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Nuked an interview because “nobody wants to work anymore”.

When I was looking for another job so I could quit on my boss I had an interview at a paper plant. After burning up 2 good hours on my day off sitting through the guy's entire pitch he hit me with the immortal line. He asks “it seems like nowadays nobody wants to work anymore, what makes you want to work here.” He had already said some questionable shit earlier in the interview/tour, and a lot of red flags were going off. One of them was the fact that the fire alarm went off because there was so much dust in the air, and the biggest one being that he lied on the job posting about the pay and was only offering $18/hour when I was actively working a job that was paying me $32/hour. So I mentally threw my hands up decided to just tank the interview. I…


When I was looking for another job so I could quit on my boss I had an interview at a paper plant. After burning up 2 good hours on my day off sitting through the guy's entire pitch he hit me with the immortal line.

He asks “it seems like nowadays nobody wants to work anymore, what makes you want to work here.” He had already said some questionable shit earlier in the interview/tour, and a lot of red flags were going off. One of them was the fact that the fire alarm went off because there was so much dust in the air, and the biggest one being that he lied on the job posting about the pay and was only offering $18/hour when I was actively working a job that was paying me $32/hour.

So I mentally threw my hands up decided to just tank the interview. I asked if he would do the job that I was interviewing for for $500,000 a year, of course he said yes. I asked him if he would have more people to interview if the job was listed at $500,000 a year, he said “probably”. I say “so it's probably not that people don't want to work this job, but more that people don't want to work this job at this price.”

Honestly he looked bewildered and just muttered “so I take it you aren't interested in the job?” I said that I would openly accept the position for $35/hour got up, shook his hand, and walked out.

I essentially gave him an F you and expected to never hear from him again, but the guy has the audacity to call me a few days later and tell me that he got the ok from his boss to hire me at a whole $20/hour. I laughed, thanked him for the opportunity and said no thank you.

Tl;dr: set the interview on fire somehow get offered the job still.

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