People Reveal Why They've Noped Out Of A Job Interview Before It Was Finished (r/AskReddit)

serious job applicants who walked out of an interview before it was over why did you do it I walked out of an interview before it began once the interview was scheduled for 10:00 a.m. which I double-checked from the voicemail that they left I showed up about 10 minutes early signed him all that jazz and waited and waited and waited 45 minutes later I got up asked the receptionist who looked seriously embarrassed to let my interview and now I was no longer interested and left two hours later I got a rude call asking if I had forgotten the appointment I laughed and hung up I had the opposite experience talked to a guy over the phone about a general Labor job he told me to be at his shop at 6:30 he said he was very strict about time so I was there at 6:15 just to be sure get there the following day and proceeded to be screamed the duck out for not being there at 6 o'clock I tried to be polite and say I must have misheard even though I've never been so sure about something someone has said but he insisted I was wrong in that I get out can't help but feel I'm better off not having him as an employer I walked out on an interview only once and it was because the people organizing it were insane they had arranged a large-scale interviewing process for the entire city after getting there early I realized there were quite a few applicants so I didn't mind the fact that I had to wait for about 3 hours eventually they asked a group of three of us into an office where we waited again for about 45 minutes again I was happy just to have an interview so I waited eventually I met with a manager for the store who asked the standard range of questions and I thought I did pretty well at the end of the interview though I was asked to sign a waiver and when I asked why I found out that they had recorded the entire interview for the purpose of an episode of a current affairs and didn't tell me beforehand after waiting for so long just to be disrespected like that I just walked out I happen to catch the episode later and it featured some of the people who I had waited with in the room thank God I didn't sign that waiver because the angle of the investigation was that unemployed people didn't put any effort into getting jobs completely ignoring the fact that everyone had to wait for hours just to get a chance TL DR got hidden cam dat a job interview for a TV show I accidentally walked out on an interview I had driven for hours to apply for a BA slash gaming room job in preparation for moving cities for study I had purchased an apartment so I kinda had to take the job searching seriously I had spent about 20 minutes talking to the gaming manager during which time the venue manager joined us when some guy came up to them and started chatting to them I sat there for maybe 5 to 10 minutes wondering if the interview was over when I decided that most questions had been asked and my existence had barely been acknowledged since the guy had opted out I have interrupted shook one of the interviewers hands and said thanks and exited the premises with no idea how the interview went was crossing the road to my car when one of the interviewers chased me across the road and offered me the position turns out the guy interrupting the interview was one of the owners of the venue I sometimes wonder how I get through life considering how socially inept I can be I went into the interview with my prospective supervisor I looked around the office and noticed that the garbage cans were for the walls and carpet dirty and the supervisors desk was old and had ships out of it so I mentioned that the company didn't seem to be doing any basic upkeep and then asked point-blank is this a good company to work for she replied no and hung her head I said thanks and walked out the job was advertised as morning shift the interviewer starts to explain how I would be used as a wild-card to fill any shift that was needed including short notice edit got another one went a job interview for a listing listed as job at a huge high-tech firm on the west coast all that was was a recruiter scouting for people there was no interviews with the any company he just wanted to build my profile he explained that if he found me a job I would be an employee of his for two years before I would be your employee for the actual company I wanted to bail then but as soon as he said I wouldn't have any benefits and minimum wage I nope the duck out got up grabbed my coat I was shaking my head while putting on my coat and as I was walking out he said I'll just put you down as a lost cause I am familiar with headhunters and was working with two other headhunters at that time his terms were just straight robbery I had placed my resume a on a few job sites and accidentally left my resume open to the public you should not do that I had gotten a call for an interview for an insurance thing I was young and lacked common sense so I excitedly went when I got there there was about 20 other people waiting to be interviewed turned out to be a group interview where some handsome bleached teeth - talked about how great the job was where we could set our own hours and make as much money we wanted all we had to do was pay a lot of money for their special training and riches beyond our wildest dreams would come of it somehow the stupid slapped me in the face and I got up from my chair and started to walk out the con men asked me where I was going and I calmly said this is a scam and I advise others to walk out - two others left with me I find it sad that only two others walked out I was told about 40 minutes into an interview that the job I was interviewing for was going to be her 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. position this had never been mentioned in the original job posting or in the preliminary call prior to the interview this wasn't for a gas station job or anything either high profile or firm who basically needed a graphic designer to put together presentation materials overnight for use the following day they also set it so that I'd be working hours just barely under the limit to qualify as a full-time employee with benefits again none of this was ever mentioned in the job description up to this point the last straw was that they gave me a 30-minute test to prove I could work on a based on the actual materials I'd be working with chicken-scratch posted notes unintelligible audio recordings and other horrible sources I had to base my designs on I walked out of the test about five minutes in you know duck people like this I expect you to do a lead level work for part time pay shitty hours and no benefits if you want good people you generally have to pay them are you deciding to have any kids soon we'd rather not hire you then have to fire you when you're knocked up I was 15 at the time another time I was around the same age I was being interviewed for a babysitting job all of a sudden she hands me a sheet of chores including making dinner and being a waitress for the parents cleaning the chimney and gutters laundry had to be washed folded and put away cleaning toilets and times every room had to be vacuumed she then said that the kid would be on daycare so I'd have plenty of privacy I just left too many lead-in questions not stuff that would be illegal but would get the same responses so how do you spend your weekends what's your Sunday morning look like Sunday morning I like to wake up early have some coffee make a healthy breakfast for myself in the people I love then I put on some nice clothes and go to my lawyer's office we like to discuss the various places I have interviewed and been asked by the interviewer about my religious beliefs I recently went to an interview for a bank in my area first the woman I spoke to on the phone misrepresented herself she'd told me she was the assistant branch manager upon arrival she told me she was head teller the branch manager would be arriving shortly I waited for an hour after an hour of me double-checking the time and wondering if I'd gotten there instead of early I got up to leave the head teller said she'd be there in five minutes but at that point I just figured I obviously wasn't important enough I left I got a call back three days later of polarizing and asking if they could set up another meeting Bank I was nowhere near I politely declined just after I had been given three months notice of layoffs due to office closure from a job that I really liked I took off early one day for an interview across town when I arrived I entered a waiting room full of people at least twice my age in suits resumes in hand upon seeing this site I realized I had very little chance at the position being offered but since I was there I may as well try what I didn't expect is that we were all scheduled to interview together we were all herded into a conference room where the group interview commenced after a few rounds of questions learning each other's qualifications how we would handle various situations and so on we collectively learned that this position was part-time not what had been advertised and paid a mere $9 an hour I walked out along with three other people I never got as far as the interview so much was wrong I received a call asking me about my availability to attend an interview based on my posting on a professional web site I indicated that I was currently in the middle of a project but would be available to interview in two weeks the woman on the phone yelled then call me back when you are available click she called me she yelled at me I wrote that company off two days later she called me again and asked to set up the interview she said she would call me as soon as she had finished a meeting you called me then you tell me you don't have time to finish the conversation that you initiated wrote her and her entire corporation off get a phone call three hours later so-and-so wants you to call her to schedule an interview on Monday I definitely no longer want this job but I do want to see if my predictions come true I call on Monday the person who answered the phone told me that it was the woman callers day off I am a genius they call me and give me the runaround what the duck two weeks later yesterday they call me again again a person asks me to call at a later date to shed you'll an interview with woman who couldn't bother to call me herself I told them that based on their behavior in the past month on the phone that I did not have any desire to work for their company I broke my own code and fired off an email to their Director of Human Resources this company is a luxury retirement community there are golf courses hospitals clinics four to six bedroom homes club houses townhomes etc it seemed like it might be a lovely place to work in my field if they would treat me in such an unprofessional manner how must they treat the residents of the community there were three total callers involved I can only imagine the motives for calling someone asking for an interview and then behaving in such a strange fashion nope nope not the man interviewing me asked me if I was planning on getting married in the near future and is so would I think of having children immediately idiotic a male acquaintance of mine was up for the same job obviously he never got asked that sure men don't leave work when their wives are pregnant but even so pretty sure that's illegal in some countries right yes it's very illegal for potential employers to ask you anything about your personal or family life having kids and whether or not you're married fall under that criteria some aren't even allowed to ask you for your exact age edit referring to the United States them we have a very dedicated team we often stay after normal office hours is that okay with you me sure I mean I'm single without kids so if it's adequately compensated I'm happy to do as much overtime as necessary no problem them oh no no we are passionate about the work we do here so overtime is not paid me okay then thank you for your time and goodbye I graduated in 2009 with a degree in print journalism and after a summer of doing random retail staff I decided to find a real job I see a job posting for a marketing specialist with emphasis in graphic does I'm work I brought my portfolio and they told me they were impressed and that I would get to do some design writing and editing they said they represented big-time companies so 22 year old me was incredibly excited they told me to come back the next day for a job shadow dressed professionally I showed up bright and early in my nicest business clothes and heels and they told me I would be riding with this redheaded girl sidenote she started where I wound up working a few years later and didn't make it through training I live on the north side of my city and we drove all the way south to residential neighborhood I wasn't 100% sure what was going on but they gave me a catalog and said we would be doing door-to-door sales for Sears home improvement I made it two hours in the Midwest humidity dealing with pissed-off homeowners who didn't want to have their homes improved by Sears while walking onto a driveway my foot got caught in rabbit hole and I felt a snap I couldn't put any weight on it and told redheaded girl I needed to go she panicked saying she needed to meet her quota for the day I asked if we could take an early lunch so we went to Arby's where she and the rest of the sales crew left me with a swollen foot I had to call my dad to pick me up he worked an hour and a half away he dropped me off at my car and I drove with my injured right foot home yeah that helped nope I went to Urgent Care and discovered I had an avulsion fracture on the top of my foot yes it was matrix resources stupid

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Published: Wed Jul 17 2019