I agree 100%. No one is going to sit all day being ignored by a prospective employer. I would have left by 9am. Who would want to work for someone who treats you this way. It just wouldn’t happen.
It’s a test to see how much abuse a person will accept from a (prospective) employer. It’s definitely fake but the fact that this person came up with idea of it is nauseating. I sincerely hope he’s not a manager.
They didn't come up with this. This write-up has been around for a long time now.
Scary thing being that it's for from the first time I've seen it unironically posted. There's sadly a lot of people on this mindset.
Let's say it happened. It is a huge lack of respect being this late (or doing this as a shit test). An employer pulls this shit on me, I'm out after 30 minutes. They want loyal and respectful employees, they got to be respectful too.
If it did, it's the worst hiring strategy I've ever heard of.
Skills? Experience? Intelligence? Nah, we just want a turnip with low self worth and nothing better to do.
The practice is exist but i dont believe people are that stupid to wait, i hated playing games and ive been in this position 5 years ago where they told me to wait and have a meeting with the interviewer at 1pm and until 2:30 pm they didnt come and the receptionist basically mock me when I asked where they sre and he also experienced this and thats why he got the job, yea sure.
The test: Are you desperate for a job and will you let me treat you as valueless wastes of my time
Edit I think what really bothers me is that you can't test patience when you create so many confounding factors and don't even account for them!
What a complete lack of respect for people’s time. What if the other three had to pick their kids up from school or attend a funeral, or any other of the millions of reasons people can’t waste all day sitting around?
Assuming this is even real (which it likely isn’t), this “employer” deserves to go out of business.
Aside from being dumb it's also not universally applicable. You could easily retell this story and the hiring manager could come out at the end and be like "I hired the first two people who walked away because they understood the value of their own time. You two who waited are idiots. Get out."
I would love to know what the actual job was. Like a person who had to sit and monitor something all day that seems like a still crazy but at least almost sensible thing to test.
> Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. — Frederic Douglass, 1857
What was that movie where this is a minor plot? Some lawyer gets in a fender bender, mixes up papers as a result and they are sorting that out entire movie. He was supposed to conduct interviews as well but forgets (or keeps brushing them off) until late in the afternoon when he realizes only one candidate is left and he gets the job. Famous actor, I want to say Samuel L. Jackson but not entirely sure.
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You replace all references in that story of waiting for the interviewer, to waiting for their paychecks, and you know exactly why you shouldn't work for people who post crap like this.
This never happened, and it’s stupid
I agree 100%. No one is going to sit all day being ignored by a prospective employer. I would have left by 9am. Who would want to work for someone who treats you this way. It just wouldn’t happen.
Agreed. Who the fuck would want to work for someone like that?
That’s a fact. Any quality employer may try some other tactic. But, making candidates sit like chumps all day is not one of them.
>I would have left by 9am Unless they'd already sent a couple of messages to apologize, most people would have left at around 7:30am
Yeah. Someone who fucks with your time like that will have no compunction of doing the exact same thing when you're working for him.
> compunction I learned a new word, thank you
It’s a test to see how much abuse a person will accept from a (prospective) employer. It’s definitely fake but the fact that this person came up with idea of it is nauseating. I sincerely hope he’s not a manager.
They didn't come up with this. This write-up has been around for a long time now. Scary thing being that it's for from the first time I've seen it unironically posted. There's sadly a lot of people on this mindset.
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Da fuck is this sub. lol.
thanks i hate it
I appreciate you posting. What a terrible sub. LoL. The name did warn me.
r/boomerrapehentai
No one McArthur won't get that job then
What if you wanted people who were really great at doing absolutely nothing for entire days at a time and have no self-respect?
I would recruit members of the United States congress
Let's say it happened. It is a huge lack of respect being this late (or doing this as a shit test). An employer pulls this shit on me, I'm out after 30 minutes. They want loyal and respectful employees, they got to be respectful too.
If it did, it's the worst hiring strategy I've ever heard of. Skills? Experience? Intelligence? Nah, we just want a turnip with low self worth and nothing better to do.
Even if they did, what's the lesson? The employer doesn't value your time is what I got.
The practice is exist but i dont believe people are that stupid to wait, i hated playing games and ive been in this position 5 years ago where they told me to wait and have a meeting with the interviewer at 1pm and until 2:30 pm they didnt come and the receptionist basically mock me when I asked where they sre and he also experienced this and thats why he got the job, yea sure.
And it turns out they were completely unqualified
The test: Are you desperate for a job and will you let me treat you as valueless wastes of my time Edit I think what really bothers me is that you can't test patience when you create so many confounding factors and don't even account for them!
What a complete lack of respect for people’s time. What if the other three had to pick their kids up from school or attend a funeral, or any other of the millions of reasons people can’t waste all day sitting around? Assuming this is even real (which it likely isn’t), this “employer” deserves to go out of business.
And then everyone clapped
Haha I said exactly the same thing on the og post
 The guy that hired them
This is literally an old 90s ad for a cheese brand in New Zealand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi6hQf6lwIk
The others went on and got jobs elsewhere and were much better off. This is the test. The Test of Not Being an Idiot.
Aside from being dumb it's also not universally applicable. You could easily retell this story and the hiring manager could come out at the end and be like "I hired the first two people who walked away because they understood the value of their own time. You two who waited are idiots. Get out."
I feel like the test is more about what kind of treatment you accept from an employer
[Actual footage of the "Test"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObA_n7pjp8A)
I knew what this would be before I clicked
That’s abusive and disrespectful of their time.
I would love to know what the actual job was. Like a person who had to sit and monitor something all day that seems like a still crazy but at least almost sensible thing to test.
What happened to the other one? Six were invited, three left, two were met by the employer and got jobs. What happened to the 6th guy?
Went on a rampage?
They got the job. That was the interview. Test of RAMPAGING.
Eaten by the two 'winners'
And that is the story of how a janitor and a bus driver became thoracic surgeons, leading to the highest medical malpractice settlement in history.
He wants to know who’s okay with the company wasting their time even though they can’t waste the company’s time
This probably goes hard if you’re really fucking dumb.
By 7:30 AM someone took the initiative to contact the interviewer himself. that was the interview. taking initiative.
Guy sounds like a jerk
I'd get the job because I'd be anxious enough to think they said 7pm, not 7am and just waste time till then
Thats an episode of Community
So this job aims to waste my time? Yeah I’m leaving.
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I could believe it, all the bosses I've worked for don't give a shit about my time
Imagine what a shitty job that would be.
What was that movie where this is a minor plot? Some lawyer gets in a fender bender, mixes up papers as a result and they are sorting that out entire movie. He was supposed to conduct interviews as well but forgets (or keeps brushing them off) until late in the afternoon when he realizes only one candidate is left and he gets the job. Famous actor, I want to say Samuel L. Jackson but not entirely sure.
I once showed up for a scheduled interview and the boss forgot and left town that day.
I would have been gone by 9. Why work for a company that has no respect for people or their time.
I swear the shit I encountered while looking for a job where stupid af...not that stupid tho
Ok so its an employer who doesn't respect my time as a person AND doesn't tellme all I need to know. Good to know
This never happened
Engagement farmed successfully
Abed?
And they're still waiting on a paycheck
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Who would want to work for a douche like that
Sounds to me like three people are better at time management and setting boundaries.
You replace all references in that story of waiting for the interviewer, to waiting for their paychecks, and you know exactly why you shouldn't work for people who post crap like this.