Would you work a day Pro-Bono? Opinion Pls!

[Loretta]

I'm a graphic designer with some experience in photo studios the past year - Out of college a couple years now been doing mostly freelance since my last job debacle.

The Situation: I Had a 2.5 Hour interview Friday with a photography shop and the owner refused to commit to making a decision on if he was hiring me for real.

Sooo...okay, maybe he needs to think it over. We kind of went over everything enough that I felt any reasonable owner could make a decision on a 12$/hour Part-Time Job (2-3 days a week).

He tells me he would let me know Sunday at like 5pm...the night before I "might" start working.

So he calls me up at 6pm to let me know that he's decided!!! I can come tomorrow to observe while receiving some training - But he doesn't let me know is he isn't paying you for this time spent. And its 9:30am-7pm, which is a full day. - I find out that he is not paying me for my time, and in a way is still avoiding committing to a decision -

With all of this I realize that I can easily say this "its only one day, and what else am i doing anyways" and shrug that off but thats how Ive always been - and because of it, at my previous job (which also ironically happened to be for photography studio) ive continuously been taken advantage of by people who feel they can do that on other stuff too.

So my thinking is that if from the very start of a job ALREADY they arent even being fair for my time-spent its like a bit of a sign to me and raises the red flags - I'm trying to decide if I'm blowing all of this out of proportion, or if these bad vibes are legitimate concerns because i've felt used in the past by my employer.

My take on it is still that he's getting all the advantages, he gets to give me a "test-run" for non-committal day of work -( Wow this guy is really counting his pennies )- At worst I will be the one ending up with a days time wasted, and being quite pissed off because I could be spending that time on EVERQUEST!! (haha well.. maybe, I do have stuff to live for outside this game too) -

Of course where better to find advice on such endeavors than the P99 forums !!! Thanx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

-L