Right after I finished my clinic duty at school, I had a meeting with Career Services and they had sent out my resume to various massage businesses. So they said. I only got a call from one business, who I will decline to name, but I'll just call it Spice Girl Mobile Massage (as the actual first name is that of one of the aforementioned group members). So I get a call from Michael at Spice's saying he's interested in hiring, so we go through the whole application process and have an interview and whatnot.
Let me explain the nature of Mobile Massage. Someone calls this phone number and then a massage therapist is sent to their home. That is what I would do, I'd be given an address and then I'd go work on a client in their home. Absolutely no problem with that. However, I later learned that the majority of the clients were male. That was a little unnerving (honestly, how many guys actually are into the idea of massage? that's kinda girly).
Anyhow, I'm told that I'll be given a schedule Monday. Thursday comes and I still don't have it. I emailed saying as much and requested it be resent. Friday I checked and it's still not there. I went to work that evening at Hollywood and didn't worry about it.
Later that evening I get a call from Michael saying he has a client for me. There were three problems with this: 1- he called at 7:15 and I'd written on the application that I wasn't available after 6; 2- he called June 26th and I put on the application that I couldn't start until July 1st (because I needed to know what was going on with my license); 3- he tried to give me a client and I DON'T HAVE A LICENSE. That is ILLEGAL. Just sayin'.
I point out the part where I'm working that night and that I couldn't work until July 1st anyway and then Michael starts yelling at me about how I didn't say anything about that. I told him it was on the application. He again yelled at me that "after all the time we talked on the phone, emailed, and face to face, you never said ANYTHING about starting july 1st!"
"...Right," I agreed, "because it was on the application!" Yeah, that thing I had to fill out in order to WORK for you? Yeah, I filled it out. And that was one of the questions. Of course I didn't bring it up -- YOU ASKED FIRST! I figured you'd read the document YOU made me fill out! Foolishness, I know. Sorry.
"Well, you do what you need to do at the video store," like keep my job by not walking out? "and this massage will go to Spice. Good luck with your career." And he hung up on me.
Hahahahahahahahaha. I can laugh about it now, but I was really disappointed over what happened. But honestly, if that's his brand of professionalism, I'm glad I'm not ranked with it. If this is how the company is run, I'm glad I'm not a part of it.
So... no going to the homes of strange men to work on their naked bodies after all. Eh, no skin off my nose.
