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Would you dare.

12 replies

Noidea2114 · 15/08/2020 13:11

My Dh went for a job interview this morning for a PT trolley collecter. 16 hours.
Dh retired 3 years ago and is now thinking he would like to work for a few hours a week.
The last interview he had was 45 years ago for the job he retired from.
He told me he was taken into an office by a lady, she started asking him questions about himself but every time he spoke
she either looked out the window or looked at her phone, after 3 questions Dh stood up and said to her if I'm that boring forget it and walked out.

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OldChinaJug · 15/08/2020 13:19

I had a similar interview experience once. I didn't walk out but kicked myself afterwards. They phoned to give me feedback and said I'd lacked confidence in the interview. No shit!

Resolved that, if it ever happened again, I'd leave.

tectonicplates · 15/08/2020 13:21

I've never walked out of a job interview, but there's a couple of them in the past that I could've done. I sometimes wonder about this.

TimelyManor · 15/08/2020 13:23

Good on him! I would now but wouldn't have had the confidence in the past.

Pelleas · 15/08/2020 13:25

No, I wouldn't. I'd be annoyed but if I were applying for jobs it would be because I needed to work so I would be wary of doing anything that might get be blacklisted by a particular company. Clearly with such an uninterested interviewer, that job was unlikely to be offered, but there might be other jobs and other interviewers in the future.

Alittleodd · 15/08/2020 13:32

I've walked from a job interview before because it was very clear that their priorities didn't align with my own personal set of principles.

They forced me into a weird sort of mini exit interview before they would let me leave (it was really bizarre but I couldn't avoid it as we had to be escorted while on site) and told me they thought I wasn't cut out for that type of employer anyway. Which wasn't necessary.

I was very young and very bolshy then and thoroughly torched any potential bridge by saying that if they were representative of their "type" of employer I wouldn't be applying for any others like them based on what I'd seen that day.

I still don't know what came over me. Maybe I was temporarily possessed by a much braver woman.

DramaAlpaca · 15/08/2020 13:37

Good for him. How rude of her.

I've only walked out on an interview once. An interview for a job years ago very early in my career. It just felt off, I wasn't comfortable with the people or the surroundings and I knew I wouldn't be a good fit for them or them for me. I made my excuses politely and left after a few minutes. No regrets.

ElizabethWoodviIIe · 15/08/2020 13:39

I walked out of a job interview at Miss Selfridge in the mid 90s. I was in my early 20s and newly married. The interviewer told me it was very unusual to be married so young and had it been a shotgun wedding? I was surprised at the question but said no. She asked other (more appropriate) questions, then asked me if I planned to get pregnant in the next couple of years, and if I was it was best I was honest and told her now as she didn't want to hire someone who was going to get 'knocked up'. And if she gave me the job and I did get pregnant she'd have to let me go because I hadn't been honest with her at interview.

I didn't bother to reply, just got up walked out

SodomyNonSapiens · 15/08/2020 13:45

Good for him.

Would have been even better if had challenged her.

I would be getting in touch with their head office and letting them know too.

And yes I would ahallenge and/or walk out in that situation

RedDogsBeg · 15/08/2020 13:51

Good for him and yes I would d/have done the same. I have also given ridiculous answers to questions when the interviewer is clearly not interested/listening.

However, it is not easy to do either of the above if you are in desperate need of work.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 15/08/2020 13:53

Good on him. How rude was she.
Imagine the senario twisted around the way.
However it’s not about daring some people just aren’t in any position to not take shit. People on the dole and who need the work. Can you imagine them going back to the job centre and saying “I walked out of an interview”, regardless of the reason.

itsgettingweird · 15/08/2020 14:24

@SodomyNonSapiens

Good for him.

Would have been even better if had challenged her.

I would be getting in touch with their head office and letting them know too.

And yes I would ahallenge and/or walk out in that situation

I agree about head office.

If I was a a manger I'd rather have someone like your DH working for me than the one I'd already hired who always totally lacking!

FakeCutlassesAreAGatewayWeapon · 16/08/2020 11:27

I haven't but DH has. It wasn't the employers fault but the agency he had registered with. They'd lied to him about the job to get him to attend the interview. When he realised pretty fast that it wasn't the job he had been told it was and was in fact completely inappropriate for him he explained and apologised to the interviewer before he left.

He figured there was no point wasting their time or his. He also wanted to make sure they knew how underhand the agency were. We suspect the agency got a bonus based on how many interviews they secured so they lied to people to get them in the door.

We've no idea how they explained this to the employers who were looking for a recent graduate and got 30 something DH who had been working in the industry for over 10 years in an entirely different specialisation...

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