Scottish Man Applies to Job in Wrong Edinburgh

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Eric Lund
Mar 19, 2021 6:30 PM EDT

People are people and we make mistakes. Here's a dude who thought he was applying to a job in his own city, but low and behold, the listing was extremely easy to misread. For some more mix-ups, here's a guy who thought a date was a job interview and here's a woman who thought an office was a dog sitting company for months.

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    Text - r/tifu - Posted by u/Scottish_Man 20 hours ago TIFU by applying to a job in my city, but it was 6000 kilometers away from where I expected. M I've been laughing at myself for the whole of today so I thought I would share this with you, it's probably not as funny as I think it is, but alas. For context, I've just finished school and I'm looking for temporary jobs over the summer so I can get a bit of money for when university starts. I have been looking at a number of job sites and I have
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    Text - This was for a job at a well-known shoe company that has two separate stores in my city. On the job advert, it didn't say which one the vacancy was for, it just said in Edinburgh. This is where I'm from. So I started the application process and put in my details and CV. Now it was all going well until there was a slightly confusing question asking if I had the right to work in the USA. Now, this definitely confused me but I ticked no and opened the job advert again. I searched it from my
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    Text - Anyway later on I received an email saying they had checked my CV and they wanted to conduct a virtual interview. I was very surprised because it was less than a day after I had applied but I was happy that I thought I might have a job there. So I selected the time for 1 pm the next day (today) thinking nothing more of it. I'm good at interview's so I didn't feel the need to prep. Anyway, I got a very polite email shortly before the interview from a very confused manager of the store who
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    Text - I'm not from the USA so it never dawned on me that it could be a state code and not just in Edinburgh Scotland. I sent him a very apologetic email but I'm just glad he noticed before what I imagine would be an incredibly awkward job interview, although that definitely would have been a good laugh. If this does well I'm sure I can link the job interview and his email in case anyone wants to make sure this actually happened but I can't be bothered right now. TLDR: Accidentally applied for a
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    Text - JOB Retail Stores PRIMARY LOCATIONIN-Edinburgh SCHEDULE Full-time TRAVEL No RELOCATION AVAILABLE No
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    Text - I wanted to reach out, as I was looking at your application I noticed that you are located in the UK. the position that you applied for is in Indiana US. I apologize for the confusion. I am not sure if Edinburgh, Scotland is currently hiring. Because of this we will not proceed with the interview. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
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    Text - That's quite amusing. I had been a bit confused when asked if I had the right to work in the US. I even ticked no, but I presumed that was a mistake because of the email about an interview. But there are two stores in Edinburgh Scotland so I presumed it was one of them after that. Probably should have realised sooner but a good example of confirmation bias. I was looking for temporary jobs on site, which listed it as Edinburgh Scotland so not sure what's happened there. I definitely have
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