30 Times Job Interviews Made The Users Of This Online Group Feel Baffled As They Were So Bizarre And Disorganized

Or it was one of those checks how you react when being surprised/harassed/under pressure and stuff.

I once had a zoom interview for a charity job. They contacted me a few days later saying they were impressed and can I come in for a face to face interview. There was a bit of back and forth while they were trying to check availability of everyone who needed to be there. Then they did a complete 180 and said I wasn’t right for the role!!! They also ignored my request for feedback too!!

Congratulations!

The wrong one at the right moment, unless that was a test, and the real interview was about your reaction

I know that feeling. Four interviews down to the last two and not a peep. Pretty much had to ring reception and got a very similar reply. The firm is a houshold name in cosmetics, haircare etc. I don't buy anything they sell, actively avoid it.

You didn't want to move to Houston anyway.

Company-managers doing this should be fired. For one simple reason, what matters for the company: money. Because these kind of managers are wasting company's money. Holding interviews, costs money also for the company. Let's say, you get your super-number-one-dream-candidat, and of course, you hire him/her. Super! But....anything can happen, the dude doesn't show up (doesn't matter, for what reasons), quits in the probe-period, you have to fire him because of reasons (drugs, alcohol, AH-who mess up the teamwork, making company losing money). So, you are there again with no specific staff-member, and because you were an idiot AH ghosting number 2-3-4-5 candidates, who were also good enough, you have to start the whole advertising-interviewing-hiring process from the beginning. Losing the company's money. Oh, and of course, you deserved it.

I think this is almost worse. Husband graduated from an Ivy League school with a Math degree. High powered banking group seeks him out. We drove 4 hours to their headquarters (they paid for a hotel) and he went to the interview with 4 high faluting VP's. There was a two-year gap from his graduation, so they asked what he had been doing, so he told them. Worked as a Ringling clown. One of them said, " we don't think you would be an asset to our company", and they got up and walked out. THEY sought him out. Just because they didn't do their homework was their fault. Their loss and we went back to Ringling. Just because he worked for the circus did not mean his genius IQ dropped.

A little late now, but I would have totally named and shamed. I think Glassdoor was around then.

So if the treat you like s**t and you don't stand up for yourself, they know they can do it later when you're employed..

What a childish interview process!

Some of these experiences sound almost like divine intervention, i.e. things went so badly that the signal to get the heck out of there simply couldn't be ignored. I had a weird experience during an interview at the college of my choice and withdrew my application. The next place i applied to had way more going for it than I had expected and I never looked back.

I don't think that's a good way to see your skills. Because that might imply that management could abuse you and you'll take it

I would have shown how calm I could be under pressure. I would have looked him straight in the eye and asked calmly, "were you born this rude or did you have to really work at it?"

5 interviews for an entry level job was the first red flag and everything went wild from that point and after

I hope you told them EXACTLY what was wrong, and copied in all the other four interviewers as well. What a toxic work place that would be. Sheesh!

What a nuthouse.

And your email reply?

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Female CEO, enough said. In my entire career, every female CEO I have worked with has been a psycho b*tch on wheels.

Granted this was Alabama 20-ish years ago, but I had a summer job with Alabama Mental Health working in an "MR" group home. That's how they designated the patient groups - MR or MI, mentally re***rded or mentally ill. It made me uncomfortable even then.

MRDD is a medical abbreviation. It stands for mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, and is still used. It's not a slur, but a medical term... you can't just shorten it to retarded tho! I feel like maybe there could have been some advice or education given here. The word itself means "to be held back", people turned it into a slur and insult.

So idk if this guy was just sounding like a jerk, but the word ret**ded is actually the scientific word for someone with a mental disability. Do I think it’s right to say it? No, not really, not in the world we live in. Does it make sense for someone who works there? Yeah, kinda. Still don’t support it though, I was in special needs and that word hurt when it was said.

I worked for a few months with the mentally disabled last year. I definitely never used this word unless the client preferred it to embrace specifying their disability. Either way, I had never worked in this environment before & had enough common sense not to use it during the interview.

Translation: I'm worried cause we have a lot of perverts in the company and you seem like the kind of person that would sue us instead of keeping mouth shut!

Yeah more like worried about a lawsuit

WHOA. You really get the interviewer is there just for the money

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So did you joined their dairy farm ranch?

Flip. I was yound and right out of college and a nervous wreck on an interview for a job I really wanted. The Interviewer lets out this loud ripping fart with a stench like a dead animal was in his r****m. He just said,"Excuse me" and went right on asking interview questions.It was a small room, my eyes were watering, and I was trying so hard not to laugh from shock and nerves. I kept wondering if it was some type of on-camera tv prank on me. He ended up being one of the best bosses I ever had so I guess don't judge a person by their fart?

Bravo! An inaudible fart wouldn't have had the same effect

I literally could not answer anything. Just froze. Then puked all over the table. Didn’t get the internal promotion.

Oh my! I'm wiping away tears here. That was the funniest thing I've read in a while. Talk about laughing out loud!

No need to read any farther in this list. This is the "end all, be all" bad interview story. Kudos.

Ex husband was a Ringling clown, but left for another circus due to them refusing to pay a decent wage. WE ended up in Charlotte after leaving the second show. He ended up working at a JC Penny that he had worked at while he was in HS. I got a job in a women's shop at the same mall, and they let me work the same schedule as my husband. Then Ringling called and begged him to come back. They were offering all kinds of incentives for both of us, as well as a huge raise. The owner of my shop did not want me to leave, and asked us to have dinner with him and his FIL, who owned a men's shop. The FIL asked my husband to manage his shop, and I would also be promoted to Asst. Manager. Before we could answer, dinner arrived. Husband got fish, and he started to shake the bottle of malt vinegar, the entire lid came off and splashed everyone, and soaked the tablecloth. The restaurant brought us new meals, but we were all vinegar-y. The call of the circus was to hard to deny, so we declined offers.

😂 The visual I had was: Seth Rogan being interviewed... this sounds like a movie lol.

My answer would have been: No, thanks. I'm diabetic. To be honest though, this sounds like a test to see how well you handle being offered choices and forced into one. Red flag if you ask me

*loads gun* HERSHEY'S OR SNICKERS, YOU F*CKER!

M: Is this indicative of your management style?