Candidate's offer falls through after manager claims they ‘no-showed' to the online interview, until candidate finds proof that manager lied: ‘This isn't [my] fault’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 8, 2024 10:00 AM EST

When you are looking for a new job opportunity, everything seems so high stakes, and every small stumble can end up with you losing your one big chance. It mostly feels like you can never make a mistake because hiring managers usually need to sift through hundreds of candidates, so they wouldn't mind letting go of someone even for the smallest of things.

However, it is one thing to lose a job prospect because of a mistake you made, it is entirely different to lose it because of a mistake of someone else.

In this tale, an internship candidate lost their opportunity because the manager claimed they never responded to the email about scheduling an interview. OP (original poster) knew that the manager was mistaken, and had the email receipts to prove it, showing exactly how they replied and when. Even so, that didn't stop the manager from hiring someone else, which made OP really upset about the injustice.

Keep scrolling to read the full story, and even view the proof OP provided. Up next, check out this story of a mechanic who failed to fix a customer's car for over three months.

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    My internship fell through because he said I "no-showed"
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    I wanted to vent and get an outside opinion because I feel frustrated. I had applied for an internship that counts as credits towards my degree at my University. The internship facilitator reached out to me to
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    schedule a pre-screening and had asked me to pick a day and time that worked for me. I picked a time and he responded and asked me if I wanted to meet over zoom,
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    Microsoft teams, or over the phone. I let him know that I wanted to talk over the phone and provided my phone number. The day came around and he never called me so I immediately emailed him but got no
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    response. I assumed he might have got busy since it was Thanksgiving week and decided to give him time. I reached out to him again two days later and he still did not respond to me. I decided to wait until Monday and finally gave the company a call
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    to transfer me to speak with him because we only talked through email and he never provided me a phone number to contact him. I left him a voicemail stating that I have not heard back from him and was
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    wondering if I was still in consideration for the internship. He emailed me back stating that "I received a voicemail from you" and how he was confused on why I was claiming he did not respond to me
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    when I was the one who "no- showed". He said that I never responded to his email about how I wanted to be contacted and told me that I was no longer in consideration because of this and that I could re- apply for spring quarter. I forwarded
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    him the email thread to show him that I had responded in hopes that would make him reconsider but I feel devastated. I don't want to force anyone to accept me but I find it unfair that I am no longer in consideration because I "no-
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    showed". It appears on his end that I never responded to him (according to the email thread he forwarded to me) but I did respond to him (according to the email thread I sent
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    him). I believe my responses ended up in his spam folder but who knows. I included the email he sent me and my response to the email.
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    10:52 14 Messag <Inbox Potential : ..ternsh... 114 Hello I received a voicemail from you today at 1:13pm regarding the meeting we had scheduled for Wednesday of last week. I am confused by the notion that you had "not heard back" from me. As you can see below, I emailed you asking you to confirm the method of contact for that meeting. Since I received no reply from you before our scheduled meeting, I marked the meeting as a no show and, with changes in potential supervisor placements, I no longe
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    10:51 < Sent placement 2-3 weeks out Hello, 74 There must be a miscommunication about all of this and I understand this clarification is not going to change the position no longer being available but it would make me feel more comfortable moving forward that I had responded with my phone number as a form of communication to be contacted back for the prescreening. I am not sure how my response did not arrive but I am including the email thread where I had responded. If there somehow is any openin
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    10:51 Sent Potential ernsh... A Begin forwarded message: From: M Date: November 26, 2024 at 11:51:43 AM PST To rg: Subject: Re: Potenti internship placement 2-3 weeks out Over the phone works for me! My phone number is On Nov 26, 2024, at 10:39 AN K wrote: 74 Works for me. Would you like to do Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or on the phone? From: M <m sh Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 10:37 AM To: Cc: Pa Subject: Re: Potential 2-3 weeks out ernship placement
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    DeaconoftheStreets 2d ago • My read of this is that it really isn't your fault if he somehow also missed the two emails you sent after the phone number. It'd be weird for you to get flagged as spam mid-thread.
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    In reality, this guy seems to be playing intentionally dense. Since this is worth college credit, I think it's worth considering raising this to the org's HR (because presumably he f ed up their intern onboard process).
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    youheardaboutpluto- • 2d ago • You may need to consider this is your bullet dodged. You provided proof and they promptly ignored it which tells me that there is something behind the scenes going on
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    (possibly nothing to do with you) or he's ignorant and at fault and doesn't want to assume the blame for this with his higher ups. If this is the kind of behavior that goes on... you don't want to be part of it. Take it as a sign that
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    this wasn't meant to be and find somewhere with better business practice. Don't allow the fact that a single internship opportunity has not panned out as a reason to allow
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    yourself to feel devastated. It's a natural feeling yes when you've felt slighted, but try to take it as an experience that will help you in the future.
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    Brave_Hoppy1460 • 2d ago • Probably that the "opening" was actually already spoken for and the "no response" was in fact an outright lie to purposefully knock you out of the running.
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    I wouldn't be surprised if the supervisor had simply deleted your response when it arrived, in order to feign miscommunication.
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    taker223 .2d ago • Was it an unpaid internship?
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    throwawayaccou... OP 2d ago yes i needed the internship to graduate on time on the spring
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    MsPreposition • 2d ago .• Consider it a blessing. They'd probably give you the wrong start date next and say you never showed up.
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