20+ Entitled job candidates who did not impress the hiring managers: 'The world does not revolve around your ideal schedule'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 26, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

So, you think you know how to ace that job interview… but do you really? 

Interviewing for a job is pretty intimidating, no matter how experienced you are. Even if you've been a winner in your field for decades, you still have to present yourself in your best light, and hope that you can convince the job interviewer that you're the right candidate for the job. 

A lot of people overthink their job interview questions and answers, and their answers end up sounding too rehearsed. Or, they know the answers to the questions, but they panic and forget everything they've ever known about their chosen career field. 

Strangely, though, a lot of people seem to think that being a little impolite to the hiring manager is the way to go, and I just have no idea why they're under that impression. "Negging," or pointing out negatives in a person in the hopes they'll try to impress you, might work in the dating world, maybe, possibly. But when you're doing a job interview? That is not the time to try and get the hiring manager to desire you more by being a smart alec. Like one person approached their job interview by interviewing the company, which you are supposed to do. It's supposed to be a 2-way street: they should also be trying to (lightly) convince you to work for them by telling you about great benefits, competitive salaries, and a strong managerial presence or great team of people to work with. But if you come in and start demanding that they tell you why they're a better fit than the other jobs you're talking to right now, they're certainly going to pass on hiring you. People just want to work with someone competent and nice to work with 40 hours per week. It really doesn't have to be more complicated than that!

Up next, read about the entitled girl's night host who insisted that her guests pay her $10 each for frozen pizza and chips: "I'm wondering if I'm being petty… or if it was actually kind of tacky." 

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    "Interviewers, what’s the worst interview you have ever conducted?"

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    This person proved over and over why he wasn't the right candidate, and yet... he was still hired

    htt... Had an older gentleman interview. At the end I explained that the background check form is sent to his email and all he has to do is go fill it out. He didn't understand this concept at all, despite me explaining it 4 times. He kept asking me where he would have to take the paper work, I said there is no paperwork it's just a form
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    you fill out online (like our application) & it's all done. electronically. He then asked who does it, I told him the company name, & he insisted that somehow our county would need to process the information & how did he do that? I kept telling him, all you do is open the email, click the link, fill it out and click submit. Boom done... he left still confused and said he'd have someone at home
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    explain it. Crazy enough we did hire. this guy and when I called him to schedule his orientation he yelled at me because the 4pm class time was too late, even though I had told him there was also a 9am morning class the next week he could attend. He still kept yelling about how "no one wants to do it that late, we have lives, my day's already started I can't
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    interrupt my day that late." He had no concept that 1. We hire people for 3rd shift jobs or people who already have day jobs and 2. The world does not revolve around your ideal schedule.
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    Very strange

    last_711_hotdog Had a lady show up and interviewed with her child and husband. I told her she was welcome to let them sit in the lobby while we interviewed, but for some reason she declined. So we did an entire interview while she held a toddler.
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    el_monstruo Had a young gentleman come in, not dressed for the occasion posture was horrible as he was slouched over on the table. The interview committee introduces themselves and give him the chance for an introduction. He just says
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    "Look, I'm going to be real honest. My dad is making me go on interviews or else he's going to stop paying my bills." We continued through the interview and he actually answered questions genuinely but it sucked wasting time on somebody we knew we were not going to give the position.
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    RaineBearNW I was interviewing at a hiring event, and had a few people scheduled for interviews that completed the application online and did the pre-screening interview over the phone. For people that did not, they could get stuck there for over an hour waiting to go through the multi-step process, so I took appointment times seriously.
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    I was the only person hiring for my department so anyone applying for anything in housekeeping had to do an interview with me, specifically. One girl was not on time for her appointment so I started working through the other 6 or so applicants that had already been there 45 minutes. Shortly after I started one interview the girl finally showed up, about 25
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    minutes late. The woman signing everyone in happened to be the recruitment manager for the region, and the girl that showed up late was r de to her when she wasn't immediately sent to me to interview. The recruitment manager told her that I was with someone and would be available soon, but the girl could not believe how r de
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    we were to "bump" her appointment and not be available for her. She got up to complain to the recruiter several times, called her unprofessional and disorganized, and she like. that. So I got done with the interview I was in and the recruitment manager pulled me aside to warn me.
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    At this point I'm just humoring the girl and planned to do a quick 3-5 minute interview so I could get to better applicants. This girl told me how incompetent the "receptionist" was on our walk to the interview room. I asked the same basic questions I ask everyone and instead of talking herself up she explained that every coworker she ever has is horrible and lazy.
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    She said that as a mother of 2 she's much more organized than other people. She insinuated that I was incompetent at my job for not being able to see her right when she walked in. Like I felt like I had to defend myself during her interview it was so bad. She was a horrible person! Don't know why she thought insulting everyone would get her a job.
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    PRMan99 Easy. I was interviewing for a junior programmer position. We were looking for someone to train for a cheaper rate. Kid pretty fresh out of college shows up for the interview with his mom. Now, this is OK. Things happen sometimes. One
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    time a girl's car was in the shop. One time it was over 100° outside and dad asked if he could sit in the lobby. No big deal. But this mom insisted on going into the interview room with her son. I asked her if she planned to show up to work with him every day for his full shift. She said no so then I told her that I was going to have to interview him alone.
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    At this, she INSISTED that she go into the interview room with him and she WOULD NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.
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    So I responded with, "OK, in that case, this interview is over." The kid got the biggest grin I have ever seen at seeing his mother punished for this sort of behavior. I genuinely hope that he could finally cut the cord and make something out of his life.
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    Kiki_Masala Man brought his own lunch to an interview because he was into lifting and needed. to make sure he ate at certain times. Started eating said meal during interview.
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    broganisms Job interview: Had someone no-show on an interview. They called back a week later to see if they got the job. Press interview: We had given our main camera operator the day off and our other camera operator showed up five hours late with no notice. Our sound recordist called in sick. I got
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    to conduct one of our highest profile interviews while simultaneously operating camera and sound. Someone accidentally formatted the card minutes later and all the footage was lost.
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    cruisefromottawa I interviewed Avril Lavigne over the phone about her second album. It was an interview for radio. I knew she was trying hard to be the 'Alanis Morisette song- writer' kind of performer. So I launched into a series of questions about her songwriting process: Do you start with lyrics or music? Do you write on piano or guitar? Those kinds of
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    questions. Her response was "It's like, just really like, organic." End of answer. Everything after that was nonsense and yes or no answers to open-ended questions. It was a rough one. Super glad when it was over. Didn't air a single second of it.
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    VanFailin I once gave an interview to a guy that had like ten years' worth of programming jobs but couldn't write a single line of code to solve the interview question. It was apparent in about ten minutes that he wasn't going to figure it out, but we either couldn't or wouldn't just cut it short and show him the door.
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    Nevermind04 She had a pretty middle of the road resume with 2 years of relevant experience. I reviewed the notes for her first interview with HR which basically said that she was polite but nervous. I was conducting the technical interview. I started off by establishing that she had done well in the first interview to try to
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    alleviate some of her stress. She argued with me, insisting that it had not gone well. Whatever, maybe that's how she's expressing anxiety. I moved on, trying to boost confidence by handing her a softball question. I presented a simple problem that was exactly tailored to the type of work she had been doing with a platform that I was familiar with. It was the type of problem that you would
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    almost certainly experience multiple times if you had worked with this product for a short amount of time. She accused me of sexism for questioning her resume (which is the literal function of an interview) and refused to acknowledge the question.
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    At that point, I offered her some coffee, and stepped out to call HR, legal, and security. I assumed that she was a litigious predator looking to sue a company for discrimination, so we had security her from the building as HR observed,
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    and legal immediately took possession of my notes and audio recording. Sure enough, she sued. Her case was dismissed, she appealed, and it was dismissed again. Then, she sued me personally and her case was dismissed.
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    PreviousStrike Not the interviewer but the interviewe. Every time id laugh the interviewer would fake laugh louder and stare at me awkwardly. I'd then get self conscious and stop laughing mid way through my laugh.
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    [del... A woman that went off on massive tangents every single question. For example; Q: You said you had negotiation training, can you explain exactly what you received? A: Yes, I went to training on with my current role. We got driven to the place by the
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    rudest taxi driver I have ever meet! He was was eating some chips with toppings on it! Like cheese and stuff! Have you ever had American Cheeder? It's to di for...etc. We had to constantly interpret to get her back on track. It was a panel of three and two of us thought it was insanely funny and had to hide our faces. It was super obvious but the lady didn't notice. One of the panel
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    though had no time for this and was getting really angry. During one question the lady ended up talking about a seal that she saw on the beach and my coworker put up their hand and just 'For the love of God stop'. We then concluded the interview. You would have no idea this woman totally bombed this as she was happy as Larry and chatting away.
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    The woman then said "I look forward to hearing from you" my coworker responded with "Well you really shouldn't" It was easily the best/worst interview I have ever been a part of, and I think about that woman and her seal often.
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    fistymd A young guy came into my pizza shop wearing a dirty t- shirt and basketball shorts asking if we were hiring, I told him to come in the next day for a screening interview. Comes in the next day wearing the same t-shirt and basketball shorts. and this time he's brought a deck of playing cards with him. I proceed through the interview and learn he's an
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    aspiring magician, and that's cool he has something he's passionate about. At one point he flat out asks me if once he's learned how to make pizzas if instead, he could just do magic tricks for the customers. I said no and immediately ended the interview.
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    KensAscot Acted like she was interviewing us the entire time. I could see on her face that she really thought she had us under her thumb with her _ attempt at manipulation; trying to convince my co-owner and I that WE needed to impress HER. She admitted she had no interest in the main components of our business, and no experience
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    in the field what-so-ever. At the end of the interview she shook my hand and said "We will be in touch." Who is "we"?? She e-mailed me a week later letting me know she would be taking the position with us (as though we had offered it to her). I politely told her we were not interested, and used my business term for "f you": "Best of luck to you in your future endeavors."
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    Fyghter I run gyms. The jobs we have are admittedly easy, but we still like to give people a clean place to workout in and a friendly person to speak with when you come in. Gentleman in his 50's comes in, 10 minutes late, hops off a motorcycle wearing beat up jeans and a shirt that was very close to Zach
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    Galifinakis' wolf howl shirt from the Hangover. Walks in, ignores my current front desk staff walks to the middle of the gym and asks, "Where's Fyghter?" I had been waiting for him so I introduced myself and we walked back to my office. The whole time he is talking about how much he used to lift and how every woman in the gyms he used to workout in, would just throw themselves at him. We sit
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    down and I am already irritated. I ask a few normal interview questions. I tell him that I want to cover the job duties so if we hire him he knows what I expect. He gets visibly irritated but I ignore it and keep talking. He blurts out about three sentences in, "I mean, it's a gym right? These f S practically run themselves?"
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    I asked him to leave and he called me a millennial soft a that didn't know my a from a hole in the ground.
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    7.5!

    unrequitedlove58 Dude got so worked up that he couldn't divide 15 by 2. He just froze. I usually love. running interviews. I did not love running that one.
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    PanickedPoodle I have an opposite story: the first 10 minutes of the interview involved the hiring manager looking confused and asking vague questions. She finally burst out with "OH, you're the WRONG Panicked Poodle."
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    Turns out she had two candidates with the same first name and she scheduled an interview with me by accident. Thankfully, her boss also interviewed me and I was able to impress that person and get the offer, despite the cursory first interview.
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    manymoreways ་ His dad followed him into the interview. At first we thought he was just there to drop off his son, but he entered the interview room. My supervisor even tried to stop the dad from entering, but once he saw his dad not going into the room he went back out. We both didn't have the heart to shut them down
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    right then and there. So we went along with the process. The kid seemed nice enough but the problem was the dad was answering all of the question till the point where my supervisor got flustered and told the dad to let his son answer the questions. When his dad let the son answer the question he would look at his dad while speaking to us. He could not maintain eye contact with
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    either of us. It was hilarious as it is sad. After the interview the dad is almost begging us to take his son. It was a really low risk position, so we let him in.
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    He lasted about 3 months and never got through probation. The other technicians came together and said it was too dangerous to keep him in the team. We gave him pretty much the lowest risk job there is and still he manage to find ways to scare the sh out of us.
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    Dawdling PinkLady Hiring for maid company.. Question 1: how does cleaning make you feel? Answer: "I mean, It's annoying and gross but you pay good" Question 2: if you found a $100 bill under the bed what would you do? Answer: "I should say turn it in but I'm honest-I'd stick it in my pocket, they obviously didn't need it if it's there" No question 3, bye now.
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    theangryburrito Myself and another male manager are a candidates 3rd interview of the day. His previous meetings have been with women. With all of the women he was super polite and professional, but when he got to the interview with two males he went full wall street bro.
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    Started the interview dropping the F Bomb in the first sentence. He was a completely different person around us. It was so weird when we all compared notes afterward
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    Blindingnight Mid 20s girl comes for an interview. We asked her why she wanted to work in the medical field and she proceeded to start bawling her eyes out and telling us a story of her de d grandpa. She couldn't compose herself. We had to stop the interview altogether to get
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    her tissues. We asked how long it had been since he passed (assuming it was recent by her intense emotional reaction). Nope. He did when she was 8. NEXXXXXT.
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    Zodree Came in wearing overalls to an interview for an accountant position with a university's department of engineering. Me: "This position requires you to speak English and French, do you speak French fluently?" Overalls: "No."
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    Me: "Um, okay. Do you have experience working in finance?" Overalls: "No." Me: "Do you have similar experience or education that would make you suitable for this position?" Overalls: "No." Me: "Okay that's all, thanks. Have a good day." Overall: "Do I have the job?" Me: "No."
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