Retail job candidate reports their power-tripping interviewer to HR: 'I hope she calls me back so I can decline'

Bad experiences are a dime a dozen when it comes to interviewing for a retail role; in no other line of work are there so many desperate interviewing managers looking for such a high level of effort and experience for such minimal pay.

Usually, if an interviewer takes issue with you, there's no coming back from it, no avenue of recourse; after all, they're the ones doing the judging, and you hold very little control over the situation outside of your ability to walk away. Yet, sometimes, a hidden option might be available to you—one that might not be readily apparent. Depending on the organization, a larger one preferably and certainly not a smaller one where you're probably being interviewed by the owner, you might be able to make a report of your interview experience to the company's HR department if the interviewer's behavior was unprofessional or otherwise might have been out of line with the organization's values.

The reality is that some managers, and organizations on the whole, want to hire people whom they know they can manipulate. This candidate ran into one of these managers when, from the outset of the interview, the manager was immediately hostile towards her—and it didn't get better from there. 

The candidate returned the next day to share an email she had written that she was planning on sending to the parent organization. See this update from item 21 onwards in the images below.

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