Over on Twitter, hardworking folks and job searchers are sharing their stories of bad employers, awful interviews, and terrible jobs in hopes of helping others not go through the same experience. Here are a few tweets that share the pain. Vote up your favorite. And always, always ask what a job pays BEFORE you take it.
'If You Are Looking For A Job That Pays Fairly, Look Elsewhere'
Sat through a horrible job interview for an hour then the guy was like “btw, this only pays 30k so if you’re looking for a job that pays better, look elsewhere” so I said “ok I will” then he was like “?? wait no” lmao this was hours ago and I still feel incredible
I once had a great interview for a job I really wanted. I was offered the job, at half my then-current salary. About what I made in my first job out of college.
Wish employers would realize keeping pay a Big Secret wastes their time, too.
I had a foreman at a ridiculous factory job (picking heavy crates up at speed & stacking in them in 12-high piles of yellow, buff, beige, lemon + acid yellow for £3/hr) say, "If you can't go any faster, you might as well go home".
They were crates of bananas. They came down 5 parallel conveyor belts, fast. You had to spin them round to see the yellow sticker, work out what shade of yellow it was, then lift the crate, sometimes over your head, and stack it with the others. Dropping it would cause injury.
They even the blinds closed to make it harder to differentiate the shades of yellow. I was 18 & couldn't believe how stupid this system was. I was cycling 4 miles at 5am every morning to an agency in Dartford to be driven to the Fyffes factory, with no info about it. £3/hr.
oh man I once took a day off work & traveled 1hr north to interview for a post office job, got there, it's a mass interview (ugh), the guy goes "this job is only for 2mo, if you don't want that, leave", everyone in the room bails &, yeah, same "?? wait no" reaction
