re: Ever walked out of an interview?

When I first moved to Nashville after college, I had no job lined up. I just basically threw a dart at a map and said I wanted to live here. Had barely any idea what kind of job I wanted and had no leads on them.

Looking back, that was dumb, but it all worked out and I have a great job now and so does my wife.

That being said, I was looking for gigs on craigslist I was so desperate. I went to one that posed as a sales job at a very nice place. I went to the office in my suit and tie and it seems very legit. The people looked professional and the office space was very, very nice and convincing. I am waiting with the receptionist for my interview and a 25 year old kid walks up to me and says, “time to shadow me”.

We then drive an hour outside of Nashville to some podunk town and proceed to walk door to door in our suit and ties to sell office supplies. It’s the middle of summer and I am sweating my dick off. I immediately knew I wouldn’t take this job, but I was stuck doing this for 9 HOURS. I find out from the guy I’m with that they get barely any commission and pay for their own gas and sales supplies.

When I get back to the office, THEN it is time for the interview with the head guy. I am sweaty, exhausted, and had to eat burger king in White Trash, USA for 2 meals that day. I see the boss through the glass doors to his office interviewing the candidate before me and he is a 35ish year old absolute sleezeball looking guy with slicked back hair named Gustav plastered in a gaudy gold name plate on the door. I kindly asked the receptionist where the bathroom was and walked out the door to my car and left. It was already dark and I had arrived at 7:30 AM.

I found out later it’s a pyramid sales scheme designed to trap desperate college kids to sell their shite and earn peanuts in return.

I don’t feel bad at all about it considering I will never meet those people in business, they won’t remember who I am, and they were intentionally vague about the job on the listing and put up a completely fake front posing as a legit business.

That exact thing happened to me. I moved to Nashville out of college too. I'm sure it was the same company. See my previous post. Although I didn't go door to door for 9 hours. I told them to bring me back after the second house.

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Although I didn't go door to door for 9 hours. I told them to bring me back after the second house.

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I thought about it, but the kid I was shadowing was very nice and this was his income I would be messing with. I was polite and stuck it out. Not so much when I got back to the office.

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That exact thing happened to me. I moved to Nashville out of college too. I'm sure it was the same company.

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It has happened to about 10 people I am friends with. I think I'm the only one that had 9 hours of door-to-door torture though.

I walked out of 1 interview in the BR school district.
The principal spent 10 minutes down playing my experience trying to state that I was basically a rookie teacher, bc I had not worked for her or in her school. She hinted that I would need to "monitor" students during state testing to make sure they were marking answers in the "correct portion of the test". She also right out stated that I would most likely not be effective at her school, bc I was not black and most of there students were. At about the 15 minute mark, I stated that it seemed that I was not the candidate she was looking for and told her to have a nice day.

I reported her to the teacher's union after the interview. She was fired and stripped of her licence less than a year later for multiple reasons. Apparently, some of the white teachers she inherited were having trouble with her as well. I feel fine with my decision, but this was an extreme case. Normally, I would finish the interview and not accept the job if an offer came.

Same thing happened to me in Dallas. Except we ate lunch at CiCis with the boss...and had to run from building security a couple times. It was an adventure but I was pissed about the total waste of time it was. They actually offered me the job....I wouldn't return their calls.

We randomly get pegged by HR at our company to interview people for random positions.

I had a female interviewee end an interview earlier because she had misread the job title/description. She was very nice and open about the mistake and we had a laugh and she went on her way.

No hard feelings.

It was for a position in IT and she had quite literally no IT background. When I asked her about her server migration experience she looked at me like I was speaking Mandarin

It wasn't Edward Jones.

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if things turn sour again

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Never done it. Just curious. Thinking of like a situation where you've got tons of experience but it's just a slap in the face for what the company offers you

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Your not hitting on a good reason. I think the only way a normal person would leave in the middle of an interview would be that they are offered a different job than the one they applied for. I've heard of people applying for manager positions and in the interview they say the manager position was filled but they have a less important, less paying job they can offer. A friend of mine had this happen to them but they politely apologized, didn't accept the job, and left.