Discrimination

Shortly before my holiday I attended a job interview for a post in Halfords Bike Hut at Harlow. There were two positions available and my interview went very well. I am more than capable of building and servicing a push bike. I was informed by the interviewers that I was the first decent candidate. They went on to say that they could not appoint as the store manager was away on leave, but that I should expect to be interviewed by him upon his return. I should have smelt a rat at that point as one interviewer had asked the other if they could appoint without the manager being available. In that case why were they interviewing anyway!

I returned from my holidays expecting to receive some form of communication inviting me to attend the second interview. Instead the communication I received was a standard rejection letter with no reason for the decision given.

This in my opinion amounts to blatant discrimination. My first thoughts veered towards pressing them for answers and reasons for the decision. However I decided not to bother as I would not want to work with such a bigoted company anyway. A sales assistant post just is not worth all the effort it would take to make my complaint official anyway.

Owning several pushbikes and several cars, I did used to be a frequent customer. Needless to say I would never knowingly spend a penny with Halfords now.