[Froedlich]

Hiring in my area, before I retired: (and before everything went online)

They ask for a resume and tell you when to be there.

You show up at the appointed time with the resume. After waiting half an hour. a secretary hands you a generic Office Depot tear-off employment application.

After another forty-five minutes to an hour, you get to see whoever's in charge of hiring. They're looking at the Office Depot sheet, and about half the time they don't even have your resume, which was probably round-filed by the secretary.

The hiring person isn't sure what job you're applying for, so they leave the office to consult with someone else. Twenty minutes later they return and either tell you they're not hiring, or they'll call you next week. (they don't)

My usual response was to send them an invoice for two hours of office workflow consulting at my entirely reasonable rate. None of them ever paid up, of course, but they stole two hours of my time.