r/Askreddit What Made You Walk Out of a Job Interview?
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 30. 10. 2021
- r/Askreddit Have you ever had a terrible job interview? Your experience probably doesn't come close to these AWFUL interview stories. We've got a story from one guy who was literally locked inside the building and couldn't escape. The interviewers called him to scold him for not showing up on time, and he had to beg them to let him out. Another person showed up for an interview at a school, and the teacher at the school were wearing blackface đČ
O:00 intro
0:08 Pyramid scheme
0:58 Locked in the stairs
3:15 Secret underground research base
6:11 No beards
6:24 Please, beards
6:46 Do whatever we say
7:46 No extra car rides
8:42 Five hours early
9:32 Bad working conditions
10:14 Scam-center
11:03 Welding
11:36 Disabilities
13:00 You pay to train
14:51 Calm down man
15:41 Park exactly here
16:23 Quit talking about yourself
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That second one is literally called unlawful imprisonment if they donât let you out and, at minimum, a fire code violation worthy of the fire marshal descending upon the place like an angry Greek God.
For security purposes, most office buildings only let you exit the stairway with a key card on floors other than the ground floor. This is super common and it sounds like she didn't try the ground floor door at all.
You realize that the Greek gods are the ones that do worse on a regular basis right?
@@isaacburgess1964 thats still a fire hazard. Doesn't matter, fuck your security purposes.
honestly the girl locked in the staircase could potentially sue, or at least report them for the BLATANT FIRE SAFETY HAZARD OF NOT BEING ABLE TO LEAVE THE BUILDING!
It's surprisingly similar to the cause of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history and the deadliest in the history of New York.
According to Wikipedia "Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked- a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft - many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. " This resulted in 146 people dying in the inferno.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire#Consequences_and_legacy
When the fire alarm is activated the magnetic locks that hold the doors shut (or open in some cases) are deactivated, allowing anyone access through them. It's the standard safety feature for them to prevent people from being trapped in a fire.
Theres magnetic release locks. Its not that deep.
Oh, she has a VERY good case for unlawful imprisonment, second they learned that someone was trapped in THEIR building and dismissed it, that's what it became.
I know that there are those here saying the building used magnetic release locks, but do we know that for sure? I know that magnetic locks require electricity to remain locked by my own workplace using the same concept to keep people from reaching inside of running machines, but not all of our machines have been upgraded with those locks. Instead, some machines shut off and cut the power the instant their doors are opened. Thing is, we don't know for certain if those doors in that stairwell had those types of locks. If they did install magnetic locks, then, yes, they're in the clear of any potential fire safety hazards, but, due to another kind of incompetency from that security there might be something behind her being held captive against her will. Again, that would be due to incompetency, not malice.
"When did you walk out of a job interview"
"I realized it was a pyramid scheme"
"You dodged a nuke, man"
It's not hard to spot pyramid schemes. Usually they flash dollar signs in your face and promise huge wealth, unlike most businesses which only promise a certain wage. I went to an MLM presentation (I knew I wasn't going to sign up) and the VERY FIRST thing the guy said was, "Do you have a house or car payment? How would you like to not have to make those payments any more?" I mean, appeal to greed right off the bat. So if they start promising pie in the sky, it's likely an MLM pyramid scheme.
The story about the 8-10 hour shift with no breaks, OP should definitely report them. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to not allow at least a 30 minute lunch break to sit and eat with no disruptions
It is if it's in the States, that's a big no-no.
im shocked that they even have any employees
I work at a restaurant that's open from 7-2, so taking a break is impossible for us.
Texas has no legally required breaks of any kind except for breastfeeding mothers. Breaks are considered work benefits not a requirement. Neither are they required by Federal law.
@@Paul_Maynard yep, they're state laws and highly vary.
The person who got trapped at the lab facility was actually inside some level of the backrooms lmao!
That was some Stanley Parable shit
That's what I was thinking
I think that he accidentaly wandered his way in an S.C.P research lab. He was lucky that he didnt accidentaly open the door to 682's containment cell.
@@mirqtheliar925 HOW DID YOU FIND THEM
isn't that just the plot of portal 1?
As an Interior Design Student, yes, it is highly illegal to have the exits locked and goes against fire safety codes and emergency egress. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is why we don't lock emergency exit doors. Also, keep up the excellent work rSlash!
Exactly!
That person stuck in the stairwell should have had a fire exit at the ground floor, if not, report the company for violating fire code. If they had a fire exit, just use it, they were basically holding you against your will
Here at Greece, many years ago, they had a highschool course literally called: "Logic" teaching common sense and some sort of thought process for some situations.
Seems strange but im sure it helps
@@scanorugaming7827 It did. Many older people's minds work much better than our own.
"Most companies are struggling to hire workers!" If half of these are true than these companies deserve the current worker shortage.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if every single one was true. These corporations be wildin.
They're struggling because their pay is too low.
Where I am from it is a bit ridiculous.
They whine about the conditions being tough, post job offers, and then snob 75% of the people who do want to work there because of "no experience".
I am speaking of stuff that you can easily train someone in like restaurants and such.
They deserve the worker shortage yes
It turns out, these companies refuse to raise their payrate, but also refuse to call people in for interviews while saying "no one wants to work". Its as if they are trying to trash the economy for their Fuhrer or something..
Between that and low pay, and no benefits, absolutely deserve it.
Honestly, if Iâd gotten trapped in a building stairway Iâd have called the cops almost immeadiatrly. Thatâs sounds like a fire hazard to me.
How do you expect the police force to help you? Just call the main number of the business/company you are applying to
@@chelseac8855 police for the kidnapping and firefighters for destruction of property to get ME OUT
@@chelseac8855 She did, they ignored her.
Boss: Oh, we're so efficient, we don't even let our employees sit down for breaks.
Funny, my friend had a similar job that did the same thing. She quit. Doesn't sound very appealing to me. The boss lady sounds like a psychopath, actually.
Also, the guy who didn't want OP to say "I" sounds like he reads Ayn Rand's "Anthem" and thinks that that's how we should ACTUALLY run out society.
Note for the lady bragging about no breaks: I'd hope she's standing straight up while conducting that interview; if it went longer than 30 seconds, maybe _she_ should be fired.
I almost enlisted in the Marines. went through entire process and wouldnât give any real answers for my questions through the day. Next thing I know they had about 50+ of us in a room telling us to raise our hand to swear in. Using peer pressure they said anyone unwilling to serve your country and swear in or whatever they called it take a step forward. I looked around and nobody moved. Took a second but I broke the threshold and stepped forward and that opened the flood gates. About a dozen other people were able to step forward after I did and a couple thanked me as we left.
Recruiters kept showing up for a couple years to get me to change my mind
Good thing you stepped forward. Hooray for you.
I always hated recruiters like this. They are allowed to actually work with you, but a bunch of them only care about pushing you through the process and filling quotas. I had a friend (met him when he went through ROTC with me) who was enlisted before going to college... his ASVAB scores were through the freaking roof, this guy was borderline genius... his recruiter kept telling him "yeah i put you in for military intelligence"... no his recruiter put him in as a general recruit (aka throw him anywhere the army needs more bodies) and got him signed up. He admits he should have read the paperwork more than he did, but the recruiter kept telling him he was put in for military intelligence.
He got thrown into infantry in 2004... instead of military intelligence like he thought the whole time. He got out after 4 years, went into ROTC, and had much more choice, and due to his scores, he easily got into MI as an officer instead.
@@Culvey same
I tested well enough that they told be I could choose my placement which I kind of believed since my friend had only qualified for infantry or machine operator. But when they were shuffling me through the day they would never show me anything in writing or anything period. It was like, âtrust the process man.â I was leaning medical field if they were paying, but the whole thing seemed too pushy. I thought if itâs like this when they are supposed to be be buttering me up how is it going to be when Iâm stuck. Lol (I knew it would suck)
Wouldnât show me anything about the enlistment bonuses they were promising either
Those kind of doors, when a fire alarm goes off, typically release automatically. Thereâs got to be something like that, otherwise yes, major fire code violation.
In that case, they should've pulled the fire alarm. They would've gotten out and got petty revenge against them by causing chaos in the building. đ
Should have just called 911 and said "I'm being held against my will by XYZ Corporation"
Exactly. No fire exit is a huge no no. Fake story in my opinion.
@@phobos258 You havenât been to enough buildings lol. The amount of health and safety violations is astounding
It's still illegal if you can get in but not out without external help.
I remember I was once at an interview for an internship. The interviewer told me I had to dye my hair a natural color (it was blue) or he wouldn't hire me, because people might be scared of how I looked. Next to him was his second in command, who had tattoos all over, including a couple of teardrop tattoos down his face
But my blue hair was unsetling.
I would've asked the interviewer if he could take a phonepic of you and his second. :)
10:02 story: thats illegal in america. if an employee works longer than 10 hours they are required by law to get a 30 min break
in Germany you have to take a 30 min break if you work 6 hours or longer, 60min if you work longer than 8 hours.
8 hours work days you get two 10 minute breaks. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch is on your own time. Most offices people take their lunch at their desk while still working. I've also seen people take their lunch away from their desk and go home after 8 hours of work which means lunch was on Company time.
It tends to depend on the state or if you work at a federal installation. Texas has no laws pertaining to it unfortunately. Not unless you present proof that it is required under the ADA for health reasons.
Though most small businesses know that you typically lose people if breaks aren't a thing they have trouble keeping people. And large companies with facilities in other states will have breaks available to keep things standardized across their facilities. Legally however they don't have to without ADA accommodations
In canada its 30min every 5h xD
Those break laws differ from state to state. Some don't even have break laws and there's no federal law for work breaks.
"help me I'm kidnapped by a building" is more SCP like than 5:40;that is just the Spencer mansion from RE 1... Well any lab from RE
Yeah, it gave me RE vibes.
I literally thought they were like describing resident evil but making it sound like they were there
I didn't even notice that he said Scp
Or The Stanley parable
That "curl up into a ball and pretend to be a flower opening" bit reminds me of the early sequence in "Men In Black," where Will Smith's character wins the job by thinking outside the box and adapting his environment to his needs (if I recall correctly).
best scene ever was the shooting range, dude knew not to bother aliens when they aren't bothering anyone and kids be sus af
Or it's to determine how far you are willing to degrade yourself for a job
@@Nobody_Fn_Important "...and to be honest I'd like you to ease up off my back about it! Or do I owe her an apology?" đ€Łđđ€Łđ
I now have watch it again. Not because I dont remember this scene, but because it was an awesome movie and it was one of my favourite scenes.
I miss mib
Man, that sprawling research lab story was really good. I'd love to see you do r/no sleep or read some SCP documents! Keep up the good work, RSlash!!
That OP was wandering around a Bond Villain lair.
"Melalyeuca australian tree"? Yep, that's Melaleuca, a ESSENTIAL OILS PYRAMID SCHEME!
Fucking Frank, man. Makes my eyes roll.
Kinda shocked to see that MLM finally crop up in a CZcams video from rslash.
@@raventurner4029 there have been quite a few mlm's in many of rslash's videos, especially the older ones.
@@jinx7641 I know that. I was just shocked that one from /my town/ showed up.
I walked out of an interview for a 'Sales Technician with Centurylink' where the interviewers separated the the interviewees, treated us to coffee and told us that this was strictly in the office work, suits and ties would be needed, but the boss will let you run your own sales team within 5 months, etc etc. When I began to read the employment contract though, found out it was literally door to door sales, trying to get people to sign up for the service, and that we would need to pay for our company logo polos:/ I noped out if there with a quickness
I feel like something like that has to be illegal
@@TheoStarlight that's what I thought, but no, it's technically legal, if not extremely scummy
It really aught to be illegal for a company to require you to buy a uniform from them
Rslash getting sad about not having a friend in college đđ
Too relatable XD
His âYay! I made a FRIEND!â sounded so wholesome, and I felt bad for him when he realized he got roped into am MLM scheme. Poor guy :/
shut up
@@maieen2665 I actually had something similar happen a few months ago. This girl my age struck up a conversation with me, we had similar interests and we exchanged numbers. I walked away thinking I had made a new friend. A few days later, she calls asking if Iâd be interested in making some extra money by joining her at Amway. Needless to say, I was disappointed.
@@songbird-wj4yj that happened to me too around February. It's so predatory.
What makes me walk out of an interview? When they tell me that my pay is less than my expenses and I should be happy I've even got a job.
Pay me a living wage, give me 48 hours a week to call my own outside of sleep, defray my costs of travel or hit the automation boss. If my expenses go up beyond what I can afford boss your covering it or I take my experience to one that will.
I couldn't agree with you more: there should be a high school class on adulting. In my opinion, it should also be offered at Community Colleges too.
Doesnât CALM teach you that and itâs a required course for high school. It might just be for Alberta tho idk
They don't teach that in economic class from hs anymore?
@@drwboy07 I couldn't tell you because home economics was an elective class that I never took.
@@drwboy07 at my school, economics was a semester long and it was mostly about banking. Still good stuff to know, but there was a lot of stuff that was glossed over or barely touched on.
I'd probably be screwed if my dad didn't used to be a banker because we spent like 2 weeks on budgeting our finances but 0 hours on balancing a checkbook or checking your credit score
I had a class similar to that in high school. We learned how to fill out applications, how to write a resume, had mock interviews, actually did interviews that lead to real jobs. We learned how to fill out basic tax forms ect. It was at an alternative high school. They didn't offer this at the traditional high school at all.
When Rslash read the pyramid scheme story, I absolutely expected him to tell his Cutco story again. Good on you for avoiding the low hanging fruit! đ€Ł
You, too! I was thinking to myself, âIs he going to tell that knife story again?â LOL
Lol. I remember getting sucked into an interview for Cutco under the guise of working at vector marketing. Glad I didn't "get the job"
I got sucked into a Vector Marketing/Cutco interview, I missed every single red flag and "accepted the job". My cousin finally queued me into what was going on and I just ghosted them. I've still gotten letters from them since then, I think maybe 3 or 4 letters.
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Some of us would have liked to hear that story not everyone are long time readers.
Story 2 reads like an SCP, and it reminds me of "The Backrooms" SCP story đđđ
Yeah that one reads uncannily similar to that story
I did a quick google and this story seems to be true. there are several tunnels under fort Worth and what is described is probably the Burnett Plaza tunnel, which ends in the Bank of America building. I also found an article about the police moving their forensic lab into one of these tunnels. The Burnett Plaza Tunnel should be open to the public
I literally said that OP must have wondered into an SCP Foundation site right before Rslash did
@@DerHenker_ was gonna say. I live in ft worth and there are a series of tunnels around here partly because of the Tandy center with an underground trolley station back in the day. Itâs still there under a community college pretty much untouched
I would've loved if the scientist would've said just as Op was walking away "thank you for your time"
Also the interview story sounds like legit the only job interview I ever got from the Job Centre. (like their entire thing is supposed to be helping us get jobs, but I've only ever heard stories of them costing people jobs, and just looking for excuses to take people's benefits away)
They sent me to a job interview, but when I got there, the "office" looked like an abandoned garage/car wash. The inside looked freshly renovated, but like a cheap front. Like they had wood flooring in the reception, and a secretary, but the wood flooring looked plastic, and the secretary spent the entire time flirting with me (and my ego isn't big enough to think any of it was legit. Especially when on my way out, she ignored me and was busy flirting with a new job interviewee)
When I went in for the interview, the guy interviewing me looked like a gym teacher, and the heating was turned up full blast to an uncomfortable degree (which I'd already heard was a tactic to make people feel sleepy and uncomfortable)
I quickly realised the "job" was being one of those guys in shopping markets that harasses you into trying to sign up with them, and realised he was super dishonest with how he kept talking about how much money I could POTENTIALLY make, but tried to skip over the part where if I didn't do well enough, I could make ÂŁ0.
Once I realised his game, I decided then n there I didn't want the job, but if I walked out, the job centre would punish me. So I started half arsing it and making myself seem like the worst employee ever, but he still offered me the job đ
"I've been kidnapped by a building" That line had me laughing probably more than it should have.
"Marketing" position ad on Facebook turned out to be for Kirby vacuums, luckily I had heard the horror stories from them.
I fell for that right after college: "Sports-minded individuals wanted to set up product displays."
That was the greasiest, most Mickey Mouse operation I've ever seen.
Hey, that story of OP being trapped in the stairwell reminded me of something.
I was at this hotel with my parents when I was young and I wanted something from the hotel room, so I got up and went to use the stairs. But I didnât notice that the doors could only be freely opened from the outside and needed the hotel room keycard for the inside. So I was stuck there, in the stairs of a hotel, with no way out and didnât have one of the hotel room card. Thankfully a staff member let me out but boy did that give me a fright
If the building was to code, you should have been able to get out at the ground floor.
In my high school, there was a series of three classes (Business, Resource Management, and Job Skills) . They were basically the same curriculum, and taking one was required to graduate. They were all about resume writing, balancing a checkbook, doing taxes, etc. Nothinf about how to spot a scam, necessarily, but the other stuff, yeah.
Why is that NOT a requirement for schools in general??
Schools used to have classes like that, was called Home Economics, taught you the basics of adulting, now schools just teach kids how to pass the upcoming tests.
My social studies teacher in middle school had a project where we did taxes, had fake jobs, we were given salaries, had to plan budgets. Everyone didnât have this?
@@Indian0Lore teaching like that went away right around 2000
Honestly classes for this would be much more valuable than level two sciences. Everybody needs to do taxes, but I can't think of the last time I had to use my high school-level chemistry knowledge. Lol
@@tucagwathiel3380 I actually did use mine once. I'd bought a battery-powered lawn mower some years ago, and the lead-acid battery eventually leaked. The last thing I did after cleaning up the mess with gloves and cat litter, etc., was wipe out the battery bed with a solution of baking soda.
@@josepherhardt164 I'm refering more to things like the balancing chemical equations aspect. I'm glad you were able to use yours, but my class didn't do any experiments or things that could be useful like that. The teacher was just stuck on the balancing equations part nearly the whole time. Lol Useful if you plan to be a chemistry teacher and go on to take more classes in college, but not for me at all. I would rather have had the option to take astronomy instead.
I wouldn't really even consider baking soda to be using chemistry class knowledge either though. The reactions are chemical of course, but baking soda is always advertized as having lots of uses for cleaning things up. That could probably be considered more Home Ec knowledge in taking care of a home.
We had a class that taught us how to pay bills, write checks, apply for jobs, and interview.. well tech. It was our home economics teacher. And they taught us for about 3 weeks about it.. anyways. I kept falling sleep In that class... and they told me that I'd never amount to anything with work ethic like that, and told me to go to office.. my principal looked at my face and just knew... crap... 30 min later the teacher came down and lost it. She was spouting off bout how I wasn't allowed in class cus she not wasting time when the principle cut her off. I was silent this whole time.. all he said was she works.... she works 6am to 8am...and 4pm-10pm daily. .. not all kids are from money..and ur lack of understanding of students is terrible.. she isn't a bad kid..but she is tired...
Why tell u this story.. because that was the first time I felt that someone seen me as human my whole life... long story... but yeah..I can still smell the ammonia from the hall way being cleaned after someone puked after running the mile..
Oh fuck sis, that was a stupid teacher, I'm sorry to hear that your family didn't treat you like a human
We had an old teacher tell one of the Mexican students in class that "if you don't want to learn what I'm teaching then you can just go pick apples." It was a freaking calculus class... And its particularly bad because the town was a farming community, with many of the parents being migrant workers. His family was one of the few whos parents didnt work in the fields, his mom worked for the school district and his dad had some kind of counseling job and was paid very well.
Side note, that student is now an adult and in prison for using his authority in a disability/rehab center to force a girl with a slight mental disability, and drug rehab, to give him lap dances and eventually forcing intercourse, while he was engaged... So no, he wont be picking apples, but he will be picking up the soap.
Oh, yes, the worst work ethic.... working 8 hours a day while still attending high school. Im so glad you got through that and I hope you are in a better situation now.
In here the teacher would be "How disrespectful. If you want to go to work then stick to working. Don't disturb those who wants to focus in classes. Work is work, class is class. It's your fault if you are too tired to attend class because you worked."
"We're more concerned about the team here.
Me: Oh, thats a deal breaker then. Cause I dont give a **** about your team.
That's always code for "your health isn't our concern" and "do things that are illegal and/or unethical at your own expense and risk"
@@H-to-O Then get shocked pikachu faced when you sue the shit out of us for defamation and breaking labor law, because it's not the 70's and 80's anymore.
When I moved across the country, my first interview I had was just a gas station job to get by until I got back into healthcare. When I did the interview, the owner made a comment about my tics. I explained I have Tourettes, and he said well I figured it wasn't drugs, because you're too fat. I almost knocked the old dude out for that, but I just walked out. I was so pissed.
the one involving the underground laboratory sounds like something MAG should use for inspiration for one of their podcast episodes(?). The weird passage of time, strange architecture, and confusing elevation, plus the scientists and the lost/trapped thing fit perfectly. kinda reminds me of the one episode with the hall of mirrors
I'm pretty sure having stairwells locked is a fire hazard
Look at what happened in that chicken factory up in Hamlet North Carolina and you'll see just how fucked up some people are
The ground floor has to always be openable from the inside per federal regulations in The US. The rest are allowed to be locked for security.
itâs highly illegal and anyone caught blocking, locking, or barricading doors are heavily fined
Fun fact : the only fears we have naturally are the fear of falling and loud noices
NOICE!!
The Dark is a natural fear too. Ancestral Memories of a time when we too were prey animals.
@@kaimagnus5760 Specifically the fear of what could be hiding in the dark.
@@DylanLisansky Thatâs what Iâm afraid of
I have heard our fear of spiders and snakes is also instinctual
Yeah that story about wandering around a lab definitely sounds like an SCP, I have no idea what it could actually be.
I once applied to a reception position at a funeral home. When I walked in I saw a woman obviously being trained for the same position. The interviewer told me I was over qualified (I was) and he was interested in interviewing me for a different position. This turned into him trying to sell me on a door to door sales job, to get old people to pre-pay for their funeral and after care. I politely sat hoping for it to end. 2 hours later I was free.
does anyone else wonder if Karenâs think that they are entitled to everything, how far would they go to get it?
At some point in being a karen, I becomes a passion
âŠtheyâve stolen, beaten, lied, cheated, gotten people arrested, and tried to inadvertently kill somebody just to get things. thereâs no limit to what theyâd do.
lol the whole point about being a Karen is that they don't go to get it, they expect it to be brought to them on a silver platter.
I once had a Karen steal my prosthetic leg because her son wanted to "Play" with it (I had taken it off to adjust the liner at the time and the son took it and ran away. the mother said it was no big deal and I'd get it back later. I called 911 right then) Imagine her shock when she got sentenced to 6 months in jail for grand theft, $2500 fine and another $2500 to repair the damage her son did to my prosthetic (I was in a wheelchair for three weeks while the repairs were done). Her exact words in court (which also got her a contempt of court charge) "there's no F------ way that thing costs $12,000. We settled out of court for punitive damages. LOL
Now I do
My high school used to have a class that taught you how to balance a check book and other essential math skills for basic everyday life. It used to count as a math credit and I planned on taking that my senior year however it no longer counted as a math credit by the time I was signing up for classes for senior year. I thought that was extremely stupid because those are actually things all of us would use everyday. My mom thought the same thing. FYI I graduated in 2018.
I remember back in high school some woman (who was not a teacher) came to talk to us one day about how to do things like balancing a checkbook and saving money. Problem was, it was some rich woman who was basically telling us how to do things while being very well-off. She basically spent 40 minutes talking down to us about how saving money is so easy if you just budget correctly, while basing the entire thing on working full-time with benefits making a few thousand dollars a month while having a low/reasonable rent/mortgage. This was in 2004/2005, when the housing market was crashing.
As someone who temped at a welding job, that shop is the literary definition of a death hazard. I can't imagine that place, or its workers, surviving long under those conditions. Makes me wonder if it's now shuttered down, or worse yet, if someone already got hurt.
I've walked out on two interviews. One was for a telemarketing position, but when I got there it turned out to be for phone sex. Yeah, I got up and walked out. One time I went for a sales job, turned out to be where you hang out in parking lots harassing people to buy knock-off perfumes. There was a room full of people, and several of us got up and walked out.
It sounds like that 3rd op found his way to a sterile zone lab. My SIL works in a laboratory like that. It sounds shady, but it's mostly because they often work with chemicals and viruses.
I'm from Ft. Worth and was trying to figure out where he was. The only thing that fits is the old Tandy Center. It used to be the headquarters of Radio Shack, so it's possible they have labs like that. It's one building with two towers, with a shopping mall area in between, that covers a few city blocks. It's on a hill, so "ground level" is different depending on where you go in. The mall part is "down" from the east side where the rest of downtown is, and there is a small tram that takes you from the parking on the west side "up" to the mall through a tunnel in the hillside if you come from the west.
But if they handle lethal viruses and shit shouldn't there be guards and all sorts of security measures
The Umbrella Corporation is usually not that nice to interlopers.
You'd think they'd make it harder to get into.
@@sourisvoleur4854 You would actually be surprised at how many of these labs are around that no one knew about and/or just forgot about. It's actually really creepy.
scientists? bank? underground lab??
Itâs Umbrella Corp!!!!
When I was much younger, I sent my resume as a response to an ad for a manager. I didn't really have any management experience but I figured 'what the heck'. Didn't hear from them so I moved on and had some interviews scheduled. 3 weeks later, I get a call from the place to schedule an interview. Red flag #1, they scheduled the interview for 8 PM. So I went to the interview, red flag #2, there was a group of people and they LOCKED the door. So my actual interview went something like, "When can you start?" Well I had other interviews scheduled so I told them 2 weeks. Their response, "The ad said 'must be able to start immediately'". I said, "Yeah I was able start immediately 3 WEEKS AGO". I walked out. Oh yeah the management position you ask? The job was really for a door to door vacuum salesperson.
Kirby Vacuums?
@@shy1157 I honestly don't remember. It's been 40 years ago.
I bet you that business that vanished in those 3 days was one of those fly-by-night operations. You tend to find many of them in regards to MLMs/pyramid schemes. One time, when I was working furniture installation, a business we helped establish office cubicles for vanished roughly a week after we finished the job. The place they were located was in roughly the same condition as the OP's in that story.
"Help me, I'm kidnapped by a building", that got me laughing
Edit: thanks for 170 likes, i didn't expect it would go that far lol, p.s. if I get pinned that'd be unexpected
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Lmfao!
Sounds like SCP-087
Hmm yummy people oven
@@maxbenson9982 I thought 087 was the endless stairwell
Maybe the interviewer in the last story wanted OP to use the royal âWeâ instead of âIâ. Really show how fancy they are.
Every school should have an "Applied Logic" and a "Basic Adulting" class to graduate.
When I once pointed out that the shape they drew for me is clearly a pyramid, they corrected me saying that a pyramid is pointy at the top, their diagram is pointy at the bottom.
0:45 I had something similar happen to me in college. Only instead of the pyramid scheme, they were recruiting for the Christian Student Fellowship. We didn't stay acquaintances after the most awkward coffee meetup of my life.
It amazes me how quickly people click an rSlash video. In 2 minute there's 106 views and 30 comments. Just shows how effort pays off, keep the awesome work
Now 12 min 3.2k views and 72 comments...
It has been 4 hours and we have 54K views and 4.9K likes along with 567 comments
It's because rSlash is awesome, and his voice helps break up the monotony of a day in a windowless room sorting books.
Recruiter once called me at 6am, I was beyond brash. I was pissed, and didn't care. They called back later with someone else, and I was still pissed off about it, and they didn't understand why i was pissed.
"You don't understand why I'm pissed? Okay, give me your personal number. I'll call you at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning and we can discuss it."
My school has a class similar to the class that you described as a class on âhow to be an adultâ for freshmen.
I totally agree on that "How to be an Adult" class.
Young adults desperately need to know what a contract is and how to deal with such a concept. czcams.com/video/bDFaVyvkQMc/video.html Trying to figure out basic adult stuff over several years is just not right, when all it could take is mere months in class. It should practically be a national requirement! Everyone should know how to do personal budgeting and possibly even some basic business budgeting as well.
That story with the guy wandering round a laboratory reminds me of a metroid game ngl
I had an interview at Google and was running my own IT consulting business at the time. I was the only employee at the company and didn't make amazing money but enough to pay my bills and have some money left over after year end taxes. I wanted to close my company down because I decided to go to college to get a degree I always wanted and it would have been too much work to keep track of accounting, marketing, meeting with clients, and doing all the work for the company myself. During the interview it seemed like I was being talked down to the entire time maybe due to my age since I was only 25 and my interviewer was at least in his 60s. The condescending attitude continued through the whole interview and even led to a point where the interviewer said that I'm "unhireable" due to owning my own business and they dont think I'll listen to anyone who is above me at the company. For one yes, I have more freedom running my business and can turn down clients, but I also have to be on top of my game always doing what the clients wanted no matter what or else I'll lose their business. I also had to be careful outside of work with everyone since I am the representative in my company, so no I cannot do whatever I want unless I want to destroy my business. I finished up the interview and got a call back within a few hours and was told the interviewer absolutely loved me and wanted me to come back for a second technical interview. I of course turned it down since I didn't like how I was treated for the hour long interview.
I went to an interview for a sales position. Turns out it was apyramid scheme for some mushroom coffee. I just let him finish his speech, left and never called back,
Do be fair... I tend to use 20 years ago to mean a long time ago. In my mind it always refers to the 1960s or 1970s since I'm a 1990s kid (born 1988). I realize that this isn't generally a normal thought process though.
You should speak more precisely because many people won't understand "20 years ago" to be hyperbole. I have boots 20 years old; in fact my car is a '99. To someone who was already an adult 20 years ago, it doesn't have that connotation at all. I think what you really mean to convey is "before my time" which may or may not be a "long time" depending on who you are talking to. So, that's a good expression to use.
@@JohnDlugosz Thanks but I don't need the way I speak explained to me. It's worked just fine for my whole life and I explain what I mean when needed.
They used to teach us how to do taxes, manage finances, and all the government stuff, here in Alberta.... But most people skipped it đ
same in the US, especially junior and senior years.
geeze, instead of folks bitching about schools not teaching people things how about looking at the classes offered that people ignored in favor of phys ed and easy classes! accounting (which includes taxation stuff), business management/finance, language, and more are standard in 90% of schools
@@bostonrailfan2427 geez instead of giving insufficient classes that arenât taken bc theyâre in place of possibly more important classes they could just⊠do it differently, put it in the curriculum.
@@ifuckedurmom canât because required âcommon coreâ classes MUST be taken first and must be completed before graduating killing their abilities to take some of the needed classes.j
CALM is absolutely useless as it is not standard across the province. It varies greatly from school to school. It does not in fact, teach you how to do taxes. It teaches you about different banking and investment accounts.
@@hannahhannah7002 mine taught taxes, taking the course was mandatory, but passing/attendance not so much đ
All the cool kids complain about not being taught, when they skipped it all, lol.
If I was OP in the second post, I would've taken the company to court and sued them for endangerment, negligence and ignorance!
SERIOUSLY! If OP had gotten hurt, or WORSE, while trapped in that stairwell elevator, the so called "Big Wig Company" would've not ONLY gotten fined for endangering someone's life, but ALSO gotten charged for negligence and assault or injury charges!
An ablest school interviewing a disabled teacher? Yeah, _that's_ no bueno.
Right out of college I was struggling to find work and I took an interview with a rent-a-cop security firm. The job was basically, go here. Sit here. Check people in and out and it was the only job that i could find that was paying more than 10 an hr. I got there 15 mins early and they made me wait an hr past my interview time. The manager finally calls me in and the first thing she asks is if i'm able to be on time because they were really concerned about being punctual. I replied that they were an hour late interviewing me and I didn't think they were all concerned about being on time. I got up and walked out.
Gazinga! I'm still smellin' that burn. Good for you!
So, their is 2 types of fire systems. Fail-safe and fail-secure.
Fail-safe is like a school or apartment, security to not let people in, but a system who let people out in a fire.
Fail-secure is like a data center, their is a level of security where they don't want anything stole (credit card info, SSN, logins) and they lock in case of a fire, but their is a small period to escape although if you miss it, you are locked in until someone can get you.
reason for locking there is to stop the fire as those are equipped with special fire suppression systems that cut the place off physically in many cases. others if you arenât out youâre dead because of the suppression systemâs gasses are released which snuff out any fire plus suffocate anyone inside
@@bostonrailfan2427 they are actually removing Halon fire systems from the fire suppression allowed systems due to its lethal means of fire suppression.
The story at 6:47
I lost it at "They asked us to stand up, crawl into a ball and pretend we were flowers opening up"
Now you've given me an image of a cult leader zealously instructing the interviewees with a crazed smile "Bloom like a flower! BLOOM like flower!!"
"I'm hearing a lot of "I" from you this is a team and I'm concerned . . ." Oh the hypocrisy.
Ok there are tunnels, offices, and retail underground in downtown Dallas that connect many different buildings together. They're great! The city is trying to shut them down, because it's diverting walking traffic away from the surface. And I'm thinking "We need more tunnels, because our summers are brutal and people in Dallas-Ft Worth don't know how to drive."
If I went into an interview, got asked direct questions of what _I_ would do, then got berated about not instinctively understanding that I was joining some sorta damn hivemind or whatever, then I'd probably leave that interview too.
We had that adulting 101 class when I was in high school (grad 90) in British Columbia, Canada. It was called Consumer Education and we had to take it in either grade 11 or 12 in order to graduate. It covered everything from how to write a cheque to how to file a tax return. A good teacher can cover a whole lot of information in 75 minutes every day for half a school year.
My husband taught two classes at our church about recognizing and protecting yourself from scams. Everyone had a story for at least one of the several types of scams my husband covered.
My irony meter is pegging ...
my economics teacher in high school taught us in class how to fill out the basic tax form. it was nice to know.
My government teacher in high school (12th grade, US) taught us the basic 1040 form as well. That, and typing, were extremely valuable skills. FTR: this was 1970.
@@josepherhardt164 the year my economics teacher taught us filling out the 1040 was 1999/2000
"we stopped doing black face 20 years ago"
Oh like 1980's then, makes sense
RSlash "20 years ago was only 2000"
Stop it
I walked out of an interview for a teaching job because they kept questioning my disciplinary scale. "Okay, and then what?" about five times over. I apologized for wasting their time and left. I haven't held a teaching job since 2016.
Another story thatâs long? We are always happy to hear you narrate these videos, especially extra long stories!
02:35 that's actually called unlawful detainment and an egress violation and could definitely give them some grief. OP could have called 911 and said that he tried to contact them multiple times with no success. The fire marshal would not be impressed
I'm pretty sure that working 8 hours without breaks is illegal. At least in here it is and probably in every other civilized country too.
Yeah, but the OP was probably American, so very far from a civilised country.
also if you have an interview at any kind of company working in an office environment and they don't even have a receptionist, walk away. I've lost track how many times I've been stood up sitting waiting while the one who should interview me just sat and worked on something else completely ignoring me and even other sitting there waiting. I sat like an idiots for 40+min (and no, no interview.) each time this happen, the first 3 times, since then i walked away after 5min past time.
It is absolutely illegal for a stairwell to be configured that someone can get trapped inside and if a building inspector or fire marshal were to see that their certificate of occupancy could 100% be revoked
"We're about the team here" hmmm, idk buddy, sounds like a toxic work environment to me.
Actually here in memphisTennessee the schools make personal finance a mandatory class to graduate. No street skills but I can file my own taxes
Subscribed a long time ago, bro. You have a gift for narration and uncommonly good sense regarding your post-commentary. Thank you for your work.
I had an interview at a welding shop. I walked out of after I passed a welding test and then the guy offered me a job at a wage within a dollar of minimum wage. I picked up my gear and told him goodbye. I told him my time was worth more than what he was offering. And that I had gotten paid more for my first welding job 20 years earlier.
No wonder so many people have said no to jobs since the global situation! Screw companies that are looking to screw over everyone who is looking for a job.
Forgot that due to winter time switch, arse lash now posts when it is 2 here instead of 3PM.
it posted at 1PM instead of 2 for me and i was so damn confused for a second
Arse lash?
@@Ender11037 k?
As I get older I have realized that high school and below are preparing kids less and less for the real world.
Can you maths? ...English? Science? Do you know history?
Well, that's nice. 90% of jobs require none of this to actually do the job. You barely need to know any of this.
Yeah, it seems like school is preparing people for more schooling instead of life.
English is often useful but yeah I agree
I managed to score an interview when looking for internships. It was for a software engineering internship. I was a computer engineering major, and it has elements of both computer science and electrical engineering. As soon as the guy came to escort me to a room to interview me, he looked kind of... unwelcoming. I looked past it and went to sit down in the interview room. The first question he asked me was to confirm my major on my resume as computer engineering. After I said yes, he started off with "Well, I'm not sure if we want to waste your time..." After that, the rest of the interview was rather uncomfortable. He wasn't very friendly or professional, and he basically disqualified me all because I wasn't a computer science student. I've seen ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MAJORS get jobs in the computer science field. I don't know why I didn't just walk out. He was right about one thing: he didn't want to waste my time, and neither did I.
Rule of thumb: If you're working your job, and somebody just walks up to you and asks if you wanna make some ridiculous salary figure a week, run. Just run. Don't, like, literally run if you're abandoning your job post, but figuratively run as far away from that discussion as possible. *_It is a scam, guaranteed._*
I've learned to be wary of any "get rich quick" scheme. Most of the time they're either scams or have about as high a likelihood of working as the lottery, which means they're probably a scam.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y'ALL
Bro entered the backrooms
My family and I have been wondering why a âHow to be an Adultâ class was never a thing for years. Really seems like a no brainer.
I love when you do r/askreddit, you should do it more often.
2:30 that's false imprisonment, not kidnapping; still illegal
That underground wandering story reminds me of the time my godfather walked with me through the Genentech plaza in California. Let me know if you want to hear the story. Itâs similar in its confounding nature.
In HS, I only got one class period to try to fill out taxes forms, bugeting, how to buy a house, and all the popular kids trying to hype the teacher to talk about something else. One period.Very informative smh
I actually did have a mandatory adulting class. For one semester. I dont think it covered enough honestly, and also I forgot everything in it but.. it helped a little.
We needed so many more streetwise helps...
Why not have an actual homeroom class that helps people
It was mostly insurance and taxes. We could have used a lot more i think but it was a good base.
Do treelaw!
12:38 I've been in what some would consider black face. I needed to be as black as possible (clothes, skin, hat, ect) because I was assisting a puppeteer controlling puppets in a show. Basically you want everything to blend into the black background of the stage so while controlling the puppets your are not seen. It was honestly one of the coolest experiences of my life. So black face is not always racist.
This
Itâs one thing to wear a black bodysuit itâs another to paint yourself(which to what op was referring to)
In general, the term blackface is used when someone is trying to look like a black person, usually for negative reasons. I wonder if what you did has a technical name that differentiates it.
@@MoonlighPurrfection Don't know if it has another name, but I do know that if someone saw you painted in such a way without the rest of the get up, they may mistake it as being racist.
@@heathervitale2305 You do paint yourself unless you'd rather wear a full face mask and just paint around the eyes. It makes the performance very hot and harder to breath, so many people often opt for face paint.
Your idea for a class on how to be an adult sounds great! I actually had a similar class like that in high school: they never taught us taxes, but they had assignments like "Find the average monthly salary of your dream job. Now considering that salary, plan a food budget for how much of that you would spend on all the food you eat." We spent days looking at apartment costs, planning how much to spend on gas, and they would throw other things like "Imagine you're married and with children to feed as well. What kind of salaries would you and your imaginary spouse need?" They also made us research how to get our dream job, if they expected a college degree, etc. This is the class that made me realize that I did NOT want to pursue being a storyboard artist: apparently, getting a job as a storyboard artist is mostly reliant on going to CalArts (I'm nowhere near California or any big art school) or having friends in the industry that recommend you to their bosses (lol what social skills). I remember being an immature teenager thinking that the class was stupid because it was all pretend, and at some point actually realizing how useful this was. Also, this class was mostly spent in self-research, with a teacher who would give us the assignment and then play on his phone while we did the work XD. But he would help if we asked. I don't remember what the class was called, but it was very helpful to prepare everyone and get us thinking about the future.
I 100% agree about the need for an 'adulting' class in the High School core curriculum.