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Posted on 2/12/15 at 11:58 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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Did you ever take my advice on your relationship?
hopefully it was this advice
Posted on 2/12/15 at 12:10 pm to LouisianaLady
I walked oUT once. Was called by some scheme company for a manage.entry position. I show up and it's a cattle call to listen to some preaentation. They are adamant before it starts that you must agree to stay through the whole thing. I realized it was total shite. Maybe primeriaca or something. I got after 5 minutes and walked out. Three people tried to physically stop me from leaving. I told them to get out of my way or get pounded in the face. Also told everyone in the room this was a bulls hit scam. A few others followed me out.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 12:12 pm to Croacka
quote:If the interviewer was extremely arrogant and condescending, I would leave in a blink. I think you owe it to the rest of the business world to poke them right in the eye - despite the presumed "well connectedness". Don't kid yourself.... nobody's that well connected that the proceedings of an interview are shared with the business community - they have better things to do. And if another business happens to think that's cool, then shame on them - stay away from them too.
No
I would never burn a bridge like that
I was on a phone interview and came real close to pulling the plug for the same reasons. It was humiliating. She was an interview Nazi. Looking back, I wish I had. During the interview, I couldn't quite grasp that an HR person could act that way.
Whether HR peeps realize it, you're interviewing them too.
This post was edited on 2/12/15 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 2/12/15 at 1:12 pm to BilJ
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except when googled the word scam immediately follows in the suggested searches
Yeah, I know that now. But at the time I needed a job and figured I'd give them a shot. I really wanted to call them out on being a pyramid scheme when I was "interviewing" with the top guy. But I held off.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 1:26 pm to dualed
When I was at LSU one of the student orgs I was in received an email that a local company needed some interns for a 6-8 week project in event/facilities management. Was going to pay a flat $500 or something for a few hours a week of work. Sent the lady an email with my resume and she called a few hours later and asked if I could start tomorrow with a "test project" to see if she'd keep me on.
Went to her office, where my first job was to take stuff from her home office to a storage unit because she was going through a divorce. After 90 minutes of this, I found out she basically wanted us to be her personal assistants during the divorce process. Locked up the storage unit, went home, and never came back.
Went to her office, where my first job was to take stuff from her home office to a storage unit because she was going through a divorce. After 90 minutes of this, I found out she basically wanted us to be her personal assistants during the divorce process. Locked up the storage unit, went home, and never came back.
This post was edited on 2/12/15 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 2/12/15 at 1:34 pm to Slip Screen
I had something similar happen to me at a head hunter place. They left me waiting in an interview room for 30+ mins. I asked the secretary several times where so n so was to no avail. Got tired and left.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 1:37 pm to dualed
There could be reasons to walk out on an interview. However, salary would not be one of them.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 1:38 pm to dualed
I have once.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 1:39 pm to dualed
What happened with your gf bro
Posted on 2/12/15 at 1:45 pm to FT
Once I had an interview for a good engineering job. I came in prepared. The interview started as a panel with 4 older managers asking me questions. It started well, then they started grilling me about something on my resume. I started feeling anxious..I got hot, heart pounding, my head started feeling scrambled and I could barely talk anymore. It was so bad I thought I was about to have to get up and leave. Honestly felt like if I got pushed a little further that would have been the only option. Irrational I know. It came out of nowhere.. anxiety is a bitch. Fortunately I saved the embarrassment and stayed, and was able to finish up the interview and 2 following interviews right after, even though it took some time to fully recover from that.
I remember thinking "there's no possible way I could get that job". Well they must have been out of it or otherwise could not tell the inner turmoil going on with me, because I ended up getting a pretty sweet job offer (which I turned down for another)
I remember thinking "there's no possible way I could get that job". Well they must have been out of it or otherwise could not tell the inner turmoil going on with me, because I ended up getting a pretty sweet job offer (which I turned down for another)
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:05 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Told a potential employer that what he was looking for did not exist.
This happens OFTEN in my line of work. And while I've never said it outright during an interview, I have had a lengthy phone interview with a film production company who pretty much realized it on their own by the time the interview was ending.
They wanted someone to come in and use magical branding powers to make them the #1 film production company in the damn country.. but they wanted to pay no more than $25k. And they refused anyone who didn't have a 2-inch thick portfolio with proof of years of success.
Yeah, good luck with that buddy. It's common in this line of work because a lot of people look at marketing as a luxury instead of a necessity, so they can't fathom forking over decent money for it.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:12 pm to Hawkeye95
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I didnt walk out of the interview but I did leave before the interview.
I am in my first week at a new job, and when I was waiting in the lobby to interview, I heard them basically offering the job to the girl before me. It totally discouraged me, and I came very close to walking out.
I went in anyway, and I ended up kicking the interview's arse. I had more experience than the girl before me, and they told me that. They said they were about to hire the girl, but once I walked in, their minds changed. 2 days later (a Saturday morning), I received a call with a job offer.
So. I guess ya never know :)
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:14 pm to LouisianaLady
congrats on the new job.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:18 pm to dualed
I forgot, I did walk out of an interview once. After I decided to go to grad school, I had an interview with a guy and told him I planned on doing grad school two nights per week, and although the company offered a tuition reimbursement program, I didn't plan on asking them for reimbursement. He looked at me and said "when you work for XYZ, you work for us 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week". I told him I wouldn't be working for XYZ and walked out.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:21 pm to dualed
Never done it. But certainly wanted to one time. I had the interview from hell about 10 years ago.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:22 pm to Tiger Ryno
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congrats on the new job.
Thank you.
quote:
She proceeded to tell me to write a 1 page essay on why I wanted the job and why they should hire me. I got instantly pissed!
I remember my exact words:
"So I miss two days of work and drive all the way out here twice, and you want me to write you an essay? Obviously this isnt the place for me, and thank you for wasting my time!"
The look on her face was pretty epic.
Althought I could have handled that better, my emotions got the best of me.
I had to write something similar for mine, but didn't mind at all. For several reasons.
A. I only interviewed for about an hour or so. Went right back to work afterwards.
B. It is 70% writing job.
C. I'm an excellent writer, and knew I'd have the job in the bag if I did it. I went for the heartfelt angle after meeting the CEO and seeing how much he speaks from his heart (rather than strictly business).. and won him over. Got a call 1 hour after the writeup was e-mailed to them.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:26 pm to DingLeeBerry
I also do have one guy that calls me incessantly trying to get me to sell some type of financial product. Primerica sort of, but I don't think it is. He got my number from a fraternity brother of mine and he calls every two months asking me to reconsider. One of the guys actually went on the interview and told me not to do it.
Gotta give it to him though, he's a persistent son of a bitch.
Gotta give it to him though, he's a persistent son of a bitch.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:27 pm to LouisianaLady
I was a finalist for a position that ended up going to someone I knew that had recently lost their job at a newspaper.
I nailed the first and second interviews, and in the final interview (when it was down to me and the girl I knew), I brought a prepared, binded, professionally designed project plan.
One of the parts of the final interview was to hand write a brief overview of how I would run a particular project. I reached in my man satchel and gave them the 40-page plan I had created. The look on their faces was priceless.
I really really wanted that job. The CEO called me a couple days later, he had known I knew the other finalist and I had a job and she had just been laid off so they offered it to her. Pissed me off but it worked out in the end.
I nailed the first and second interviews, and in the final interview (when it was down to me and the girl I knew), I brought a prepared, binded, professionally designed project plan.
One of the parts of the final interview was to hand write a brief overview of how I would run a particular project. I reached in my man satchel and gave them the 40-page plan I had created. The look on their faces was priceless.
I really really wanted that job. The CEO called me a couple days later, he had known I knew the other finalist and I had a job and she had just been laid off so they offered it to her. Pissed me off but it worked out in the end.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:31 pm to dualed
I interviewed for a job one time that from 5 minutes into an all day interview both they and I knew the job was way below my skill, salary and experience level. I stayed with them and at the end of the day, they had built a new position and offered it to ma at a nice increase in both salary and responsibility from where I was.
Never stop selling yourself.
Never stop selling yourself.
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