So if this company ACCEPTED "volunteer" work from you, then it still seems like they should've PAID you. Unless this place is a non-profit, i don't see how it's legal for them to even allow people to do "volunteer" work for them - ESPECIALLY under false pretenses of an assured position in the near future.

It's called THEFT OF SERVICES. I'm sure you have a legal case.

Wait, you actually worked free of charge hoping they would hire you and then you were shocked when no job or money came your way?

That's called a stupidity tax, learn from it.

And this is why you should never work for your spouse's company.

you got GANKED!!!

by now you realize they were leading you on and the ploy of "no applications considered until..." was just a way to stop you from asking about the position. They were considering applications all along.

It's time to look elsewhere. Stay there for now until you get a new position. It'll look better to your new employer.

Anon will never make it to a Senior Staple Puller postion with that mindset...

It is because there are about a million of you out there-willing to do a job for free-that keeps these firms from having to hire. Stop volunteering; stop undervaluing your own labor and watch how businesses actually hire people because they can't sucker anyone into doing the work for free anymore. Duh.