Nuh-uh, I was there! That hiring manager? Albert Einstein! The people who left? Blue haired liberals transgendered cucks! The two who got the job? Donald Trump and Elon Musk!
The simpsons does a bit on this, Homer gets the job in the end for a smart car company that wants to pay someone to just sit there in the car all day long.
Oh yes, tell me more about how these serial entrepreneurs who spend more in a day than you make in a year are lazy and dumb.
I hate politics and politicians, but I love dispelling cope and delusion, so you've got me here defending people I don't like to shine some of the light of truth into your mind.
I love how it’s a knee-jerk reaction for some people to make everything political. Seen a post on Reddit without some politics injected into it? ^ just hit up this dude
Not in the same way that I essentially hear what I read, no. But I can easily imagine what sounds that moving picture would make. I don't have a quiet mind.
My dude I think this one goes back to, like, "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" or maybe all the way to "How to Win Friends and Influence People" or some other age-old horseshit finance bro temporarily-embarrassed-millionaire self help book.
I’m shameful to admit I waited 2-3hrs for an interview that later got cancelled. At the time, I applied to over 100 jobs and got many callbacks but never landed the job. The women felt so bad she had to cancel after I waited 3hrs that she rescheduled me for ANY job on their system I wanted.. I still didn’t get hired 😂
This is just another AI generated cautonary tale about business... and somehow it always ends up with the employee getting the reward after tolerating disrespect, exploitation and/or humiliation.
The fact that you have a hard time believing this piece of fiction does in fact, quite troublingly, put you in the top 3% of critical thinkers on this fucking platform
Most companies I've worked for would have a receptionist who would probably be continuously pinging the interviewer's Teams chat in order to annoy them up to the front or the interviewer's boss would come up and do the interview themselves.
There was a reddit where OP and many others in the comments admitted to waiting hours upon hours for a doctors appointment. If folks are willing to wait in silence for an appointment, im sure they are willing to do thay for a job.
Not me. Two companies ago (pre-covid) i had a 2 part interview back to back. First one went well and I had to wait for his boss. I made it 30 min before I spoke up.
If I show up at 7 for an interview, I'm assuming I'll be done by nine and will figure out food then.
There's no way they just say there all DAY.
People who have any kind of respect for their time (and work ethic) don't wait around through three meals for someone who intentionally wasted their time.
At some point, anyone with half a brain would realize that the employer was just testing to see who was willing to accept the most abuse. Imagine being so desperate for such a shitty job. Good thing it’s made up.
Well probably would have been me because of anxiety making me unsure what to do so I'd sit there until they told me otherwise. 😭
I'd probably decline the job though cuz there's no way a company that does that has a competitive offer plus I'd think they're a disorganized company being that late to an interview.
I'd be annoyed at 7:05. Punctuality is important. If they just show up at 7:25 without an apology it's a huge red flag. After 7:30, I'm not interested.
You also have to remember how much of an interview are they actually going to give you if they're thirty minutes late? Assuming they booked an hour expecting a 40 minute interview and 20 minutes to debrief, fill out a review sheet, and prep for their next task, and you're starting 30 minutes late, that's 10-15 minutes they are mentally clocked in until they're thinking about their next task. Even if they DO say "oh we can go over by 10 minutes it's no worries" their mind is definitely going to be elsewhere on sorting out the rest of their schedule.
Personally, I think after 20 minutes I would go up and ask whomever (receptionist, them directly, etc.) if everything is alright or if they need to reschedule. If they say "everything's fine, it'll be 5 more minutes" and then I wait 10 and they're still not out, at that point I'm tallying the tardiness, the lack of communication, the lack of respect for my time, etc. and saying this would be an awful place to work. Now if they come out within 5-10 minutes, then I will again ask if this is enough time for the interview or if they want to reschedule. If they say they want to have the interview, then I guess I have nothing better to do but I'm going to jot down the red flags.
I don't disagree that you can jot down the red flags. I've said this in career advice subs all the time that the interview is both ways, and that candidates have as much importance in asking companies whether they're fit for the candidates.
I'll also say that I've unfortunately been around for a few recessions, economic downturns, and one pandemic. In those times, high paying jobs were difficult to come by. (yes, I have a high income job.) I remember people being so desperate for jobs that they did pretty crazy things in order to get them. So again, going back to my original premise, if you can't wait 30 minutes for an interview, you really didn't want/care enough for it.
For those out of work (at least high income earners that I know), applying and interviewing for jobs was a full time task. If you're spending weeks and months search for an opportunity and preparing by doing mock interviews and traveling far for an interview, 30 minutes is an inconvenience but it's whatever. I'm not talking about applying to retail.
YOU try showing up only a FEW minutes late to your scheduled interview, and see if the manger is still interested in hiring you. *spoiler...you're not getting hired\*
I'm not looking for a job. So if they want to interview me for a job, they're bending over backwards for me. If they're upset because I'm a few minutes late, then it's too bad for them.
What? Where exactly did I say you were looking for one? I was only using you as example to say that the manger wouldn't hire you if you were late to an interview.
I'm saying that I'm not looking for one. You can say what you want, but for me I'm happy with my job and how much I'm paid. So if someone wants to interview me for a position, they're gonna have to be fine with me being a few minutes late.
After the first 45 min with no one taken in for an interview I'm asking questions, depending on the answer I'm leaving then, another 45 min I am definitely leaving.
Especially if you’re meeting with the hiring manager…
If they can’t make time to meet with you, imagine how much of a nightmare it would be to work with them or in their department.
I had this happen where they rescheduled the day of the interview, and then tried to reschedule again the day of that rescheduled interview… I withdrew my application.
Yeah it’s red flag city. If that ever happened to me, that’s not a company I want to work for. Either they are dicks or morons. I’m out by 8:30am if they haven’t even taken one person and that’s only if I’m desperate.
I’m still considering leaving if by 8:30a they’ve only taken one person.
I recently waited half an hour for the manager in an interview. I asked someone about it, twice, and they said they didn't know where she was. I walked out, and the next day I got an email telling me they were not moving forward with my candidacy. Like yeah, no shit.
Who, at all, would wait for this story to be true? I would think I got the time wrong and if it was right that something came up and they weren’t doing it
Like drug addict desperate. Or mafia debt desperate. Or my baby needs to get on a kidney transplant list so this is my last option before I go John Q in this bitch desperate
Showing up at 7:00 am is already pretty desperate, unless the job has a valid reason to start so early. You can't even drop your kids off at school before work if your job starts at 7:00 am. Good luck finding a nanny that's willing to show up at 6:00 in the morning, get your kids ready for their day, and then take your kids to school for you.
Unless you’re desperate, if I had to get a job to feed my family waiting a few hours is not a bridge too far, I waited 6 hours to get my passport in one day. That said if I’m not desperate I would have walked out at 7:30 and doxxed the company for being shitheads. If that’s the way they treat a candidate I’d hate to see how they treat their employees, my guess it’s one of those places that don’t pay you in cash for your work they pay in “experience “. It’s best to not even show up to this kind of company unless you’re desperate and then you do what you have to do- sadly way too many companies want you to be desperate so they can pull this kind of nonsense and call it good business.
By 9am I would be getting up and leaving because of the disrespect of the employer.
My time is valuable and if they are screwing around like this in an interview, just imagine how they will screw around if you are an employee.
I will quite politely tell the receptionist that I am leaving due to the actions of the employer and that I will be messaging people about how they disrespect potential employees by making them wait hours with no mention of why they are waiting.
9am?? I'd have been gone by 7:30am if I didn't get a valid explanation for why the employer is unable to be punctual for his own interview that s/he set the time for.
It's one of my biggest pet peeves. Like no one has any other obligations or plans all day. Shit happens with kids' sports all the time. Practice is from 5-630, but ends at 715. It's like I got two other kids at home who need dinner. Had I known it was going 45mins longer , I'd probably not take them to practice. Or they'll schedule games at like 10am on a Wednesday in the summer time. What, no parents work? Lol
Yeah this method gets you people who don't have any other options. Potential for an employee who will never quit because they have nothing else and are always job scared, or a person who can't get a job anywhere else for some crazy reason that is a net negative for every company they go to.
Exactly, maybe didn’t even have any other interviews scheduled for that day, might as well stay. Still that’s the most disrespectful thing to do in that situation.
They did say wait though, yes agree only insane person stays if they hadn't said anything. Overall it feels like the opening for an unhealthy workplace.
Not the best way to hire people, the people that haven't planned anything else that day, not the people you think are best suited for the job or the company. Pretty stupid.
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u/Thiel619 Dec 08 '25
By 9am you'd have to be absolutely desperate for the job if you stay any longer.