Woman frustrated after wasting time at job interview for company that “wasn’t hiring”

Alice Sjöberg
TikToker tells her horror job interview story

A TikTok user went viral after telling viewers her frustrating job-hunting story where she went to a restaurant to interview for a server position only to find out they weren’t hiring.

TikTok user skunkprincess23 made a video to express her frustration about the horror job interview that she’d just had. Getting over 1.5 million likes in two days, she told the story of how she’d gone to a restaurant to interview for a server position only to find out that the company had no interest in hiring anyone.

“I had a job interview today,” she frustratingly tells the camera. “B*tch tells me to get there at two o’clock. I show up there a little bit early, I’m sitting there. ‘Hey I’m here for my interview, you told me to come in at two o’clock’ and they go ‘hey, sit at this little table’ and I go sit at the f**king table.”

She explained that she sat down at the table for 30 minutes with no one coming up to her to start the interview. She then went back to the first woman to ask when she could expect the interview to start.

“She goes ‘you’re still waiting?’ Yes, obviously I’m still waiting at this fucking table,” she frustratingly exclaims while ripping off her sweater.

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“It’s okay, it doesn’t matter. The guy comes out and he goes ‘hey, uhh’ – doesn’t shake my hand, no ‘nice to meet you – ‘hey uh, I really don’t know why you’re here. I don’t really want to hire any new staff.'”

She then explained that the company had called her the previous day to invite her in for the job interview for the server position.

“You were doing that for a position you weren’t even hiring for, and you wasted my time and making me drive 40 minutes away to a restaurant I can’t even – and you’re not even hiring?!” she screams out to the camera.

Viewers were quick to show their support in the comments, with one person writing: “You don’t want to work for that nightmare of a boss girl trust.”

Several people also shared their own horror job interview stories, with one user saying: “I got interviewed and hired at a restaurant once. got my schedule, showed up to my first day and they told me they had no idea why I was there.”

“I once went for an interview. Lady called me by the wrong name 3 times. Told me they’d call me within a few days. Called the next day and said they hired someone. 10 mins later I get an email reply to my resume asking me to come in for an interview,” another viewer commented.

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Alice is the Entertainment Evergreen Specialist at Dexerto, whose expertise include social media, internet culture, and Reality TV. She is a NCTJ qualified journalist that previously worked in local news before moving on to entertainment news with OK! Magazine and a wide variety of other publications. You can contact Alice at alice.sjoberg@dexerto.com