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This proves the boss can make you wait all day and waste your time for a job interview, but if you’re just 5 minutes late to the office once you’re hired, you’ll be fired.

4 people dodged a bullet, 2 are probably a few months from realizing the money wasn't worth their sanity.

Samsung played the waiting game with me. Cancelled first interview after waiting 2 hours, fine. Cancelled 2nd interview after waiting 3 hours. When they called for a 3rd interview, I said no, the recruiter was shocked. She kept insisting I should go, even sounded desperate. I told her "Just because I'm unemployed doesn't mean I don't value my time, I wouldn't want to work for a company that treats me like this, anyway"... she kept insisting, I just hanged up on her. 2 weeks later she kept calling, I didn't answer. Later on, I found out this waiting game was part of the process all along and that they were really mad that I didn't go because apparently, I was going to get hired for a position they were having a hard time to fill. F em.

If you see the words "culture, rock star, team player" on a job description, run away as fast as you can.

There is an epidemic of sociopathic bosses. I’m 58 years old and never had a problem for decades. The last two jobs I’ve had though, the bosses were a psychopath and a narcissist respectively.

The people leaving are the smart ones. Who wants to work for a toxic, petty boss who plays mind games with potential employees, let alone the ACTUAL workers? Time is money, and if the employer wants to play that game, then I’m not wasting my time

Some companies seem to think they can squeeze a gallon of juice out of a single lemon

They say they are testing patience. They are actually looking for desperation.

"Oh look! people who dont stand up for themselves, and are not bothered by doing nothing all day, what a role model of an employee"

We have a CEO pandemic.

"Fast-paced" in a job description is always a red flag. Translation: You'll be wearing six different "hats" while being under constant time pressure and having to put out 7 different fires all at once!

If they’ll steal your time on the interview, they will DEFINITELY steal your time on the job.

These recruiters are gatekeeping the jobs.

Time is more important than money. Once I hit 35 that was the thing that was the most oblivious. You can work 50-60-70+ hours in a week and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But that year is gone, and no amount of money will get it back. If you don't respect your own time. No one else will.

Remember, everyone, that Teddy Roosevelt once went to an interview in the pouring rain. When the interviewer failed to show up, he left a note letting him know he showed up even when the other one would not. This was meant to be a professional F U to the cowardly interviewer. It is now considered impatient to be treated with the same basic respect that TEDDY ROOSEVELT believed that people deserve.

Unprofessional. "Nobody wants to work anymore" all the while laying off old guys.

major red flag. that tells me, that this company will disrespect its employees and treat them like s#it. that's somewhere you don't want to work.

I would be using that for when I got hired. Boss: "Why isn't your work done?" Me: "Patience..."

Josh, I had a firm cancel my interview an hour before with no reason given. They asked when they could reschedule for, I said I was no longer interested. So happy I passed on them, now I have a great job with a respectful manager.

Yep, I once walked out of an interview where the person interviewing me was late. It told them "hiring is a two way street, I am interviewing them too and if they will treat a potential employee this way... I don't want to find out how they will treat me as an employee". That company was Fry's. They are now defunct. Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 2021.

This isn't a test of how well they can do the job, but of how desperately they WANT the job. Two very different things.

This is the same type of employer shouting that employees are exploiting the companies time, meanwhile the interview process is set up to waste the applicants time? Wtf🤔

I had a job in a Fortune 500 company that was ranked as the happiest place to work. I followed the rules and did my job, but it was the most toxic and horrible place I had ever worked. I received 3 weeks of FMLA from my doctor due to situational anxiety (I was fine as long I didn't have to be at that shithole). I quit after 7 months. I will not buy any product Mars makes because I refuse to support such a garbage company that treats its employees like absolute garbage. I've been self employed for more than 7 years now. I could not imagine going back to a "normal job" and having a boss.

Too many companies act like they're doing you a favor by paying you at all. "Prove to me you want to work then we'll discuss what benefits we can offer you." Uh, no. Tell me what benefits you are offering me to help me decide if I want to sell you my time and skills.

Older generations will tell you, "you're being lazy. it's just how things are." Just because something is common, doesn't mean it's right.

It's almost as if shit testing prospective employees is a massive red flag.....

The smart leave. The loyal stay. The loyal arent usually smart. Its a saying I stand by. Companies don't understand loyalty. They sure do love abusing it.

Happened to me once. I was really trying to get promoted and drove four hours to an office in my company in another state thinking I might relocate. I got up before dawn and drove there for a 9am appt. The director basically blew me off and made me wait all day. At 4:30 she finally interviewed me and it was basically a 30min gaslight session. I was so pissed driving home that night.

The audacity to think that no one has anywhere else to be is insane. I’d be pissed and gone after an hour. I honestly don’t believe even two people stayed for 8 hours. That’s ridiculous.

That's unprofessional and ridicolous. Nuff said.

that's the definition of patience. willingness to put up with disrespect.

The phrase “no one wants to work anymore” has shifted the blame onto the common folks actively looking for employment instead of the employers who think they did something unique by by eating candidates times

Just did a fake interview 2 weeks ago, got an email today that despite being the 'most qualified applicant' that they went with someone who was more 'catered' to the job. AKA it was just a nepotism hired.

also if you just sit in a waiting room for almost 12 hours, it only shows you have NOTHING else to do and thats what they really want. No family, no other commitments, they want the person who can live in that damn office and work 18 hour days if they say so

I've been waiting 7 years for Dad to come back from buying cigarettes at the store. Do I get the job?

Yup! All the work I'm seeing right now is 20% lower wages too, while all these companies are posting record profits AND they want us to drive an hour to be IN office and do video meetings with the offshore team that they've pushed all the work to for cost...

We have a trash employers epidemic.

I've never been kept waiting for an interview, but at one interview, I was in the room with the hiring manager and some random guy suddenly blew into the room, sat down and started rapid-firing questions at me, didn't wait for answers, and after a few minutes got up and left. I was never told who he was, his name or anything. I related this to a friend who worked in HR at the time and she gasped and said, "A STRESS INTERVIEW!" Like, interviews aren't stressful enough?

Respecting your own time, and not putting up with someone that takes your time hostage is the way to go.

Nobody wants to hire.

It is a high school bully power play. Disgusting. I can imagine working for him.

The amount of times I've gone into dirty, worn out office interviews where I was misinformed about their interview process yet treated like I'm just not hungry enough

I've seen this trend of disrespecting applicants before the pandemic, but it seems like the pandemic really supercharged this kind of behavior. If you're not desperate....you aren't wanted. Recruiters love to say I have incredible skills, then call me horrifying things when I won't take their shitty job with a 40% pay cut...then call with another job like I won't remember the interaction.

C - Cocky E - Entitled O - Officer

Listening to bosses whine that "nobody wants to work anymore" annoys the crap outta me. There's a photo floating around which collected newspaper clippings of that phrase. The newest clipping is from 2022, then 2014, 2006, 1999, 1981... and continues to 1894. Society as a whole isn't lazy, and they weren't in the past, either.

That's not a test of patience, that's a test of allowing your employer to disrespect and belittle you.

I believe this episode. Several years ago on the internet a big major Wall Street company wanted to hire some stock brokers. They did essentially the same thing. They told about 20 people to report for an interview at 7 a.m. sharp at a downtown hotel meeting room and no one showed up until 10 p.m. I find this totally unacceptable.

Had been trying to get a job in tech after 12 years off the industry as an entrepreneur; after looking at what the market looks like right now, I'm better to spend my time rebuilding my business somehow. I'd be better at hiring others than working for others. The upside of an environment like this is, I believe it would be easily to get top talents if you just treat your employees right and allow them to work remote.

This is not a new tactic. 30 yrs ago I walked away from a handful of interviews due to the blatant disrespect of my time and inlet them know it.

My wait limit is 15 minutes. NOPE!

Omg omg. Ive been saying this for a long time. Im glad some one else noticed this. A job is a job not slavery. You hire talent not slaves

Translation: “it’s totally fine that we get a high off wasting peoples time, it makes us feel good. We love the people who we can take advantage of, and people who think they have lives and have freewill?? Pssst!!”

I have a schedule to keep. I'd have walked out after the first hour. They may very well be filtering out the people they actually want while keeping those who don't have much motivation at all. That is such a dumb move.

Can't spell culture without cult

Asking for employees with a high level of professionalism while being completely unprofessional and wasting their day. Seems about right.

0:30 the reality is, all interviews nowadays are desperation filters. I’ve had interviews where if I asked a lot of questions and stayed firm on my expectations of the job I could visibly see the interviewer becoming more irritated lol. It’s sad but, companies seem to purposefully only look for desperate workers willing to put up with anything to keep a job. When will companies realize that a desperate workers isn’t a good worker. A desperate worker is eventually going to quit and not in a good way. A desperate worker is probably going to quit without even saying anything. A desperate worker isn’t going to ask questions and mess things up for your company because of the fear of being labeled “difficult”. No one wins when you are desperate for a job or workers. So don’t let companies gaslight you, the people that they hired instead of you were more willing to suck the boot (and other things). A good company won’t do that to you.

I went through the exact same Thing. Went to a “job fair” for an entry level IT position with a company located in an office building in downtown Cleveland. The lobby was backed with mostly young men dressed to the nines….me 53 years old at the time and my friend 63, were the oldest in the lobby. After several hours we were the only two left sitting there. After several hours of waiting,We were told that they weren’t taking any more interviews and that we could go home. Can you say age discrimination?

I had an interview where they had scheduled 30+ people at the same time, got upset when people weren’t dancing around when the CEO came busted in playing music, and then we had to wait while each interview was conducted 1 by 1. I walked out.

I appreciate your channel. Tables have really turned on people looking for work. Employers can now ghost, require people to go through pointless 4 interviews and never hear back from them. Going on unemployed for a year and its not for the lack of trying. Have been cutoff now from any financial assistance. Guess ill start looking at homeless shelters

I hope the two that stayed got dog biscuits for being such good pets.

it's abuse and total disrespect of their time.

Remember, if the company is 'always hiring' that means they're always loosing people for a reason.

15 degrees from Harvard and Stanford, a lifetime of study and loans and the CEO thought it’s all legit…

I understand managers are busy and shit happens, but waiting 12 HOURS for them to show up because they want to play mind games is deplorable. I might give them 30 minutes leeway at most, by that time I would give them a piece of my mind and flip the bird before storming out.

This is not a test of patience, it's cruelty. CEO wants punctual people and they can't even be punctual themselves. No we can't tolerate this kind of BS anymore.

All I get are "Sorryy, Sorry, we are moving ahead with a different candidate. So Sooooorrryyyy"

Working for a place like that is certainly hell

*I would send to that employer a bill of $1,200 with 23.32% interest per month* for 12 hours of work.

When they start in with the words that make no sense strung together (corporate word salad) that's when you have to keep scrolling.

If the company doesn't respect you at the start, they never will.

One of my biggest pet peeves in job searching is employers being late or no showing me. I had a recruiter reach out to me after their client no showed me and had the nerve to express shock that the interview didn't happen. I resorted to calling them out on their incompetence and hung up on them.

LOL.... some companies. For those who don't know. You arrive 5 minutes early. From the start time of the interview, you give them 15 minutes. Meaning, if the interview starts at 7AM, you arrived at 6:55AM. You walked into the building and told them you were there. (the reason you arrived 5 early is so that the interview starts at EXACTLY 7 AM. This gives the secretary or whoever time to go get the dude, and gives that person time to finish up whatever they're doing and start thinking about the interview so that it can start on time.) At 7AM, that 15 minute timer starts ticking. At 7:15AM and they haven't arrived, you enquire about the Interviewer - Hey, man, seems like he's kinda busy. Do you have an ETA? Secretary - Just another 5 minutes. The interviewer gets 5 more minutes! At 7:20AM, you walk up and ask if the dude needs to reschedule. Secretary - No no, it'll just be a few more minutes. He's on his way. They get 5 more minutes. At 7:25, you walk out if that interviewer hasn't shown his or her face. Let me tell you, they're sure gonna piss and moan if you would have arrived at 7:01AM, and they are now 25 minutes late themselves. Go get breakfast and move on. There are better companies.

"told me privately" - no one told him anything.

Oh man I saw a job posting “if you want to work the hardest you ever have, while making the least amount of money.. this is the job for you” I wish I was joking

A decade ago a particular hotel brand starting with H had an HR manager who started all new hire orientation groups by saying that making people wait for hours was their interview strategy. Like you said, it is designed to weed out people who are not desperate. It sets the tone for the worker to accept an environment of disrespect.

"Mr. Doubles doubled down. So, I guess he quadrupled...?" 😂😂😂😂

Your videos are so chill, always brightens my day

We don't have an employment problem. We have a toxic "leadership" problem.

You need knee pads for that job

Just want to let you know I recommended you to my 19 year old son who’s just joining the workforce. I’m 52 and have been a victim of a lot of corporate crap, and was on the hamster wheel. Got into microdosing after my burnout, and started to see what a senseless existence I was living. You are an inspiration to me and I hope to both my sons. The other one is going for an electrical apprenticeship - he is 17. Some of your ideas and comments on WFH and office space maybe opened up for housing makes so much sense and it mirrors many of my own thoughts. BTW - I have listened to your story with your family. I can resonate, a lot of people can. I would love to see you interview Dr Gabor Mate. He’s relevant to what you have to say, and will resonate I think with your viewer. Love your work, and I would be so proud if you were my son. I’ll adopt you from afar.

The hazing is real.. if you come from a bad background you can’t tell until it’s so obvious and you’re burnt out.

if they're willing to waste your time on day one? run!

I’m sitting in the parking lot of my job right now watching this….I’m already an hour late and I’ll go in when I’m damn well ready

On the other end of the spectrum, if you go to a "hiring event", and the recruiters take some basic information before hiring everyone in the room, that's also a bad sign and you should not show up. Companies do this when they have literally no standards or are desperate for disposable employees, or both.

I do not want to work for a CEO who is eight hours late for everything, but expects me to arrive on time. If left waiting for eight hours, I imagine I am still supposed to have a smile on my face. No, show common courtesy to me and I will happily work for you! People these days...

If they don’t value my time when I do not work for them, they are not going to value my time when I do work for them either.

How about this In an interview, the hiring manager was absolutely reassuring YOU'RE THE ONE because of a fantastic understanding of pain points for the position, but they have to complete processes for other candidates. What does it say about an organization that tells you, "YOU ARE IN THE TOP CONSIDERATION" for two weeks, then sends a second email, you are still top candidate... suddenly 4hrs later after such re-assurance you get a rejection letter email that another candidate has been selected, not even a phone call... Then you go back to the careers site ONLY TO FIND THE SAME JOB RE-POSTED! Again! 😮😮😮😮

I met with a recruiter who was five minutes late to an "interview". My hand was literally reaching towards the leave button when he joined and thankfully he had enough sense to see my expression and cut the meeting short five minutes later. He sent me the typical email saying I didn't get the job and I sent him a reply thanking him for taking the time type up a response. 😒

Nobody wants to pay Employees anymore...

These aren't even boomers, they're gen x'ers and older millennials (the oldest are 44 now)

Companies do not give a shit about you. They care about their image and their profit.

I'm amazed these people arrived at 7AM and *nobody* left until 3PM. Even the first ones to leave had to be pretty desperate.

If that was the interview, imagine the head games during the actual job

That ain't test of patience. That was how cheap your time is...

I've been looking for a new career for a couple months now. Couple hundred applications submitted currently. Have done maybe 30 - 40 interviews. Maybe 5 offers I've turned down. There are so many crap companies actively taking advantage of people at a time when everything costs so much. It's sad. Wonder what the country is gonna look like in 5 or 10 years for lower-income families.

This is a common hazing tactic. It rewards unwarranted persistence, and basically ensures that the people hired will take any form of abuse just to keep their job. First this person should be investigated and punished for their employment practices. They didn’t pick the best candidate for the job, just the people who who are okay with being gaslight.

Everybody at these companies should start with the questions "Why is this job open for applications?" and "What happened to the previous occupier of this job?"

Remember, they talk about the economics of business when YOU need help. Labor costs have gone up, business human. Pay the rate or suffer the fate. DEMAND WHAT YOU'RE WORTH!!

I worked for a startup in the past - and was told by the COO that I would never get a raise or promotion by just doing the job normally and using the skills I know... it would only come from pushing myself with extra learning and pushing extra hours to make me stand out. Was constantly stressed out.... hated that role... in a much healthier place now