The interviewer came to the waiting room and called my name and looked directly at the white girl that was sitting there. I guess he assumed it was her. I stood up and started walking towards him. He looked at me and said “You’re Allyson?” I said “Yes 😊” His whole demeanor changed and he said “Oh.” One of the downfalls of being white on paper. It gets me in the door, but sometimes I lose the opportunity when they see me.
This happened to me not during an interview but when house hunting. I guys my skin tone didn’t match my name and voice. I got the same reaction as you did. I called before I left and it was available. Soon as I got there, 20 minutes later, the house wasn’t available 😂
So if your name was Shaniqua, you should have just stayed home. That’s why those new ethnic black names might be ok for babies but not for the real world.
I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERED VECTOR!!!! I laughed in the people's ear on that phone when they told me I had to buy the knives... Definitely knew I wasn't getting that job 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was never gonna do Cutco/Vector because "door to door" sales. I hated doin field service with my JW Stepmom so I definitely wasnt gonna go knocking down doors to try and sell knives you can just go to the store and buy...
I knew I wasn't getting the job once the VP was called in and he saw a bald, black woman sitting in the room. I guess I didn't fit the esthetic of the company 🤷🏽♀️
At an interview for a banking position and he asked what motivates me. I instantly start crying bc I thought of my daughter & son. They're my entire world!!! I knew that was a sign of weakness (for them) BUT it was just another milestone in my unconditional love for my kids! I left there so happy bc I just felt so much joy about my kids 💯✊🏽🥰
I went for an interview for a teaching position. My name is Michelle and people who can't read always read it as Michael. The principal 's face dropped when she saw me. I could tell what was going to happen right there. She told me " I didn't know you had a man's name and I was looking for a man ,not a woman. That's why i set up an interview with you." I told her" Im looking for a man too and I'll find one before you because I know how to read and you don't. By the way, it's illegal to tell me that. Your union will be contacting you shortly about it. Have a nice illiterate day."
It's was a retail job and I did really well in the actual interview; second half was to try and sell Christmas products to customers....I smashed one of the glass bottle I was trying to sell and glitter went everywhere. I just looked at the manager's face - took my bag and left like Viola Davis. I knew my ass didn't get the job after making them lose money 😂.
I interviewed for a cashier clerk at a large jail courthouse. Chile, they asked me "what is your work ethic." I paused, because I didn't know what it was. I played like I was thinking about it, then I just asked, "what does it mean." I was so embarrassed. Then the asked, " if a supervisor tells you to do something that is not of company policy, would you do it?" Chile I said, "yes." They looked at me like I had stupid tatted on my forehead. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I definitely did not get a callback 😊😅.
I had similar experience with Walmart..young and naive (16-17), they asked me about did I ever broke the law to help someone. Big goofy, I said yes and went into details 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. I didn’t get it until after the interview, oh gosh darn it!! 🤦🏾♀️ worlds dumbest 💀💀
Was straight out of nursing school. The director ask me “are you applying for a job because welfare is forcing you? I said, “ bih what?! “ that’s was over 24 years ago… healthcare will give you PTSD.
girl the audacity! I'm a pharmacist and went for a clinical pharmacist interview - when I arrived they said you must be here for the technician interview. I said no I'm here for the clinical pharmacist interview. The astonished looks on managements faces told me I wouldn't be getting that job. Healthcare is so racist
Just posted my horror nurse interview. Dude was mad I didn't list my grammar school on the application 😂😂 like how is knowing where I went for 1st grade relevant.
I had a phone interview. I had a full-time job but was looking for something part-time. She asked "So, why are you interested in working here?" I said "The same reason you work there; because I need the money." I could LITERALLY hear her face fall.😂😂😂 Then she acted like she got another call and said she would call me back. Oh course she never did. 😂😂😂
Honestly, that's a great answer for a part-time job. Some of these people get a title and pretend like they are working at a Fortune 500 Company. You can't expect someone to sell themselves but so much for part-time income. She should have laughed and asked, "When can you start?"
Ratchet af lol You have to look at that question like: you got 20 job offers that all pay the same and have similar commute time, why do you choose them
When the interviewer gave me the movie line, "It would be a pleasure to have you on our team but you're almost too good and I just know someone else is going to snatch you up."
I've said that too as an employer. the guy had a resume that was genuinely too good for every role i could offer him at the time. I knew for a fact he'd be there until the job he really wanted would show up. I'd have him for one check, then after he saw it, he'd put his 2 weeks right in. No need to bs him
During the interview the hiring manager looked over my resume and asked “YOU went to college in England? How am I supposed to check that?” I looked that man dead in his eye and said “Sir, that’s why we have phones, computers and a thing called HR.” I snatched up my resume and walked out. Had a feeling it wasn’t a good fit, seeing as it was a small, melanin challenged company and the first question he asked was “How do you think you fit in here?”
Had multiple jobs tell me i had to cut my dreads before I can get the job. Like sir there's no guarantee I will get the job, so what makes you think imma cut my hair for you? Smh.
CUT YOUR HAIR?? I would have just agreed and went in to work with my long hair while I found another job LMAO I'll tell them yt folk I have to find a special barber for that and everyday I would have found one yet lmao 🤣
That's what "American" means (or what they want it to mean). Then they feign offense when ppl call themselves Asian-American, Mexican-American, Italian-American, etc. They act like they don't know why ppl want their culture represented. "wHY Can'T YoU jUsT bE AMerICaN?" ... Can I be Bradley? Can I?
@rellie_90 most in the world aren't even blonde, it only like 1-3% I think. ... which is funny when they say black women trying to look like them when they have blonde hair... you mean like a bottle blonde(thin haired) 😂😂😂
The interviewer took one look at me before I said a word and said 'I'm really looking for someone else but I'm sure you'll get offers elsewhere.'... Mind you they asked me to interview this was a position I didn't put in for until they asked me.
During my engagement I had been laid off and was looking for work. At one of my interviews, the lady asked me what inspired me to apply to them. Before my straightforward ass could think I said "Well my fiancé and I are not rich enough for me to not work." I didn't get a callback.
When I was about 17 or 18, I applied for a cashier spot at Ross. I went to the wrong location, about 15 min away from the one I applied to. They still interviewed me, but I knew it was a wrap. 😂
During my first interview was a group interview with New York and Company. I didn’t know how group interviews worked. The lady next to me was dominating the conversation and the interviewer looked so intrigued. One of the questions asked was “how do you know you’d be a fit for the company” the lady responded “as you see today I’m dressed in the companies colors which means I’m ready to work for you”. I looked at her and told her that was a good answer lol. I knew at that point it was over for me lol. I did so bad at the interview that the lady had to pull me aside and coach me on how to do group interviews lol.
Kohl's 2007. They did group interviews and I'd never done that BS before😂😂😂 somebody used my answer for one of those "what would you do" questions and that was it for me😂😂😂
Oh, the Kohls group interview. I don’t have a dedicated list of the biggest wastes of time of my life, but if I did, that one would definitely be way up there.
I applied for satellite dish installation back when that was the craze. The interview was asking me about my experience and I was saying everything they wanted to hear even though I never done it before. These people brought out math calculations “ think trig and advance algebra “ and asked me to do the problems and show the work. I literally stood up apologized for wasting they time and left lol
When I (Black woman) walked into the school building for a teaching interview, everyone looked alarmed and kept asking "What are you here for?"...I should have left but I continued with the interview only to not be offered the job. Not sure if they ate the half dozen donuts I brought
I feel as though this is how the system tries to keep us suppressed and stagnant in the working class and also in turn continue to elevate White people. I feel like it's even harder for Black women at times because we are discriminated against for not only being Black but also for being women and when I say this to some people it's like they don't believe what I am saying or my experiences. I recently went to an interview and when I got there I didn't see not one Black person working there in the office. I maybe saw one working at the warehouse and I was interviewing for an office position. I just knew I probably wasn't gonna get the job just based on that but what's interesting is that the CEO of the company saw that I applied on LinkedIn and on LinkedIn I have a profile picture. So I feel that they wanted to fulfill a “quota” and at least interview “people of color” really Black people, just so it won't seem like they aren't following the EEO laws 😒
The lady asked me about a time that I had to handle a tough situation and I start telling her how some crackheads robbed the Payless that I used to work at 😂.
The interviewer got interrupted during our group interview by her colleague coming in to update her on something, the colleague looked around and locked eyes with me & said "I know you😠!" I denied it but knew it was over. Why? I had worked that 5 years before as a junior & got fired for telling 3 Karens about themselves when they talked trash about POC during an entire night shift& applied for a medior position with my middle name. I guess my wig & makeup didn't help disguise me🤷🏿♀️
@leeleea4164 Listen... Rent needed to be paid & I knew they hired & fired all the time so why would I even be a blip on anyone's mind? But I was wrong...
That being said, our family still has our Cutco set from the mid-1990s and they still work like new, no need to sharpen or polish. Not sure how our family friends' kids felt selling them, but we're happy customers 😂 Funny thing is, you can order them on the Cutco website now🤫
Hahahahaaaa! Vector had me messed up, too! 😂 Long story short: It was me and a mostly Black group of college students who received an invitation for a job interview for Vector. We didn't know what it fully entailed but we all showed up for the presentation, which started with basically telling us we had the job...then what it entailed, including buying the knives! By that time, we realized it was door-to-door sales (but really, the REAL sales tactic was making "new hires" buy them, there) and none of us wanted to do it! We were then pulled into a room, one by one to basically "accept the job". What those of us waiting didn't know is that we could be heard easily on the other side of the door, and before I went in, I and a number of others waiting were coming up with how we were going to get out of it! 😂 When I heard them during my turn, I had to come up with another lie on the spot! 🤣 On my way out, I tried to warn them by quickly mouthing "They can hear you!" and using Black facial expressions and eye contact/movements. 😅 Hilarious!
I knew I didn't want the job when participating in a Kirby presentation that showed us everything about the vacuum except the price. When they finally said starting at $1800, I thought, "Who in the hell spends 6-9 months car payments(1990's) for a vacuum?!?"😂
Gracious. One of those Kirby salespeople came to my house and tricked me into letting him in. Then he started his whole spiel. My husband had to threaten him with calling the cops to get him to leave! People wonder why I don’t answer the door any more.
My parents! 😂 It was in the 80’s though, and they didn’t do payments, they just purchased that big, HEAVY, bulky, awkward, impractical thing, and other than vacuum the house, they never once used any of the box of attachments that came with it.
American Airlines asked me if I would lose weight. I was 5'1 and 100lbs. I had just gotten out of the army. What little weight I had was muscle. Yeah, NO 😂
@@Thrivegrl245’1 is very short for a flight attendant. You wouldn’t have passed the reach test anyway. Being a flight attendant sucks anyway so good for you
I knew, when I had an interview with State Farm and they made a comment that the life-size Jake in the main lobby scared them every morning cause they thought he was a robber. When I went back, unfortunately, I didn't get the job, I mean duhh with an office full of Karens and I look like I could be Jake sister😂. Deep down inside, I was feeling there where not enough of me's to be comfortable enough to work there.
I interviewed for Kohl's department store. The interviewers asked me why I wanted to work there. Now mind you they had their qualities and sorts painted on the wall. Tell me why I started reading stuff from the wall. I KNEW THEN I was doomed. I never got a callback 😂😂😂😂😂. Funny thing is, both of my girls were hired later on!!! 😅😅😅
Anytime the interviewer says..."well, i have some more interviews to get through but I'll give you a call." If you're hired, they would never mention other candidates 😂
For me it was at a credit union bank and I noticed that there were zero black people and interviewer never asked me questions about my job history. I guess they needed to have a check box marked...
UGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I quite literally SCREAMED when he said Vector!!! When I tell you I was mad, betrayed, hot, and bamboozled?! Honey, I was GONE! 😂😂😂😂😂
Mine was Hollister, I asked about the wage as they didn't state it on the application and they asked me if I wear any of the clothing, I said no a lil too quickly and laughed. Also I am a BBW, they wouldn't have my size - I knew they weren't going to call. 😅
Vector tried to get you too? I picked up on that Pyramid MLM quick fast and in a hurry! Also, I knew I wasn't fit for the job, because I suck as a salesperson, meaning that I cannot sell you something I don't believe in.
Wow! Very similar stories Kev. I was at a group interview for Aeropostale at a mall in Maryland. They made a bunch of “American” looks comments during the interview also. Needless to say, I did not get that job.
I (a black woman) once had an interview at Chipotle. I got there 15 mins early and was told the manager would be out shortly. The manager came out, pretended she didn't see me, then went back to her office. 15 minutes later a girl walks in 15 minutes after the hour clocked in and began to work. That same girl 10 minutes later came up to me with a clipboard with a blank sheet of paper. She asked me to write down my name, age and my phone number. After I did this, she tells me that the manager is busy right now but she will call me later. I knew then I wasn't going to get that job.
When the person interviewing me had an entire attitude during the interview and continued to say she wasn't supposed to be interviewing me but was only upposes to be sitting in on the interview but her Supervisor never showed up. I told her I could come back, but she refused. Still went on with an AtTiTude. I don't think she even told them I came in for the interview 😅 I went back a year later and got the job. The $$$ was good, directly across the street from my house. But the supervisor was an azz. It only lasted a few month. Had to cuss out the Supervisor 🤣
I remember doing a group interview for Hollister in the mall food court back in the mid 2007/2008 and dealt with similar treatment. I didn’t understand seeing as the inside of the store was dark as ever so why would they even care how we looked if no one could even SEE. Funny, because neither of those stores even matter nowadays.
I knew when I was interviewing for DOT and there is a panel that interviews. I came in all googly eyed, chipper and green and everybody else looked serious, stubborn and over it. 😬
When i asked the interviewers (,there were 3) if, based on their description of the job, if they worked for the "good guys or the bad guys." The awkward silence was delicious.
During an interview in the deep south, when asked why I chose an HBCU...my response (without thinking) was, I'd gone to a predominantly white highschool and I was tired of it😂 In that moment, I knew the job was lost.
Lol mine were the exact same places. At abercrombie they said they were looking for a “realistic look” & looked me dead in the eyes with my wig 😭 I was not a self motivated individual Vector was looking for 😅
When i interviewed with Brinks and he told the woman to bring out my application and she never did then he asked BS questions and quickly dismissed me. I wish I would've known then to sue they behinds because they used me just to say they interviewed someone black but had no intention on hiring me.
When I went on a teaching interview and had to fight back tears during the interview. Really didn’t want to work there, but needed a job. By the end of the interview, the interviewer and I both agreed it was a dub 😂
I was at an interview for after school daycare. The interviewer asked me how would I handle children misbehaving? I answered i would whoop them. The lady said "whoop" I knew i messed up how she said it and i was done.😅
I went to a vector group interview in tx and when I found out they were selling knifes I walked out and said to myself they trying to get me shot out here 😂😂
I had the same experience at A&F back in 2010. I’m 5’6” and Kev’s complexion they said nah you ain’t it. lol I went to American Eagle right across from the store (inside the mall) and got the job on the spot… that’s what they get I only wanted to work stock anyway
😂😂😂 awwe Vector lmfao them paychecks were looking funny honey, but now that I'm grown I be looking for them vector salesmen lmfao 😂😂 I need me some good knives now 😂😂😂
Went to be a Kirby salesman. They told me i had to knock on my neighbor's doors and try to sale them a vacuum. I knew i wasn't going to get it because i don't bother my neighbors. I'm not messing up my peace for a job
I was tailor made for a new practice group that combined my two legal specialties. Met with a panel of 5 attorneys. 4 were jumping over themselves to show their love. The 5th one (head of the group) was SUPER hostile and kept mentioning his husband. I thought that part was romantic at first, but then he said he had looked me up and sees I'm "into church." That's when I realized he ASSumed that me being a minister meant I would be an idiotic homophobic jerk. 😔 I no longer wanted to be there. Got up in the middle of his rant, thanked the other 4, told him I would pray for him, and left.
When I was in college I was new to interviewing all of my answers to every question was about the character traits… because I am kind and patient 😂😂 it was at a food Lion that lady was looking at me like I was crazy 🤣
I remember applying for a job I was over qualified for in a field I had years of experience in. I was turned down because I didn’t “smile enough”. Weeks later I got picked up by a Fortune 500 making way more money with amazing benefits. God will shut doors not for you and place you where you’re supposed to be.
Phone interview went great. When I showed up for the in person with my highly melanated skin, the receptionist exclaimed "YOU'RE GREG! ". When the interview came out, the receptionist pulled her "to the side" aka, right where I could see; while pointing and whispering. The interviewers face immediately balled up. I did the intake since I was there, and as impressed as she was, I knew I wasn't getting it. Yes it was in GA, company just outside of ATL.😂
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The interviewer came to the waiting room and called my name and looked directly at the white girl that was sitting there. I guess he assumed it was her. I stood up and started walking towards him. He looked at me and said “You’re Allyson?” I said “Yes 😊” His whole demeanor changed and he said “Oh.” One of the downfalls of being white on paper. It gets me in the door, but sometimes I lose the opportunity when they see me.
Same with the name Angelica, they automatically assume I'm white 😅.
This happened to me not during an interview but when house hunting. I guys my skin tone didn’t match my name and voice. I got the same reaction as you did. I called before I left and it was available. Soon as I got there, 20 minutes later, the house wasn’t available 😂
@@so.many.obstaclesyou can sue according to the Fair Housing act. You can get upwards of 25k for discrimination like that.
Hell, I named my kid Gianna just so she would at least be able to get an interview.😭
So if your name was Shaniqua, you should have just stayed home. That’s why those new ethnic black names might be ok for babies but not for the real world.
I think *ALMOST* all of us have run across Vector, Herbalife or Primerica.
Yes I did Vector for 3 days lol. I tried to stick it out smh.
It was that Life Insurance place for me. 😂😂
My parents, aunts and uncle all worked for Primerica, I haven't heard that company for many yrs
@@tinadrollinger3487 Primerica tried to recruit me but I ran cuz it felt like a cult.
I’m ready to tell my story about Primerica 😭
I started laughing as soon as you said you and your wife went into an AB & F interview?😂
Same!! 😂😂😂😂
All american(white)
That is so innocent of them. One can tell who a&f hired
@@monique4540The irony of that statement. When they aren't even the original "Americans" 🤭🙃
I mean the EXACT second he said the name.😂😂😂😂
I farted mid interview because I made a joke that me and the interviewer laughed at .... They excused me out 🚶🚶🚶🤦
😂🤣🤣🤣 Baybeeee I am howling!!
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That's pretty messed up though, everyone farts.
@@krazykaye8843 not during interviews. Reason being, it wud leave a bad, or smelly, impression😂
That was probably the best move for everyone 😭
I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERED VECTOR!!!! I laughed in the people's ear on that phone when they told me I had to buy the knives... Definitely knew I wasn't getting that job 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Vector was on the bs. I had the same reaction during the interview. Ask to go to the bathroom and went right home.
It was called CuttCo where I lived 😂
@@Ebugie CutCo is owned by Vector
I was never gonna do Cutco/Vector because "door to door" sales. I hated doin field service with my JW Stepmom so I definitely wasnt gonna go knocking down doors to try and sell knives you can just go to the store and buy...
I took my knives and didn't come back lol
I’m glad you named the companies, people should know how they really be moving.
They were grinning way too hard and said "we will be in touch!"😂😂😂😂
Got a job at a different place, praise God.❤❤❤
I knew I wasn't getting the job once the VP was called in and he saw a bald, black woman sitting in the room. I guess I didn't fit the esthetic of the company 🤷🏽♀️
At an interview for a banking position and he asked what motivates me. I instantly start crying bc I thought of my daughter & son. They're my entire world!!! I knew that was a sign of weakness (for them) BUT it was just another milestone in my unconditional love for my kids! I left there so happy bc I just felt so much joy about my kids 💯✊🏽🥰
I went for an interview for a teaching position. My name is Michelle and people who can't read always read it as Michael. The principal 's face dropped when she saw me. I could tell what was going to happen right there. She told me " I didn't know you had a man's name and I was looking for a man ,not a woman. That's why i set up an interview with you." I told her" Im looking for a man too and I'll find one before you because I know how to read and you don't. By the way, it's illegal to tell me that. Your union will be contacting you shortly about it. Have a nice illiterate day."
😂😂
Tell em!
😂😂 Damn!!
damn you ate her up LOL ❤️
“Have a nice illiterate day” DAMN!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And then the whole school started clapping and they named that day “Michael day” in your honor.
When my interview only lasted 5 minutes and everybody before me seemed like theirs lasted 30.
Me with Deutsche Bank
That’ll do it lol
Vector got me too Kev… my interviewer had a spider monkey on his shoulder during the interview. I should’ve knew 🤦🏾♂️😂
😂😂😂😂😂
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Me too😅
I thought I had heard it all, but a whole spider monkey sitting in on a knife company interview???? That's definitely a first, you win 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Spider Monkey is wild 😂😂
When the interviewer insisted I answer the question, "If I were an animal, what animal would I be". I'm too old for these games bruh!
😂😂
😂😂😂😂
....we are KINDRED SPIRITS! because if asked that question, I know your workplace will lead me to a PRISON SENTENCE🤗
Should have answered "a 26 year old Caucasian male" 😂😂
@@pinkfreespirit4243😂
It's was a retail job and I did really well in the actual interview; second half was to try and sell Christmas products to customers....I smashed one of the glass bottle I was trying to sell and glitter went everywhere.
I just looked at the manager's face - took my bag and left like Viola Davis. I knew my ass didn't get the job after making them lose money 😂.
Not like Viola Davis.😂😂
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The glitter 😭😭😭
@@uok6216 😁😁😁😁
I’m weeeaaaakkkk not Viola🤣🤣🤣
I interviewed for a cashier clerk at a large jail courthouse. Chile, they asked me "what is your work ethic." I paused, because I didn't know what it was. I played like I was thinking about it, then I just asked, "what does it mean." I was so embarrassed. Then the asked, " if a supervisor tells you to do something that is not of company policy, would you do it?" Chile I said, "yes." They looked at me like I had stupid tatted on my forehead. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I definitely did not get a callback 😊😅.
@@GaneshaSanders 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂 this is too funny!!
I had similar experience with Walmart..young and naive (16-17), they asked me about did I ever broke the law to help someone. Big goofy, I said yes and went into details 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
I didn’t get it until after the interview, oh gosh darn it!! 🤦🏾♀️ worlds dumbest 💀💀
@LA-Will OMG 😂😂😂 interviews make me nervous. No telling what comes out of my mouth 😂
@@GaneshaSanders they make me nervous too! 😂
Was straight out of nursing school. The director ask me “are you applying for a job because welfare is forcing you? I said, “ bih what?! “ that’s was over 24 years ago… healthcare will give you PTSD.
They really have unlimited amounts of audacity!
Jfc. That's insane. Disgusting
girl the audacity! I'm a pharmacist and went for a clinical pharmacist interview - when I arrived they said you must be here for the technician interview. I said no I'm here for the clinical pharmacist interview. The astonished looks on managements faces told me I wouldn't be getting that job. Healthcare is so racist
Just wow!
Just posted my horror nurse interview. Dude was mad I didn't list my grammar school on the application 😂😂 like how is knowing where I went for 1st grade relevant.
Interviewers kept glancing at each other while shaking their heads "no".
😂😂 that’s tough
Omg 😂😂
Daaang😂
I had a phone interview. I had a full-time job but was looking for something part-time. She asked "So, why are you interested in working here?"
I said "The same reason you work there; because I need the money."
I could LITERALLY hear her face fall.😂😂😂
Then she acted like she got another call and said she would call me back. Oh course she never did. 😂😂😂
Honestly, that's a great answer for a part-time job. Some of these people get a title and pretend like they are working at a Fortune 500 Company. You can't expect someone to sell themselves but so much for part-time income. She should have laughed and asked, "When can you start?"
Ratchet af lol
You have to look at that question like: you got 20 job offers that all pay the same and have similar commute time, why do you choose them
That’s biblical 😂😂😂😂
That's the real answer for any job interview you get. But that's not the answer they want, unfortunately 🙄
Best answer ever!
Everybody and they mama done got caught up with Vector! 😂😂😂
When the interviewer gave me the movie line, "It would be a pleasure to have you on our team but you're almost too good and I just know someone else is going to snatch you up."
Wow, talk about a backhanded compliment 🥴
I've said that too as an employer. the guy had a resume that was genuinely too good for every role i could offer him at the time. I knew for a fact he'd be there until the job he really wanted would show up. I'd have him for one check, then after he saw it, he'd put his 2 weeks right in. No need to bs him
@@elsteff411Yeah, maybe.
Translation: You're not gonna take my job today.
Source: Multiple managers who've told me the same thing.
During the interview the hiring manager looked over my resume and asked “YOU went to college in England? How am I supposed to check that?”
I looked that man dead in his eye and said “Sir, that’s why we have phones, computers and a thing called HR.”
I snatched up my resume and walked out. Had a feeling it wasn’t a good fit, seeing as it was a small, melanin challenged company and the first question he asked was “How do you think you fit in here?”
When I went for an interview with AT&T tech support, and they told me I'd have to cut my hair. I got up and left immediately.
Had multiple jobs tell me i had to cut my dreads before I can get the job. Like sir there's no guarantee I will get the job, so what makes you think imma cut my hair for you? Smh.
CUT YOUR HAIR?? I would have just agreed and went in to work with my long hair while I found another job LMAO I'll tell them yt folk I have to find a special barber for that and everyday I would have found one yet lmao 🤣
@@fabianathurmond4057I would have to be so incredibly desperate. I would not want to work for them.
Sidenote: blonde hair blue eyes sounds like All Swiss look, All viking look, since when is that look All American? Do they live in America?
You know white people live in their own world.
That's what "American" means (or what they want it to mean). Then they feign offense when ppl call themselves Asian-American, Mexican-American, Italian-American, etc. They act like they don't know why ppl want their culture represented. "wHY Can'T YoU jUsT bE AMerICaN?" ... Can I be Bradley? Can I?
America portrays most wypipo in this country as having blond hair and blue eyes, yet MOST are brunettes 🙄
@rellie_90 most in the world aren't even blonde, it only like 1-3% I think. ... which is funny when they say black women trying to look like them when they have blonde hair... you mean like a bottle blonde(thin haired) 😂😂😂
@@Michelle.1952yah but most WASP Americans don't have blonde hair... Most Europeans in general have brown hair and blue eyes
Hahaha...Vector had me for 2-3hrs. Never came back💯
The interviewer laughed in my face 🥹
Aww
Disrespectful, I'm sorry!
@@gifty2595 😅
Wow what a dick
The interviewer took one look at me before I said a word and said 'I'm really looking for someone else but I'm sure you'll get offers elsewhere.'... Mind you they asked me to interview this was a position I didn't put in for until they asked me.
During my engagement I had been laid off and was looking for work. At one of my interviews, the lady asked me what inspired me to apply to them. Before my straightforward ass could think I said "Well my fiancé and I are not rich enough for me to not work." I didn't get a callback.
When my phone went off mid sentence of me explaining why they should hire me 🤦🏽♀️
When I was about 17 or 18, I applied for a cashier spot at Ross. I went to the wrong location, about 15 min away from the one I applied to. They still interviewed me, but I knew it was a wrap. 😂
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I started crying after being asked a question
What was the question? 😂
@@tamiatamale 😅😅😅
😂😂 awe
Been there.
I’m screaming 😂
During my first interview was a group interview with New York and Company. I didn’t know how group interviews worked. The lady next to me was dominating the conversation and the interviewer looked so intrigued. One of the questions asked was “how do you know you’d be a fit for the company” the lady responded “as you see today I’m dressed in the companies colors which means I’m ready to work for you”. I looked at her and told her that was a good answer lol. I knew at that point it was over for me lol. I did so bad at the interview that the lady had to pull me aside and coach me on how to do group interviews lol.
Aw you're so sweet 😅❤
Omg, so sweet. I would’ve hired both y’all! Frick and frack!
Kohl's 2007. They did group interviews and I'd never done that BS before😂😂😂 somebody used my answer for one of those "what would you do" questions and that was it for me😂😂😂
I did a group interview for them too, i hate when jobs do that bs and no I did not get the job. I knew I wasn’t
@@keykarissa I'm not one for trying to "sell" myself like that. You got my resume, you see my qualifications...you want me or nah?🤔🤔🤔
Oh, the Kohls group interview. I don’t have a dedicated list of the biggest wastes of time of my life, but if I did, that one would definitely be way up there.
Omge happened to me too ! I'm like ok I'm not getting the job.
I applied for satellite dish installation back when that was the craze. The interview was asking me about my experience and I was saying everything they wanted to hear even though I never done it before. These people brought out math calculations “ think trig and advance algebra “ and asked me to do the problems and show the work. I literally stood up apologized for wasting they time and left lol
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At least you were honest in the end!
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They can do that? Lol
@@ashleyfairgood5923 apparently you use a lot of math to determine the angle the satellites need to be at on the homes
Looks like Vector "Marketing" got everybody 😂😂😂
When I (Black woman) walked into the school building for a teaching interview, everyone looked alarmed and kept asking "What are you here for?"...I should have left but I continued with the interview only to not be offered the job. Not sure if they ate the half dozen donuts I brought
I feel as though this is how the system tries to keep us suppressed and stagnant in the working class and also in turn continue to elevate White people. I feel like it's even harder for Black women at times because we are discriminated against for not only being Black but also for being women and when I say this to some people it's like they don't believe what I am saying or my experiences. I recently went to an interview and when I got there I didn't see not one Black person working there in the office. I maybe saw one working at the warehouse and I was interviewing for an office position. I just knew I probably wasn't gonna get the job just based on that but what's interesting is that the CEO of the company saw that I applied on LinkedIn and on LinkedIn I have a profile picture. So I feel that they wanted to fulfill a “quota” and at least interview “people of color” really Black people, just so it won't seem like they aren't following the EEO laws 😒
And people still think racism doesn’t exist :(
The lady asked me about a time that I had to handle a tough situation and I start telling her how some crackheads robbed the Payless that I used to work at 😂.
Vector tricked me tooo! I was like what??? I have to buy the knives?? Lol
The interviewer got interrupted during our group interview by her colleague coming in to update her on something, the colleague looked around and locked eyes with me & said "I know you😠!" I denied it but knew it was over. Why? I had worked that 5 years before as a junior & got fired for telling 3 Karens about themselves when they talked trash about POC during an entire night shift& applied for a medior position with my middle name. I guess my wig & makeup didn't help disguise me🤷🏿♀️
Not the wig and makeup decoy 😂😂
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@leeleea4164 Listen... Rent needed to be paid & I knew they hired & fired all the time so why would I even be a blip on anyone's mind? But I was wrong...
Dang, I was definitely selling those Cutco knives. I remember cutting the penny during my presentations lol
That penny cutting had me like 🤔
That sold me too 😅
That being said, our family still has our Cutco set from the mid-1990s and they still work like new, no need to sharpen or polish. Not sure how our family friends' kids felt selling them, but we're happy customers 😂 Funny thing is, you can order them on the Cutco website now🤫
Hahahahaaaa! Vector had me messed up, too! 😂
Long story short: It was me and a mostly Black group of college students who received an invitation for a job interview for Vector. We didn't know what it fully entailed but we all showed up for the presentation, which started with basically telling us we had the job...then what it entailed, including buying the knives! By that time, we realized it was door-to-door sales (but really, the REAL sales tactic was making "new hires" buy them, there) and none of us wanted to do it! We were then pulled into a room, one by one to basically "accept the job". What those of us waiting didn't know is that we could be heard easily on the other side of the door, and before I went in, I and a number of others waiting were coming up with how we were going to get out of it! 😂 When I heard them during my turn, I had to come up with another lie on the spot! 🤣 On my way out, I tried to warn them by quickly mouthing "They can hear you!" and using Black facial expressions and eye contact/movements. 😅 Hilarious!
I knew I didn't want the job when participating in a Kirby presentation that showed us everything about the vacuum except the price. When they finally said starting at $1800, I thought, "Who in the hell spends 6-9 months car payments(1990's) for a vacuum?!?"😂
Gracious. One of those Kirby salespeople came to my house and tricked me into letting him in. Then he started his whole spiel. My husband had to threaten him with calling the cops to get him to leave! People wonder why I don’t answer the door any more.
My parents! 😂 It was in the 80’s though, and they didn’t do payments, they just purchased that big, HEAVY, bulky, awkward, impractical thing, and other than vacuum the house, they never once used any of the box of attachments that came with it.
@@NubianP6My parents bought it too, in the 80’s also I believe… we had that thing for a good 20 years though, it was actually a great vacuum! 😂
“We will call you when we’re ready to decide if you’re getting the position”
"Don't call us, we'll call you."
Wtf does that even mean?? 😂
@ “You don’t get the job”
@@theafricantexan9573 Ya I get that but "ready to decide" is weird wording 😅
Yes, one told me in two weeks they'll get back to me its been 2 and a half 😒🤦🏾♀️
Ngl. Them CutCo knives are AMAZING though!
They have gardening tools & ice cream scoops now. That machete can cut tension!
American Airlines asked me if I would lose weight. I was 5'1 and 100lbs. I had just gotten out of the army. What little weight I had was muscle. Yeah, NO 😂
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@@Thrivegrl245’1 is very short for a flight attendant. You wouldn’t have passed the reach test anyway.
Being a flight attendant sucks anyway so good for you
@kaylean39 I was going to say, her weight isn't an issue but her height is 😅
She said she was in the army, she was gonna be all she can be!
I knew, when I had an interview with State Farm and they made a comment that the life-size Jake in the main lobby scared them every morning cause they thought he was a robber. When I went back, unfortunately, I didn't get the job, I mean duhh with an office full of Karens and I look like I could be Jake sister😂. Deep down inside, I was feeling there where not enough of me's to be comfortable enough to work there.
When the interviewer started doodling while I was speaking 😂
When the lady told me "Well, keep looking."
@@christyann33 🤣
As a Gemini, that is such a Gemini statement. Just blunt and real. 🤣🤣
😂😂😂 I'm sorry that was funny. I hope you're in a much better place now. I really lol too
@@preciousgem84 lol yes I am in a better place. This actually just happened in an interview back in July of this year. Bless that lady's heart.
😂😂😂😂😂 all he had to say was the name Abercrombie and Fitch??? Ninja please CTFU.
I interviewed for Kohl's department store. The interviewers asked me why I wanted to work there. Now mind you they had their qualities and sorts painted on the wall. Tell me why I started reading stuff from the wall. I KNEW THEN I was doomed. I never got a callback 😂😂😂😂😂. Funny thing is, both of my girls were hired later on!!! 😅😅😅
Bro as soon as you said AB & F that was a wrap 😂
Anytime the interviewer says..."well, i have some more interviews to get through but I'll give you a call." If you're hired, they would never mention other candidates 😂
For me it was at a credit union bank and I noticed that there were zero black people and interviewer never asked me questions about my job history. I guess they needed to have a check box marked...
UGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I quite literally SCREAMED when he said Vector!!! When I tell you I was mad, betrayed, hot, and bamboozled?! Honey, I was GONE! 😂😂😂😂😂
Mine was Hollister, I asked about the wage as they didn't state it on the application and they asked me if I wear any of the clothing, I said no a lil too quickly and laughed. Also I am a BBW, they wouldn't have my size - I knew they weren't going to call. 😅
Mine was hollister too. 😂
I said I was laid back.
Never heard from them
As soon as the interviewer asked “Do you know spanish?”.
Vector tried to get you too? I picked up on that Pyramid MLM quick fast and in a hurry! Also, I knew I wasn't fit for the job, because I suck as a salesperson, meaning that I cannot sell you something I don't believe in.
Me too OMG I could never get into the Pyramid MLM models either 😂😂😂
I’m really terrible at lying. Not saying salespeople lie, BUT it entails extreme exaggeration to convince people to buy and I lack those skills lol
Vector was the worst. I got a migraine listening to that sales pitch. I’m looking for a job cause I’m broke and you want me to pay you?! GTFOHWTBS
Wow! Very similar stories Kev. I was at a group interview for Aeropostale at a mall in Maryland. They made a bunch of “American” looks comments during the interview also. Needless to say, I did not get that job.
When I got there for the job interview at Moe’s southwest grill the clerk at the front desk told me that the manager had left for the day.
@@myckalaross8973 noooo 🤣
@@BeautifulEarthJa honest to GOD I was pissed but I ended up getting a job three months later
Vector got all of us 😂😂😂😂
I (a black woman) once had an interview at Chipotle. I got there 15 mins early and was told the manager would be out shortly. The manager came out, pretended she didn't see me, then went back to her office. 15 minutes later a girl walks in 15 minutes after the hour clocked in and began to work. That same girl 10 minutes later came up to me with a clipboard with a blank sheet of paper. She asked me to write down my name, age and my phone number. After I did this, she tells me that the manager is busy right now but she will call me later. I knew then I wasn't going to get that job.
Your AGE? Oh hell no. Red Flag and likely illegal and you didn’t have to answer that. SMH do better Chipotle
that Cutco used to scam errybody 😩😂
When the person interviewing me had an entire attitude during the interview and continued to say she wasn't supposed to be interviewing me but was only upposes to be sitting in on the interview but her Supervisor never showed up.
I told her I could come back, but she refused. Still went on with an AtTiTude. I don't think she even told them I came in for the interview 😅
I went back a year later and got the job. The $$$ was good, directly across the street from my house. But the supervisor was an azz. It only lasted a few month. Had to cuss out the Supervisor 🤣
Was the supervisor you had to cuss out the same one who stood her up that day, your interviewer, or someone else? 👀 (I’m too invested in the story. 😂)
Vector was ridiculous
Vector strikes again lol
My brother did Vector and my parents was his first purchase 🤣🤣🤣
Great parents!!
Yeah, I think Vector pretty much pulled the okey doke on a lot of us. I couldn’t get ANYBODY to buy those knives 😂
Girl, they were calling and screaming saying stick to the script 😂😂😂😂. I'm like I am but dont nobody want these knives!'😅😅
I remember doing a group interview for Hollister in the mall food court back in the mid 2007/2008 and dealt with similar treatment. I didn’t understand seeing as the inside of the store was dark as ever so why would they even care how we looked if no one could even SEE.
Funny, because neither of those stores even matter nowadays.
Vector and cut I got me. Yeeeaaaahhhhh I won’t be working here ma boy 😂😂😂
Vector 😂😂😂 They tried it lol. "I have do what? Nah, I'm good. Nope! "
Vector got me too😂
OMG... Vector and the knife Hustle.... I think we all got caught up in that one SMH😮😂😂😂
I knew when I was interviewing for DOT and there is a panel that interviews. I came in all googly eyed, chipper and green and everybody else looked serious, stubborn and over it. 😬
Omgee same thing happened to me...they had to take pictures at my micro braids to see if they looked natural 😑
WHAT in the f*ing AUDICITY. I am so sorry, how insulting
Excuse me ?! Ain't no fucking way.
Same thing happened to a black girl with naturally blonde hair who worked at Chick Fil A
lol anything where i had to buy the product first i was out...im here because i dont have the money to buy the product
Bro he took me alllllll the way back when he said Vector Knives 😱
When i asked the interviewers (,there were 3) if, based on their description of the job, if they worked for the "good guys or the bad guys." The awkward silence was delicious.
During an interview in the deep south, when asked why I chose an HBCU...my response (without thinking) was, I'd gone to a predominantly white highschool and I was tired of it😂 In that moment, I knew the job was lost.
Lol mine were the exact same places. At abercrombie they said they were looking for a “realistic look” & looked me dead in the eyes with my wig 😭 I was not a self
motivated individual Vector was looking for 😅
I know when I’m not going to get the job is when the interviewer says “ I still have a few more interviews I’ll call you ” 😂
When i interviewed with Brinks and he told the woman to bring out my application and she never did then he asked BS questions and quickly dismissed me. I wish I would've known then to sue they behinds because they used me just to say they interviewed someone black but had no intention on hiring me.
One of the interviewers looked at me and said “be kind to yourself no matter what” …. She repeated it about two more times 😢
When I went on a teaching interview and had to fight back tears during the interview. Really didn’t want to work there, but needed a job. By the end of the interview, the interviewer and I both agreed it was a dub 😂
Hopefully you ended up somewhere that was a better fit!
@ yes, I eventually did. It all worked out! Thanks for the well wishes ❤️
Maaaaaaaaan I got pulled in by Vector too 🤣🤣 Thought it was a real job until they told me I had to sell door to door 🤣🤣🤣
Should have definitely sued. Smh, they still have them same beliefs.
I was at an interview for after school daycare. The interviewer asked me how would I handle children misbehaving? I answered i would whoop them. The lady said "whoop" I knew i messed up how she said it and i was done.😅
💀🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
As you should’ve been. They weren’t trying to get sued. 🥴
Ma'am! 😂😂
The way I'm hollering😂. Cause what would make you say that? You made my day.
I laughed as SOON as you said Abercrombie and Fitch 😂
I went to a vector group interview in tx and when I found out they were selling knifes I walked out and said to myself they trying to get me shot out here 😂😂
I had the same experience at A&F back in 2010. I’m 5’6” and Kev’s complexion they said nah you ain’t it. lol I went to American Eagle right across from the store (inside the mall) and got the job on the spot… that’s what they get I only wanted to work stock anyway
😂😂😂 awwe Vector lmfao them paychecks were looking funny honey, but now that I'm grown I be looking for them vector salesmen lmfao 😂😂 I need me some good knives now 😂😂😂
they really said blonde hair, blue eyes? I don't know how y'all live in that ghetto of America
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What continent are you on
The ghetto of America has me absolutely weak over here. 😂
@roselynholloway7863 the Americas 😒☹️🥹
It really is ghetto over here, sis 😂😂
Went to be a Kirby salesman. They told me i had to knock on my neighbor's doors and try to sale them a vacuum. I knew i wasn't going to get it because i don't bother my neighbors. I'm not messing up my peace for a job
I was tailor made for a new practice group that combined my two legal specialties. Met with a panel of 5 attorneys. 4 were jumping over themselves to show their love. The 5th one (head of the group) was SUPER hostile and kept mentioning his husband. I thought that part was romantic at first, but then he said he had looked me up and sees I'm "into church." That's when I realized he ASSumed that me being a minister meant I would be an idiotic homophobic jerk. 😔 I no longer wanted to be there. Got up in the middle of his rant, thanked the other 4, told him I would pray for him, and left.
When I was in college I was new to interviewing all of my answers to every question was about the character traits… because I am kind and patient 😂😂 it was at a food Lion that lady was looking at me like I was crazy 🤣
Wow you guys have been together that long😮💪🏾
I was why do you want to work here. I replied I jus need a job.😂
The interviewer I’m out his head down.
I remember applying for a job I was over qualified for in a field I had years of experience in. I was turned down because I didn’t “smile enough”. Weeks later I got picked up by a Fortune 500 making way more money with amazing benefits. God will shut doors not for you and place you where you’re supposed to be.
Those knives are LEGIT!!!!
I worked for Vector! Didn’t make any money, but still have the knives I bought to this day. 😂
Phone interview went great. When I showed up for the in person with my highly melanated skin, the receptionist exclaimed "YOU'RE GREG! ".
When the interview came out, the receptionist pulled her "to the side" aka, right where I could see; while pointing and whispering. The interviewers face immediately balled up. I did the intake since I was there, and as impressed as she was, I knew I wasn't getting it.
Yes it was in GA, company just outside of ATL.😂
When the interviewer said thanks for coming, we’ll keep your info on file for 3 months. Oh our receptionist will see you out