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Old Jul 7, 2015, 9:48 PM
Evolet Evolet is offline
 
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Angry Wizz Air lives up to the low. A recruitment story

I recently attended a recruitment process in Cluj Napoca, Romania. I received a phone call invitation to participate to their interview for the Cabin Crew position. The lady who called me offered me information about the establishment where the interview was going to be held and also specified what documents to have on me. Cool, I say to myself. I prepare my resume and at 9 AM I rush over to the interview. A number of 30-something girls were present. All these ladies were very glitzy glammy and carefully trimmed and wearing tons of make-up, some of them also had the benefit of having graduated a flight attendant course. I was convinced that I had no chance of competing especially with most of them already having this advantage. But alas ... I was deeply impressed by their attire since I opted for a pair of black, straight leg trousers, and a silky shirt with golden cufflinks. Elegant, but not pompous. I thought, however, that the company wasn't just searching for girlies who have no other occupations than perching themselves in high heels and making donut hair styles (not that I have something against that but they were all the same, cookie cutters, I swear), given that I heard testimonies about how strict recruitment is and how they seek only the best candidates. Finally, I work up some courage and get in line. I would like to mention that the interview was held inside a hotel, from 9 am to 4 afternoon, time during which we didn't even receive a glass of water (on a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius).
Let's begin with the first examination: each individual was invited to make a small roleplay with the 3 recruitment ladies.. Since I could not attend the performance of my colleagues I do not have the possibility to reveal any details (I must mention that the interview was held entirely in English). After the first test, some of the candidates were eliminated. Until the 2nd examination began we had to walk elsewhere for almost 2 hours so that the recruitment princesses could drink coffee and eat their salads. Second examination began at 2 PM: group exercise. Here, the story gets better. The rest of the girls who had passed the first test we were divided into four groups. They have shared a paper which listed the names of six individuals, accompanied by a brief description of each. The scenario was as follows: the 6 individuals were in a life threatening situation. Blocked in a cave, water infiltration was threatening to drown them all. As groups, we had the following task: a hypothetical rescue team could not save more than a person per hour so we had to decide upon the order in which the individuals were to be rescued while also motivating our choices. In the short descriptions one could find clues about how this classification could have done in a more efficient manner so that the loss of human lives was minimal or equal to none. Said and done. I worked with my group members, we soon enough reached a common agreement and we wrote our results on a sheet of paper. When the time to analyze our results came, the problems started. One of the ladies from recruitment insisted that every group have one spokesperson. Although I did not agree with such a setup, considering that a third party could not present my arguments of said case study as concise as I could do it, I concluded that, perhaps, there wouldn't be any harm to it since we all agreed on the same classification. This is when sh*t started hitting the fan. The designated spokesperson stands up in front of everyone and begins her cringe-worthy presentation. One of the recruiters starts asking her questions and demanded explanation as to why we classified the 6 persons the way we did. Surprisingly enough, our delegated speaker was completely off and unable to explain any of the notions we had discussed just a minute earlier. And that's because...wait for it....she couldn't speak English. A flight attendant with no abilities to have a decent conversation in English. Ironically enough, this was their main requirement: good English. I was quite shocked. He rant sounded like this (and I quote): " X is first because she mother and 4 children. Y is second because she young, Z is turd (this was her exact pronunciation, although she meant to say 'third') because he valuable social employment (she was talking about and elderly man, CEO at a big firm who had the possibility of offering a number of jobs, and I was trying to explain to her that he could be considered 'a valuable social element') etc...I already wanted to smash my face into the first wall. That's how excruciating was assisting to her...whatever that was. Same went with the other groups. None of them knew how to speak English, they had no clue how to use pronouns, what tenses were and how/when they should be used, messed up plurals...a complete fiasco. I was gutted with shock, this was a new level of pathetic, the fact that they could show up like that to an interview. The bomb was dropped by one of the candidates who claimed that the 19y/o girl (out of the 6 victims) was worthy of being saved first because, according to her description, she was the daughter of a billionaire and killing a person like this would bring very negative publicity to the rescue team. Insightful, huh? The other problem was the fact that the groups were denied the chance of actually choosing their own spokesperson rather than having a random one picked out by the 3 recruitment monkeys.
After finishing the infamous examination we had to wait yet again until the 3 bimbos finished their coffee, smoked their cigarettes, finished their phone conversations, etc. It took them a while until they decided to let us know who was going to stay and who was not. It came as a surprise to find that I wasn't on the admission list even though my appearance, skills, educational background and at-the-job experience was more than enough for their position. Even so, I watched stunned as the semy-illiterate clowns who giggled earlier about deciding who dies first were being the ones admitted for the final examination. One of them even felt the need to bring this to my attention: 'you did great, but you talked too much and they don't like that'. I forgot to mention this person wasn't able to spell "element" even after I repeated the f*cking word 4 times. Mind you, it's spelled EXACTLY the same in Romanian. And, yes. She was admitted. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
I then realized that wasn't a real recruitment or a real interview. This was a ridiculous facade to hide the fact that they already had the opening reserved for some t*at who had mingled around all along.
This being said, you guys should know why some of the Wizzair staff's conversational level is that of a stuttering infant and don't be surprised if you talk to them and they have no idea what's going on. Keep in mind that if, god forbid, you may end up in a life threatening situation on the board of a Wizzair aircraft, you just might end up being at the mercy of an idiot who thinks that if you aren't a 19y/o billionaire chick, your life isn't worth sh*t.
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They're a bit better now. I attended a Wizz training in Cluj and it was very well organized. They even took us out for a pizza afterward.
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