job seeker

19-year-old woman shares experiencing a two-hour-long assessment for a first-round job interview for a minimum wage role, all applicants under 30 are asked to leave: 'The first task was to rank items by importance for surviving on a desert island'

Brad Dickson

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Boss demands 24/7 "urgent" access to employee, interrupting the employee's evenings and weekends with tasks that could have waited: 'If I’m not answering emails at 10PM, I’ll wake up to passive aggressive messages'

Brad Dickson

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‘I've been in a financial hole for years now and this job would help bring me out of it’: Man considers accepting a job that would give him a $20k+ pay increase, but his girlfriend tries to guilt him into declining because he'd be unavailable on weekends

Lana DeGaetano

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Interviewer tells candidate to stop talking when candidate's refusal to let them speak leads to candidate literally talking himself out of a job: 'You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job. Now that chance is zero'

Brad Dickson

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‘I would not recommend hiring him’: Job seeker asks sister-in-law to be a reference when applying to the company she works at, SIL badmouths him and ruins his chances

Lana DeGaetano

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20+ Poorly written job postings riddled with typos and misspellings: 'Someone should get fired for this!'

Ben Weiss

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Candidate finds interviewer's insistent line of inappropriate personal questioning off-putting, they leave: 'We can’t continue this interview'

Brad Dickson

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20+ Job interviews that could not have gone worse: '[I] had a guy take almost every pen in the room'

Remy Millisky

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25 Resume-Building Memes for Competitive Job Seekers on the Hunt for Their Dream Role

Lana DeGaetano

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Job candidate laughs in the face of interviewer after their terrible offer: 'I didn't mean to I just burst out laughing'

Brad Dickson

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'I was hired and fired within the span of 3 hours': New employee fired three hours after being hired and shown around the company's offices

Brad Dickson

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Insane hiring manager rejects candidate for accepting a cup of coffee that was offered to her: 'She accepted a cup of coffee which is just really tacky'

Brad Dickson

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Employer accidentally messages "difficult" candidate their plans to hire them and let them go: 'It might be in your best interest to take your candidates off the email chains in the future'

Brad Dickson

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Job candidate told by hiring manager that they won't get the role despite being the most experienced candidate: 'I'm so sick of mind games from employers'

Brad Dickson

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Employer contacts employee 6 months after firing them asking for their password: 'This just makes me giggle'

Brad Dickson

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Boss demands insanely detailed leave requests before approving leave: 'If we're traveling he wants flight numbers and times'

Brad Dickson

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