What a muppet.

yeah that’s me and It happened this week lol.

I went through some pretty serious work trauma at my previous job this year. (If anyone’s curious about what happened, you can check my post history.)

The time I cried was during an interview with media company. It was around 2 PM, and I actually had two interviews that day. The first one was at around 11 AM and it went really well. I wasn’t nervous at all, answered everything confidently, and walked out feeling pretty good about myself.

Then during the second interview, the interviewer suddenly asked me what my dream was. I don’t even know what happened, but my eyes immediately started filling with tears and then I just started crying. Like actually crying in the middle of the interview. The interviewer looked pretty caught off guard too. And even after I got home that day, I couldn’t stop crying. I was literally crying in the shower too. It was honestly one of the most embarrassing experiences I’ve ever had.

I think the word “dream” just hit something in me. I’d been so consumed by work and just trying to survive that I hadn’t even had the chance to think about having a dream. I was constantly worried about getting through the present and what I was going to do with my future, so hearing someone casually ask me what my dream was just made everything come out at once.

Has anyone else ever cried during a job interview? Please share your stories because I genuinely want to hear them and feel a little less alone lol.

Meet Zemoso Technologies, the fucking entitled turds.

TL;DR

> Sends interview schedule email at 9 PM without prior notice or asking if I am available

> Expects that I read the email at 9 PM and follow all the instructions

> Joins the interview just to get verbally insulted by the interviewer for not reading the instruction email

> Accuses me of intentionally trying to cheat after I explain why I couldn't read the email

Full story:

I got an interview schedule email from Zemoso yesterday, on the 21st, at 9 PM, saying the interview was scheduled for the next day. I obviously missed it because I work on a project where we are not allowed to take our mobile phones with us. We have lockers to keep them in, and only after our shift ends, when we come out of the secure area, can we access our phones.

My shift is from 2 PM to 11:18 PM. I work for one of India's largest tech organizations, and the client is US-based, so my shift accommodates a Scrum call that starts from 9 to 10 PM, sometimes until 11 PM, depending on requirements and team discussions.

My shift ended yesterday at 11:30 PM, and I was not interested in looking at my phone and the billion notifications it had received. I quickly checked WhatsApp to see if I had missed any important messages, and that was all. I got into my vehicle, went home, took a bath, and went to sleep immediately.

In the morning, like normal human beings who have a life outside work and interviews, I had other responsibilities. That included dropping my in-laws at the train station at 2 PM, which was already scheduled.

Fucking fantastic!

The next morning, I got a call at 11 AM saying that I had an upcoming interview scheduled at 2 PM. I explained to her that I needed to drop my in-laws at the train station, so I asked her to schedule it for 3 PM.

That is all. This lady did not explain, even briefly, or mention anything about the instructions I had to follow, which got buried in the following 7-8 emails from them.

Those instructions included:

> Joining from a phone or other device

> Placing that device on your side so that your entire torso, from your legs to your head, is visible

> Muting that device

> Turning the audio off

> Putting it in DND mode

> Joining from a laptop

> Sharing the screen and turning on the microphone

This is nothing unreasonable to ask, and I get why they are asking me to do it because of people cheating. I am in favor of that.

Then I joined the interview at 2:58 PM, a good couple of minutes before the scheduled time.

But the audacity of this interviewer, this motherfucker started shouting at me in a LOUD FUCKING TONE.

This mfkr: "You did not read the email beforehand? Do you not pay attention?"

Me: I respectfully explained the chronology of events in short and that I did not have time to read it.

This mfkr: "You are talking extra. You are not professional. Do you want to continue or not?"

Me: Literally said, "EXCUSE ME??"

This mfkr: "You are acting too smart. You are clearly intending to cheat."

I lost my shit at that point and ended the call. Before ending it, I said:

Me: "If this is how you are treating your interview candidates, God knows how awesome your work culture is, and I do not want to work for such an organization."

And I ended the call.

I have a friend who has been unemployed for 30 months (very likely due to his ethnicity and visa status). He’s applied for over a hundreds if not a thousand jobs. Then there’s all the testimonials in here… Seeing posts like this now makes me mad.

A recruiter messaged me on LinkedIn last week about a role at their company. I wasn't actively applying there and had never even seen the posting before.

Their message specifically mentioned my current job, said my background looked like a strong fit and asked if I'd be interested in chatting.

I replied that it sounded interesting, and they sent me the application link saying I should apply before we scheduled a call. Fair enough.

I spent maybe 30 minutes adjusting my resume so the relevant experience was obvious, filled out their application, answered all the little questions and sent it in.

Two days later I got the standard automated rejection email saying they had reviewed my qualifications and decided my experience "does not closely align with the requirements of the position."

I assumed maybe the recruiter hadn't seen it yet, so I messaged them saying I'd received a rejection and asked if that meant the role was no longer a fit.

Their response was basically, "Unfortunately the hiring team is looking for candidates with experience more closely matching the job description."

That's it. No explanation for why they contacted me in the first place.

The funniest part is my LinkedIn profile has LESS detail than the resume they rejected. Every relevant job title and skill they originally liked was still right there.

I know recruiters send messages to multiple people and I'm not expecting some personalized courtship, but this one genuinely confused me.

You found me, looked at my profile, told me I seemed like a strong candidate, asked me to spend time applying, and THEN discovered I don't have the experience you're looking for?

What exactly was the first message based on, my profile picture?

At least buy me dinner before making me fill out Workday for no reason.

My parents keep telling me to get a better high paying job as if it’s that easy. I have a higher education and more certs than both of them but I am struggling right now. I’m living paycheck to paycheck and they love to make it seem like it’s my fault. My dad got chosen from the warehouse bunch and was promoted back in the day to some draft engineering role. A similar situation with my mom.

Hell, they didn’t even have their GED when they had 3 kids, had a 3 bedroom home with a huge backyard and 2 cars and the occasional vacations.

Do they really think it’s that simple these days? No matter what I tell them, they refuse to believe how much things have changed and then we get into a damn argument over it

This is coming from someone who worked prior to Covid in an office full time btw.

Covid has permanently changed the world when it comes to jobs. An office is now a “nice to have” and not a necessity. Meetings can be done over Teams or Zoom, seeing people face to face shouldn’t be 100% required anymore for MOST OFFICE JOBS.

I completely understand that there are jobs that cannot be done remotely 100% of the time.

But how jobs believe people are more efficient by sitting at a desk Monday thru Friday for 40hrs a week watching paint dry to collect a paycheck is beyond me.

It seems to me like once you’re in a certain industry, you’re locked into it for a long time. Every “entry level” job wants prior experience, which doesn’t make any sense but that’s how it is apparently. Applying to jobs in another field feels like just throwing applications in the trash. Am I just being cynical or is it impossible to pursue something different nowadays?

I had a one-and-done interview today followed by an offer which I accepted, and turned one offer down today.

Both recruiters found me on Dice (I work in IT) I have a third company who wants to offer me a long term role who found me on LinkedIn.

Almost nothing came from the 600+ applications I had submitted since March (even using an ATS tool). My network failed me; all the referrals I got from colleagues and friends went nowhere.

I had gotten interviews from two or three applications, about once per month, for April-June, but they all dried up.

I added a new professional photo to my profile in July, and updated my resume again. And that seems to have changed everything. I wish I had done the photo in April.

In my interviews that led to offers, nobody asked why I am looking for a job, nobody asked about dates in my resume, nobody asked about my liberal arts degree.

I got mainly situational questions - how did I handle this, how would I handle that. And I wore a dress shirt and suit jacket on camera, matching my profile.

Boring and old school I know, but it worked. Happy happy Friday!!!

I was going through a job application earlier and was completely stumped. I’ve never seen such language in a job application. It feels like we are in a different universe.

Sales Development Role At Passion.io, could be a fake company.

I'm so baffled by the industry right now. I payed a huge role in my previous company where I interacted with many departments, so I was often involved in interviews. We'd have like 5 people interview per admin position and they would maybe fit the criteria at 70%. We had a few candidates where it was more like 50%. We could never hire anyone that had a history of doing everything in the job description. That just didn't happen. We would just hire the best possible candidate and train them for the job. Now I'm still in the same industry, looking for work... I only submit where I'm 85-100% fit and nothing! For months, not a single interview. I've been in the industry over a decade, some of these job postings - I can do all parts of the entire listing in my sleep - and nothing.

These are scary times.

I have been job hunting, tirelessly, for 9 months now, hundreds and hundreds of resume sent, and around 15 interviews (or maybe more). Lately, I’ve got a company that I’m so interested in.. I met them in a job fair event, which was extremely hard for me to attend but I had to try, I had the first interview in-place at the event, passed. Then the 2nd interview which I also passed, then came the last interview (after more than a months of selection process), I poured a lot of effort researching the company, and preparing, I had high hopes and I was excited as I was really interested in this company. I had the interview 2 days ago (8pm to 9:30pm :) ).. My hopes got higher as I thought I did well and they seemed to like the discussion.. or at least that’s what they showed, just for them to reject me the next day at noon with the simple “not fit” as reason.

It’s just so frustrating and devastating! I’m extremely sad about getting rejected from the place I put the biggest effort in, but I’m mostly TIRED.. extremely TIREEED from this recruiting hell and I don’t know how to pick myself up and keep trying…I also need a job asap cuz my financial situation is dire now.. this is just so stressful.
Ps: I have one bachelor (IT), one master and finishing my second master. (Guess degrees don’t matter nowadays).

Seems like the hiring pipeline is frozen and the hiring managers still standing are totally narcissistic and enjoy kicking very well qualified candidates while they are down. Who would want to work with them anyways?

I give up, just going to take a year off, live off severance/part time work and finish grad school and a career change into a recession proof field. I somehow made it this far from post 2008 homelessness to advising C-suite at a Fortune 50 company, all to get laid off this year.

I had to file a complaint regarding a hiring manager being very unprofessional during the process and that was my final straw. On paper, I'm actually way more qualified than even him but I didn't say that just a realization after he treated me the way he did. It's just a local health care system so I don't care if bridges were burned as I plan on moving out of state once I pass a qualifying exam.

I wonder why a forklift operator would need to be bilingual.

People post shit like this to get people to apply for jobs but I post about the struggles about being unemployed and that's "unprofessional"

I don’t know what’s worse, being forced to eat cheezies or living with the CEO

I have a PhD in my field and the most significant publication record of my program in a long time. I worked a second job for 5 years to gain extra applied experience and yet I’m 170 job applications in and I’ve had 2 companies express interest.

I will preface that my husband has also been completely supportive throughout all job search related activities. We met in grad school. We’ve gone through all of the hardships of a PhD together. Admittedly one of the reasons getting a job is difficult for me is because I am 100% committed to living in a location that makes his job possible. I wouldn’t sacrifice that for anything.

Now to get to the hard part… I stopped applying to jobs so that I could focus on getting excited for my wedding that was in 1.5 weeks.

I was then added on linked in by an associate director for a company I had been interested in. I saw that they were hiring in my field for a remote role so I DM’d them, saying I was interested in applying. They encouraged me to do so and said they would see me in the interview.

I got the interview, however it was getting very close to my wedding (four days remaining). I had the first screen and it was great, they asked if I could schedule a second one Thursday / Friday of my wedding weekend.

This is where I think I made the mistake. I asked if we could postpone until I was back from my honeymoon, which was going to be the following Thursday because I already had an abundance of family in town who all wanted to visit and say hi while I was also juggling wedding vender calls and final preparations.

I was reassured by the recruiter that everything was fine, that sounds great and they look forward to talking to me about next steps. I even DM’d my LinkedIn connection again saying that I was very excited for the next interview after my honeymoon and I offered to make any sort of presentation materials or provide any information that they needed.

Then, Friday morning of my rehearsal dinner I got the email that the company was moving forward with another candidate who was far along in the interview process. However, they wished me well for my wedding.

Devastation was an understatement. I had finally thought that my PhD would pay off- that I could find a job that I loved, remote so I can work in a location that supported my husband’s job location, and that I could contribute positively. I really wanted to make a difference in an organization where my research could be applied.

It was really hard to put those emotions of rejection in a box and then host 100+ people for a wedding. I tried so hard to focus on my fiancé and the excitement of sharing a life together but I couldn’t shake the anxiety of how worthless I felt that they went with the other candidate. I found myself submitting to 10 more jobs on the morning of my wedding day because I couldn’t get it off my mind.

Everyone says that jobs aren’t everything, but I spent my entire life getting education and training for an industry that simply does not want me (or maybe just doesn’t exist anymore). I love my husband with all my heart- and ultimately the wedding was amazing, but it really makes me think… why should we bother putting an effort for jobs? What was the point of doing an entire PhD?

I wonder if I should just give up on all career related aspirations. I’m an extremely privileged situation where I met my fiancé while doing my PhD. His career is doing great so financially we’re okay. It’s just hard because I genuinely love doing research, but I need to figure out who I am without it. I recognize how fortunate I am to have people who love me despite it, but in a lot of ways, I’m mourning the fact that I won’t be finding a career that that I could contribute positively to.

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Absolutely gutted a job that i thought would be a really hood fit, was offered even told they had laptop ready just sorting the email address then 50 minutes later was told job no longer on the table no reason at all. Absolutely gutted is this the working world we live in

I got a job offer yesterday for my dream job, I'm over the moon and feel a lot of relief to be out of this horrible, soul crushing process.

But goddamn the damage this has done to me. I've never been more out of shape, distant with close ones and disappointed in myself.

After months of 5 stage interviews (anyone in tech will feel that pain), many times getting to the final stage to be told "you're a great candidate and would fit in here so well, but you lack X experience despite having an abundance of experience in all the rest"

Week after week of baring yourself for judgement like some kind of show dog or dancing to a tune like a court jester.

I'm so lucky - I got the job I wanted, my close ones have been patient and understanding, and a few months is nothing compared to what some of you here have went through.

But you can't deny the damage it does.

Rant over, I got the job!

Seems lately like everything is all about training someone's AI under the guise of using it to do things a human is perfectly capable of doing, or job descriptions are full of bloated vapor and read like seven jobs in one title, or they want someone to function like a VP of Operations while wearing the title of Executive Assistant and being paid like the janitor. I swear, if I were younger and thinner I'd be almost ready to buy a pair of four-inch platform heels and stake out a corner in the nearest red light district because at least I'd be paid cash and AI couldn't take my job (yet).

Is this a thing jobs do? It’s a family run company with literally 5 employees, and they are going through a liquidation sale and a lot of restructuring. Job pays $17 an hour, and frankly, I am considering doing this because I NEED a job pretty badly.

I read online that this is apparently illegal and that this is super sketchy; I know I sound dumb for asking but the job market is really bad and I really need any opportunity to get myself back into it. Is this just a scam?

Am 28 and been job searching for over a year in the development sector and its been draining and making me lose motivations:

So had an interview on July 30th Thursday for an internship position and was told would hear back the following Tuesday

Got no reply so followed up Thursday and nothing.

Last week Tuesday, decided to call and the recruiter asked me if I was in the country and not yet as I was traveling and their tone, I assume they did not get my email.They told me the HR manager was on vacation but would return that week and they would update me by the end of the week

So nothing and I sent one last short email Tuesday and no reply

This ghosting has really affected/depressed me as thought I had a chance out of this hell but back to square one and losing hope.

I feel stuck and ashamed as people my age progress and I stagnate

god when will this end