Job Applicants Who Walked Out of Interviews Share Their Stories

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Twenty years ago I interviewed for a telemarketer position. Fundraising for a “disabled sports” event. It was a brand-new charity, very generic name, nobody had heard of it and this was the inaugural event.

Arrived at the interview.

It’s a family home in a residential neighborhood. Their call center was literally four phones on a table in their living room. The call list was pages photocopied straight from the Whitepages directory. And the sales pitch was an entire sheet of single-space text.

They couldn’t understand why it was nearly impossible to read out that much text in the two seconds before a person would hang up. I pruned the text and got in trouble for it. Walked out after four hours “for a break” and just kept on walking straight to the nearest bus stop.

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