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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you an academic? Because you’ve just described a pretty common scenario is academic hiring. It is gross and inappropriate and unfortunately way too typical.[/quote]

Was thinking this tooo.
My DH is an academic and this is how every job interview goes, whether he was the candidate or part of the hiring committee. Someone from the department (usually hiring committee chair or point person) picks you up at airport and has a lunch, then shows you around the department/college, then passes you off to individual meetings with various colleagues, then dinner. Then next day is a job talk and maybe you have a few more one-on-ones followed by another lunch or dinner.

The Saturday thing is weird but not that uncommon if they are trying to schedule something social to let you get the feel of the area or make you feel welcomed and try to “visualize” yourself there—particularly if the job requires a big relocation effort.

One thing you may need to consider, OP, is that, if the boss guy is older, he’s probably been conditioned that he needs to treat all candidates the same. This whole push to get men to consider what it must make a woman feel like to be placed in XYZ circumstance is a pretty recent pendulum swing. In the 80s, 90s and even early 2000s women were screaming to just treat us like the men in the workplace —probably just to prove we “belonged” there! Men in the 1970s and 1980s were largely resistant to having to change their practices to accommodate women in their work culture, so ironically, to accommodate this, we argued that we didn’t want or require any special treatment. In fact we were insistent on it. And it kind of turns out that we do need men to adjust the workplace a little bit. And that’s okay.
But the boss guy may have missed the shift and doesn’t realize that it’s now required that he consider whether or not a woman candidate or subordinate feels comfortable riding in his car alone with him or being out to lunch or being dropped off after dark at a hotel by him.

I think you probably overreacted trying to change the schedule they had proposed but also they should have given you a firm schedule at least 48 hours prior.[/quote]

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