'Interviewer... quit right in the middle of the job interview': 20 Interviews that went so badly it turned away the job candidates

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    What happened during a job interview that made you not want the job? 'I had an interview at 8:30, but they didn't call me in until 9:30'
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    What happened during a job interview that made you not want the job?
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    cannoli2425 When i had a interview at 8:30, but they didn't call me in until 9:30
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    theifr38 Did an on the job interview with a security/ locksmith company. Interviewer got a phone call from his boss and they got into a huge argument and he quit right. in the middle of the job/interview. I just kinda went home and pretended it never happened.
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    ہو [deleted] Was interviewing for a management position, they said that I first had to work an "amount of time" as a rep. On a rather low pay. Yeah don't advertise a . . . management position if it's basically a ploy to get cheap reps.
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    puddlerpies When the interviewer double booked and insist she interview us together, then proceeded to compare our answers in real time, in front of the other candidate. When she called me three weeks later, outside of work hours, to offer me the job she seemed genuinely surprised at my refusal!
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    NE... Interviewing for a position as an advisor for a financial firm. The manager then gave me the floor for questions: Me: "Is this a new role or am I replacing someone?"
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    Interviewer: "Well we had three advisors in this department and I laid off two of them, because I felt we were overstaffed. You would be the replacement" Me, thinking in my head: "Ok I think we're done here"
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    P-Wizzl When we got to salary negotiations, and they literally wanted to give me HALF of what I was expecting.
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    8337 My interviewer turned out to be a former co-worker from a previous job. Great dude, we always got along. Ten minutes into the interview he leans forward and quietly says, "the job's yours if you want it, but you don't want it. Trust me." I did trust him. I thanked him and left..
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    [deleted] I discovered I was being pitched a job as a life insurance salesman for the purpose of taking old people's money. I felt gross just being there.
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    klstew142 I walked into the interview with no real idea what the job actually was. I walked out of the interview with no real idea what the job actually was. To this day, I still don't know what that job was.
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    ہو [deleted] Walked into a rapid fire panel interview. Took about a half hour of me half assing my way through questions I didn't know the answer to for the panel to ask me what position I was there for. I was interviewing for a position as a mechanical engineering intern (sophomore in college).
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    They thought I was there to interview for an intermediate electrical engineer position. They apparently hadn't even looked at my resume. Then I was given a tour by a younger employee that informed to me that there are daily 6am and 6pm meetings that you have to be present for or call into if you are taking a vacation day. Oh and you only get paid for 8 hours a day. They
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    were also the lowest hourly offer of any of the internships I applied for. I told them no.
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    gja... I've had two instances where an interviewer talked me right out of wanting the job. 1. I always get a few questions in myself, and I always ask the person who would be my boss, "What do you like about your job?"
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    One time, my future boss said "I don't really like my job" and went on to explain why he didn't like being a manager in the company. That was the end of me wanting to be his employee. 2. I interviewed for a sales support position to sell a software product to state governments.
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    During the interview, they admitted that they had no current contract with any state to sell the software, nor any concrete plans to get a contract. I never returned any calls for a second interview.
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    natethegreat34 I'm in college so I was looking for a job while I was home for this summer, and I applied at Target. They called me and asked a few questions, one of them was when I was going back to school. I told them the last week of August, and they said they couldn't hire me because I couldn't work through the first week of
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    September, which is really busy for them. I was somewhat upset but it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I moved on and applied to a few other places. A few weeks later they called me and said they looked at my application again and they changed their mind and invited me in for an interview. I was excited and I was glad that I had a second chance. I go in and
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    everything in the interview was going well. They finally asked when I was going back to school, which was weird to me because they already asked me that before. I told them the first week of August. Then the interviewer said that they couldn't hire me because I wouldn't be there for the first week of September. I
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    asked why they even called me in and I explained what happened. The interviewer said that she had no idea that they called me before. I was very upset that they wasted my time like that.
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    [d... I'm an accountant. I walked into this company for a job interview and knew something was off. It was on the 40th floor in downtown San Francisco. Had like 6 offices. Had 2 corner offices. Had A section of the office had 10 cubicles. Had a boardroom that can seat 14.
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    Unfortunately had no employees. Just like 4. The "president" was an expert in his field. At one time. Now he's old and should have been in a nursing home. He had 3 "secretaries." These people were supposed to be servicing over 300 clients. money. How? Something was fishy as Turned out later I learn from someone that he was stealing money to finance.
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    his lifestyle. Which at one point was extravagant but he was at the tail end of his scam. He was borrowing money to keep it up. He was being investigated by the IRS (someone blew the whistle) but IRS never followed up until someone reported him because he was essentially running a money management firm without a license. Then it all came down. By then, he was so old he couldn't stand
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    trail. His secretaries pleaded "we didn't know" and been bleeding him dry by making him sign random stuff. He died one day. It was sad. He got away with everything. Stealing from people who most likely were stealing money from someone, may it be shady sources of money to ripping off the taxpayer. I did dodge a bullet.
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    To... I prepared for an interview a few weeks ago, worked on what to say for a couple of days and as usual got pretty worked up and nervous beforehand. I go to the interview where the guy sits me down and tells me this is nothing more than just a quick informal chat (and here's me in a full suit sweating my off having prepared 100
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    questions/answers in my head) He then proceeds to say that I'm not suitable for the job I have applied for, he thinks I'm overqualified, but he is thinking about creating a different position in the company I can fill. I ask what the position is, he rambles for a good 20 minutes straight (no joke) about me filling a new job but the job doesn't yet have a training
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    scheme or any kind of official description/documenation. He wants me, as part of the job, to create the job's training scheme for the job I'm literally learning to do. I'm sat there confused as he hasn't got any notes with him and is just improvising this entire 'job description' where I, as a fresh graduate, am in charge of 38 people's IT systems
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    on my own with no proper experience. I ask what the pay and hours are, "oh, I haven't even thought about that yet". So I went for an interview that wasn't even a proper interview or related to the job I'd applied for. Such a waste of time.
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    [deleted] Being headhunted from my then current job as a manager in a small but busy and successful café to work for this large, posh hotel. They phoned me and said that they had found my stored CV online (which I hadn't removed since finding employment) and that one of their board members had been
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    impressed with me as a customer in the café. They offered me an interview and a job with potential to move up etc and that I'd be starting as the restaurant manager on great pay, benefits etc. It sounded great and being. quite pleased that I had just been headhunted for the first time, I went along to the interview which was within the restaurant I'd potentially
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    be working. I turn up in my best suit and this guy comes to interview me wearing jeans and a polo shirt. Very shortly into the suspiciously informal interview, the guy says to me "look the job is yours, I can get you a uniform and you can start whenever suits". At this point I'm like what do you mean uniform and he points out the waiters and waitresses
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    walking about in pinstripe shirts with huge long aprons. I asked what he meant I was asked to come here because of my managerial experience etc. Guy replies yes potentially in the near future but you'd have to start out on the floor first. I thanked him and went home. Told my boss about it and he gave me a raise.
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    When I left that job around a year later, he put an extra £250 cash in with my wages and threw a leaving party in the café for me. Told me to invite all my friends and family and it was a free bar all day and night. Best boss ever. So glad to have worked for him.
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    -brightlights- The guy interviewing me kept calling me Frank and he wouldn't stop.
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    shanksmysterMGO I can answer this one. Worked as an announcer at a college radio station for 2 years and then took a year abroad. The radio station had a great reputation on campus because it was one of the harder jobs to land but because they received so many applications they didn't have much motivation
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    to treat their staff well or pay them well at all and the quality manager was a complete and absolute to the student announcers. Never recognized quality work and always hyper critical of them every time they went on air. The only reason they took the abuse was because they didn't know any better. Definitely overworked and underpaid. Some of the girl employees would cry regularly.
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    Well I got back from my year abroad and I had an email waiting for me saying they would love to have me back and if I wanted the job to come by and say so. I thought I'll give them a second chance. Showed up and the quality manager greeted me with open arms and was beyond nice to me, asking how my year abroad was, etc. Well
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    as I answered her she literally started correcting my word choice, asked me to project better, etc. Then she said I sounded like I had forgotten all my training and would have to go through it again and get paid a base pay rather than the pay I had when I left. This was all because I hadn't gone into radio etiquette during a casual
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    conversation... I smiled and said sure and asked if Scott (the general manager) was around. She pages his office as we continue talking and when he gets there I shake his hand and talk casually with him for a while so he knows I'm not just in a bad mood, and then I plainly said with her standing right there:
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    "And while I would love to come back to this job and work for you again, I would rather die than work under this soul sucking employee you've put as quality manager. The reason you have a problem retaining trained employees is her and her alone. If there is anything you want to do to help this station it would be to replace her immediately."
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    Then I bid him a wonderful day, shook his hand, and left. I got a call the next day from the quality manager apologizing if she was too 'harsh', that she understood my feelings from the day before and she offered me the job at the same pay as | had before I left, but I
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    politely declined and said all the money in the world couldn't make it worth working under her. First time I stood up for myself in a work environment and last time I was ever disrespected.
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    PotatoPixie90210 All went well until the male interviewer turned around and asked Me- "kinda hoping kids aren't on the cards for you, I'm sick of you girls pulling maternity II
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    In welding jobs, you do a job interview, then take a welding skills test. I was taking the test and current employees came up periodically, introduced themselves to me talked to me a little. They all said. pretty much the same thing. It's a show in there. I was skeptical at first but I witnessed a father and son
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    get into a super heated argument during my test. I packed up my tools and thanked the owner for the opportunity, and explained why I was declining the job and left
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    [deleted] I went to an interview for a machinist position. In a machine shop. I am a journeyman machinist. The guy didn't expect a lady machinist as someone else had called me to come and interview. He asked if I'd Ilike to sell dietary supplements with his wife. instead. ? Ummm nooooo0.

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