As bad as the job hunt is in general, it doesn’t necessarily get much better when potential employees manage to secure their interviews.
Not only are they almost always nerve-wracking and awkward , but there’s often prevailing sense that interviewers will treat us like faceless numbers and expect enthusiastic thanks for even that much consideration.
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And that feeling is especially apparent when we know full well that we can expect to be automatically disqualified for a job if we show up late to the interview, but the ones conducting it can be as late as they want.
Although one bartender noticed his boss had been taking full advantage of this disconnect, he found the perfect little white lie to trick her into cutting that habit out.
A bar has been trying to hire new staff lately and one of the owners often asks the bartender narrating this story to tell her about any candidate who shows up late.
But as this bartender explained in a Reddit post , he finds this hypocritical as she’s usually the one who takes her sweet time before sitting down for the interview.
For him, the last straw was when one man waited for her for 40 minutes only for her to spend another 10 minutes chatting with others before she conducted the interview.
Unsurprisingly, this man didn’t end up accepting the offer.
It’s also worth noting that since there’s a labor shake-up in the service industry, it’s not uncommon for potential hires to bail on the interview because they’ve already found something better.
But lately, the bartender’s taken to tell his boss that these people did show up on time, but left after she didn’t.
And while she brushed that off at first, it became clearer as time went on that she started becoming agitated that they were “leaving so early.”
So when she was 10 minutes late to interview one woman, the bartender saw an opportunity.
As he told the woman, “Look, boss is on her way but I don’t blame you if you want to leave. Why respect her time if she doesn’t respect yours?”
She agreed to go to her car and maybe proceed with the interview if the boss calls her before she leaves the area, and the bartender got the satisfaction of watching the boss grovel for her interest when she did finally show up.
Better yet, when the boss tried to excuse her tardiness by saying traffic was bad, the woman replied with, “Yeah, totally, that’s why I left extra early today, so I could be here on time.”
As you might imagine, this made the boss pretty sheepish.
After that experience, the bartender’s noticed his boss is much more attentive with applicants and rushes out to meet them while making sure they’re comfortable.
In the bartender’s words, “She’s actually managed to hire some of the best candidates we had apply. Now I’m brainstorming other ways to train my boss.”
And since the no-shows have no reason to follow-up and the bar’s camera’s don’t work, she’ll likely never get wise to what he did.
h/t: Reddit | Waddiwasiiiii
