Student Gets Ready For Internship Interview, Realizes He’s Been Pranked By Roommates

The only thing more stressful than having a job is the agony of looking for one. This is especially true for those who don’t have that much experience. The fact we spend almost the entirety of our young lives going to school and college only to be told that we don’t have the skills for even the most straightforward of entry level office jobs is nothing short of a scam. 

Needing experience to get experience is the great, unsolvable paradox of employment, and there’s simply no way around it other than finding an opportunity that creates that mysterious, unknowable quality they call “transferable skills”. It’s the reason that for many college students and undergraduates, internships are an essential part of their education journey. While this throws up its own set of ethical questions about who has access to these kinds of things, there’s no denying that they offer a crucial leg up in many industries.

For Caleb Moore, it was his goal for the summer to land an internship position — but the process has not proven to be easy. It also hasn’t been helped by the fact that his roommates decided that they wanted to get involved. In a viral TikTok, he exposed how he had been led to believe that he was preparing for an engineering intern interview with a legitimate company, only to find out that his friends had been pranking him all along. 

Understandably, Caleb was not pleased with the elaborate joke. Many viewers sympathized with him, though.

Those who had been through the job seeking struggle could see just how devious the prank could be, although Caleb took it in good faith. That being said, not everyone was as concerned with his feelings.

Commenters had to commend the effort that had gone into the prank, and even offer their own suggestions as to how they would have made it better. As far as the hapless student goes, however, things haven't been looking up.

No thanks to his roommates, Caleb's search for that sweet, resume-enhancing couple of sentences continues. Nonetheless, he wasn't the only one who lost out in the situation. “You know they spent all week on this instead of homework or studying”, said @beebober546.