After accepting candidate for a full-time job, employer retracts offer and changes it to part-time, leaving candidate high and dry: ‘They pulled the rug out from under me’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 14, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

Hiring managers, this is a message for all of you, so please read it carefully – Employment is a two-way street. You have to treat candidates with the same respect you expect them to treat you. You need employees just as much as they need employers, and everything about the hiring process should be a good match for both sides.

That means that just as you expect candidates to not lie in their resumes, you cannot lie in the job posting. It is as simple as that. The job should fit the right person, and it cannot be done if you are not being honest about the terms when you put them out there. No candidate should go through the long hiring process just to learn that what was written and said about the job is not true. It is disrespectful and simply a waste of everyone's time.

Scroll down to read what happened to the candidate in this Reddit story who accepted a new job only to discover the hiring manager lied about it being full-time. Up next, click here for a story of a job candidate who was forced to sit on the floor for an interview.

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    "They pulled the rug out from under me"
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    Just had the rug yanked out from underneath me.
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    Applied for an amazing job. Interviewed for said job and today I was told I got the job. During the interview they told me this was a full time internship. All web postings and official postings say full time.
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    internship. All web postings and official postings say full time. They call me about the job and I accept enthusiastically because it's an INCREDIBLE opportunity. Cannot stress that enough.
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    Then in the phone call HR guy lets slip the words “part time.” I say, wait this is a full time job that's what the hiring manager and the websites say. He calls back ten minutes later saying
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    that the hiring manager thought full time was 20 hours for an internship. (Which it's not. I'm currently working a 40 hour internship in the same department for proof)
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    I'm devestated. There's no way I can accept with no benefits and a long commute for just 20 hours. Plus I'd have to get a second or maybe even third job while I'm in school. I'm just so angry.
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    Edit: thank you all so much for your kind words and similar stories. I've felt so stupid crying over this when I'm so lucky compared to other people, but truly you all have made me feel a bit better. I'm going to hold
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    my head high, learn, grow, and hope to update you all in the future when I get that better job.
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    BlueFox1978 · 13 hr. ago You dodged a buït. like this does not reflect well on the business in question
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    stalkerofthed d OP. 13 hr. ago Yeah... doesn't make it hurt any less though. Currently crying in a stairwell. This has been weeks of buildup and interviews. Tottally would have taken it, but I need benefits though, stupid chronic conditions. Wouldn't even have applied if I knew it was part time.
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    Kat121 · 10 hr. ago . Would you insider posting about the experience on Glassdoor?
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    stalkerofthedad OP · 8 hr. ago I would but I work in the same department (MASSIVE) company. I don't want to dox myself, and I really want a job in this field. Doing so could really, really, hurt my prospects in the future.
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    nun_gut. 7 hr. ago Ask to go to half time in your current role, and the other half on the internship.
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    stalkerofthed d OP 6 hr. ago Not a possibility. Although it's the same department, the buildings are 40 minutes apart from each other.
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    IamtheRealDill · 10 hr. ago That's super • . I've been noticing a lot of bait and switch type job postings recently.... I don't get it, it just wastes everybody's time.
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    shoobidoobis · 8 hr. ago i legit had something similar happen to me last week. everything said it was a full time senior position. by the time i was supposed to start, it devolved to a contract to hire entry level job.
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    they claimed they informed me of this at the beginning of the interview process, and they 100% did not. now im back to being unemployed.
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    stalkerofthed ad OP · 8 hr. ago To be fair, HR seemed super baffled by the whole situation. Had no idea why he was saying full time when it was really part time.
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    Wise-War-Soni · 6 hr. ago I had a company lie to me about my salary before I started the job and after I quit my job, rejected other offers and only had one offer on the table I found out I
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    would be making $15,000 less a year than anticipated □ I no longer work there. They could eat my . That was my first big girl job.
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    stalkerofthed❤d OP · 3 hr. ago With some places it's not that we don't want to work, it's that we literally cannot afford to work at some places because of the pay.
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    • leavingforireland 4 hr. ago I know it's disappointing and I've been exactly where you are. IME an even better opportunity is right around the corner. I've totally been crying on a stairwell,
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    so definitely give yourself grace and time. I bet you get an even better offer very soon. Hope this helps and best of luck to you.
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    stalkerofthed d OP 3 hr. ago Thank you. I've felt so stupid all day for crying about it. I mean Im so lucky compared to some people and it's just a job but still.
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