'I've never worked there, lady': Harris Teeter manager, Christie, calls a job applicant months after she declined the job offer to yell at her for not showing up to a shift

• Manager called to check if I was coming for my shift... I've never worked there, lady

  
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• The guy who slammed the door open yelling across the room mid-interview wasn't a red flag, he was the whole flag, the pole, and the flagpole ceremony. That's not "casual workplace energy," that's a business operating like a group chat that occasionally sells groceries on the side. When strangers can interrupt your interview to ask who you are, the company hasn't hired anyone yet and somehow already has zero structure to lose.

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• Declining that job took about five minutes of thinking, the same amount of time it takes to notice a raccoon making unsettling eye contact and decide not to pet it. And the payoff for trusting that instinct arrived months later in the form of an angry Thanksgiving phone call demanding accountability for a shift at a job that was never accepted, never signed, never real. A business treating “we offered, therefore you’re already staff” as a binding contract nobody bothered to write down is its own kind of chaos.

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• The real joke here is a company confident enough to guilt someone for missing a shift they never had, while simultaneously being disorganized enough to let random coworkers wander into interviews uninvited. Somewhere between chaos and entitlement, Harris Teeter built an entire management style out of assuming everyone around them was already on payroll, whether they’d agreed to it or not.

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