‘Makes me cry with laughter': Ambitious guy doesn't understand why he gets ghosted after a successful job interview, turns out they hired him, never told him, then fired him for no-showing

Interviewing for jobs can be a disheartening process. So when this ambitious go-getter got ghosted by a company after what he thought was a successful interview, he felt deflated. Several weeks later, he finds out that he actually was hired, but was never told, and then fired for not showing up…

To call that disorganized is an understatement. How can you be a business and think you've hired someone without even one document being signed? Who approved this?? So disappointing too, because missing out on a job you really wanted is a hard blow to the ego and motivation. Back when I was going through job searching, I would take 3 to 4 interviews a day, and some were so disheartening that sometimes I would cry afterwards… But as long as you keep going, I promise there is a light at the end of your tunnel!

This guy was way more ambitious than I, because he didn't lose any steam. He emailed them and called them, and nothing, so he moved on and already has other interviews set up. It was only when his brother-in-law asked him how his new job was going that he started to ask questions. His BIL apparently works at a distant branch of the same company. He said he was hired and that they then fired him for not showing up for a week. The BIL thought he was just being irresponsible, but now he realized that his company messed up…

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He was flabbergasted. This was a new level of disorganization. Seriously, who gets officially hired with zero paperwork done? He never got a phone call or email. Somewhere, something got seriously miscommunicated and, most likely, lost in the shuffle. An incompetent hiring manager probably messed something up and didn't want to admit to it, so just let everything carry on, and no one wins.
"I found out from a relative that I was hired and fired from a job last month."

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Luckily, this guy didn't lose his job-searching steam! He's still on track to finding the perfect job in his dream career path, and the way he was able to brush this little hiccup off his shoulder, we have full faith in him.
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