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20 minutes late for interview; then racist

I applied for a job on the recommendation of a friend who worked at a community service organization. I got an interview and was then shoehorned into a particular interview time. I had childcare needs but the interviewer assured me it would be okay. She made me wait 20 minutes while on zoom to conduct the interview with me by which point my son, who was three, had nearly lost his s*** entirely and could not stay still, demanding every moment of my time. On the same interview call, the administrator interviewing me asked if I could truly do the job I was interviewing for because I was not the color of the people I would be serving. As an tenured educator in a urban school district I was appalled by this line of questioning. Needless to say I did not get the job, but the candidate they did hire…


I applied for a job on the recommendation of a friend who worked at a community service organization. I got an interview and was then shoehorned into a particular interview time. I had childcare needs but the interviewer assured me it would be okay. She made me wait 20 minutes while on zoom to conduct the interview with me by which point my son, who was three, had nearly lost his s*** entirely and could not stay still, demanding every moment of my time.

On the same interview call, the administrator interviewing me asked if I could truly do the job I was interviewing for because I was not the color of the people I would be serving. As an tenured educator in a urban school district I was appalled by this line of questioning. Needless to say I did not get the job, but the candidate they did hire left within the first month: that's karma mothers.

Sometimes the interview tells YOU that the job is not a good candidate. I'm back teaching and serving the same population, thank God I'm not doing it for that organization.

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