Turned down - Is this a common problem for 'newbies'?

Getting turned down for a job does sting, but the fact is, in life, most people will be turned down by many, many jobs, and if we let that incapacitate us, we would never get anywhere. I've gotten over being miffed, or caring why they didn't want me (Considering the company, the perfect driving record probably made them recoil ), and moved on to finding a company that will say 'Yes! You're what we're looking for!'

It WILL happen eventually... Even if I have to gnaw some legs off to get it done

 

I understand "We chose someone else over you" or "You're not what we're looking for", that's all well and good. But I find it a bit.. Not 100% sure how to word it.. Distasteful? Crude? Tacky? Cruel? Something along those lines, to do something much like the following example;

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Person 1 and person 2 both apply for a company whose training is say.. three states away from each of them. The company that hired them pays for bus fare, hotel room, etc.
Both go through orientation, pass physicals, drug tests, background tests and whatever else. (Or who knows, maybe the background check hasn't come back yet.)
Despite that, both start schooling at the same time, are doing well (Maybe person 2 is doing a tiny bit better than person 1), and after perhaps 4 days to a week of schooling, person 1 is told "You're not hired, go home."
Maybe the company pays for the bus fare home, maybe not... Probably not.
Maybe the company doesn't charge you for the schooling you did get, maybe they do.. You signed a contract, so chances are, you're going to be paying something.
You'll find out eventually, surely.

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I find this particular method of 'weeding people out' to be disgusting at best. If you're not going to 'hire' someone long enough to even go through training.... Don't go through the pretense of hiring them in the first place, don't ship them hundreds of miles from home, give them false hope and then take a #$## on it.

If someone gets hired, and is doing very poorly in school, comes to class high (Got off of whatever just long enough to pass the drug test or whatever).... I can very much understand that, but if person 1 and person 2 are very close as far as performance in class (Good performance, that is), their drug tests were fine (And they're not high in class, and so didn't pull some stupid stunt.) it seems more than a little messed up to Huck one out, and more than likely expect money from them because you hired them. You (The company)... HIRED them, why should it be their responsibility if you didn't get the background checks back when you were supposed to, and were impatient? Why should they pay for the companies mistake when they aren't even going to be working for that company? (Not saying it's okay to blame employees for a company's mistake, but I think that gets the idea across.)

And yes, I do know that there are many messed up areas in the Trucking Industry, but since this is the topic here, it's the one I'm going with. If, as a company, you haven't finished a background check on someone you're thinking of hiring.. Perhaps you shouldn't hire them until you have it.

We all get denied jobs, as said earlier, but this seems unnecessarily cruel. "Yeah, sure, here's your job.. JUST KIDDING!"

Real professional, there.. Oy.

It would be more professional in that situation to say: "Uh, yeah.. we screwed up, and now you have to pay for it, because we're inconsiderate ########" - Which isn't saying a lot..

Sorry, didn't mean for this to turn into a sort of rant, I honestly hadn't thought this deeply about how screwy that was until recently, so.. That's what this turned into.

Kudos to those of you who have had this happen to you for one reason or another, and still kept grinding, and eventually did get into Trucking. I tip my hat to you, because you deserve some serious respect for going through that and coming out on top.

I haven't had that happen to me, so I can't honestly say how that would effect my outlook on Trucking. I'd definitely be $#%#$##, but would like to think that, after so long wanting this, even after everything I heard, at worst I would be irate for a few weeks, and then get back to it.. But, can't judge what's not happened, and here's to hoping it doesn't.

I really pray the number of people this happens to starts to drop, and not due to people saying "F##$ Trucking!"

 

All I was trying to say was that it was inconsiderate, and in my -personal- opinion, unprofessional.

If you work a menial job for $200 or less a week, and spend months or longer saving up so you CAN go to this 'interview' and then school several thousand miles away, being turned away partway through school can be a huge blow in more than one way.

I wasn't saying it's not how it's done, or that I expect to see it change any time soon, if ever. Simply stated how I, personally, view it. And I'm not talking about not being called after an interview, even if one had to drive a few thousand miles to get there, thus spending money, I was more talking about being told to go home halfway through school, something some of the 'CDL mills' seem to do as a way to make money, and in that last case especially I find it to be a fairly messed up practice.

There was no intention here of starting a debate, upsetting anyone, or anything along those lines. I was simply sharing my own view on that particular subject. Sorry if it came across wrong.