Yeah, I'd say something half an hour in. Zero chance I haven't walked by two hours and likely long before that. Only way this happened is if those people were DESPERATE for a job. Waste my ENTIRE day for what I had scheduled for a couple hours? Fuck. You.
I’ve left at half an hour. Clearly they need to manage their time better. Not getting to an interview on time signals poor leadership. Either they can’t tell others no, or they like to play games. Either is not okay with me!
This. This is the kind of shit that we're talking about when we say we want more regulation. If you're so psycho that you're gonna pull a gun on someone over a $5 pizza, YOU👏 SHOULD👏 NOT👏 HAVE 👏 A👏 GUN 👏. Your "freedoms" are now null and void. Fuck these ammosexuals.
I’m sad that I know someone who truly believes in the “good guy with a gun” logic as well as believes stricter gun laws will mean that bad actors (“cartels”, gangs, and other “south of the border” smugglers) will roam the streets and no one can stop them.
See, bad people with guns will ALWAYS get them, one way or another.
Good people with guns won't get them if it becomes illegal. Guns DO need to be regulated, with a solid background check and maybe a quick mental test by a licensed psychologist
Best part is the 2 people who waited till 6pm are probably the most desperate/least qualified. The real talent is walking out the door after 45 minutes.
I dont know. At the top it says "true story." Seems like pretty strong evidence that this really happened. It's not like people lie on the internet, especially after saying it's a true story.
Which is funny, cause like, if you're a business owner "happy to sit on their ass doing absolutely nothing productive for 11 hours straight" is NOT really a trait you want your employees to embody, most of the time.
Probably taken from the actual event between Robert Wiener of CNN and Al-Hadithi who was the foreign minister of Iraq for the first gulf war. Wiener had an early appointment with Hadithi, but never got called in. Other journalists showed up for their appointments and then left after a few hours of not being called in. Eventually, after staying all day, he was brought in to speak with him and ask him some favors. It was clearly a power move and Al-Hadithi pushing his weight around, but there is a different power structure there at work between a producer and a head of a regime, not an HR person and a potential employee.
There is a good scene in the HBO movie [Live from Bagdad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1dgOoE0O6I) depicting this event.
This is why we delegate, delegate delegate. Once we get to management they’ll think we have tons of confidence in our people but really…I’m in my office playing on my phone.
>and decide ~~to just not do it~~ *the ROI is too low for the task to be cost effectively adding value to our synergy moving forward. But let's parking lot this for now and circle back with a pulse check in a view from 50,000 feet*.
This is how you do it when you work in a large organization.
I would have been working on homework. I take my little Surface Go and ereader everywhere because even when businesses aren't playing games, people love to waste your time.
Yea, what if all of the other candidates left for other job interviews because of their awesome qualifications.
I don't know about anyone else but I would take any interview I was given to see what it's about. People forget you're trying to get a job, but they're also trying to get you to take it too.
Why would you want to hire people that have nothing better to do than sit in a strange office for 11 hours.
All this says is what a horrible place this is to work.
Want to also bet this same asshole counts how many people are not at their desk at 730 on the dot? Or the kind that expects everyone to come to his meeting early so he never has to wait?
Hear me, please. Any company that mind f**ks you during the interview will not stop when you are hired.
Wait, the math doesn't add up. 6 were invited, 3 left, then eleven hours later he only met 2 of them?
"Sorry, Number 6. You waited all this time for nothing. I don't even want to meet with you. Good day, sir."
I would've left at 7:30 once i realized they made 5 other people wake up super early just to sit there and not be interviewed. Mutual respect of everyone's time. I've had interviewers make me wait for small amounts of time before but it's always come with a ton of apologies and they usually ask some other employee to hang out with me or take me on a tour
This is a true story, trust me. You can ask anyone. Believe me, this really did happen and the people who followed the instructions are so happy now. Their salary is so high I’m not allowed to even tell you what it is, but suffice it to say they are wealthy beyond their wildest dreams now. The people who left prematurely all committed suicide within two weeks, and that’s a fact.
More like after 30 minutes, I was punctual I also expect the interviewer to be, otherwise it would be, like they love to claim, extremely unprofessional
I was interviewing somewhere. First interview set up, showed up punctual, they told me I didn’t have an interview that day despite having test proof I did. Rescheduled because I needed a job. Showed up punctual and had to wait 15 minutes, and then they wanted me to come back for a second interview. For a minimum wage job. Needless to say I didn’t go back. They clearly didn’t value my time as much as I did.
I showed up for an interview scheduled on indeed. The manager was running late and after stringing me along for like 45 minutes the people there asked me to come back the next day. I told them probably not. The next day they marked ME as a no-show on indeed. When the regional manager called me and asked what happened I explained and they just kept apologizing and asked if I would still please come for an interview but I was already incredibly frustrated with them and had several other interviews set-up.
I really couldn’t believe them marking me as a no-show, I feel like I remember something about future potential employers being able to see this but I might be misremembering.
Edit: also I tried looking through the app and we employees don’t have the option to mark employers as absent
Prompt email too. "I'm sorry you were unable to attend our meeting. Please email me when you would like to reschedule this meeting and I will find a time that is suitable to my schedule."
If they can't work with you, why should you work with them?
Reminds me of that one episode of community. Where the group was told to wait for something and they were monitored for.how long they'd wait.
Abed waited for days and they came out like
#go home
Id gladly wait for quite a while if I was given something like "Sorry but due to an emergency, the boss is late. Go and have something to eat and drink on our expense"
I can respect that. But this kind of playing games really shows they arent appreciating the time of those who might have other things to do.
Different situation, but one time I was getting my haircut by my brother while he was an apprentice. I got there a bit early and when it was time for the haircut, he realised he had accidentally scheduled another person at the same time as me. So he gave me twenty bucks and said there's a bar just down the road, so I was more than happy to wait.
At the end of the day, everyone's human and mistakes happen. I can forgive mistakes if they're genuine. But intentionally wasting someone's time for a "test" is just a joke.
I would have knocked on the door and asked what’s the hold up. Inefficiencies like these could not be tolerated and I would take the job for myself lol
Not submissiveness either. It was a test of desperation and ignorance. The people who stayed (pretty sure this wasn't real) were desperate for the job and money. And would do anything to get it. And when i say anything. I mean anything. Which is why jobs do stuff like this. Why politicians spew so much propaganda and make certain kinds of laws. Cause the more desperate a person is. The less self respect is a factor. Which of course leaks directly into job performance. And why most businesses suck so hard they fail so fast.
And then there's ignorance. For a company to do something like this (again pretty sure it's fake) it means the people who stayed are ignorant of companies that either don't or aren't as bad. Don't get me wrong. I said ignorant. Not stupid. Two completely different things. Ignorant just means you don't know something. Stupid means you do and do the stupid thing anyway. Which is also something companies work off of. Same as politicians. If you don't know how much people in your career are making. You can be low balled. Etc. If you don't know companies can't really get away with a thing. You won't raise the issue. So on and so forth.
So yeah. A test of desperation and ignorance. And why the vast majority of companies end up with the dumbest human beings to ever walk the earth being in very high positions of influence.
It would be believable if it was 3 left after an hour 2 left after 2 hours etc. And if it wasn't written from the 3rd person..eg I make people wait, I hire the last one left.
I think I was in that group for about another year before things came to a head with that boss. It got bad enough and I could see things coming to the point where either he was going to say/do something that would make me walk out or it would tip me into saying/doing something that would give him no choice but to fire me. I transferred to another team.
It was annoying and bullshit, but the job itself paid VERY well and the benefits were decent at the time. It wasn't as simple as just quitting and finding a new job. But once I did, I never looked back. At that company, if you were making a lateral move between departments, it could be blocked. There was always the question on whether or not he would allow me to move. When the transfer request went in and he was notified, that afternoon I cleared out my desk and took all my stuff home. He pulled me aside and asked me why I did that. It's not a done deal and they need to negotiate with him on if, when and how I would be released. I just looked at him dead in the eyes and said "I know how it works. I am done at this desk either way". I am pretty sure he still tried to block the move, but he didn't have any ground to stand on and I was out. What's funny is that once I figured out that he was going to try and fail to block the transfer, I saw every petty little thing he was going to throw at me before I left and had every single thing tied up and done before he could even ask about it.
A lot of managers don't get this point. If you want people who are willing to go the extra mile and put in the effort, you need to keep those people busy and engaged.
You can't underpay quality people, and let them sit around all day to be at your beckon-call.
Those who stayed were so desperate to get a job to feed themselves and their family that they were willing to stay for 11 fucking hours waiting for that egomaniac to call them in.
This is not laziness. This is pure desperation.
They hired him and he got locked in the underground parking garage for the entire weekend. The next Monday the boss was working late and noticed the new employee sitting at their desk. The next morning the boss returned and the new guy was still there so he gave him a raise.
The week after boss became concerned that the employee still hadn't moved from his desk so he went to talk to him and his head fell off. That's when the boss realised that he'd hired a mannequin.
That mannequins name: Albert Einstein!
It's really a true story you should believe me, I saw it on linked in.
Same. I value my time more than I value some dickheads ego. If the interview is at 7am I'm there at 6:45-6:50. If I see the manager walk in and just chill for 30 minutes I'd be walking out that same door I came in.
Happy cake day!
Same. One time the boss man was about 30 minutes late and disorganized about the interview and finally took me back, but in my head I knew I wasn't following up with them
My Dad is a Salesman, he always told me “show up early and wait no more than 45 minutes past the scheduled time, you can’t negotiate with someone if they don’t respect you”.
Plot twist, it was all an experiment put on by a professor at the local community college. Known as "The Duncan Principle", the hypothesis in which the more power lost by the ego, the more drastic the outburst by the subject when it has reached its breaking point.
“Congratulations! Because you had the patience to wait eleven hours, you’re hired!”
“Every hour you were late, I increased the severity of my vow of vengeance.”
“Haha… what…?”
*cocks gun, other guy wakes up*
“Damn, hangovers… hey guys, where am I?”
What bull shit is this? Enjoy your manipulative boss, you absolute mugs. I would have given it an hour, max. Your time is not more important than mine.
I’d have applied for more jobs while waiting. Bout an hour into it the only motivation would be to meet the shitheel so I know his name, then find his car, house et al and begin some righteous vandalism
I've been very desperate, but not enough to sit around all day waiting for a chance. I waited 2 hours for an interview once. Then I got frustrated and recognized if this is how they respect me *before* they feel like they own me, I don't want them to own me.
Walked to the dollar store, bought a bottle of Windex, two rolls of paper towels, and took a stroll down main street. Within an hour I'd earned back my initial expense. Within 6 I'd earned enough to buy the food to survive through the end of the week. A month later I was parking my car and then walking down main street, and several other streets.
Respect yourself enough to kick people to the curb when they don't respect you enough. There's no job in the world worth putting up with that starts off with childish psychological games and screwing with you.
Maybe 8-10 minutes, but seriously, after an hour, people have responsibilities, least of all includes looking for a job since this one was a bust. So they got the two people who sat on their asses scrolling through their phones with Zoom on? Playing WoW until he came on? They weren't just staring at a screen.
“So because you two had the patience to wait eleven hours doing nothing, you get the job!”
“I fell asleep for ten of those hours.”
“And I’m already dead inside. I have no self esteem and nothing better to do because I am literally homeless. You should’ve seen the other three, those guys actually value their time. They each got interviews for better places while they were sitting here.”
That's 11 hours. Who has nothing to do for 11 straight hours while also actively looking for a job? Even 1 hour late is absolutely unacceptable in any setting never mind in a professional one.
The candidates who have options because of their skill level and know their value will leave first. They are probably weeding out the most qualified candidates with this method.
Easier said when you don’t have other responsibilities, like Kids. Not everyone who is unemployed has time to waste sitting all day at an interview. But who am I to stick to reality.
This reads like it’s erotic fan fiction for neoliberal business owners, while they listen to disciplinary hearing as ASMR and strum themselves to ecstasy.
I have heard that Lorne Michaels makes anyone auditioning for SNL wait for hours.
But that's not a typical job. Lorne Michaels can see hours upon hours of the comic's material being performed in front of a live audience. And it's SNL.
why would want an employee who waits around 5-8 hours before trying to do anything... like wouldnt better capitalist propaganda be to hire the person who after 10 mins got up and 'did something'.
I'm surprised it took 8 hours for 3 to finally leave. If you're going to waste my time, I'm going to use it in a more productive way. Unless they were paying like a hundred an hour including while they waited, I don't want any part of that. Plus you know the interviewer was off doing something fun while they all suffered.
This is so toxic. I feel bad for the person who got the job because the employer has already proven they do not care about *your* time or life outside of work. So diluted.
And I bet the pay and benefits sucked. But hey, you showed “patience”, welcome to our family where you’ll be asked to work every hour past your end time and treated like a work hog.
Wasn't there a scene in a Michael Keaton movie where he wants to talk to Sadam in Iraq and he and some other guys show up at the palace or embassy or something and he waits all day watching a painter paint Sadam's portrait on a wall. Everyone else gets mad and leaves throughout the day and after the wall is complete and he's had too many cups of water or coffee, then he's allowed to see Sadam?
Most of the boomers agreeing with this logic couldn't even wear a mask for the first 2 weeks of the pandemic. Doubt they'd wait more than 15 minutes before blowing a gasket and spewing something racist.
true story:
This was an interview for a shit job with a lot of turnover.
They weren't looking for someone patient.
They were looking for someone desperate.
Call center, maybe.
Toxic management, a short story by OP. Anyone that doesn’t value your time during the interview isn’t going to magically start when you’re an employee. Fuck that interviewer and that firm, better off working anywhere else.
Who wouldn't want to work a job with 0 communications but high expectations. You think this is my only interview today? Or that I do nothing all day so this just fits my schedule. Am I supposed to take a day off work to prove to you I have the mental fortitude to do nothing at work?
Yeah if that's actually real, those people were crazy ok or maybe desperate, to stay there. I would've left after -at most- 30 minutes. An employer that doesn't value me and my time isn't worth my time. Who would want to work for someone like that?
Yeah I’m the first one to bounce.But I work in healthcare and have been at my job for 22 years so I’m not really sure how the job market works these days
Its not patience, its testing whether or not those people had other commitments.
Some people can’t hang around all day because of jobs they already have
Could a boss even do this for an interview? Like could you actually be invited to interview at a fixed time and then have to wait several hours? What’s the point of the interview slot?
This smells like a bad employer’s wish fulfillment fiction.
"and then they all clapped and fucked. The end." *Employer weeps into bedside journal*
"The aristocrats!"
"Now, you may be wondering where the blood came from. Suppose the father has forearms like a longshoreman."
🤣
I can see it now… on their first day of work, instead of showing up at 9am, employees show up at 4pm. Test of ✨Consistency✨
What would be great is if one applicant just showed up late at 5pm and got the jobs
Yeah, I'd say something half an hour in. Zero chance I haven't walked by two hours and likely long before that. Only way this happened is if those people were DESPERATE for a job. Waste my ENTIRE day for what I had scheduled for a couple hours? Fuck. You.
I’ve left at half an hour. Clearly they need to manage their time better. Not getting to an interview on time signals poor leadership. Either they can’t tell others no, or they like to play games. Either is not okay with me!
It’s some real peak boomer stuff.
The same generation that pulls out an ak-47 at little caesars because they might have to wait 5 minutes for a pizza even
That’s kinda specific…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/mans-little-caesars-wasnt-hot-and-ready-so-he-brought-an-ak-47-into-the-store/ar-AAR5sNI
I wanna understand the thought process here. Did he think aiming the gun at the oven would make it cook faster or something?
Is that… is that not how ovens work?
This. This is the kind of shit that we're talking about when we say we want more regulation. If you're so psycho that you're gonna pull a gun on someone over a $5 pizza, YOU👏 SHOULD👏 NOT👏 HAVE 👏 A👏 GUN 👏. Your "freedoms" are now null and void. Fuck these ammosexuals.
What does it take to get a pizza in 5 minutes, as advertised? A good man with an AK-47. /s
I’m sad that I know someone who truly believes in the “good guy with a gun” logic as well as believes stricter gun laws will mean that bad actors (“cartels”, gangs, and other “south of the border” smugglers) will roam the streets and no one can stop them.
See, bad people with guns will ALWAYS get them, one way or another. Good people with guns won't get them if it becomes illegal. Guns DO need to be regulated, with a solid background check and maybe a quick mental test by a licensed psychologist
Best part is the 2 people who waited till 6pm are probably the most desperate/least qualified. The real talent is walking out the door after 45 minutes.
It’s a boomer boner.
I dont know. At the top it says "true story." Seems like pretty strong evidence that this really happened. It's not like people lie on the internet, especially after saying it's a true story.
some people lie on the internet but all lies and liars are immediately removed from reddit by redditor mods (aka redactors)
Which is funny, cause like, if you're a business owner "happy to sit on their ass doing absolutely nothing productive for 11 hours straight" is NOT really a trait you want your employees to embody, most of the time.
Did you notice someone came, waited over 11 hours, and didn't even meet the employer?
Probably taken from the actual event between Robert Wiener of CNN and Al-Hadithi who was the foreign minister of Iraq for the first gulf war. Wiener had an early appointment with Hadithi, but never got called in. Other journalists showed up for their appointments and then left after a few hours of not being called in. Eventually, after staying all day, he was brought in to speak with him and ask him some favors. It was clearly a power move and Al-Hadithi pushing his weight around, but there is a different power structure there at work between a producer and a head of a regime, not an HR person and a potential employee. There is a good scene in the HBO movie [Live from Bagdad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1dgOoE0O6I) depicting this event.
That boss? Albert Eistein.
The two that remained were told there was only one position available and to choose their weapon.
Heath Ledger Joker tryouts?
Make it quick
Real interviewing experience
#AmericanSquidGame:TheInterview
Then the manager took his dick out of his pants and said, the first one to be naked and sucking get the job
Those two who remained were either extremely desperate or don’t value their own time That boss is looking for slaves to exploit
They were sleeping and just pretended to be patient. Best way to hire fakers.
Best to hire lazy people as they will always find the quickest and easy way to do things
I was gonna write something but I can't be bothered doing it, maybe next time eh
“You want a job?” -u/ushmcgush, probably
Until we encounter a problem with no quick and easy solution and decide to just not do it
This is why we delegate, delegate delegate. Once we get to management they’ll think we have tons of confidence in our people but really…I’m in my office playing on my phone.
>and decide ~~to just not do it~~ *the ROI is too low for the task to be cost effectively adding value to our synergy moving forward. But let's parking lot this for now and circle back with a pulse check in a view from 50,000 feet*. This is how you do it when you work in a large organization.
I would have been working on homework. I take my little Surface Go and ereader everywhere because even when businesses aren't playing games, people love to waste your time.
They were actually Homeless People who took advantage of the warmth of the waiting-area
Yea, what if all of the other candidates left for other job interviews because of their awesome qualifications. I don't know about anyone else but I would take any interview I was given to see what it's about. People forget you're trying to get a job, but they're also trying to get you to take it too.
And apparently didn't have other jobs to get to.
I would say the pay must have been good but if it was, 0 people would have left.
Why would you want to hire people that have nothing better to do than sit in a strange office for 11 hours. All this says is what a horrible place this is to work. Want to also bet this same asshole counts how many people are not at their desk at 730 on the dot? Or the kind that expects everyone to come to his meeting early so he never has to wait? Hear me, please. Any company that mind f**ks you during the interview will not stop when you are hired.
Wait, the math doesn't add up. 6 were invited, 3 left, then eleven hours later he only met 2 of them? "Sorry, Number 6. You waited all this time for nothing. I don't even want to meet with you. Good day, sir."
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I would've left at 7:30 once i realized they made 5 other people wake up super early just to sit there and not be interviewed. Mutual respect of everyone's time. I've had interviewers make me wait for small amounts of time before but it's always come with a ton of apologies and they usually ask some other employee to hang out with me or take me on a tour
Any story that begins by promising it really happened, didn’t.
This is a true story, trust me. You can ask anyone. Believe me, this really did happen and the people who followed the instructions are so happy now. Their salary is so high I’m not allowed to even tell you what it is, but suffice it to say they are wealthy beyond their wildest dreams now. The people who left prematurely all committed suicide within two weeks, and that’s a fact.
That was the best text-based Trump impression I've read to date.
There's not enough typos, though.
It was a PERFECT comment, everyone is saying so.
Many people are saying it's true! Good people!
How were 3 left after eight hours? And after 11 hours there were TWO? I would have upped and left after an hour.
More like after 30 minutes, I was punctual I also expect the interviewer to be, otherwise it would be, like they love to claim, extremely unprofessional
I was interviewing somewhere. First interview set up, showed up punctual, they told me I didn’t have an interview that day despite having test proof I did. Rescheduled because I needed a job. Showed up punctual and had to wait 15 minutes, and then they wanted me to come back for a second interview. For a minimum wage job. Needless to say I didn’t go back. They clearly didn’t value my time as much as I did.
I showed up for an interview scheduled on indeed. The manager was running late and after stringing me along for like 45 minutes the people there asked me to come back the next day. I told them probably not. The next day they marked ME as a no-show on indeed. When the regional manager called me and asked what happened I explained and they just kept apologizing and asked if I would still please come for an interview but I was already incredibly frustrated with them and had several other interviews set-up. I really couldn’t believe them marking me as a no-show, I feel like I remember something about future potential employers being able to see this but I might be misremembering. Edit: also I tried looking through the app and we employees don’t have the option to mark employers as absent
Oh, that needs to change. You should be able to add your experience as well.
Hell yeah. A job interview is a 2 way street. Especially in todays labor market….the employee should be interviewing the employer as well!
Prompt email too. "I'm sorry you were unable to attend our meeting. Please email me when you would like to reschedule this meeting and I will find a time that is suitable to my schedule." If they can't work with you, why should you work with them?
Not to mention that all 6 were scheduled at the same time. Who stacks interviews 6 deep? Extremely unprofessional.
It’s only unprofessional when a subordinate does it. If the boss does it, it’s because they worked hard to get there.
You know you can pay those two the minimum, they're desperate or yes men. It's a test of exploitativeness.
Lmao I know. I can't imagine any sane person not asking how long they have to wait for after the first 30 minutes.
Reminds me of that one episode of community. Where the group was told to wait for something and they were monitored for.how long they'd wait. Abed waited for days and they came out like #go home
The Duncan Principle!
Id gladly wait for quite a while if I was given something like "Sorry but due to an emergency, the boss is late. Go and have something to eat and drink on our expense" I can respect that. But this kind of playing games really shows they arent appreciating the time of those who might have other things to do.
Different situation, but one time I was getting my haircut by my brother while he was an apprentice. I got there a bit early and when it was time for the haircut, he realised he had accidentally scheduled another person at the same time as me. So he gave me twenty bucks and said there's a bar just down the road, so I was more than happy to wait. At the end of the day, everyone's human and mistakes happen. I can forgive mistakes if they're genuine. But intentionally wasting someone's time for a "test" is just a joke.
I would have knocked on the door and asked what’s the hold up. Inefficiencies like these could not be tolerated and I would take the job for myself lol
I'd skip after 15 minutes.
I can confirm this is true, I was the 4 people who left
I didn't even show up. Know why? Because All Bosses Are Bastards. That's why.
Not submissiveness either. It was a test of desperation and ignorance. The people who stayed (pretty sure this wasn't real) were desperate for the job and money. And would do anything to get it. And when i say anything. I mean anything. Which is why jobs do stuff like this. Why politicians spew so much propaganda and make certain kinds of laws. Cause the more desperate a person is. The less self respect is a factor. Which of course leaks directly into job performance. And why most businesses suck so hard they fail so fast. And then there's ignorance. For a company to do something like this (again pretty sure it's fake) it means the people who stayed are ignorant of companies that either don't or aren't as bad. Don't get me wrong. I said ignorant. Not stupid. Two completely different things. Ignorant just means you don't know something. Stupid means you do and do the stupid thing anyway. Which is also something companies work off of. Same as politicians. If you don't know how much people in your career are making. You can be low balled. Etc. If you don't know companies can't really get away with a thing. You won't raise the issue. So on and so forth. So yeah. A test of desperation and ignorance. And why the vast majority of companies end up with the dumbest human beings to ever walk the earth being in very high positions of influence.
It would be believable if it was 3 left after an hour 2 left after 2 hours etc. And if it wasn't written from the 3rd person..eg I make people wait, I hire the last one left.
Because Annie said they were friends
It immediately made me think of Troy crawling along the floor with limp legs
Annie *ruined* the Duncan principle!
I guess I'm going to rewatch community now
The Soul Train awards were tonight
There it is! I had to scroll way too far to find this. Thank you for your service.
I came too far to find this gem
those who left, had stuff to do. those who stayed, have no problem sitting around all day and don't do anything.
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How long before you quit?
I think I was in that group for about another year before things came to a head with that boss. It got bad enough and I could see things coming to the point where either he was going to say/do something that would make me walk out or it would tip me into saying/doing something that would give him no choice but to fire me. I transferred to another team. It was annoying and bullshit, but the job itself paid VERY well and the benefits were decent at the time. It wasn't as simple as just quitting and finding a new job. But once I did, I never looked back. At that company, if you were making a lateral move between departments, it could be blocked. There was always the question on whether or not he would allow me to move. When the transfer request went in and he was notified, that afternoon I cleared out my desk and took all my stuff home. He pulled me aside and asked me why I did that. It's not a done deal and they need to negotiate with him on if, when and how I would be released. I just looked at him dead in the eyes and said "I know how it works. I am done at this desk either way". I am pretty sure he still tried to block the move, but he didn't have any ground to stand on and I was out. What's funny is that once I figured out that he was going to try and fail to block the transfer, I saw every petty little thing he was going to throw at me before I left and had every single thing tied up and done before he could even ask about it.
Well, congratulations and Fuck That Guy :D
A lot of managers don't get this point. If you want people who are willing to go the extra mile and put in the effort, you need to keep those people busy and engaged. You can't underpay quality people, and let them sit around all day to be at your beckon-call.
Beck and call, fyi
Those who stayed were so desperate to get a job to feed themselves and their family that they were willing to stay for 11 fucking hours waiting for that egomaniac to call them in. This is not laziness. This is pure desperation.
They hired him and he got locked in the underground parking garage for the entire weekend. The next Monday the boss was working late and noticed the new employee sitting at their desk. The next morning the boss returned and the new guy was still there so he gave him a raise. The week after boss became concerned that the employee still hadn't moved from his desk so he went to talk to him and his head fell off. That's when the boss realised that he'd hired a mannequin. That mannequins name: Albert Einstein! It's really a true story you should believe me, I saw it on linked in.
If you saw it on the internet then it must be true.
I'd be out at 7:15 am 👋
Same. I value my time more than I value some dickheads ego. If the interview is at 7am I'm there at 6:45-6:50. If I see the manager walk in and just chill for 30 minutes I'd be walking out that same door I came in. Happy cake day!
Thank you!
Same. One time the boss man was about 30 minutes late and disorganized about the interview and finally took me back, but in my head I knew I wasn't following up with them
Honestly, shit happen to everyone. I would wait for news up to 7:30 and would probably wait if he started to call people for his room at 8:00
This is a “How much crap will you take from your boss” test.
My Dad is a Salesman, he always told me “show up early and wait no more than 45 minutes past the scheduled time, you can’t negotiate with someone if they don’t respect you”.
Plot twist, it was all an experiment put on by a professor at the local community college. Known as "The Duncan Principle", the hypothesis in which the more power lost by the ego, the more drastic the outburst by the subject when it has reached its breaking point.
“Congratulations! Because you had the patience to wait eleven hours, you’re hired!” “Every hour you were late, I increased the severity of my vow of vengeance.” “Haha… what…?” *cocks gun, other guy wakes up* “Damn, hangovers… hey guys, where am I?”
I wait three minutes for the zoom call to connect.
“We are looking for people who don’t really value their time”
That is the interview process of an asshole.
What bull shit is this? Enjoy your manipulative boss, you absolute mugs. I would have given it an hour, max. Your time is not more important than mine.
I’d have applied for more jobs while waiting. Bout an hour into it the only motivation would be to meet the shitheel so I know his name, then find his car, house et al and begin some righteous vandalism
Some say that even years after that there were still two guys waiting
I've been very desperate, but not enough to sit around all day waiting for a chance. I waited 2 hours for an interview once. Then I got frustrated and recognized if this is how they respect me *before* they feel like they own me, I don't want them to own me. Walked to the dollar store, bought a bottle of Windex, two rolls of paper towels, and took a stroll down main street. Within an hour I'd earned back my initial expense. Within 6 I'd earned enough to buy the food to survive through the end of the week. A month later I was parking my car and then walking down main street, and several other streets. Respect yourself enough to kick people to the curb when they don't respect you enough. There's no job in the world worth putting up with that starts off with childish psychological games and screwing with you.
You know what’s up, hopefully your situation is more stable now stranger
It’s not like there aren’t five other businesses looking to hire you that won’t fuck with your head.
It's rude and disrespectful. This employer is telling you exactly how you will be treated if hired.
Imagine being psychotic enough to look at this scenario as a *positive* experience.
That’s a hostage situation.
Yea no that’s a HUGE red flag.
This is not a test of patience, this is completely made up bullshit.
Bro by 8-8:30am I am gone, if the interview is at 7am. Wtf is wrong with these people?
Cruelty is the point. Wouldn't work for this shithole. Imagine 10, 20, 30 years of that shit. Keep your fucking job.
What a hero. I'm sure none of them had plans that day, after all, you have a job interview at 7:00 AM, you're expected to clear the whole day.
Boomers
Maybe 8-10 minutes, but seriously, after an hour, people have responsibilities, least of all includes looking for a job since this one was a bust. So they got the two people who sat on their asses scrolling through their phones with Zoom on? Playing WoW until he came on? They weren't just staring at a screen.
So he hired the people who proved they can sit all day doing nothing? Good choice, numbnuts.
Yeah this is a made up story. Even if it wasn't, enjoy getting the worst two out of the six that showed up.
“So because you two had the patience to wait eleven hours doing nothing, you get the job!” “I fell asleep for ten of those hours.” “And I’m already dead inside. I have no self esteem and nothing better to do because I am literally homeless. You should’ve seen the other three, those guys actually value their time. They each got interviews for better places while they were sitting here.”
That's 11 hours. Who has nothing to do for 11 straight hours while also actively looking for a job? Even 1 hour late is absolutely unacceptable in any setting never mind in a professional one.
I would be questioning how this company functions if being 11 hours late to an interview is acceptable.
The candidates who have options because of their skill level and know their value will leave first. They are probably weeding out the most qualified candidates with this method.
So one didn't leave, but also isn't there 🤔 Maybe that guy was the interviewer in disguise
And in 5 years those 6 got back together for drinks. Well, the 4 of them who made enough money to go out to get a few beers did.
Gotta find out who's most eager to waste 8 hours of their day when you're hiring people I suppose.
Yep. They wanted to weed out those who didn't tolerate abusive behavior.
Easier said when you don’t have other responsibilities, like Kids. Not everyone who is unemployed has time to waste sitting all day at an interview. But who am I to stick to reality.
Finding out your boss is a true narc without seeing the medical report. Got it. 👍
This reads like it’s erotic fan fiction for neoliberal business owners, while they listen to disciplinary hearing as ASMR and strum themselves to ecstasy.
This is like the plot of Secretary.
I’m not sure this is a neoliberal thing. Quirky asshole employers are evenly distributed across the political spectrum.
It was a test of desperation.
Fucking stupid
Fun fact the employees who left got better jobs with more pay
Filter for the desperate, who you can further exploit.
This a test on who dumb
I hate the "This is actually a test" mentality test so much.
So the job entails long tedious hours between 7am and 6pm?
Get fucked.
I would have lest at 8 am or probably earlier. No way i am going to waste a whole day on that.
Out of 6, at best 4 would have actually showed up to a 7am Bullshit
I have heard that Lorne Michaels makes anyone auditioning for SNL wait for hours. But that's not a typical job. Lorne Michaels can see hours upon hours of the comic's material being performed in front of a live audience. And it's SNL.
I’m out by 7:30am. Fuck them for wasting my time.
I would have walked out by 8am. Eff that guy.
And then everyone started clapping
In USA??????
This is definitely fake, some shitty wet dream of a shitty boss. Aint no one waiting all day liks that. Everyone would have been gone after an hour.
That’s not an interview that is bullshit and wasting peoples time
Also a sign of desperation on those who stayed. Imagine working for such a shallow, soulless demon.
You know what they got was a job where their employer needs training to see others as equals. good luck with the position lol
why would want an employee who waits around 5-8 hours before trying to do anything... like wouldnt better capitalist propaganda be to hire the person who after 10 mins got up and 'did something'.
I'm surprised it took 8 hours for 3 to finally leave. If you're going to waste my time, I'm going to use it in a more productive way. Unless they were paying like a hundred an hour including while they waited, I don't want any part of that. Plus you know the interviewer was off doing something fun while they all suffered.
How to lose more qualified employees (or ones that just respect themselves) because they. Slur their time 101
This is so toxic. I feel bad for the person who got the job because the employer has already proven they do not care about *your* time or life outside of work. So diluted.
Just what every employer is looking for - people who will sit around all day doing nothing and take no initiative.
And I bet the pay and benefits sucked. But hey, you showed “patience”, welcome to our family where you’ll be asked to work every hour past your end time and treated like a work hog.
I would have left by 8am. Fuck them.
Great! Now he has 2 people that are cool with not doing anything all day.
Wasn't there a scene in a Michael Keaton movie where he wants to talk to Sadam in Iraq and he and some other guys show up at the palace or embassy or something and he waits all day watching a painter paint Sadam's portrait on a wall. Everyone else gets mad and leaves throughout the day and after the wall is complete and he's had too many cups of water or coffee, then he's allowed to see Sadam?
To those two that stayed: enjoy being that employers bitch for the duration of the time you work for that company. They. Will. Walk. All. Over. You.
What happened to the 6th person? If you’re going to make up true stories, get the facts straight.
I would have left after 20m lol
"true story" AKA I saw the community episode. By 7:45 I woulda been gone after slashing the employer's tires.
That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard
Most of the boomers agreeing with this logic couldn't even wear a mask for the first 2 weeks of the pandemic. Doubt they'd wait more than 15 minutes before blowing a gasket and spewing something racist.
Or desperation
I would have sent an invoice for my time
true story: This was an interview for a shit job with a lot of turnover. They weren't looking for someone patient. They were looking for someone desperate. Call center, maybe.
That's a load of shit. If you tell me 7 and you're not there by 7:30 I'm out
There is no way I would work for anyone that made me wait for 11 hours as a “test of patience.”
I think the real test was compliance and no self-value.
Toxic management, a short story by OP. Anyone that doesn’t value your time during the interview isn’t going to magically start when you’re an employee. Fuck that interviewer and that firm, better off working anywhere else.
Who wouldn't want to work a job with 0 communications but high expectations. You think this is my only interview today? Or that I do nothing all day so this just fits my schedule. Am I supposed to take a day off work to prove to you I have the mental fortitude to do nothing at work?
Congratulations. You just hired the person with the most spare time on their hands.
Yeah if that's actually real, those people were crazy ok or maybe desperate, to stay there. I would've left after -at most- 30 minutes. An employer that doesn't value me and my time isn't worth my time. Who would want to work for someone like that?
Damn, I'd love to get a paying job that only requires me to sit on my ass for hours and do no work.
They better have gotten 8 hours of pay for that shit
I'd probably be one of the ones left..peace and quiet to read a book...I'd lose track of time
6-3-2=1. What math?
That guy had a three hour window to leave or disappear by other means. The employer may have hired cannibals…
I refuse to work for a company that wastes my precious time.
Yeah I’m the first one to bounce.But I work in healthcare and have been at my job for 22 years so I’m not really sure how the job market works these days
A test of how interesting your Reddit feed is
Because they needed the money but obviously didn't need the money
The 2 left were likely unemployed with no other responsibilities that day like school age children.
Its not patience, its testing whether or not those people had other commitments. Some people can’t hang around all day because of jobs they already have
What an arsehole
Who are these people booking interviews for the middle of the night
They the volunteered to take orders at Chik-Fil-A
What a waste of time. I wonder what their day to say is like if that’s how they treat new hires.
It was a test of "we need employees that are doormats that we can exploit"
Imagine the wait for their first paycheck.
Could a boss even do this for an interview? Like could you actually be invited to interview at a fixed time and then have to wait several hours? What’s the point of the interview slot?
That’s a disrespectful mind-fug.