Timeline for Potential employer flew me out for interview, cancels return flight
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| Jan 22, 2019 at 20:11 | comment | added | abelenky | @Nelson: Most airlines specifically offer Refundable Tickets: They cost considerably more up-front, but are fully refundable up until the moment the flight is closed. If this ticket was in fact in the Refundable category, it could indicate pre-meditation on the employer's part to cancel the ticket. See: heelsfirsttravel.boardingarea.com/2015/08/24/… | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 5:49 | comment | added | Nelson | @DavidMulder I laugh at the idea that you can get a refund of any useful amount by cancelling hours before the flight. Most companies explicitly state minimum 24 hrs for something ridiculous like 10% or less. The rest simply gives you nothing. It's really hard to find hard numbers because I don't think they want to give to anything back TBH. Stranding a potential candidate 3 days in an airport for a price of a simple steak dinner is just nasty work. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 2:17 | comment | added | Wildcard | @Tom, the aspect of "vigilante justice" (or lack thereof) is discussed in the answer on Law Stack Exchange. | |
| Jan 18, 2019 at 17:22 | comment | added | reirab | Hmm... I kind of doubt the embezzlement theory. Any refund would normally be issued only to the original form of payment, so unless the employee somehow put the flight on his personal card in the first place, it seems like the refund would just go right back onto the corporate card. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 2:56 | history | edited | abelenky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2019 at 17:53 | comment | added | RDFozz | Note that the people at the company are people, too. They may have come to a conclusion after the OP left that they had been screwed over, and cancelled the return ticket as a knee-jerk reaction. The size of the company was not specified, nor the level of the position. I'm not arguing this is a good thing, by any means.... | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 14:53 | comment | added | Tom | even if the company ended the interview believing that they had been defrauded by the candidate, there is a proper recourse through the court system to reclaim their expenses. Vigilante justice certainly is not a justifiable response. | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | sudo rm -rf slash | I should have added "from a sane manager's perspective"... yes of course IRL you can get the money back but you should think of it as inaccessible | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 14:24 | history | edited | abelenky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2019 at 14:08 | comment | added | David Mulder | @sudorm-rfslash What do you mean? In this case the company did get some money back. "The agent told me that my ticket was cancelled by the buyer for a partial refund." | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 14:01 | comment | added | sudo rm -rf slash | when you fly out a candidate, all the money is gone in one atomic transaction. it's never coming back or half back. even if the candidate lies/cheats/etc | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 13:52 | history | answered | abelenky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |