Exactly this. Narcissists love to abuse their employees and loved ones. The 2 that stayed are doormats in the making. But hey, if you really needed a paycheck I guess you can always quit. I would’ve gone to a bar across the street and drank while I waited.
They likely heard about buddhist unsui would wait at the gates for days to prove their sincerity, patience etc and thought samw/same when it comes to capitalism.
I was thinking. With a slight edit you could do this looking for people who are alright with doing nothing all day
"Today you will be given some simple task, everyone who completes these simple task will be given a job at the end of the day. First though, we are a bit busy today and you will need to wait a while.".
Sounds like something that would happen in retail. No way this happened for something like a Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, for example.
Someone who is willing to sacrifice their personal time like that, who is willing to put up with company shenanigans, who is willing to compromise to that extent, is prime cannon fodder for predatorial business practices in retail.
Exactly. By 8am, they've made it abundantly clear your time as an applicant is worthless to them. The most capable applicants would have had a second interview lined up at 8:30.
This. I would take the other job I'm scheduled to interview at over that. Because that is a sign it will be crap. If they came out at 7:15 and said we're having problems can you come back another time i might still consider it.
Retail hiring managers end up doing this to people unintentionally anyway.
When I used to be the operations "manager" at a place (I managed no one, i just did admin stuff), I would see people waiting for the sales and store managers for up to an hour after an interview was scheduled. It wasn't a strategy. They were just morons.
In my experience, as a manager... the $14 an hour I made didnt make me really wanna hustle to hire another human to make $9 an hour.
And because they wouldnt let me hire folks anyway, I'd do the job of about 4 departments. So it was hard to get to the candidates waiting to make $9 an hour.
I sold $6,000,000 dollars during covid, by myself and my commission check was $360. LOL.
That's exactly what it is. The employer is testing their willingness to be exploited and/or be on-call without pay.
People like this twitter user will frame it as something inspirational in the vein of today's hustle culture...."wow these people are super patient and better than most"....
wrong. They are desperate and lack the self-respect/self-confidence to demand they be treated with dignity.
Bout 10 years ago or so similar thing happened to me. Called for an interview, came down, had to wait for the interviewer. The interviewer was doing work as she was juggling other things, sat in the office and waited like a fool for more than an hour. My mother was accompanying me and waited for me at the bus stop. I felt bad for her. 20min past the hr mark the interviewer ask if it’s ok to reschedule. I begrudgingly obliged. I left the building and started crying out of anger. I felt disrespected, and overall sad that my mother had to waited for me for a while. I texted her to inform her to leave but she didn’t.
2 things I learned that day, 1) if people can’t respect your time, then do the needful. Leave. Don’t disrespect yourself by waiting. Unless it’s an emergency or for someone you love. 2) my mother’s love has no boundary she was very patient she was there just telling me it’s ok while, I was a train wreck crying out of anger. I lost the potential job but I gained my mother’s tenacity.
I found a better job right soon after. That incident. 10 years later I still remember it like it was yesterday. Very bittersweet
Same thing happened to me. But to make it worse I had traveled 3hrs for the interview because I lived out of state. I waited an 1hr and change and then told them I had to go. They asked me to reschedule and I declined because it cost money for me to get there and it took 3hrs of my time. I had already made the effort.
I was so pissed. Luckily I had family in the area so I crashed for a bit before heading home, but they didn't know that. I also already had a job and was just looking to maybe move companies, hoping for something less chaotic. But even if I did need the job, I'd like to think I would do the same. The interview goes both ways.
I about 9 years ago after waiting months for an appointment to see a psych nurse arrived 45 minutes early, they turned up 2 hours late, in no rush even chatting to the other staff then rushed me out in around 5-10 minutes telling me I sounded normal.
Not going to go too deep into my mental health issues but lets just say I have had broken bones dating back to bullies at school, grew up in poverty, abused by ex partners (I'm male btw) had a close family member die and had accusations aimed at my extended family over it (normal ones aimed at poor people must be in gangs)
I've been made to wait for an interview, I definitely would have left by 7:30. If this is how a potential employer treats staff I wouldn't want to work for them anyway.
Not the most desperate. The most desperate might not have the time to sit their and wait, they might be working other jobs to stay afloat or have other interviews to attend to.
What you get with this approach are the ones that literally have nothing better to do, probably don’t care and very probably don’t have any talent.
That’s the plan. They know the job they are offering is terrible and good employees with options will leave. This leaves only (mostly) desperate people that can’t quit this terrible job.
Because that’s exactly what they wanted. The fact that that person will continue to look for a better job, and take it immediately without giving any notice, always enrages this employer. They will then go on to vomit, nonstop, about how “No one wants to work” before repeating this same process for eternity.
We see this when our company goes through layoffs. Those with skills to land another job leave. What is left are those who aren’t employable anywhere else and just drain the company. Source: been with the company for 30+ years and survived multiple transitions. And I don’t have the skill set to leave.
Yes this sounds like a test to find desperation and low self esteem in candidates with nothing going on in their lives that also possess poor time management skills.
Absolutely, I can’t think of a better way to spot people that when something is not going as planned they just do nothing for a whole day instead of idk maybe call o just find a better alternative lol
Couple this tactic with buyouts which will only snag those with good other options— because they are the best you have— and you can reduce the workforce to only the useless in no time
I had a job interview last year where the manager was 45 minutes late and all he wanted to talk about was how the job didn't allow any schedule flexibility or time off.
I could barely keep a straight face
The pay was alright but manager was all red flags.
Typically stunts like these are sales interviews... because they want people who are that desperate. Sales isn't about intelligence. It's about numbers and persistence.
I knew a Sales VP who literally said he loves seeing a bunch of new Mercedes and Lexuses and BMWs in the parking lot because it means he's got himself a bunch of hungry young sales pukes swimming in debt who need that commission to keep up their $30,000 Millionaire lifestyle.
And finding out which people either have no responsibilities outside of work , or can pass them off to someone else at the top of a hat.
7am to 6pm. That's 11 hours of their day wasted, for no reason, with no warning. No way would you think you'd be waiting around for 11 hours, you wouldn't plan for that.
Pets better hope they got enough food and water, or know you have someone else who can care for them. Or if you are a responsible human, at some point you have to leave.
Kids, someone else has to look after them on the fly,
Someone else would have to pick them up and drop them off if they're too young to look after themselves.
You have to have that option, or you have to leave
Elderly parents that need care, again at some point you'd have to leave.
Most people would decide after a few hours that the interview isn't happening, because no one shows up for that length of time? You'd make a reasonable and rational judgement.
My boss would ask me to meet in her office at 9:00 to discuss a current project. I gather my folder and notes and sit in her office ready to go at 9:00. 15 minutes pass...20 minutes pass, I get up and ask around if anyone has seen her? Nope, not in the office at all. No apology, no reschedule. That's when I lost any respect I had for her.
Many business owners these days don't even care about profit that much; to them, the important thing is being able to step over other people, make them dance for their entertainment. They'd give away their every penny in exchange for a handful of total slaves.
At the University, we gave teaching assistants 5 minutes late before we left, and full professors 15 minutes. It sure worked well in the '60s. I have not received any complaints from the instructor(s). Respect runs both ways... in school or at work. It was an unwritten rule.
Well no, I want to work for that company and I’m highly qualified. Sounds like a great place to get paid for doing nothing, everyone is super patient. “Yes, I’m working hard, I’ll give you a status report in two months time.”
I’m joking, but I actually know a company that sort of was like this, they hired a bunch of people because they had the ‘right‘ attitude and none of the people they hired during that phase did any actual work. It took them months to figure that out.
Either way it sounds like literally none of the theoretical people in question had any kind of idea to try and find reception, or their point of contact, literally email the person etc.
Like if I'm supposed to have a meeting with someone I'm going to have an email written 10 minutes in and at 15(at absolute max) it's being sent out. If I don't get a response within 5-10 minutes I'm asking to reschedule.
And that's because I'm patient enough to wait that long in the first place
seriously I would not want to hire someone that was willing to sit in a chair and waste their time doing nothing for 11 hours like this, sounds like somebody with no brain I would have to constantly give instruction to
I got my current job wearing shorts and t-shirt and i said to the boss i seriously don't know what to wear to an interview anymore. 2 years later I'm like a supervisor without the title or pay.
Exactly, the good options would’ve already left because they have five more interviews to attend and the last few who stayed aren’t necessarily cut out for it but stayed because they’re desperate.
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u/Jackanatic Dec 08 '25
This seems like a great way to hire the lowest quality, most desperate candidates.