I once turned down a job because they said they would pay for the move but i had to pack myself....turned it down as it indicated to me previews of coming attractions.
As it turned out I started my own business instead and earn 3 times what the salary with them would have been.
All sweet talk before and after the interview...but look out when your actually hired or contracted! “You don’t ask questions during our interview! It’s rude!” Been there.
Anytime they say something like, “You’ll be joining our family” I run.
When your prospective boss calls you at home to explain the office politics. “There’s a rumor that I am sleeping with my office manager and there’s friction between her and the guy in finance because the rumor mill has me sleeping with him too.”
No,I didn’t take the job.
She forgot “Lie Detector Test.”
A good reason to NEVER accept unemployment benefits if at all possible. You are required to take any job offer if you are even marginally qualified.
I completely agree with #5 - companies asking for your past pay stubs is total bush league. I turned a job offer down from a large company years ago and took a better position because of this; I thought it was insulting. Since then I have worked with the offending company (rhymes with Mockheed Lartin) numerous times and found them to be a shining example of workplace mediocrity.
In high school, I interviewed for a job at Mrs. Field’s Cookies. The manager had me take the Myers-Briggs personality test. About 50 questions in, I turned the computer off and told the guy “it’s just selling cookies,” then walked out.
I did two interviews with a company and then they called me back and wanted a third interview. I told them to forget it. If they couldn’t make up their mind by the second interview, then they didn’t have a clue.
I refused a job from a big, well-respected clinic a few years ago. They asked me what my pay and benefits were at the current job. I told them. Then they offered me less pay with worse benefits. What an insult.
Company I worked for a few years back relied on JIT. The customers didn’t...Who got the blame for parts shortages...the employees.
My last employer would say stupid crap like this. After 18+ years in the business, including a couple under my own flag, I had trouble not laughing in his face. Even worse, he was a sociopath/narcissist. He could not feel an iota for anyone else, and everything was about him and him alone. He also had this insane need to control everything and everybody. I left his nutty playground of a company as soon as I caught on to what he was all about.
A prospective employer (not so much an interview, as I knew he was hiring and showed interest in the work for a few weeks) elaborated on how his ex-wife was being stalked to the point of wiretapping etc, so - knowing the conversation would be overheard by the stalker - made arrangements to have the stalker killed if anything bad happened to the ex-wife. I decided to stay away from that situation.
Got an offer once from a startup company. Going back the next day with my then-current employer’s counter-offer, the offices were completely vacant with no sign of prior occupancy or contact info.
First day on the job, I was reviewing the quarterly unemployment insurance reports. When I saw annual turnover well over 100%, and my mind said, "been there, done that, life's too short to deal with this crap", and I walked out the door.
Now, I'm just trying to hang in there for a couple of more years, when I can start drawing SS, and not have to work in a $hitty job. It'll be nice to have that flexibility, to be able to be like Johnny Paycheck when dealing with a jerkwad for a boss.
I dunno. When I got to the purely hypothetical question “How would you deal with a pile of human bodies using only a forklift?” I sort of figured the job was not for me.
What to make an interviewer tear their hair out - ask
Have at any time in the last two years, have to ever failed to make payroll on time?
Does this position have an incumbent?
If yes, what happened to him/her.
If no - how will you define success in this position? Ask for specifics, written is best.
The answers will be telling.
I’ve been out of work for about 2 months. I was called in for an interview at the local Joint Base. I interviewed for an assistant baker-cook position. Two days later, they call me back to tentatively offer me an entirely different cook position that I never even interviewed for.
I still have to take a physical and pass the background check before they ‘officially’ offer me the position. It’s barely above minimum wage, but it’s the ONLY job out of many applications that’s even contacted me.
I had that job. Only she didn't let loose with the insults until the day I was introduced as the new hire and had already signed.
I lasted about 9 months. Her previous whipping boy/girl moved to another role within the company (and avoided leaving) and that was 3 years before my time there.