Hello
Just wanted to share a recent experience of mine. An in house recruitment lady phoned me to get me to go and interview for a role, I wasn’t that interested in it but the money was very good, it was in sales, so I decided to go anyway, I took a day off work to go since it was about an hour away and went along in a nice suit.
When I got there I had to wait for the manager for about half an hour. He eventually came in and offered me a glass of water so I said “yes thank you” and he went off to the other room to get us both one. When he came back he sat down and said “I don’t see any reason why you should get this job”, I was a bit stunned at that and just said “excuse me?” And he repeated it adding “we can stop the interview now or we can continue anyway, what do you want to do?”.
So immediately I decided there was absolutely no way I wanted to work for this prick so I asked to continue and managed to waste an hour of his time by just being obstructive and a bit of a prick myself. Eventually we finished and he said “I’m sorry but I don’t think this job is for you” and I said “no problem” and went home. Later in the day the recruitment lady phoned me expecting to hear that I had been hired, she was shocked when I told her what happened and didn’t know what to say, I said not to worry as I had no interest in working for that guy anyway. Never heard from them again. I’m not sure if it was a test or not but if it was, we both failed because I’ve got no intention of being treated like that on a daily basis.
Has anyone had a similar experience of being asked to interview and then being told basically straight up that it’s not happening?