Boss makes candidates wait hour for interview - and doesn't hire those who moan
When it comes to attending an interview, most candidates spend hours preparing answers to commonly asked questions and making sure they're wearing their smartest clothes. But no matter how much time they spend preparing for the big event, they can never guarantee their potential boss doesn't have a trick up their sleeve.
One employer has sparked a debate after an employee revealed how they make every single one of their candidates wait an hour past their interview time to "filter" out complainers. Taking to Quora, the employee said: "My boss purposely makes all interview candidates wait one hour past the scheduled interview time. This is their 'filtering' method, as they refuse to consider anyone who leaves during the 1+ hour wait."
But the strategy didn't go down well with social media users, who claimed they would have walked out well before the hour was up. In response, one user said: "Your boss is a dumba**. If a potential employer made me wait an hour past the prescribed time, I would be gone by the 45-minute mark, as the interviewer is clearly not the kind of person who I would be interested in working for.
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"He’s filtering out people who value time in favour of people desperate enough to meet his arbitrary unspoken threshold. He is losing out on candidates who would probably be outstanding fits for a reason that has absolutely nothing to do with qualifications.
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"He’s not losing out on these people because they lack anything. He’s losing out on them because he's an a**hole. On behalf of myself and everyone else who wouldn’t put up with that garbage, I offer a heartfelt thank God your boss showed us what an asshole he was before we took a job working for him."
Another user added: "I’d be thankful if a potential employer were that blatantly awful that early in the interview process. After 10–15 minutes, I’d inquire whether there were some emergency they were dealing with. If not, after another 10–15 minutes I’d walk away and be grateful they hadn’t wasted more of my time.
"Imagine if they’d interviewed me as scheduled, and hadn’t given the game away during the interview, and I accepted a job there, and only then discovered the true awfulness of your boss! The only better way they could waste even less of my time would be to name themselves Abusive A**holes, Inc."
A third user said: "If you ask me to be at an interview at a particular time, and you’re not ready for me when I get there, I give you a little bit of extra grace time (maybe a lot if there’s a good reason for the delay) and then I’m walking out.
"Bugger you. I don’t want to work for a company that wastes my time and disrespects me before I’ve even started working with them. All this 'filtering method' will get you is people who are desperate; people who will kowtow and suck up any amount of bad treatment because they really need the job.
"This is not going to get you the cream of the crop, and it won’t create company loyalty. It will get you a workforce of nervous, weak-willed, mediocre staff. Some bosses want that kind of workforce. I don’t want to go anywhere near those bosses, or that kind of workforce."
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