Starting a new job can be as nerve-wracking as it is exciting. So many new doors open before you lead to new opportunities, which can bring a lot of uncertainty with it. Of course, those new doors won't lead anywhere at all if you show up on your third day to find them padlocked shut with a notice on the door… That's what happened to this poor job-seeker, Reddit user yelloworange01, who shared their experience in a post to the popular r/antiwork subreddit, a community that deals with all kinds…

Unpaid working trials are a thing of the past—well… they should be according to the labor laws in a lot of states and countries. The unfortunate reality is that this is still a practice that takes place in a lot of industries and in even more organizations. There's nothing like having someone actually do the work to ensure that they can do it… right? Companies often have other goals in mind with this strategy, lot of clever-as-they-are-unethical hiring managers will use these “working interview…

Interviews seem to bring out the most awkward parts of ourselves . There's just no way to get through the interview process without being uncomfortable in some way. After all, you're suddenly placed in a new environment, surrounded by people you don't know and have to impress, and you're dressed up fancy while being as nervous as possible. This person shared their own deeply embarrassing interview story. Not only did the OP act goofy in front of the CEO , they kept getting interviews despite th…

Instead of a job applicant getting ghosted by HR, this time HR was ghosted by a job candidate, who was a literal ghost.

Trick a worker into quitting their job and joining your organization, then they're well and truly trapped when you cut their pay by 50%… talk about a cunning trap. That's exactly what this worker shared experiencing in a post shared to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit community. In a post titled “50% salary decrease…” they discussed the situation. “My new job just cut my salary by $30k, only a couple months into the job." the post begins, " It's safe to say that you probably wouldn't stay at that…

There are so many red flags in this story that we lost count.

This person is scared to interview again after this terrible experience with an insensitive hiring manager. This unfortunate job seeker took to r/recruitingh*ll to share their awful experience and vent about their frustrations with the interview process. As u/ThatFaithlessness101 wrote, they had a second interview with a company. It was entry level, and they also stated in the job requirements that you didn't have to be familiar with anything related to the job before joining the company. So th…

If, at first, you don't succeed... try, try again—except… maybe, not in the exact same way as your first failure. Shake it up a little bit. Try an attempt that was better, or at least different , than your first… This was not a concept that this recruiter understood, choosing to make the same offer for a second time after this job candidate initially had declined. Who knows what their thought process was? Maybe they were seeking to wear the candidate down in a war of attrition—make the same off…

Interviews are a two-way street: the candidate is trying to figure out whether or not they want to work for the employer just as much as the employer is trying to figure out if they're interested in the candidate. Still, often there are multiple candidates but only one position; this can create a power imbalance and desperation on the part of the candidate that leads to only one direction of the street being walked. As such, candidates may miss major red flags from the interviewer or dismiss th…

It's pretty simple at this point: if you can't live up to your own expectations, then you're less likely to fill the position.

Working interviews are a thinly veiled scam intended to draw upon a new source of unwitting workers for free resources, ideas, and labor.

Some things stand out to you immediately as being out of place—like feeling the skin suddenly crawling on the back of your neck when you're walking through the park at night. We're primally—well… ‘primed’ for picking out when things are potentially dangerous; that innate survival instinct works wonders for picking up when things aren't quite what they seem. However, some people are cunning and practiced in their duplicity, and chances are you might miss the subtle hints that things really aren'…

This guy prepped for an interview for weeks, but it still didn't go perfectly! Interview prep involves a few things: printing out a few copies of your resume, mapping out how to get to the job site, and preparing your interview clothes so you make a great first impression . This woman shared her frustrating experience with her job-searching boyfriend, who didn't quite get around to the clothing step of preparation. Instead, he tried to get his lucky blazer cleaned on a regular laundry day by hi…

This job-seeker was offered a job interview — so how did they end up in a webinar with hundreds of other people ? U/LivingStCelestine thought everything was going well as they talked to a recruiter about a job listing. The OP requested a virtual time slot to meet with this person about a management job, and it seemed like they were set up for a 6PM interview. However, when they turned up in the Zoom meeting , they got a terrible surprise. It's so unfortunate the lengths companies would go throu…

What do you do when you have to hire someone for a job with a horrible boss? This is exactly the situation that this Reddit has found themselves in. They have been working for this person for a while now and know the ins and outs. They've dealt with more than their fair share of annoying circumstances with this manager. In fact, this boss has tried to throw them under the bus another time. However, this Redditor is the bigger person. They have been in charge of bringing a new person on to their…

This is apparently an unspoken rule of job interviews, but do you actually follow this rule yourself? On the r/antiwork subreddit, u/Cavs1850 shared the one thing that made them get out of an interview so fast that they didn't even start it. As this writer shared, they showed up to an interview early, as one should. They were a few minutes early for a 1 PM interview, but by the time 1:05 rolled around, the manager conducting the interview was nowhere to be seen. Five minutes isn't the end of th…