Initially applied online in June of 2013 for the Substitute Teachers Aide position, but after a number of interviews I was never contacted for a follow up or a rejection. My application was kept on file and in January 2014 I received a call from a recruiter asking if I wanted to schedule for their open interviews that were being held all week. (Confused but) still interested I went to an interview for a position in a Club Erie position. The parking was atrocious because they have barely any visitor spaces, inside the atmosphere reminded me instantly of cattle. Packed wall to wall with candidates, with nowhere to sit down and fill out the 10 page packet I was given to read over. I was given a standard 20-30 minute face to face interview with a recruiter and then given a form consenting to an "on site" visi. (They are standard unpaid workdays most often required with positions working with developmentally disabled persons to give the interviewer a realistic idea of the job requirements.) I questioned it because during the last interview I had gone to two days worth of onsites for a total of 5-7 hours and was never even acknowledged the entire time, not thanked or given even a solid professional rejection in the end, but I wanted a career working with physically handicapped, so it felt like worth the risk. I showed up 10-15 minutes early for my interview and the building was empty. I was asked to return the next available day when the staff and crew had not already left for a field trip. I agreed, annoyed but assumed I had made some mistake. I returned the following week for my interview and was given the entire onsite, walked through their entire program, wast in an interview with a supervisor and almost done, when she mentioned she didn't even know that she had a position open. After looking it up she was so gracious as to apologize and tell me I was not at the correct building and everything I had learned was irrelevant as the program she worked for was different than the one I had applied for. I returned a third time a third week for a two hour onsite with the right staff members. (For those of you wondering, I'm not an idiot, I just wanted to make sure I hadn't wasted $50 of gas going to interviews for nothing.) I took a trip with the staff, I was rarely acknowledged and silently questioned why I needed to be there for two hours listening to them complain about their taxes and why I hadn't just left and walked home. After I had the onsite I received a letter in the mail a week later saying they chose other candidates. I appreciate the level of maturity, grace, professionalism and just general consideration that was given to me. I had never walked away from anything like that feeling that I should have actually refused the position if offered until this experience. It saddens me that this came from an institution dedicated to bettering the lives of the community. I got a cool taste of the staff you thought were more professional, competent, or dedicated, or something, than me. They're all 18 and have never had a job before and only work there because it pays at least $2 above minimum at every position.