I saw that JCI had put on a “help wanted” website that they needed a Senior Fire Alarm Designer so I applied. Five weeks went by and I finally got an email from one of their in house recruiters. She was nice at first and told me she wanted to speak to me on Microsoft Teams to see if I was qualified for the position. The interview with her went well and she told me she would schedule an interview with several other people from JCI fire alarm design divisions. Several more weeks went by and then I finally got my next interview scheduled with several other fire alarm division managers (all for the same Microsoft Teams call). I was a little surprised when everyone on the call were women. I certainly believe in equality but equal for men and women. Anyway the interview seemed to go well and I knew all the answers to the questions they asked me. We ended the interview and I was expecting to hear from JCI’s recruiter any day. That didn’t happen. I ended up having to contact her after a few weeks to find out if the interview went well. It eventually went well and she told me I would need to interview with the local fire alarm manager for my area. Several more weeks went by and finally got my interview BUT they, JCI, wanted me to get the COVID vaccine shot before I had my interview. I got the shot the day before the interview and thank goodness because I got COVID, maybe from the shot, a few days later. The interview seemed to go well but once again the manager was a woman. Even the person utilizing AutoCAD for her designs was a woman. I thought the interview went well because the thirty minute interview went an hour. I left with every clue that I had the job. Then weeks went by again and no word from the recruiter. I emailed her and saw she had opened my email but she didn’t respond. The few days later I emailed her again. Again the email was opened but no response. I finally called and left her a message under a different name and phone number to get her to call me back. She was unbelievably rude to me on the phone when I caught her in her lie. She said she would let me know but she never did. I found out from a friend at JCI in that office that they had just promoted the female AutoCAD designer instead. That was their (JCI’s) intention all along. So I basically wasted 5 months of my life and a ton of my time to just be used as a pawn. To this day I tell people who are guys to not even bother applying for anything fire alarm related. Thank goodness all have listened to me and went somewhere else.