20+ Employees Share Their Most Ridiculous First Day Stories and Interview Nightmares From Their Job-Hunting Era

As if the job market isn't daunting enough, you're most likely also going to experience some pretty absurd interviews and downright bananas first days…

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Looking for a new job? Going through the interview process? Gearing up for your first day? Well, do we have many ways to make you extra nervous about all of that… It's called Reddit! Redditors have gathered from all sorts of corners of the internet to share their own obstacles they've experienced during their job-hunting era. Sometimes you go through 7 different rounds of interviews and still get served with zero courtesy in the end. Or maybe you got the job first try and now you're excited and ready to come in with bright eyes! But then you show up and the person who interviewed is nowhere to be found and everyone is looking at you like you're crazy and that position wasn't even open… Sounds like a scene in a movie, right? Nope. It's from some person's real life that they shared on Reddit. Read more insane first-day/ job interview stories like that below!
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