Re: Pay for the privilege...

Hatunen  <hatunen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
><masonbarge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Great idea!  Why stop with Hollywood?  I think all employers should pay 
>>anyone they interview.  That's fair.
>
>In my alter ego as an engineer I didn't get paid for job
>interviews but I did sometimes not lose much out of my own
>pocket. Once upon a time Arco wanted to interview me for a job at
>Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and paid first class airfair from Alaska to
>and from Anchorage, along with hotel room and meals. If Horizon
>Air in WA****ngton state and Wien Air from Anchorage to Dead Horse
>had had first class they would have paid that, too.
>
>I did have to take a few personal days from my job to do it,
>though, but I got paid for those.

My bad...I was thinking of a local interview, similar to an open
audition. I'm an engineer also (technically competent musician,
definitely not talented...) and out-of-town interviews (meaning
I'm one of the finalists) were always paid (e.g. major oil companies,
major aerospace companies...).