Today, after years of hard work, I had an interview at the highest ranking university in the world 800 miles from where I live. It snowed heavily for the last 2 days closing every road, railway, and airport causing me to miss the interview. There is no rescheduling. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I had a job interview. I got there as quick as I could, having to travel two hours into a city I'd never been to. When I arrived, they told me I was turned down for being too late. They'd rescheduled the interview an hour earlier and I wasn't notified of the change. FML
Today, I travelled cross-country to interview for my dream job. The team seemed to love me and I had a lot of fun. In the airport on the way home I saw a news report that the company is closing. FML
Today, after three and a half years of working dead-end jobs with a bachelor's degree, I got a call from a potential employer in my degree field, who wanted to set up an interview. The problem: the interview is across the country, and I'm too broke to pay the travel expenses. FML
Today, I had my last assessment for my university degree in the form of an interview at 11am. Without doing this interview, I can't graduate. The interviewer was a no show. FML
Today, after months of searching I finally got a job interview. Too bad I didn't have enough money to buy a bus ticket to get there. FML
Today, I drove 6 hours to make a job interview missing my best friends' wedding. The interview is actually tomorrow. FML
Today, I had a job interview. I was almost late due to road closure and being blocked in my street by the trash truck. The "interview" turned out to be a hiring fair, with lots of other people. I had to wait outside for 3 hours in the sun with no shade, water or food. I didn't get the job. FML
Today, I drove two and a half hours to a job interview. The interviewer never showed up or called. I sat in the hotel lobby waiting for an hour and a half. Even the hotel staff said they felt sorry for me. FML
Today, the director of my university decided to cancel all my attendance until now, as I was unable to attend the inauguration program in my university. I was unable to attend the program because the area I had to travel to was flooded and one of the trains I was supposed to travel on caught fire. FML
Today, wanting to be on time for my first job interview, I woke up at the crack of dawn and walked almost an hour through a thunderstorm. When I arrived, I was told that the manager wasn't in today, because of the bad weather. FML
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Top comments
jenzan 8
Why can't it be rescheduled? Shouldn't have been possible for your interviewer to make it either...
oh_dear_yes_dear 0
I think that's rather unlikely to be honest, and if they did tell you that then I would be having some serious words. I had an interview for Cambridge yesterday in the UK and they were incredibly accomodating to applicants that couldn't get in from even 20 miles away.
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Tadeusz_fml 5
The chap mentioned airplanes. He may be flying in. He may live in western Ireland or France or Norway. And Cambridge iniversity is the best in the world, as in, top of the rankings, this year, though last year it came second to Harvard.
spsanderson 2
after years in college myself i have come to a conclusion that if your interviewer will not reschedule an appointment when it's clearly impossible to get there, like your situation then, forget them. They most likely couldn't care less about you anyways and you don't want to go, or you can complain to ombuds, or the dean, you have to be vicious with these people sometimes.
dr_random 11
Of course British people use 'miles' to describe long distances.
Mr_26 0
They use the metric system, do they not? Only backward ass America still uses the imperial one.
tubz84 2
we use miles as a distance and mph still sadly
tooeasy 0
YDI for being a nerd.
notsofriendly 17
if it's that great of a place, they'd actually care about applicants. you're better off at a more compassionate school.
golfer420 0
not big enough to have a name apparently. FAKE AND GAY
soccerdude101 0
i like having sec
WishUponAWorld 0
Assuming the university is in the US (which is not necessarily true), this is hard to believe. When I applied to universities, I applied to some of the best in the US. None required an interview, though a few offered. Both Princeton (3 hours from me) and Yale did their interviews via alumni within your area. Harvard, Columbia, and ND didn't do an interview at all. At no point did I hear of a US university which required its applicants to travel hundreds of miles for an on-campus interview. If the university is outside the US, it's possible.... but as the Cambridge people have pointed out, skype and phone interviews are available.