, location can be prohibitive. Its an employers market at the moment sadly. Re: being too old, why would you say that? Granted hours probably won't be great either, that said only other option is to relocation and in this climate, thats likely going to sting. What about self employment?

[3cav3]

Finally today after just about giving up all hope my wife accepted a job offer, ok the hours are a bit less than she was hoping for, but they are going to put her through a new qualification related to the field she's working in, plus they are paying the living wage, rather than the minimum or less as in the case of one offer she recieved. It seems way too hard these days to get a job. The last time I was out of work, the boss simply said to me there's a job going, start on Monday, nearly 25 years later I'm still there. Today it seems no matter what you do, it isnt good enough yet employers moan they can't get staff. Its taken nearly 5 months of hard graft to secure this position.

[Robsey]

A tentative congratulations to your missus.
Let's hope they stand by their promises.

I haven't had to apply for a 'new' job for 26 years.
It was so much easier back then.