It's the best part. This story and seeing millennials enter the workforce and seeing their work ethic... man, we'll be employed forever.
A Tale of 'Merica and Milk - I just walked out and abandoned a job interview. FML.
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It's the best part. This story and seeing millennials enter the workforce and seeing their work ethic... man, we'll be employed forever.
Especially after you made such an amazingly insightful and helpful post pages ago that he just completely ignored.
Ah, it is finally sinking in that you passed up 70k + OT, then.
I only got up to page 3 until I decided to respond....
Holy fuck, reading that was saddening
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I will let you know right now, Marrec is one of the most pleasant, reasonable, and kind hearted people I know. Also, he is a genius. Like, incredible intellect on that dude.
And he worked his fucking tail off to get where he is today. I'd rather him be in charge of hiring people than someone who thinks that a 30 minute wait that was scheduled into the interview process for taking tests and filling out paper work is 'an insult'
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Hey, one of us has a lot of hiring experience and just went through a three-interview grueling process to land a job they've always wanted, that makes quite a bit less than the one you walked out on.
I hope you find something you find professional and rewarding, but I do think you need to modify your expectations of reality.
Vermillion
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As a wise man once said,
Heehee
What planet are you on?
He walked out after waiting 45 minutes for scheduled start of said interview.
If a colleague of yours scheduled a meeting and didn't turn up would you just sit around in a meeting room with your thumb up your ass for an hour?
Whether or not this was a wise decision depends on the OPs financial situation but calling him unprofessional is absurd.
Edit: it appears some other shit has gone down since page 1 so I'll need to catch up but it doesn't change the fact that politely leaving 45 minutes after a scheduled meeting start time is perfectly reasonable.
That's all well and good, but why didn't you ask before you left?
Joe Shlabotnik
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soxinthebox
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Sitting in a chair is terrifying, even I will admit.
BurnOutBrighter
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Please reference the part where you didn't have the capacity to ask the receptionist a simple question.
Oh no, you were too busy hating "corporate America" and judging a company based on two phone calls and some staff leaving.
Now that your misdemeanour is expunged it looks like you're just looking for other excuses why you aren't employed.
Why would you do this? Awful decision.
Telephoto999
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Because having to ask why the fuck he was wasting my time after I had already made up my mind this wasn't a place I wanted to work was pretty useless.
On top of that, I was listening to the bosses conversation as he was literally 10 feet away in the next room. Asking this to the receptionist and he would have heard exactly what I said.
I'd ask where my colleague was. I wouldn't leave the building.
HI. BILLY MAYS HERE
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can someone give me a summary ?
Randolph Freelander
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Have you ever even considered that, as a manager, shit happens when you're important and you're busy, and that sometimes that shit is more important than you, an IT candidate? That manager could have had a very important phone call occur... That could have been HIS boss trying to get him to fix something immediately. It could have been a family emergency. It could have been lots of reasons. You didn't even give him the chance to explain to you at the interview. You just left. It's not like you even had something else to do. You're unemployed.
Your handling of the situation is unreal.
Telephoto999
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Fron what I read in this thread, I feel sorry for whoever it is that ends up hiring you for whatever role they need filled.
From what I know of you based on what you wrote in other threads, I feel even more sorry for your future employer.
It would appear that you are having a hard time in life but really, this thread just reinforces my belief that most people get what they truly deserve in life.
From what I know of you based on what you wrote in other threads, I feel even more sorry for your future employer.
It would appear that you are having a hard time in life but really, this thread just reinforces my belief that most people get what they truly deserve in life.
You need to stop pretending your time is worth so much that you couldn't wait 45 minutes for a job interview. It would be different if you already had a great job and we're looking for a new one, but that's not the case. You need to have a better perspective on the reality of your situation.
Zoe
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No, he showed up 15 minutes before he was supposed to and finished a test that was scheduled to last until 3:30-45.
Telephoto999
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Please read his email back to me.
Not trying to justify, just saying. He specifically stated he was not busy, and that this was simply "process" and it's my fault for not understanding their process that was not communicated to me.
OP thought he was scheduled to interview at 3 PM. The interviewer/owner of the company got busy, ignored him for 45 mins. OP couldn't handle waiting to get a $70k+/yr job even though he's deep in debt and lives with his broke-ass parents.
OP says to himself "Well, I'm out, I wait for NO man, this is SO unprofessional!", drives home, and immediately posts on GAF to gloat about he's not a slave to the man, BRO.
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Featheredkitten
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BurnOutBrighter
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That's probably a whole other thread. We just need to wait a few days for him to wonder why she isn't calling him back.
Joe Shlabotnik
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If the meeting room had a receptionist in front of it keeping me informed that the meeting was definitely still on and also the meeting is potentially worth seventy thousand dollars then yeah I'd consider it
Sorry I had to make some analogous adjustments there.
You know, yeah that's actually a fair point. Kind of silly not to ask but seeing as he was literally next door, the onus is on the hiring manager to communicate the delay.
Cloud Strife
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Here's a hint:
You died.
You played the game and died.
Troll ass joke of a character I'm responding to in here.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Fuuuuckkkk hahaha lmao!!!
Welp, when you burn a bridge you fucking burn that bitch to the ground.
You answered a Craigslist ad from the owner of a very small company.
You expected the hiring process of a large corporation. It makes your 'merica comments so ironic. Same with your assumption that a company owner who has to handle hiring directly is all about power plays and time wasting. It sounds like a rag tag shop for sure, but man.. your portrayal of it all seams so ridiculous.
Telephoto999
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That is sick, and it angers me a great deal you feel such a condescending and judgemental way about someone you've never met, but thanks for your input.
No. I expected the owner to come out and speak to me and talk to me directly, not have his receptionist handle all communication between us.
It's the owner that was playing like he was a big business, not me.
Because the superior alternative to the boss overhearing you politely ask about a perceived delay is walking out of the building and then writing him a petulant e-mail.
Renly? Pfft. More Viserys than Renly.
SteveWinwood
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You haven't really shown us this yet.
Isn't that exactly what you did to the owner/interviewer? LMAO
He didn't politely leave, he just left.
And the other guy was there. Working. It's not like they said "yeah I don't know where the guy is, just sit there and wait while we play Farmville".
Randolph Freelander
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I have a feeling he isn't the only one thinking that. Just saying. You do not sound like a joy to work with.
Maybe you are, maybe the internet just isn't working for you. Let's hope it's that.
EdibleKnife
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Seems like you made just such a judgement about this boss that you didn't even talk face to face with.
BurnOutBrighter
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Featheredkitten
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No way man, Viserys knew his worth, he had actual king's blood and what not. Renly was just like: hey you know what sounds fun and easy? bein' King.
If my extremely busy boss said "your job depends on attending this meeting with me", then yes, yes I would sit my ass down for as long as it took.
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