30 “Job Interviews From Hell”, As Shared By Applicants And Employees Online

Interviewers special note: Can hold herself with dignity under ANY circumstances

Holy s**t i felt this in my own toes, Mad! And to sit through An interview like that 🤘 brutal

Jesus did they try to do a penalty kick with the door frame?

Hell yeah you got the job. You just sat there ignoring the pain of having Nagasakied your pinky toe all the way through a half hour job interview like some kind of Zen monk. I would of hired your a*s too and not even bothered to look at your other qualifications.

I was expecting different result from list title...

Were you interviewing for a job or an episode of "To Catch a Predator"?

You acted like a sensible person. So, yes, not a good fit for this work place.

Good idea, bad implementation

tf? This person hasn't even been vetted and they're expecting them to interact with minors before they even get the job? That is really, really stupid.

So they only want people who ignore the words & body language of minors & then use age inappropriate toys to what? Is this a pedo recruitment center?

I was confused until I remembered Cosmopolitan is also a magazine

"Came round to my prospective boss straddling me" had me really worried for a second!

Make them remember you

Aw! This is next level decency! Happy to read a positive story!

Congratulations!

My son had a screaming sock monkey that literally sounded as though someone was being oofed. Stepped on that bad boy on a weekend morning when I was hoping to crawl back into bed. I made my son cry as he came in the kitchen seeing me dismember it with a butcher knife. Not my best moment, but he'd been warned. Lol.

They remembered you that's for sure.

Fart ninja! Swift, silent butt deadly! Lol. Must find one.

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The one question that makes me want to scream is...why do you want to work at XYZ? Because I need an effing job!! I don't care who it's with.

I went for a look around a department after I'd been shortlisted for the interview but before the interview was held. I was escorted round by one of the senior staff there, and he was asking questions about my personal intentions-marriage, babies, what my partner did and would they be working, and could they relocate easily? I told him he wasn't supposed to be asking that sort of question, and he claimed it was legal and perfectly OK because the pre-interview tour wasn't part of the interview. He was on my interview panel later, though the panel questions were all appropriate (the panel included a senior HR representative). Got offered the job, didn't take it, told the HR woman why not.

Nothing has changed…. I work in research. We have 2 chief positions, one of which was filled by my new boss (male), where I was employed. First employee interview, first question "do you want to have children?". After my irritated look he only told me that I have no change in science because I am a woman and should rather change the profession. Brave statement from him when my other Prof is a woman (with children) and sits in the same position as him. I never had such an unpleasant conversation. Immediately afterwards, I accepted a position with her. Such an a*s

Oh a former colleague had this issue. At the time she interviewed she had been told she was infertile. It had been a tough diagnosis. When they asked, she told them she couldn't have kids. Well she got a management role. But years later, she ended up getting pregnant. She and her husband weren't trying but it happened. When she informed management to book her maternity leave they sacked her for 'lying'. She took them to court and it didn't end well for her former employers, put it that way. That is such a red flag questions.