This Girl Got a Harsh Dose of Reality When Her Job Interviewer Mocked Her Via Text
What would you do?
Some job interviews end with a polite rejection email, and some end with a text message that leaves the applicant stunned. That is exactly what happened to 18-year-old Megan Dixon after she interviewed for a waitress position at Miller and Carter.
What should have been a routine hiring process quickly turned awkward when she received a blunt message from the assistant manager just minutes after leaving. Megan pushed back, the story spread online, and the restaurant was soon forced to respond.
It got messy fast, and the text exchange is hard to forget.
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Megan Dixon wasn't unlike many aspiring young adults looking to make money outside of school hours when she applied for a position as a waitress at a steakhouse, Miller and Carter. However, there was little to no chance she expected to leave the interview and, minutes later, receive a degrading and humiliating text message from the manager who interviewed her.
In fact, when she saw the message, "It's a no," from assistant manager Shantel Wesson just minutes after leaving the interview, she was so stunned that she felt compelled to respond and inquire why. She asked why, as any sane person might, and was essentially told that she used the word "like" too much and was too "basic."
Wow! To top it off, they added a humiliating emoji, you know, for that extra professional edge.
Of course, that's not where the story ended!
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Understandably, Megan did not appreciate the degrading and rather harsh criticism, so she promptly did what most of today's internet-savvy society does and blasted the restaurant online. Megan's tweet gained quite a bit of attention and landed her an interview with the Mirror. She told them:
Her phone was going off throughout the interview. I was shocked. The least she should have given me was some proper feedback. It was a really bitchy thing to do.
This is where the backlash really started to build.
The interviewer, Shantel Wesson, was the person who sent the text message to the 18-year-old.
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Well, we can't say we blame Megan for feeling a little bitter over the whole situation.
Naturally, the restaurant responded as best they could and issued a sincere statement:
We can’t apologize enough to Megan. It was never our intention to be disrespectful or upset her in any way. The texts were sent in error and were intended for our manager, not the candidate.
The explanation may have helped, but the damage was already done.
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We can only hope Megan was still able to walk away from the experience with a positive outlook. She did receive some feedback that may help her with her next interview (perhaps not to use the word "like" so much?).
And hopefully, the steakhouse learned to enforce some etiquette with their interviewing managers.
Let's move on to some more hilarious job interview memes to give you a laugh:
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That interview went from awkward to unforgettable in record time.
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