r/Askreddit What Made You Walk Out of a Job Interview? 

honestly the girl locked in the staircase could potentially sue, or at least report them for the BLATANT FIRE SAFETY HAZARD OF NOT BEING ABLE TO LEAVE THE BUILDING!

That second one is literally called unlawful imprisonment if they don’t let you out and, at minimum, a fire code violation worthy of the fire marshal descending upon the place like an angry Greek God.

"When did you walk out of a job interview" "I realized it was a pyramid scheme" "You dodged a nuke, man"

The story about the 8-10 hour shift with no breaks, OP should definitely report them. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to not allow at least a 30 minute lunch break to sit and eat with no disruptions

As an Interior Design Student, yes, it is highly illegal to have the exits locked and goes against fire safety codes and emergency egress. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is why we don't lock emergency exit doors. Also, keep up the excellent work rSlash!

Here at Greece, many years ago, they had a highschool course literally called: "Logic" teaching common sense and some sort of thought process for some situations.

That person stuck in the stairwell should have had a fire exit at the ground floor, if not, report the company for violating fire code. If they had a fire exit, just use it, they were basically holding you against your will

I almost enlisted in the Marines. went through entire process and wouldn’t give any real answers for my questions through the day. Next thing I know they had about 50+ of us in a room telling us to raise our hand to swear in. Using peer pressure they said anyone unwilling to serve your country and swear in or whatever they called it take a step forward. I looked around and nobody moved. Took a second but I broke the threshold and stepped forward and that opened the flood gates. About a dozen other people were able to step forward after I did and a couple thanked me as we left. Recruiters kept showing up for a couple years to get me to change my mind

The person who got trapped at the lab facility was actually inside some level of the backrooms lmao!

"Most companies are struggling to hire workers!" If half of these are true than these companies deserve the current worker shortage.

I remember I was once at an interview for an internship. The interviewer told me I had to dye my hair a natural color (it was blue) or he wouldn't hire me, because people might be scared of how I looked. Next to him was his second in command, who had tattoos all over, including a couple of teardrop tattoos down his face But my blue hair was unsetling.

Note for the lady bragging about no breaks: I'd hope she's standing straight up while conducting that interview; if it went longer than 30 seconds, maybe _she_ should be fired.

Honestly, if I’d gotten trapped in a building stairway I’d have called the cops almost immeadiatrly. That’s sounds like a fire hazard to me.

Those kind of doors, when a fire alarm goes off, typically release automatically. There’s got to be something like that, otherwise yes, major fire code violation.

Boss: Oh, we're so efficient, we don't even let our employees sit down for breaks. Funny, my friend had a similar job that did the same thing. She quit. Doesn't sound very appealing to me. The boss lady sounds like a psychopath, actually. Also, the guy who didn't want OP to say "I" sounds like he reads Ayn Rand's "Anthem" and thinks that that's how we should ACTUALLY run out society.

10:02 story: thats illegal in america. if an employee works longer than 10 hours they are required by law to get a 30 min break

That "curl up into a ball and pretend to be a flower opening" bit reminds me of the early sequence in "Men In Black," where Will Smith's character wins the job by thinking outside the box and adapting his environment to his needs (if I recall correctly).

"help me I'm kidnapped by a building" is more SCP like than 5:40;that is just the Spencer mansion from RE 1... Well any lab from RE

I couldn't agree with you more: there should be a high school class on adulting. In my opinion, it should also be offered at Community Colleges too.

Man, that sprawling research lab story was really good. I'd love to see you do r/no sleep or read some SCP documents! Keep up the good work, RSlash!!

When Rslash read the pyramid scheme story, I absolutely expected him to tell his Cutco story again. Good on you for avoiding the low hanging fruit! 🤣

I walked out of an interview for a 'Sales Technician with Centurylink' where the interviewers separated the the interviewees, treated us to coffee and told us that this was strictly in the office work, suits and ties would be needed, but the boss will let you run your own sales team within 5 months, etc etc. When I began to read the employment contract though, found out it was literally door to door sales, trying to get people to sign up for the service, and that we would need to pay for our company logo polos:/ I noped out if there with a quickness

Also the interview story sounds like legit the only job interview I ever got from the Job Centre. (like their entire thing is supposed to be helping us get jobs, but I've only ever heard stories of them costing people jobs, and just looking for excuses to take people's benefits away) They sent me to a job interview, but when I got there, the "office" looked like an abandoned garage/car wash. The inside looked freshly renovated, but like a cheap front. Like they had wood flooring in the reception, and a secretary, but the wood flooring looked plastic, and the secretary spent the entire time flirting with me (and my ego isn't big enough to think any of it was legit. Especially when on my way out, she ignored me and was busy flirting with a new job interviewee) When I went in for the interview, the guy interviewing me looked like a gym teacher, and the heating was turned up full blast to an uncomfortable degree (which I'd already heard was a tactic to make people feel sleepy and uncomfortable) I quickly realised the "job" was being one of those guys in shopping markets that harasses you into trying to sign up with them, and realised he was super dishonest with how he kept talking about how much money I could POTENTIALLY make, but tried to skip over the part where if I didn't do well enough, I could make £0. Once I realised his game, I decided then n there I didn't want the job, but if I walked out, the job centre would punish me. So I started half arsing it and making myself seem like the worst employee ever, but he still offered me the job 😂

"I've been kidnapped by a building" That line had me laughing probably more than it should have.

Rslash getting sad about not having a friend in college 😭😭

Story 2 reads like an SCP, and it reminds me of "The Backrooms" SCP story 😂😂😂

What makes me walk out of an interview? When they tell me that my pay is less than my expenses and I should be happy I've even got a job. Pay me a living wage, give me 48 hours a week to call my own outside of sleep, defray my costs of travel or hit the automation boss. If my expenses go up beyond what I can afford boss your covering it or I take my experience to one that will.

In my high school, there was a series of three classes (Business, Resource Management, and Job Skills) . They were basically the same curriculum, and taking one was required to graduate. They were all about resume writing, balancing a checkbook, doing taxes, etc. Nothinf about how to spot a scam, necessarily, but the other stuff, yeah.

"Marketing" position ad on Facebook turned out to be for Kirby vacuums, luckily I had heard the horror stories from them.

We had a class that taught us how to pay bills, write checks, apply for jobs, and interview.. well tech. It was our home economics teacher. And they taught us for about 3 weeks about it.. anyways. I kept falling sleep In that class... and they told me that I'd never amount to anything with work ethic like that, and told me to go to office.. my principal looked at my face and just knew... crap... 30 min later the teacher came down and lost it. She was spouting off bout how I wasn't allowed in class cus she not wasting time when the principle cut her off. I was silent this whole time.. all he said was she works.... she works 6am to 8am...and 4pm-10pm daily. .. not all kids are from money..and ur lack of understanding of students is terrible.. she isn't a bad kid..but she is tired... Why tell u this story.. because that was the first time I felt that someone seen me as human my whole life... long story... but yeah..I can still smell the ammonia from the hall way being cleaned after someone puked after running the mile..

"Melalyeuca australian tree"? Yep, that's Melaleuca, a ESSENTIAL OILS PYRAMID SCHEME!

the one involving the underground laboratory sounds like something MAG should use for inspiration for one of their podcast episodes(?). The weird passage of time, strange architecture, and confusing elevation, plus the scientists and the lost/trapped thing fit perfectly. kinda reminds me of the one episode with the hall of mirrors

Hey, that story of OP being trapped in the stairwell reminded me of something. I was at this hotel with my parents when I was young and I wanted something from the hotel room, so I got up and went to use the stairs. But I didn’t notice that the doors could only be freely opened from the outside and needed the hotel room keycard for the inside. So I was stuck there, in the stairs of a hotel, with no way out and didn’t have one of the hotel room card. Thankfully a staff member let me out but boy did that give me a fright

I once applied to a reception position at a funeral home. When I walked in I saw a woman obviously being trained for the same position. The interviewer told me I was over qualified (I was) and he was interested in interviewing me for a different position. This turned into him trying to sell me on a door to door sales job, to get old people to pre-pay for their funeral and after care. I politely sat hoping for it to end. 2 hours later I was free.

When I moved across the country, my first interview I had was just a gas station job to get by until I got back into healthcare. When I did the interview, the owner made a comment about my tics. I explained I have Tourettes, and he said well I figured it wasn't drugs, because you're too fat. I almost knocked the old dude out for that, but I just walked out. I was so pissed.

I bet you that business that vanished in those 3 days was one of those fly-by-night operations. You tend to find many of them in regards to MLMs/pyramid schemes. One time, when I was working furniture installation, a business we helped establish office cubicles for vanished roughly a week after we finished the job. The place they were located was in roughly the same condition as the OP's in that story.

Schools used to have classes like that, was called Home Economics, taught you the basics of adulting, now schools just teach kids how to pass the upcoming tests.

"We're more concerned about the team here. Me: Oh, thats a deal breaker then. Cause I dont give a **** about your team.

As someone who temped at a welding job, that shop is the literary definition of a death hazard. I can't imagine that place, or its workers, surviving long under those conditions. Makes me wonder if it's now shuttered down, or worse yet, if someone already got hurt.

Yeah that story about wandering around a lab definitely sounds like an SCP, I have no idea what it could actually be.

It sounds like that 3rd op found his way to a sterile zone lab. My SIL works in a laboratory like that. It sounds shady, but it's mostly because they often work with chemicals and viruses.

My high school used to have a class that taught you how to balance a check book and other essential math skills for basic everyday life. It used to count as a math credit and I planned on taking that my senior year however it no longer counted as a math credit by the time I was signing up for classes for senior year. I thought that was extremely stupid because those are actually things all of us would use everyday. My mom thought the same thing. FYI I graduated in 2018.

I've walked out on two interviews. One was for a telemarketing position, but when I got there it turned out to be for phone sex. Yeah, I got up and walked out. One time I went for a sales job, turned out to be where you hang out in parking lots harassing people to buy knock-off perfumes. There was a room full of people, and several of us got up and walked out.

When I was much younger, I sent my resume as a response to an ad for a manager. I didn't really have any management experience but I figured 'what the heck'. Didn't hear from them so I moved on and had some interviews scheduled. 3 weeks later, I get a call from the place to schedule an interview. Red flag #1, they scheduled the interview for 8 PM. So I went to the interview, red flag #2, there was a group of people and they LOCKED the door. So my actual interview went something like, "When can you start?" Well I had other interviews scheduled so I told them 2 weeks. Their response, "The ad said 'must be able to start immediately'". I said, "Yeah I was able start immediately 3 WEEKS AGO". I walked out. Oh yeah the management position you ask? The job was really for a door to door vacuum salesperson.

does anyone else wonder if Karen’s think that they are entitled to everything, how far would they go to get it?

I'm pretty sure having stairwells locked is a fire hazard

When I once pointed out that the shape they drew for me is clearly a pyramid, they corrected me saying that a pyramid is pointy at the top, their diagram is pointy at the bottom.

Every school should have an "Applied Logic" and a "Basic Adulting" class to graduate.

0:45 I had something similar happen to me in college. Only instead of the pyramid scheme, they were recruiting for the Christian Student Fellowship. We didn't stay acquaintances after the most awkward coffee meetup of my life.

Fun fact : the only fears we have naturally are the fear of falling and loud noices

Recruiter once called me at 6am, I was beyond brash. I was pissed, and didn't care. They called back later with someone else, and I was still pissed off about it, and they didn't understand why i was pissed.

I had an interview at Google and was running my own IT consulting business at the time. I was the only employee at the company and didn't make amazing money but enough to pay my bills and have some money left over after year end taxes. I wanted to close my company down because I decided to go to college to get a degree I always wanted and it would have been too much work to keep track of accounting, marketing, meeting with clients, and doing all the work for the company myself. During the interview it seemed like I was being talked down to the entire time maybe due to my age since I was only 25 and my interviewer was at least in his 60s. The condescending attitude continued through the whole interview and even led to a point where the interviewer said that I'm "unhireable" due to owning my own business and they dont think I'll listen to anyone who is above me at the company. For one yes, I have more freedom running my business and can turn down clients, but I also have to be on top of my game always doing what the clients wanted no matter what or else I'll lose their business. I also had to be careful outside of work with everyone since I am the representative in my company, so no I cannot do whatever I want unless I want to destroy my business. I finished up the interview and got a call back within a few hours and was told the interviewer absolutely loved me and wanted me to come back for a second technical interview. I of course turned it down since I didn't like how I was treated for the hour long interview.

scientists? bank? underground lab?? It’s Umbrella Corp!!!!

"Help me, I'm kidnapped by a building", that got me laughing Edit: thanks for 170 likes, i didn't expect it would go that far lol, p.s. if I get pinned that'd be unexpected

My school has a class similar to the class that you described as a class on “how to be an adult” for freshmen.

I went to an interview for a sales position. Turns out it was apyramid scheme for some mushroom coffee. I just let him finish his speech, left and never called back,

It amazes me how quickly people click an rSlash video. In 2 minute there's 106 views and 30 comments. Just shows how effort pays off, keep the awesome work

Maybe the interviewer in the last story wanted OP to use the royal “We” instead of “I”. Really show how fancy they are.

If I was OP in the second post, I would've taken the company to court and sued them for endangerment, negligence and ignorance! SERIOUSLY! If OP had gotten hurt, or WORSE, while trapped in that stairwell elevator, the so called "Big Wig Company" would've not ONLY gotten fined for endangering someone's life, but ALSO gotten charged for negligence and assault or injury charges!

We had that adulting 101 class when I was in high school (grad 90) in British Columbia, Canada. It was called Consumer Education and we had to take it in either grade 11 or 12 in order to graduate. It covered everything from how to write a cheque to how to file a tax return. A good teacher can cover a whole lot of information in 75 minutes every day for half a school year.

As I get older I have realized that high school and below are preparing kids less and less for the real world. Can you maths? ...English? Science? Do you know history? Well, that's nice. 90% of jobs require none of this to actually do the job. You barely need to know any of this.

That story with the guy wandering round a laboratory reminds me of a metroid game ngl

My husband taught two classes at our church about recognizing and protecting yourself from scams. Everyone had a story for at least one of the several types of scams my husband covered.

Another story that’s long? We are always happy to hear you narrate these videos, especially extra long stories!

I totally agree on that "How to be an Adult" class.

They used to teach us how to do taxes, manage finances, and all the government stuff, here in Alberta.... But most people skipped it 😂

Right out of college I was struggling to find work and I took an interview with a rent-a-cop security firm. The job was basically, go here. Sit here. Check people in and out and it was the only job that i could find that was paying more than 10 an hr. I got there 15 mins early and they made me wait an hr past my interview time. The manager finally calls me in and the first thing she asks is if i'm able to be on time because they were really concerned about being punctual. I replied that they were an hour late interviewing me and I didn't think they were all concerned about being on time. I got up and walked out.

It is absolutely illegal for a stairwell to be configured that someone can get trapped inside and if a building inspector or fire marshal were to see that their certificate of occupancy could 100% be revoked

So, their is 2 types of fire systems. Fail-safe and fail-secure. Fail-safe is like a school or apartment, security to not let people in, but a system who let people out in a fire. Fail-secure is like a data center, their is a level of security where they don't want anything stole (credit card info, SSN, logins) and they lock in case of a fire, but their is a small period to escape although if you miss it, you are locked in until someone can get you.

Do be fair... I tend to use 20 years ago to mean a long time ago. In my mind it always refers to the 1960s or 1970s since I'm a 1990s kid (born 1988). I realize that this isn't generally a normal thought process though.

also if you have an interview at any kind of company working in an office environment and they don't even have a receptionist, walk away. I've lost track how many times I've been stood up sitting waiting while the one who should interview me just sat and worked on something else completely ignoring me and even other sitting there waiting. I sat like an idiots for 40+min (and no, no interview.) each time this happen, the first 3 times, since then i walked away after 5min past time.

"I'm hearing a lot of "I" from you this is a team and I'm concerned . . ." Oh the hypocrisy.

An ablest school interviewing a disabled teacher? Yeah, _that's_ no bueno.

Ok there are tunnels, offices, and retail underground in downtown Dallas that connect many different buildings together. They're great! The city is trying to shut them down, because it's diverting walking traffic away from the surface. And I'm thinking "We need more tunnels, because our summers are brutal and people in Dallas-Ft Worth don't know how to drive."

I managed to score an interview when looking for internships. It was for a software engineering internship. I was a computer engineering major, and it has elements of both computer science and electrical engineering. As soon as the guy came to escort me to a room to interview me, he looked kind of... unwelcoming. I looked past it and went to sit down in the interview room. The first question he asked me was to confirm my major on my resume as computer engineering. After I said yes, he started off with "Well, I'm not sure if we want to waste your time..." After that, the rest of the interview was rather uncomfortable. He wasn't very friendly or professional, and he basically disqualified me all because I wasn't a computer science student. I've seen ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MAJORS get jobs in the computer science field. I don't know why I didn't just walk out. He was right about one thing: he didn't want to waste my time, and neither did I.

Your idea for a class on how to be an adult sounds great! I actually had a similar class like that in high school: they never taught us taxes, but they had assignments like "Find the average monthly salary of your dream job. Now considering that salary, plan a food budget for how much of that you would spend on all the food you eat." We spent days looking at apartment costs, planning how much to spend on gas, and they would throw other things like "Imagine you're married and with children to feed as well. What kind of salaries would you and your imaginary spouse need?" They also made us research how to get our dream job, if they expected a college degree, etc. This is the class that made me realize that I did NOT want to pursue being a storyboard artist: apparently, getting a job as a storyboard artist is mostly reliant on going to CalArts (I'm nowhere near California or any big art school) or having friends in the industry that recommend you to their bosses (lol what social skills). I remember being an immature teenager thinking that the class was stupid because it was all pretend, and at some point actually realizing how useful this was. Also, this class was mostly spent in self-research, with a teacher who would give us the assignment and then play on his phone while we did the work XD. But he would help if we asked. I don't remember what the class was called, but it was very helpful to prepare everyone and get us thinking about the future.

my economics teacher in high school taught us in class how to fill out the basic tax form. it was nice to know.

If I went into an interview, got asked direct questions of what _I_ would do, then got berated about not instinctively understanding that I was joining some sorta damn hivemind or whatever, then I'd probably leave that interview too.

The story at 6:47 I lost it at "They asked us to stand up, crawl into a ball and pretend we were flowers opening up" Now you've given me an image of a cult leader zealously instructing the interviewees with a crazed smile "Bloom like a flower! BLOOM like flower!!"

I walked out of an interview for a teaching job because they kept questioning my disciplinary scale. "Okay, and then what?" about five times over. I apologized for wasting their time and left. I haven't held a teaching job since 2016.

02:35 that's actually called unlawful detainment and an egress violation and could definitely give them some grief. OP could have called 911 and said that he tried to contact them multiple times with no success. The fire marshal would not be impressed

"We're about the team here" hmmm, idk buddy, sounds like a toxic work environment to me.

I had an interview at a welding shop. I walked out of after I passed a welding test and then the guy offered me a job at a wage within a dollar of minimum wage. I picked up my gear and told him goodbye. I told him my time was worth more than what he was offering. And that I had gotten paid more for my first welding job 20 years earlier. No wonder so many people have said no to jobs since the global situation! Screw companies that are looking to screw over everyone who is looking for a job.

My family and I have been wondering why a “How to be an Adult” class was never a thing for years. Really seems like a no brainer.

I'm pretty sure that working 8 hours without breaks is illegal. At least in here it is and probably in every other civilized country too.

"we stopped doing black face 20 years ago" Oh like 1980's then, makes sense RSlash "20 years ago was only 2000" Stop it

Melaleuca is one of those MLM pyramid scams I always forget how to spell. I got roped into a life insurance MLM interview but backed out last minute. Paid the nearly $200 for the license to sell insurance and never got it. Ended up having life insurance for maybe 2-3 years. It was the company PHP or “People Helping People”. So glad there are channels like Hannah Alonzo, Erin Bies, Julie Jo, CC Suarez, Savannah Marie, ETC. To point out these scams!!! If it sounds to good to be true, it is.

I walked out of an interview once when they told me their attendance policy. You were allowed 5 call outs in 6 months, or if you were going to be out 2 days in a row . It didn't matter if there was a doctors note, if you were in a car crash nothing. They said "If you're not committed to being here everyday then we don't need you." They were always hiring and never kept an employee longer than 90 days.

Forgot that due to winter time switch, arse lash now posts when it is 2 here instead of 3PM.

Actually here in memphisTennessee the schools make personal finance a mandatory class to graduate. No street skills but I can file my own taxes

Hi Rslash! Long time viewer here! A lot of high-schools are actually getting classes on "how to adult." One of the high-schools in my area has a personal finance class which is required to graduate. It teaches a variety of things, like taxes, paying for colleges, job searching, buying a car and a house, and yes, they teach about scams.

The part you brought up about High School and wish there was a class to teach you how to be an adult in the adult world? I had that back in the mid 90’s. I can’t say for the regular classes, but in my one (special education) class we were taught how to write a check (how to balance along with a Credit Card), smart shopping, job hunting (do’s and dont’s in an interview and so on…), and my favorite, simple fixes around the house (ie plumbing, fix a hole in the wall…etc). Not long after I graduated in ‘95, I heard they dropped the class making room for “more important” subjects. Frustratingly unfortunate. I have a Nephew who’s currently a Junior in College, did not know how to write a check or balance his account after he graduated in High School. My sister had to take him aside to show him. Fortunately, he was able to pick it up very quickly. I hope people will start realizing how important these classes are!

This point about not using "I" was made to me by a recruiter. He said to try and train yourself to use sentences without pronouns. For example "I can do this task by using my proficiency in programming with such and such software" should be "This task can be done by using such and such programming languages". It's not always advisable, specifically when the question is about "you" (like in an interview), but this is a piece of useful advice overall.

12:38 I've been in what some would consider black face. I needed to be as black as possible (clothes, skin, hat, ect) because I was assisting a puppeteer controlling puppets in a show. Basically you want everything to blend into the black background of the stage so while controlling the puppets your are not seen. It was honestly one of the coolest experiences of my life. So black face is not always racist.

That "locked from the outside" stairway is a massive FIRE SAFETY ISSUE, fairly sure the fines for that would bury many companies

I remember in one interview, they asked us to do various games cause it was a group interview, such as "we have these tags that you have to try to get off of us using different approaches" and "here is an object, make a commercial around it", etc. They may seem pointless, but I found that it really loosened me up during the interview, making me less nervous and able to speak clearly/rationally when the proper interview questions started.

That underground wandering story reminds me of the time my godfather walked with me through the Genentech plaza in California. Let me know if you want to hear the story. It’s similar in its confounding nature.

2:30 that's false imprisonment, not kidnapping; still illegal

In HS, I only got one class period to try to fill out taxes forms, bugeting, how to buy a house, and all the popular kids trying to hype the teacher to talk about something else. One period.Very informative smh

I 100% agree about the need for an 'adulting' class in the High School core curriculum.