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The fastest interview ever

So when I was still looking for a job, I had an interview for a fast food chain. I had an appointment at 8am and I showed up in time, but I found out at that moment that it was some kind of speed-dating interview and we were roughly 50 interviewees. I waited TWO hours and 45 minutes on my chair waiting for my name to be called and at that point I was so fed up that I gave all the wrong answers on purpose (such as saying I was very slow and messy) and the interview lasted approx. 2 minutes tops. The next day, I receive an email saying I'm hired, like a big “welcome to the family, we're waiting for you on monday!” kind of message which makes me drop my job searches for a while… … but just a couple of hours later I then receive…


So when I was still looking for a job, I had an interview for a fast food chain. I had an appointment at 8am and I showed up in time, but I found out at that moment that it was some kind of speed-dating interview and we were roughly 50 interviewees.

I waited TWO hours and 45 minutes on my chair waiting for my name to be called and at that point I was so fed up that I gave all the wrong answers on purpose (such as saying I was very slow and messy) and the interview lasted approx. 2 minutes tops.

The next day, I receive an email saying I'm hired, like a big “welcome to the family, we're waiting for you on monday!” kind of message which makes me drop my job searches for a while…
… but just a couple of hours later I then receive ANOTHER (!) mail saying that the previous one was a mistake, immediately followed by another message telling me I'm actually NOT hired.

Is it me or did everything go wrong from them?? I've never felt more disrespected from an interviewer ever. What do you guys think?

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