Prospective kindergarten teacher denied a job for being a "video gamer," finds out when AI transcriber emails him a post-interview discussion he wasn't supposed to see: ‘This is the craziest rejection’

Job interviews are super stressful. You put on your best professional face, try not to go off on rambly tangents, and then pray that the hiring team saw something in you. I usually spend the next few days overanalyzing everything I said and Googling the "correct" answers to those out-of-left field questions interviewers sometimes ask to gauge your problem-solving skills, personality, or values (no, I don't know off the top of my head which kitchen utensils I'd be).

Most people never end up finding out exactly what hiring managers think once they leave the interview room or log off the Google Meet, and that's probably for the best. I don't really care to find out that I've been dismissed for a job for using too many filler words or because the kitchen sink in the back of my video was piled up too high for their taste. However, that's exactly what happened to this potential kindergarten drama teacher. He got an unexpected peak behind the curtain thanks to a finnicky transcription tool. This job seeker found out that he wasn't deemed unqualified for the job due to a lack of experience or missing credential, but because the panel thought he was a "video gamer." Not only did they not discuss gaming at all, but neither he nor the internet can even begin to grasp why, if he were a gamer, that would make him unfit to teach drama. This absurd rejection story might just take the cake for most ridiculous reason to not get hired.

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Look, I used to teach English to ESL children, and when I realized that the kids I was working with loved anime and video games, all of my lessons became about those topics in some way. And they loved it because they could relate to it and it was interesting to them. I don't understand why this guy's PRESUMED hobby immediately disqualified him.
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