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Job application demands candidate tell them their parent's profession when they were 14: 'Do they want our parent's resume too?'

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Recruiter scouts employee for office job, gets annoyed when they tell her they want to earn more than their current $110k salary: 'That is not a realistic expectation'

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Employer forces candidate to complete bizarre intelligence tests for management position: 'At this point the job market has become a joke'

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'I hope you're not the type to go running to the bathroom crying': Reasons applicants left a job offer on the table

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Recruiter Tells Job Applicant They're 'Too Expensive' When They Request $100k Salary, Relist the Job With a $100-120k Salary Range

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Millennial manager bemoans Gen Z job applicants who can't use computers or read clocks: 'So many struggled'

A recruiter talks to a mother who is sitting in on her adult son's job interview.

23-year-old brings his mom to a job interview, lets her answer questions for him: 'I'd ask him how he dealt with a tight deadline, and she'd jump in about how organized he is at home.'

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Job applicant rejects tech company that offers a job 4 months after interviews, pays half his desired salary: 'I even gave them a discount'

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Job asks for free labor from applicant before they even interview: 'I'm dumbfounded by the audacity'

A group of HR professionals interviews a candidate after AI tells them she is worth interviewing.

HR department admits they receive 2000 job applications for one position, and don't look at any of them: 'AI sorts through them, and then they just go based off intuition.'

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HR claims they 'lost' employee's application for promotion after they hired an external nepo candidate for the job: 'Did you send it by carrier pigeon?'

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Job applicant hangs up during third interview after interviewer refuses to disclose salary to him for the third time: 'I need to make sure we're on the same page'

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Company institutes layoffs for 4 years straight, employees who have held same job for 30 years complain that laid off coworkers are lazy: 'These people just don't want to work'

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Laid off job seeker with expecting wife applies for 4500 jobs in a year, moves back in with family to avoid debt: 'I just don't know anymore'

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Wife finds dream job listing, husband considers applying because he's more qualified than her: 'We would not be competing'

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Interviewer ghosts job applicant for merchandising job, he signs him up for spam calls in retaliation: 'I was literally perfect for the job'