To start, I should disclose that I despise online job applications, partly because of the uncertainty regarding whether or not the company being applied to recieved the application, and partly because of the negative attitude toward employees it displays.
I have been looking for a job, and while some have been obnoxious about how long the process was, so far, petco was the worst. Their online application was so bad, that after a half hour of trying to fill it out, I gave up. This was their process for entering something so innocuous as the state and country of employment was arcane to be nice. They expect an applicant to guess the proprietary code they use for a particular entry, and do not use a drop down menu to aid an applicant in entering the data, which is mandatory....
This might be fine if it were some sort of contest where the winner was showered with treasure and fame, but it is not, it is just a job, and not one where the pay is all that great. by having such a process, and requiring any applicant to go through it, it shows that the company does not care about their employees. This means that it is likely to be a place where an employee is subjected to mistreatment, since they make an applicant go through an arduous process simply to let them know that the applicant is interested in the job.
If the situation were reversed, the employers would be flooding congress with lobbyists petitioning for new laws easing their ability to find employees, yet, we are forced to go through stress and storm just to tell them our previous work experience.
We need to tell them that they are not paying enough to act this way. I certainly will not be shopping at petco, seeing as they treat applicants this way.
