Job Applicants Who Walked Out of Interviews Share Their Stories

Putting out fires

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The interviewer gets on the Zoom call and immediately makes a point about how he “only has 30 minutes” for this interview – but then right as he ends that sentence, as if on cue – he gets a call, supposedly from a client.

He bumbles out something about having to “put out a fire,” then places me on mute, but leaves his video on.

After watching him happily (and with zero apparent urgency) yap at whoever it was for approximately seven minutes, I hung up. Felt damn good too, because that was the first time I ever did that, and can remember a time when I would have continued sitting there.

A whole 40 minutes later, I get an email with the subject “Apologies,” where he reiterates his apparent (and vague) need to “put out a fire” but reassures me that he is now ready for the interview.

I simply wrote back “no thanks,” when I really wanted to write back how much of an inconsiderate prick he is.

/FuzzyBear1982

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