So I recently actively started looking for employment again after being with the same company for 14 years and the one thing that has taken me by surprise is the arrogance and invasive questioning of interviewers.
One asked me if I had any mental health problems within 5 minutes of the interview with all the attitude as if he was asking me my shoe size.
Another said, and I quote “I hope you have the sense to have been fully covid vaccinated”
Is this line of questioning normal in this day and age ? Are they allowed to ask such personal questions ?
I also had one possible employee get very annoyed when I had the audacity to decline his job offer after accepting an offer at a different company.
It’s kind of thrown me a bit. I get the impression that employers think I should be grateful for their time or something.
Would just like to get some views on this. For reference I’m based in the UK.