This is part two of my two-part “employer tricks to slave you” observations. Such slaving could be for way too cheap or for free. I have observed this first hand.
The “Trial-Period”.
Did you know, some employers are smarter than the law? They can hire you for free and call it “trial period” make the same false promises of “if we like the work you do, this might lead to a job.” Guess what? You work there three months, with the hopes to get hired ( and no, you have not signed anything yet.) At the end of the three months, they come up with a lie about “the shape of the economy” and not hire you.
Oops. Just spend 3 months, working for free and didn’t get hired.
I don’t think you can even put that on the resume. What am I going to tell during my next interview? “Oh yea, that? I was a trial period, but I didn’t get hired because….” Okay. You know you’ re not getting THAT job! Noone cares about the “because” once you’re not hired or fired.
I am not sure how one can ethically justify this or morally. But those employers, they do it.
What I advise one in this situation? Don’t take it. Free labor is only for when you go to school and that is to "make contacts." If you do it after school, you will seem more like a loser than a hardworker.
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