Woman Claims Her Voicemail Greeting Prevented Her From Getting a Job

Newsweek ^ | 2/3/2022 | SARA SANTORA

[ObozoMustGo2012]

prevented her from getting hired at a local Harris Teeter location back in 2020.

The video, which is a screen-recording of the rejection voicemail she received from the hiring manager, was posted to TikTok last week by zenayajones8. So far, the post has amassed over 14 million views and thousands of comments from people who vented frustrations about constantly worrying about being "professional."

"Yes, Ms. Jones, I recommend if you apply for a job and you expect somebody to call you that you have a more appropriate, uh, response on your voicemail," the manager said in his message to Jones.

[Rurudyne]

What gets me is all the folks acting like people who aren’t even being hired for top jobs should somehow act like they were being.

To take the attitude to the preposterous but still somewhat logical extreme it would like expecting hoist toity Harvard accents even though you were hiring from out of Fort Worth.

Maybe we should all use posh British accents for our answering *ahem* services?

[GingisK]

No. What I see is at work are people playing games on their computer or cruising the net. Case one in point: I ordered electronic components from a company in Minneapolis. Fed Ex picked it up and delivered it to an address in Cincinnati. Two weeks later it wound up in Ball Ground Georgia. Two weeks after that it was declared lost. One week after that the battered and torn package with now useless contents showed up. Case two in point: I ordered components from a company in Texas. It routed through Los Angeles and then to Knoxville Tennessee. It is said it will be delivered in a week.

I live in a town close to Atlanta, a major shipping hub.

It seems the dweebs that work for FedEx aren't making good use of their computers or even a map of the Nation.

Most everyone I deal with seems to totally inattentive to the work at hand. It takes three or four emails to get a point across even though the first email delivered detailed information about the problems. Their emails clearly indicate that they didn't read the entire email before responding. I suspect they respond using a script.

It used to be easy to get things done.

I'm old enough to remember when offices ran from green-bar printouts and three ring binders. That worked better than what is going on now.

But as I said previously, employees should answer their phone so that they reflect favorably upon their employers. Nobody purposefully does business with a flippant nitwit.

[Rurudyne]

That was her personal/home phone.

Not where customers are going to be calling and interacting with her.

I think you and others are overreacting.

… that said, if you want to talk about work ethic … yeah, that’s another topic. The funny video where a guy interviews a young girl for a job only to find her idea of knowing technology was social media proficiency (but not Facebook because that’s for old people), SIRI is a research tool and finally that she just doesn’t do 8 AM may tragically ring bells for some.

[colorado tanker]

I don’t see a problem - if she’s applying at McDonalds.

[Jamestown1630]

That’s funny. I’ll have to find that movie.

[lastchance]

Touche’

[Rurudyne]

Completely random aside:

Noritsu manuals were just the best. You could rebuild a System 2 from the circuit diagrams.

Fuji: “A fuse is blown. Replace it.”

I’m not exactly sure why I thought of this old memory … but since we’re being old guys….

[Mr. K]

You don’t understand about making a good first impression, do you?

[GingisK]

Flashback: I didn't notice they were bitching about her personal phone. That changes everything.

I remember when schematics were glued inside radio and TV sets. Youngsters don't even know there was a "tube era". They also don't know about the hundreds of very lovable mini-computers. CRTs for picture display is something they've never seen. Typewriters were lovely contraptions, especially the IBM Selectric.

I'm glad we are old farts together.

[Skywise]

She did that when she interviewed IN PERSON and if she acted like that then you have a case.

But this is her PERSONAL voice mail - she used no slurs and didn’t treat it like an Only Fans page so you can’t say her “character” was problematic aside from being overly friendly (and in a customer service job - that’s a good thing, no?)

Again - the only impression this makes is on the interviewer being a slime ball.
But then maybe somebody should talk to them about it and give them some helpful advice about who and what makes a good candidate employee?

[Mr. K]

You don’t understand about first impressions,do you?

Everyone on the planet EXCEPT HER must understand?

[Skywise]

I don’t think YOU understand anything about first impressions.

PERSONAL.
VOICEMAIL.

[null and void]

Thank you. I got a lot of laughs from callers.

[Trillian]

I used this as mine.