- By the end, I literally walked out of the place
after the third 40-minute long interview.
I walked out, called my mom,
and just started crying.
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Hi, my name is Jazzmyne,
and today I'm gonna tell you my job interview horror story.
I'm gonna set up the scene for you.
This was during a time of my life
where I call the grind time.
This is when you're taking jobs
that you don't want to take, that you're overqualified for,
or that you're under qualified for
and you don't know what you're doing,
but you just need money.
So I just got out of my second process of schooling.
I went to college, then went to another school.
I just graduated,
and I'm like, I need a job, like a full time job.
But I was like, I need a job in what I love
and what I want to do.
So, duh, I was looking at the fashion industry.
So I was like, okay, I'm gonna apply for this job.
On the job website through my school,
it was just one full time job,
like something working in like a factory
that made like nail polishes, eye lashes,
a whole bunch of like little cosmetic stuff,
and you would be working with the creative team
and the buying team.
And I was like, okay, I went to school to be a buyer.
I love being creative.
You know what, maybe I'm set for this.
At the time I also didn't have a car.
So I took a 40-minute Uber, got there, waited.
It was like a really big like cool factory.
So they take me to this room,
and I feel mentally prepared.
I was kind of in my grind journey at like,
this would be like the last of it
because I was determined to get a job,
and I was also like, I've interviewed so many places,
and none of them worked out.
So, the woman comes in,
and it's a typical interview.
I say, I talk about whatever I've done in school,
what my passions are, la-la-la-la.
Quizzes me on some stuff like how I would handle situations.
It lasted about 30 to 40 minutes,
and I was like, all right, I'll see ya later.
Hopefully I'll hear from ya.
And then she was like, no, no, no, just sit right here,
and the next interview will start in five minutes.
And I was like, the next interview?
Like, did I already get a second interview?
No.
They were apparently interviewing for several
like different positions in the company
in different like areas.
So I only thought I was interviewing for one,
but really I was interviewing for more than one.
So then, I was also thinking like,
okay, second interview, maybe this'll be different.
No, somebody else came in,
and I did the exact same thing,
the exact same questions as the last one.
So it was another 40 minutes.
And I was like, okay, two interviews, that's great.
Knock 'em out, whatever.
I'll see ya later.
And they're like, okay,
your next interview will start in five minutes.
This was my third almost hour long interview
of me saying these same things over and over again.
And then the third one started.
I really think the person could really tell
I was just like, yeah, and I graduated here,
and I studied this.
By the end, I literally walked out of the place
after the third 40-minute long interview.
I walk out, called my mom, and just started crying.
I got the job.
I didn't take it because I got offered an internship here.
It was a risk because this job legit was like very good,
it had my salary, it had benefits, it had everything,
and I took a job to be an intern.
And that was my job interview horror story.
- I'm Shiquita, and this is my job interview horror story.
Just graduated Houston, Texas,
broke as (laughing).
And looking for a job.
I studied film, but I was like,
I was trying to be a receptionist.
I was trying to work in like a nice restaurant,
like a steakhouse with big tips.
I was like going everywhere.
My confidence level with this interview was really high.
So I've never been turned down from a job
after an in-person interview.
So far we've been talking via email.
It seems like a great opportunity.
It's a major insurance company.
I was just happy to like finally have
a prospect for a real job that wasn't retail.
So, I looked up the building.
It seemed like a legit office building.
I get there,
and I didn't notice this at first,
but the energy in the office felt a bit weird.
It seemed like everybody was kind of
doing their own separate thing,
but I didn't realize what was going on with that.
So I go into this man's office.
We sit down, and we start talking.
And as soon as he said, door to door, my heart dropped.
I was like, this is not a real job.
And then he started explaining like benefits
and opportunities.
Pyramid scheme.
I was burning up inside.
Like I can feel the heat rising in myself.
The whole this man was speaking,
all I could hear myself repeating is like,
I wasted my fucking gas money.
I wasted my fucking gas.
I could of been at home.
It's Houston.
I didn't have AC.
I had no business driving out there
if I wasn't gonna get the job, ya know.
Sweating for no reason in a hot box in Houston, Texas,
like that's not fun.
The whole time he's talking
that's what I'm saying to myself.
I never contacted this man again.
He just wanted me to go door to door
and like try to sell insurance
and convince people to sell it with me.
This isn't the safest job for a woman
to be walking up to people's doors on the street.
So I think it was more of like,
okay, I'll think about it.
I'll get back to you.
I remember being really polite to him,
but the whole time in my mind I was cursing him out.
I ended up working at a limousine company
doing marketing and reservation.
Even that opportunity seemed a little fishy at first.
At that time, like, the internet job boards
weren't as good as they are now.
So you guys are at a much better advantage than I was
when I was first coming out of college,
but definitely do your research on these companies
because that could of been a really shiesty situation.
I'm glad I looked up the building first.
At that time, I knew to do that,
but be careful, guys.
The internet is kinda scary sometimes.
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