People Share Their Iconic "We'll Never Speak Of This Again" Moments
The one thing that happened of which never speak again. There are so many. They never stop, either. Who knows when you'll walk in on your dad naked and chugging milk, or farting so loudly your grandmother's funeral is ruined?
dannyjayes1 asked Reddit: What is your "we will never speak of this again" moment?
Submissions have been edited for clarity, context, and profanity.
40. Daddy and auntie being naughty.
<p>My Divorced dad was playing horseshoes in a league with my Aunt (moms sister). They went together one night when I was about 16. I went to a friends house to sleepover and didn't think any more of it.</p>39. This is a marriage made to last.
<p>I had internal bleeding and really low blood pressure. I was in the hospital and instructed to not try to stand or walk since I'd faint. I didn't obey that.</p><p>I went to take a piss and my girlfriend saw and chased after me. She caught up just in time to throw herself between me and the floor to prevent me from cracking my head open as I fell back unconscious, peeing all over everything on the way down.</p>38. Don't whizz in the fireplace. Or on the electric fence.
<p>I was about 15. Definitely old enough to know better.</p><p>I was putting spiders and ice cubes on the super hot wood stove because the Leidenfrost effect was interesting.</p>37. Scarred.
<p>One faithful night when I was around 12, I woke up and for some reason I was sure I was hella late for school. I threw on some clothes and walked into the kitchen, still half asleep.</p>36. Never tell anyone - except Reddit.
<p>When my uncle died we were going through his house to clear it. We found 5-6 cameras and checked them to see if there were any photos of him for his mother as she didn't have many.</p><p>Turns out he was into domination and had a large variety of porn quality pictures of himself partaking in his fetish. 60 year old man being dominated by similarly aged males and females. They are seared into my soul.</p>35. Pics or it didn't happen.
<p>​<span>A friend accidentally sent me a pic of his junk on Snapchat that was clearly meant for someone else. He excused himself a hundred times.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9p0odt" target="_blank">boykimjong</a></p>34. Username leaves me with questions.
<p>I follow a bunch of weird blogs/tags on tumblr and was scrolling through my feed. I would usually alt/tab in 0.1 seconds if I was fapping or whatever but since I wasn't looking at any porn, I didn't bother to hide what I was doing, kept scrolling, then turned round (whilst still scrolling) to see my mum come in my room to put some laundry on a cabinet.</p>33. Oh no, a joint?!
<p>This is my friend's story.</p><p>She smoked weed a bit in high school but obviously hid it from her parents. This one time she came downstairs in the morning to find a joint sitting on the kitchen counter.</p>32. We've all been there...
<p>Well me and the wife were out on the lake fishing. When all of a sudden I felt the rumbling in my gut. I was about to sh*t my pants. I looked around and noticed we were no where near a dock and there was nobody else on the water.</p>31. Awkward.
<p>Matched with my cousin on Tinder.</p><p>I was like "wow she is ho.... O my god that's my cousin!" while swiping. It all happened so fast. Same thing must have happened to her because we matched.</p>30. Forgetting this is probably for the best.
<p>I came home from a week at Girl Scout camp at 13, and discovered a tick the size of a thumbtack, attached to a very private place. I had to go to my Mom and get her to help detach it.</p>29. I'mma let you finish but...
<p>Not to hijack the camp story but one time at camp there was this really high rope climb activity that we received daily merits for and I was naturally good.</p><p>My group was fairly large as I was quite younger and one day while climbing I almost hit the top but ran out of energy. I squirmed my legs up and down grasping at rope when a glorious burst of happy nectar flooded my grub worm for the first time.</p>28. And now for an innocent mistake.
<p>In middle school my crush's mom and my mom drove the exact same SUV with similar license plates. After school one day I ran up hopped in my mom's car and started talking when she didn't talk back and hadn't left the pick-up line I looked at her.</p>27. People are nasty.
<p>I put my head in my friends horse mask, only to realize it was where he left all of his used 'alone time' tissues. It was a bonding moment. I took 3 showers.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9olzg2" target="_blank">One_Departure</a></p>26. How embarrassing.
<p>Had to stay with a work friend one night as we had a conference in his home town the next day. It was weird enough staying in his spare room, but to top things off he had a fancy modern bathroom with a square toilet... which of course, I blocked in the morning with a turd the size of Mt Fuji.</p>25. Well-played.
<p>When i was 17 a huge photo radar ticket came in for my truck. something like 40km over the speed limit. My mom was furious at me. HOW DARE YOU DRIVE LIKE A MANIAC I RAISED YOU BETTER and all that.</p>24. Uh okay weird.
<p>My mum heard me talking to my best friend about the new edition of International club porn magazine that had Geri Halliwell naked in it. I got back from school one day and there was a brown paper bag on the sofa which my mum edged towards me and walked off. 14 year old me was forever grateful. You're the best mum!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9ow6tz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">teksti-tv666</a></p>23. Raise your hand if you miss middle school.
<p>I was at a pool party in 8th grade, I think I may have been swimming around or sitting weirdly, but I remember a friend of mine told me "Dude I just saw your peen."</p><p>Me: "No you didn't"</p>22. That's love right there.
<p>One time I was taking a poop and feeling very faint. I started getting cold sweats, feeling dizzy and light headed. In a panic I shouted for my wife to come help me.</p>21. War, man.
<p>Not me but my father's story.</p><p>During WWII, my father was a photographer for the 9th Army Air Corps. Most of the time it was ground-based, but occasionally he flew.</p>20. Hot Pockets. Worth the pain.
<p>I got up one night to get some water, and found that my teenage son was in the kitchen getting food. He was behind the kitchen counter, so I could only see him from the waist up.</p><p>When he came around the counter into the hall, two things happened simultaneously: He noticed me, and his eyes grew wide in horror; and I saw that he was butt-naked except for a pair of socks.</p>19. When ya can't even sneak...
<p>In my early teens I used to choke the chicken on the bed all the time. My bed had a loose board on the headboard that would kind of make this clacking sound.</p>18. Oh the days of magazines...
<p>My father and I had a porn cold war. There has been a tacit agreement never to speak of it, and we haven't.</p><p>When I was a teenager, my mother found my porn stash. Both parents confronted me with it when I got home from school. And of course confiscated it. And of course threw it in the bin.</p><p>Or so I thought.</p>17. When you gotta go you gotta go.
<p>My husband and I work at the same small office. We were the first ones in that morning and other employees usually don't show up for another hour or so. There's only one bathroom on our floor as it's a small business.</p><p>Anyway, I had just had some habanero spicy thing the day before and I was in for some punishment on this particular morning.</p>16. If it had hit someone...
<p>My wife and I were at my cousin's apartment in a big city. They have a balcony on the 40th something floor. We were all outside on the balcony drinking some beers and getting a little drunk.</p>15. These things happen.
<p>My boyfriend had to give me an enema once.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9ou78e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">iSquash</a></p>14. Poor Donny.
<p>When my best friend died, we figured he would have liked a 'sky burial' kind of.</p><p>So at the height of the funeral party we released his ashes into heavens with a giant balloon.</p>13. If that snot love, I dunno what is.
<p>The smoking hot guy I met the prior weekend asked me out and, naturally, I said yes. Because I'd just met him, I asked if I could drive, and he said no problem.</p><p>On the way to get some grub, we're cruising along with the perfect tunes playing in the car, windows down, on an absolutely beautiful night. He looks over, I look over.... we're both just sparkling, you know? It was one of those "moments" where you want to take a mental snapshot.</p>12. "Just a cramp."
<p>After a house party when I was a teenager me and my friend both passed out on my bed. About 2/3 hours later I woke up with horrendous cramp in my leg so I've sat on the edge of the bed massaging it trying to get rid of it.</p><p>My friend woke up and thought I was rubbing one out but got too awkward to ask wtf was going on. He never said anything until the next morning when he was giving me a weird look.</p>11. Gross.
<p>We were at a friends hanging out. He invited a few girls over and one of the guys knew where his "nut rag" was kept. Someone went to the kitchen and used tongs to grab it and show off. The girls asked what it was and we began to just silently sit there thinking of something.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9oogyv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">FreeBobbyG69</a></p>10. "Wait, you're robbing me?"
<p>My parents had to help me get home after an unfortunate event with a dominatrix in Lithuania where I got robbed while strapped down naked on the bed, she took off and I had to be "rescued" by the Lithuanian police.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9orzum?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Tekowsen</a></p>9. He wasn't wrong.
<p>15 years old, I wander into the living room in my boxers, hand down the front, enjoying being home alone. President George W. Bush is on TV talking about cloning. With little understanding of what he is talking about, I yell at the top of my lungs, "WE'RE F*CKED!"</p>8. Fail.
<p>Some years ago, the toilet in my kids' bathroom got really clogged. Like impossibly clogged. Nothing, not even one of those toilet snake thingies could unclog it.</p>7. Sibling shenanigans.
<p>I got into a car accident for the first time in my life when my younger brother was visiting me. I wasn't paying attention (dumb) to the car in front of me and I rear-ended them pretty hard. </p><p>Luckily no one was hurt, we exchanged information, took pictures, but there was no noticeable damage so we left it at that.</p><p>I looked at my brother and we both agreed never to bring it up again. I gave him that car when he turned 18.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9otna6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">trolldoll26</a></p>6. Awful lotta fuss over a pill...
<p>At school, this kid and I found a pill on the counter, and we chucked it into a urinal full of piss for whatever reason. About an hour later a teacher pulls me out of class asking what I had found in the bathroom.</p><p>Apparently this kid told the school I had found a pill, and the school wanted it. I was taken to the office and they were demanding this pill from me, which I just didn't have.</p>5. Alleyoops.
<p>When I scored on the wrong hoop in a basketball game when I was 8. My sister unfortunately never signed the non disclosure agreement.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9oq2eo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">jazmanimal6</a></p>4. No divine intervention.
<p>Many many years ago I went to this Jesus Woodstock festival. Basically a 3 day Christian music fest. We got there after dark. Set up our tents.</p>3. Good thing it wasn't actual brain surgery.
<p>I was working IT for a hospital and a neurosurgeon had ordered a new lamp for his microscope. It came in through IT instead of engineering for some reason, so it fell to me to drop it off to him. When I did, he asked me to fit it as well. Medical equipment isn't my field, but the instructions were right there on the box, so I did.</p>2. A Thanksgiving memory for the ages.
<p>My husband and I were going to Thanksgiving dinner at the house of some of my dad's family that I only kind of knew. We got there, knocked, and a woman I didn't recognize let us in.</p><p>We went into the home and there wasn't anyone there, there was no dinner, etc. So we're making small talk with this lady and I ask when everyone is coming. She asks what I mean.</p>1. Same, can't.
<p>Trying to teach my new at the time girlfriend how to drive my manual car. She told me she had done it a few times and knew what she was doing.Fast forward ten minutes and I no longer have a front bumper.</p><p>She continues with "I cant believe I did this! You're friends and family are gonna think I'm an idiot!" I just replied with "I did this" and we havnt spoke of it since. Everyone thinks im the idiot</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wzxmm/what_is_your_we_will_never_speak_of_this_again/e9ovukl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Freeskier101</a></p>Nurses Share Their "I Can't Believe I Have To Explain This" Stories
Nurses are heroes! They are never appreciated enough and underpaid. And just because they don't get enough respect from the higher-ups, or all the knowledge they have to be sure of but mostly because they have to deal with the front lines and the worst and sometimes stupidest of humanity. Granted we're all scared as patients and have questions but Lord... get it together people!
Redditor u/Caged_Tiger wanted the nurses out there to express themselves by asking.... Nurses of Reddit. What is your most "I can't believe I have to explain this" moment?
40. Neck it out!Â
<p>Was giving a grown patient IV Benadryl for a rash and itching on the upper body. The IV was in the right arm so I started to give the medication into the right arm.</p>39. I love bread!Â
<p>Spent WAY too long having to explain to a celiac patient that white bread was still made out of wheat and that's why she was still sick. Nutritionist had already been over it several times and then called me in to try to convince her. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Teammaj" target="_blank">Teammaj</a></p>38. Please stop Breeding!Â
<p>24 y/o female pt with frequent UTIs, I explained that peeing after sex can help prevent them.</p><p>She says she always pees after sex, she doesn't want to get pregnant! Had to give her a brief rundown on sex ed and her own body (Her parents made her get bc shots). <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/zorasrequiem" target="_blank">zorasrequiem</a></p>37. Shocked!!Â
<p>Had to explain to a patient, and his family, multiple times that although he does have a defibrillator now he still needs to take his heart medicine.... a real headache of a conversation. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/attractiveepidermis" target="_blank">attractiveepidermis</a></p>36. Just NOOO!!!
<p>Got a phone call in the ER from a diabetic who said her sugar was reading <em>"high" </em>(that typically means over 400 or 500) and I told her she should come to the ER asap, and she asked <em>"Should I drink some sweet tea until then?" </em>Um... NO!!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/3pinephrine" target="_blank">3pinephrine</a></p>35. Punked!Â
<p>Got a call from a discharged patient.</p><p><em>"So I'm wearing these depends..."</em></p><p><em>"...okay."</em></p>34. Alfredo or Marinara?
<p>Working at ob/gyn clinic. Had to explain to a concerned husband that his pregnant wife will not strangle the fetus if she eats spaghetti. That's a completely different system of organs. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/omiewise138" target="_blank"><br></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/omiewise138" target="_blank">omiewise138</a></p>33. Just Nod....
<p>Painkilling suppositories come in individual foil packets. </p>32. Where was your mom?Â
<p>I, a male nurse, had to explain to a 25 year old female what her period was. She came to the ED and was concerned she had cramping and vaginal bleeding monthly.</p>31. Men are Useless....
<p>Did labor and delivery for awhile. We typically inserted catheters after the epidural. </p>30. Can I get an "A?!"
<p>Not a nurse, but have kind of a funny related story. It was one of those <em>"you know what you call someone who gets all C's in nursing school? A nurse."</em> moments.</p>29. It's just Chicken!Â
<p>Having to explain to a patient family that they should NOT be bringing fried chicken and French fries to a patient only a day out from a stroke definitely ranks up there. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Archturus" target="_blank">Archturus</a></p>28. Not just for Employees...Â
<p>It ia weird to me to explain women (I work in gynecology) that I escort to toilet, that they have to wash their hands after they pee. You would not believe how many of them does not wash. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bojslo" target="_blank">bojslo</a></p>27. No sex please!Â
<p>Paramedic here. Got a couple great ones.</p><p>Woman had a fluid retention issue which caused her legs and feet to swell up with all the extra fluid.</p>26. Not always a happy ending!Â
<p>I had a DNR/AND patient who was clearly going into the second phase of septic shock. Despite explaining that the man is actively dying the wife, who is a nursing instructor herself, made me call the doctor.</p>25. Wrong End....
<p>A patient came into a&e and said that the tablets given to him where giving him a lot of stomach pain and not helping him. He was prescribed suppositories. The patient was swallowing them... <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bobyd" target="_blank">bobyd</a></p>24. Take the Shot!Â
<p>I'm not a nurse, but I worked at the front desk of a family practice clinic for two years. I received a call on day from a patient swearing up and down that he need a Syphilis shot. </p>23. Once More with Feeling....Â
<p>Used to work in an ER in Chicago. We treated a kid with the flu that had a fever. Gave him some Tylenol, fever came down, sent him home.</p>22. Not the Poop!Â
<p><br>My wife is a Medical Assistant at a pediatrics office. <br></p><p>She had a parent of a boy who was probably 6 or 7 say, in the most calm and nonchalant tone, <em>"My son really likes to eat his own poop. Is this normal? Is this healthy?"</em></p>21. Who doesn't know wine?!Â
<p>Not in the hospital but while I was in nursing school my prof had to explain to a peer of mine that wine was an alcoholic beverage.</p>20. Obviously, right?
<p>I had to explain TO a nurse while tattooing her that sticking her finger IN her fresh, bloody tattoo was cross contamination...</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7rqhk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">ladycoleopterist</a></p>19. You ARE the mother.
<p>Not a nurse but I was the idiot. After having my daughter via c section I was out of it completely and then very disoriented.</p>18. Peekapoo.
<p>I've had to educate patients not to use their stoma (a piece of intestine) to have sex.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7uaxe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">serving18years</a></p>17. Potassium overdose?
<p>Literally last week we had a guy come into the ICU with a K of 8.8. </p>16. Really though...
<p>Fun story: My Doctor once had to explain the word 'fat' to me.</p><p>I'm a Brit, she was from NZ and I thought she was saying 'fet' and didn't know what that was.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7pu9o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">kateh17</a></p>15. No fun allowed.
<p>Mental health nurse- Having to explain to a patient why he can't have his adult toys while on the ward. Also super fun time searching his property when he arrived on the ward.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7ouwl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">mhn18</a></p>14. Good fat bad fat.
<p>So I have a real issue with sticking with a career so am both a nurse and was formerly a private chef. I'm well rounded I guess.</p>13. Help, but from afar.
<p>My best were all from tele-nursing, covering for an OB office.</p><p>I had to explain to a grandmother....that it was NOT normal for the cord to be hanging out of her very pregnant granddaughter.</p>12. Ouch.
<p>For me I hated trying to explain that it's dangerous to reuse your insulin needles. However I use to feel for the low income patients and try to remind them if they just come in we could put some together for them. Broke my heart.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb84i40?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">NeghiborHoodMom</a></p>11. ...yet.
<p>One of my clients was being treated for a pretty serious abscess on her foot. He doctor wrote nursing orders for wound care, which is pretty standard.</p>10. Oh boy.
<p>That there are people of various ethnicity that would be taking care of them and that "that Muslim doctor" would in fact be just as good as "a white doctor." Patient was not particularly old or even confused.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7351r?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">__REV__</a></p>9. Oof, really?
<p>I had a labor patient that had just received her epidural. When I went to place a urinary catheter to keep her bladder drained, her husband said "If you put that in, how's the baby going to come out?"</p><p>I've learned over the years that LOTS of guys don't know their female anatomy.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7msed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank"><br></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7msed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Ginger_mutt</a></p>8. To think, these people are out there.
<p>Worked at a veterinary ER practice in college.. had a couple bring in their sick puppy.As we were gathering info about what happened, the wife started giving "raspberries" (blowing with her mouth on the dogs tummy)... but on his "bellybutton." Spoiler alert: it wasn't.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb84dtp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">missrose21</a></p>7. Correct.
<p>Urine is not stored in your scrotum and I would be very concerned if it was.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb76nht?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Long_live_Broctune</a></p>6. VA-GI-NA.
<p>My wife had a patient that said she was having problems with her 'pink lady.'</p><p>My wife didn't know what she was talking about, so she asked a fellow nurse, who replied 'she's talking about her snatch, Angie!" </p>5. So. Many. Questions.
<p>I'm a pharmacist. I had to explain to a woman how to wipe herself after using the bathroom.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb7qnp6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">[deleted]</a></p>4. Wait for it...
<p>A woman that came in with a broken tib/fib on the orthopedic surgery ward who was on strict non-weight bearing orders to her broken limb was hell bent on getting herself downstairs so she could have a cigarette.</p><p>It took two of us nurses to kindly explain to her that she would permanently f*** up her leg if she did so.</p>3. Stupid is as stupid does.
<p>My girlfriend works in healthcare - though not a nurse- and the number of people that simply refuse to hear an unwelcome message is unreal.</p><p>Example she told me: person has lung cancer. Is told this is most probably from smoking. "Most probably?" Asks the patient.</p>2. Uhhh...
<p>Super late but my aunt was giving a malnourished 1-month-old an infusion (idk what for) the child was mostly healthy but the mom had HIV. The father asked if the infusion is going to "help him speak" because he "didn't speak yet".</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a3kglk/nurses_of_reddit_what_is_your_most_i_cant_believe/eb861jp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">jeansonnejordan</a></p>1. Sensing a theme here.
<p>I work in burns, and any burn/trauma nurse can tell you a good portion of their patients are just admitted because of poor life decisions. Here are some conversations I've had.</p><p>Don't put accelerants on a campfire/bonfire. (Gas/kerosine/diesel).</p><p>Don't go back into a burning house/vehicle/airplane.</p>There are plenty of stories floating around the internet about horrible landlords, and they most certainly exist. The flip side is also definitely true, though. Some of these things horrible tenants have done to rental properties will blow your mind.
40.
<p>My mother owns a house on the coast she inherited from her aunt and rents it out to people now that she's moved. Makes great money considering it's a decent sized town and the house is close to the beach.</p><p>She doesn't allow animals due to the old wool carpets that are not easily replaceable. But she legally can not keep children out.</p>39.
<p>I wasn't old enough to remember this, but my dad tells me the story once in a while. We rented our second floor to this older lady who always was behind on her bills and tried every excuse in the book to postpone or not pay them. Well one day, my dad and her got to the house at the same time so he was able to confront her about some payments that were very late, and she was like "Oh I have the money upstairs. Just follow me".</p>38.
<p>Son of a landlord.</p><p>I was sent to clean out a garage unit for a few extra bucks. brought a guy with me because it was a lot. Turns out the lady who'd been renting the unit had been secretly living in the garage for months. We threw out family photos, one particularly odd couch that we had to break into pieces just to lift it out of there, and the piece de resistance.... </p>37.
<p>Rented to a couple with iffy credit. Met them and both seemed ok. Guy was a truck driver and Lady worked in retail. Confirmed employment and decided to give them a chance.</p><p>Rent was paid on time for 3 months or so. Then it started to be late. Then one month is stopped. Always some excuse why they couldn't at least pay SOMETHING towards the rent. So, I started the eviction process which turned out to be a very lengthy process where I live. Went a little something like this</p>36.
<p>A family of hippies. And I mean full-on, flowers-in-their-hair, guitar-playing, kumbaya-singing, smelled-like hippies. I used to manage a complex of town houses, and they moved into one of our houses.</p><p>After four days, they threw a huge fit about how they'd had to take their daughter to the ER due to "radiation" from a nearby cell tower. They told us they were moving out immediately and demanded an on-the-spot refund of their deposit.</p>35.
<p>Lady was chronically late on the rent, wasn't paying the water bill, never mowed the back yard. The lease prohibited pets but she had I think 8 ferrets running loose in the basement (I don't know if you can litterbox train a ferret but these weren't) which smelled about as good as you could possibly expect.</p><p>My dad's friend owned a house and his tenant stopped paying rent. Dad's friend went over and the guy wouldn't open the door but shouted at him that he was done paying rent and would have to be evicted.</p>34.
<p>enter patrick</p><p>patrick never paid his rent. patrick kept making excuses. patrick got evicted. patrick trashed the house and left his dog. patrick later went to jail because he tried to ROB A BANK</p><p><em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/offbrandsoap" target="_blank">offbrandsoap</a></em></p>33.
<p>My dad rented out our old house. He thought he had a good tenant. Tenant even asked to repaint the interior if we deducted one months rent. Sounded good.</p><p>Then when they wanted to move out we got a look at the place. When they painted they used the cheapest paint, painted door knobs and outlets and left big paint strokes. Looked way worse than what it must have looked unpainted. And there were large holes torn in the carpet.</p>32.
<p>Two Apple engineers. They were a couple. They were taking a camera around and taking photos of <em>every little thing</em> they saw on the move-in inspection. This isn't necessarily unusual, but it is when you're snapping closeups of every square inch of the property.</p><p>3 months into their 3-year lease, they wanted out. It was "too expensive", despite the fact that my rent on a house is cheaper than most 1BR apartments here in Silicon Valley.</p>31.
<p>Moves into a house with five kids and just turns the place into a nightmare filled house of horrors, a church to her hoarding addiction. No pets allowed? OK make room for my 117 cats. Water damage, holes in the walls, broken windows. You name it, she'll destroy it. She never paid rent on time.</p>30.
<p>My friend's a landlord. He once evicted tenants in January after they had failed to pay rent for several months, even though he had tried to be patient with them. He owns several properties and didn't get over to that apartment for about a week. Turns out they had turned the heat all the way up, opened all the windows, and walked out. Cost him a fortune. He tried suing and lost.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1uym20" target="_blank">diceblue</a></p>29.
<p>My last tenant gave me the one month notice that I asked for, she waited until her lease was up so it was fine. One week into her last month and I get a phone call, she said she's moving that weekend so she's only going to pay one weeks worth of rent. "It's only fair". I said that is not how a lease works and I still have to pay the mortgage on the damn place!</p>28.
<p>One day a cable guy came to hook up my cable and through conversation learned my coworker is his landlord.</p><p>He went on a rant about how much of a d!ck my coworker is for charging him rent when "I wasn't even living there, I just had my stuff there." I feel bad for anyone who has him as a tenant.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1uk5tr" target="_blank">TopScruffy</a></p>27.
<p>Previous Leasing Agent here. This tenant is the Facebook Anarchist.</p><ul><li>Came in every day and requested that we fax documents. This person did this around three times a day. They didn't have a job. They just tried to sue people all day. That is all they did. They were unemployed and on rental assistance. It was easier for us to just fax the documents than to argue with them.</li></ul>26.
<p>My current tenant just moved out. I have (read: had) a beautiful home 3 years ago, 3 bedroom, fully solar, updated everything, nice bamboo floors. Enter my tenant.</p><p>Red flags were not immediate, she had a great history with prior residences, a couple of exceptions were made (she wanted to pay 100 less than I had listed, asking if she could plant things in the garden, etc).</p>25.
<p>Steven. He and his girlfriend moved in. They led us to believe he was employed full time and she was a student. Soon after we were dealing with him cooking/eating/using common areas at like 2-4am in the morning constantly, strong smells of like car battery in the early AM (probably tweaking). His attempts at cleaning consisted of trying to "mop" the walls/surfaces instead of wiping them down or just using the mop on the floor.. <em>cringes</em>.</p>24.
<p>I have a friend who has always been a perpetual roommate (prolly to hold onto more of his paycheck living in the Bay Area). 5 houses ago he explained to me the the place he lived in was completely redone in part because the previous tenant spread kitty litter all over the carpet in one of the rooms. She then let her 6 cats sh!t all over that room like a giant litter box.</p><p>But I've heard that this is not as rare as it should be.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1uvs50" target="_blank">Ratbat001</a></p>23.
<p>Kyle was a tweaker who believed that I was Satan incarnate. Kyle also likes to steal everyone's mail and break into random apartments. Kyle would go on a meth bender and trash his apartment and the commons areas until he did enough damage for the police to finally put him in jail for 1 night.</p>22.
<p>I do not have a tenant but my friend here, who doesn't have reddit, is telling me about a current tenant.</p><p>This couple, nicknamed dumb and dumber, are helpless. She overloaded the bathroom outlet and flipped the outlet switch. She didn't know all she had to do what push the button back in and she would have electricity again, so she calls an electrician who warns her it will be a minimum of $150 for him to drive out there and fix this. He walks in and spends less than a second pushing the button in.</p>21.
<p>Worked for a property management company, and dog owners were the worst. We had several that didn't let their dogs outside. They just let them pee and poop inside. The most frustrating thing was dealing with them when they moved out, and they would get angry at not getting their deposit back.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1uvws2" target="_blank">seattlegreen</a></p>20.
<p>One of my clients had the tenants from hell: things were going great for a year until they burned the house pretty severely from attempting to make hemp oil. Obviously, after this happened they attempted to kick them out. They refused to leave and even wouldn't let the contractors in to work on the property damages.</p>19.
<p>Tenant paid deposit and first month's rent. I'm guessing somebody got laid off real soon after, because they didn't move much in. After not paying second month, and not answering phone calls, it was time for eviction (which goes on record). Tenant makes up a story about police saying they couldn't come back after the shooting.</p>18.
<p>Not a landlord, but I worked as a handyman one summer and we had to repair a house that was rented out by college students. We get inside and the place is absolutely trashed. There holes in the walls, in the doors, the windows were broken, cabinets ripped off and to top it all off, the entire place reeked of pee because the previous tenants locked their dog in a small room while they went home on vacation. We put an absurd amount of work into the house over a three-day span. I've never seen a house in that condition before.</p>17.
<p>​<span>The Dog Ladies.</span></p><p>Around 1993 friends of my father's friends bought a neighboring farm which came with a beautifully maintained classic country style 3 bedroom house. Having taken out a massive bank loan to buy the new farm they decided to rent out the house to help with payments.</p>16.
<p>My super told me this story about a guy who was getting evicted in our building a few years back. Apparently he was a real piece of work and hadn't paid rent in months. Anyway, he put off packing until the day before his eviction and left a bunch of trash and had slashed all his leather furniture and left it behind, and glued tinfoil on all the windows for some reason.</p>15.
<p>Son of a Landlord here. Parents own a four flat where I was born and raised at living on the top floor. About 10 years ago they had these two tenants living in the unit below them, I called them dumb and dumber, both males. I was around 25 at the time and just moved back in with my parents to save up some money to buy my first house. D & D were around the same age.</p>14.
<p>I had a tenant that turned out to be my real estate agent (using someone else's credentials), and then stole my identity, bought an Audi and a Yamaha motorcycle and left me with the bill.... oh, and he put holes in all the walls and didn't pay rent. It's a longer story than that, but he was caught, and now he is housed in prison.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1v8bs6" target="_blank">x3nn3x</a></p>13.
<p>obligatory not a landlord but I did work at a property management company for about a year.</p><p>There was a couple that seemed super nice. they were polite and young, literally no red flags. we helped them fill out the application, the landlord told them all the rules (no pets without deposit, don't break stuff, the usual)</p>12.
<p>Not mine but my Mother's. She rented an apartment unit to a guy who wanted us to replace the normal toilet with a bidet. As the toilet worked perfectly fine and to rip it out and replace it with a bidet was unnecessarily expensive, she refused. The guy didn't contest it so we thought everything was fine. Fast forward to a year later and the downstairs neighbour complains of leakage.</p>11.
<p>My dad rents out houses. He does it for a good price (1000+ a month for 3 bedrooms or 4). One day he had to evict someone since they hadn't paid anything to him for months (my dad is the type to work things out with you if you come to him and describe the problem or whatever).</p>10.
<p>These kids weren't the worst tenants I've ever had but didn't pay rent and left the place trashed when they were evicted. The girl calls one day and asks if she can have a hamster. I said "no, you can't have a hamster and if you have money for a hamster then I'd recommend paying your rent that's 2 months late." She says "its my birthday money". She learned the hard way that when you're about to be evicted 'birthday money' doesn't exist anymore. Spoiler: she bought the hamster.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1vj93c" target="_blank">Iristhevirus217</a></p>9.
<p>More of a "Worse situation involving a tenant" situation. I was managing a high rise unit block a couple of years back. Got a call from another tenant complaining of an ungodly smell in the corridor. Went to check it out and sourced the smell from a particular unit on that floor where I knew an elderly lady lived.</p>8.
<p>My Dad and I bought a 4 plex, well he bought it and I was living there and was the manager. I was nervous being only 22 and not having any experience managing a property. This was a couple months in and we were in the backyard when a girl comes out with a puppy. She was not someone we recognized so we started talking to her. She proceeded to tell us the following:</p>7.
<p>I bought a nice ranch home in my early 20's and after about 10 years I decided to move closer to my work at the time and rent the house out.</p><p>First tenants were great.</p>6.
<p>The hoarders. I can't sort them from worst to...less worse, but I'll tell you I've seen 5 that have used their bathroom as storage to the point that they can no longer use that bathroom. The thing about toilets is that wax rings will eventually dry out and crack if you don't keep them moist with occasional flushes. Once they crack, they leak into the unit below and I have to be an ahole and barge into your unit, empty the bathroom, and stop the leak.</p>5.
<p>I had a tenet that I evicted recently. They were constantly late on rent. Never paid the water bill. But the icing on the cake was they said they had no pets, but actually had a dog and a cat. That would have been fine if they told me and paid the additional deposit and pet rent.</p><p>The dog chewed up all of the baseboards and tore up and through carpet all over the house.</p>4.
<p>This woman who never paid rent on time (if at all), left a metric ton of garbage everywhere, and destroyed almost every surface to some extent. Then after we evict her she has the audacity to not pay us the, like, $25k+ she owes us and changes credit companies and moves to another state to avoid paying it.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1vac89" target="_blank">Macdoodles</a></p>3.
<p>One of my current lodgers. Never pays on time, says that I knew he couldn't pay on time so I was unfair in renting to him, doesn't do dishes, plugs his own Ethernet into the modem because the house wired internet is "too slow"(all cat6a btw), took care of my dogs one time and just covered their pee and poo with paper towels because he forgot to let them out. His lease is up in a few weeks.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1vdgcv" target="_blank">Chewbacca22</a></p>2.
<p>Had two 'artists' that lived in a unit and had put in several hundred drywall plugs into the ceiling. Why? So they could suspend mannequin parts from the ceiling. They were also dealing meth out of the apartment, and their place had a substantial infestation. We were moving to evict, but cops came and arrested them. Aside from the drugs and the fake body parts that were everywhere, the cops also found a cachet of weapons. When the cops came to arrest the guy, he was in bed with a hooker, and they made him put on pants.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1wdwrh" target="_blank">hearse83</a></p>1.
<p>I once had to rent a u-haul to haul off trash from a one bedroom apartment because there was so much. I stopped counting trash bags after the 3rd box of 30 trash bags was used. I had to repaint the walls and install new flooring throughout because of the smell. The roaches took 3 weeks to die. The apartment still has a faint odor that I can't get rid of.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8wd155/landlords_of_reddit_who_was_your_worst_tenant/e1vyaa9" target="_blank">nickum</a></p>Savvy Professionals Share Why They Decided Not To Take The Job During The Interview
As someone looking for a job, you should know that you are interviewing the prospective employer just as much as they are interviewing you. These people reveal what made them steer clear of these potential jobs.
50. Contracts are important
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTUwNS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMzA5OTg0MX0.vI6dsRNWIF9x6Jr5jsdzIdMesSM-k_99iIsp5yBxap8/img.gif?width=980" id="ec2d5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c6b2ae80de56034a44628cf916044a1d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>​<span>English teacher looking for a position. Second interview went well, interviewers said they wanted me to be on their team and that they would set up an appointment to sign the contract by the following Monday. I called to check in on Wednesday and was told that I would receive a call by Friday. Called on Friday afternoon and was told that the person responsible would be calling me back that afternoon. </span></p>49. When there is nothing to hide
<p>Shady dude was the only person there in literally an empty storefront (job was for computer repair). We actually sort of hit it off, got into a long discussion about music production and he actually burned me a couple of cds of pirated software for my studio. Then he explained that the job was really crap and I should find something else. Found out later that the whole business was a scam and he embezzled a bunch of money and ran off without paying his employees. Dude must have genuinely liked me so he didn't hire me.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fsaab" target="_blank">RitterJekyll</a></p>48. Late is never good
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTUxMS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1OTc3Mzg4M30.KxcDUguYbpsl9r049ewobMyFuCSLIb3qiXCmi_7AdCs/img.gif?width=980" id="7dae0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fb8368ba82fd4009a701db31286aeb89" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>When i had a interview at 8:30, but they didn't call me in until 9:30</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g21qa" target="_blank">cannoli2425</a></p>47. When everyone is quitting
<p>Did an on the job interview with a security/ locksmith company. Interviewer got a phone call from his boss and they got into a huge argument and he quit right in the middle of the job/interview. I just kinda went home and pretended it never happened.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fqo8p" target="_blank">theifr38</a></p>46. When the ad doesn't match the job
<p>Was interviewing for a management position, they said that I first had to work an "amount of time" as a rep. On a rather low pay.</p><p>Yeah ... don't advertise a management position if it's basically a ploy to get cheap reps.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3frly5" target="_blank">Finniemc</a></p>45. How tacky!
<p>When the interviewer double booked and insist she interview us together, then proceeded to compare our answers in real time, in front of the other candidate. When she called me three weeks later, outside of work hours, to offer me the job she seemed genuinely surprised at my refusal!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fq45s" target="_blank">puddlerpies</a></p>44. Is this job even open?
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTUxOC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyMTM3NTUzMH0.5UwyjI02rWpSjlK4tJPvFBu1zFLv2Tbb9S93LrLM88M/img.gif?width=980" id="2a825" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9ddb4b49c9e078af369c4d2ad2715f87" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>Interviewing for a position as an advisor for a financial firm. The manager then gave me the floor for questions:</p><p>Me: "Is this a new role or am I replacing someone?"</p><p>Interviewer: "Well we had three advisors in this department and I laid off two of them, because I felt we were overstaffed. You would be the replacement"</p><p>Me, thinking in my head: "Ok I think we're done here"</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fy682" target="_blank">NEEDAUSERNAME10</a></p>43. Bye Felicia
<p>When we got to salary negotiations, and they literally wanted to give me HALF of what I was expecting.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fpqfq" target="_blank">P-Wizzl</a></p>42. When you have connections
<p>My interviewer turned out to be a former co-worker from a previous job. Great dude, we always got along. Ten minutes into the interview he leans forward and quietly says, "the job's yours if you want it, but you don't want it. Trust me." I did trust him. I thanked him and left..</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fsgwz" target="_blank">8337</a></p>41. When the interview makes you feel gross
<p>I discovered I was being pitched a job as a life insurance salesman for the purpose of taking old people's money.</p><p>I felt gross just being there.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fsvbc" target="_blank">fullarr</a></p>40. When you get the job but never start
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTUyMy9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNzY3MjQyNn0.GNEUjP1_zZUYjhhF0CgKgb6qBQ3CANumtccCIz5uP0s/img.gif?width=980" id="31d07" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="257db4de9e5d4104eb3db3588cd2ef29" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>They called me to tell me they were going to offer me the job, but I needed to talk to HR. Then I got bounced around for a couple of months, where HR, the department hiring me, and the finance department kept giving me a start date and then pushing it back.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fsx4h" target="_blank">othybear</a></p>39. Red flags
<p>"I suppose, if you put it that way, we <em>are</em> getting our initial site data by violating several US anti-hacking laws."</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g11gk" target="_blank">dexx4d</a></p>38. When you aren't really sure
<p>I walked into the interview with no real idea what the job actually was. I walked out of the interview with no real idea what the job actually was.</p><p>To this day, I still don't know what that job was.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g0sz5" target="_blank">klstew142</a></p>37. When overtime is not paid
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTYwOTMyNi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNDY2NDM2MX0.PvTVniUXivC8OpAX7S0p2cK1QjlKOcXTYfJU4dUcwnw/img.gif?width=980" id="3647d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d26d0bf61ef6138df2608862b28ee2e2" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>Them: How much overtime are you willing to work?<br>Me: As much as you're willing to pay me for.<br>Them: Well, we don't pay for overtime.<br>Me: You are legally obligated to compensate me for overtime.<br>Them: Well, it won't be much, but, are you willing to put in extra hours? What kind of compensation would you be looking for.<br>Me: Cash. And for you to have this system worked out already. I'm out.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fvgsr" target="_blank">parkerposyW</a></p>36. Way to sell the job...
<p>Engineer '09 grad, applied to work as an engineer for a coal mine. They took us for a underground tour, essentially making sure nobody freaked out. One of the guys who had been there a long time was leading us... with a bad limp i might add and said "its not if you will be hurt, but when and how bad" this wasn't very long after a safety meeting talking about a guy crushed himself operating heavy equipment at another site a few days before.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3ftikj" target="_blank">tomorrowthesun</a></p>35. Sometimes the signs are clear
<p>I always get a few questions in myself, and I always ask the person who would be my boss, "What do you like about your job?" One time, my future boss said "I don't really like my job" and went on to explain why he didn't like being a manager in the company. That was the end of me wanting to be his employee.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fqxaf" target="_blank">gjallard</a></p>34. When they don't tell the truth
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTUzMi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2Nzg0NDA5Nn0.z1xJ8AZNnt8goU0g83v-kQ1wtnPJol-kTL4XOznaTQ8/img.gif?width=980" id="a6e0a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2ef485e54b20491b6d883db4a6c7e17e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>I've had multiple places blatantly lie about their compensation and benefits up until the actual interview. Last time I was job searching I think I walked out on three places.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fuc3p" target="_blank">thechaddster</a></p>33. Wow...
<p>They told me that I couldn't use the bathroom whenever I wanted and most people end up with incontinence.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g4n31" target="_blank">Chickenfilet123</a></p>32. What happens behind closed doors...
<p>The boss passed by, came in to say hi and shake my hand, which left a good impression on me. Not even 30 seconds later I could hear him screaming and chewing out one of the employees in another room and slam a door.</p><p>It immediately reminded me of this old SNL sketch.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fp02j" target="_blank">Lockedoutofmyacct</a></p>31. Hiding something?
<p>They made a big reassurement that what they did in the business wasn't illegal</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fw9ov" target="_blank">-Mavoko-</a></p>30. Back in September....Â
<p>I'm in college so I was looking for a job while I was home for this summer, and I applied at Target. They called me and asked a few questions, one of them was when I was going back to school. I told them the last week of August, and they said they couldn't hire me because I couldn't work through the first week of September, which is really busy for them. I was somewhat upset but it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I moved on and applied to a few other places. A few weeks later they called me and said they looked at my application again and they changed their mind and invited me in for an interview. I was excited and I was glad that I had a second chance. I go in and everything in the interview was going well. </p>29. Duck and Cover....Â
<p>I'm an accountant. I walked into this company for a job interview and knew something was off. It was on the 40th floor in downtown San Francisco. Had like 6 offices. Had 2 corner offices. Had A section of the office had 10 cubicles. Had a boardroom that can seat 14.</p><p>Unfortunately had no employees. Just like 4. The <em>"president"</em> was an expert in his field. At one time. Now he's old and should have been in a nursing home. He had 3 <em>"secretaries." </em>These people were supposed to be servicing over 300 clients money. How ? Something was fishy as hell.</p>28. Telemarketing Biblically....Â
<p>After college, I was desperate for a job and threw my resume everywhere.I got a call for a company and I thought it was a graphic design position (I majored in history but had a knack for graphic design, so I was amazed I got a call.)</p><p>Well, I got there and was immediately told it was a Christian telemarketing company and I'd be a telemarketer making commission. I said the position was clearly for graphic design and the woman told me it was to <em>"draw potentially talented candidates in."</em> They showed me a list of all the charities they telemarket for and I recognized none of them. They weren't religious either. They wouldn't let me take home anything that said charity names on them, but I memorized a few and couldn't find <em>anything</em> about these <em>"charities"</em> when I looked them up at home.</p>27. I'm Desperate....
<p>I prepared for an interview a few weeks ago, worked on what to say for a couple of days and as usual got pretty worked up and nervous beforehand. I go to the interview where the guy sits me down and tells me this is nothing more than just a quick informal chat (and here's me in a full suit sweating my butt off having prepared 100 questions/answers in my head)</p>26. Sorry Ron....
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTUzNy9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMDAxNzI5Nn0.onr4cSRKvEe_S7AfRCyCHANFXYRwFE1JXruUO32Yzfs/img.gif?width=980" id="ea606" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="abd4fb4c17319e3bcfd6bd50161770e4" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>Applied for a job in Clearwater, FL. In-person interview was normal enough got passed through to a secondary interview. At the start of the secondary was asked to take some tests. I think no big deal, been there done that with other jobs. They hand me a book sized stack of papers with hundreds of questions. I look down at the bottom of the sheet and in small print it stated that this test was created based on the concepts of L. Ron Hubbard and printed by The Church of Scientology..... I stood up... put the stack back on the ladies desk and noped the heck right out of there. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g4s6c" target="_blank">elusivegroove</a></p>25. Out I go!
<p>You've had a lot of jobs. Yes. They were temp jobs. But why so many. They were with the same agency. But why do you leave them after a short time? Because they were temporary assignments? I don't understand. How do I know you won't leave here? Because I won't be working here.. goodbye. Thick as s**t. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fwhsc" target="_blank">Reddit</a></p>24. Just Hang Up!
<p>I had a phone interview with a company that bragged about having an on-site doctor. To me that meant 1 of two things.</p><ol><li>it was so stressful to work there they had a doctor on site for liability.</li><li>if I needed a sick day I would be expected to see that doctor instead of my own.</li></ol><p>I ended the interview right there. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g0qzf" target="_blank">click_baiter</a></p>23. Life Ain't Free....
<p><em>"Oh, we won't be paying you during your probation, which is about 3 months."</em></p><p>And this was an entry level job. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3gdh49" target="_blank">rolling_inthederp</a></p><p>Oh ok no problem, i wont be working during my probation. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3gqqr8" target="_blank">Rationalbacon</a></p>22. Being Hunted isn't the best!Â
<p>Being headhunted from my then current job as a manager in a small but busy and successful café to work for this large, posh hotel.</p><p>They phoned me and said that they had found my stored CV online (which I hadn't removed since finding employment) and that one of their board members had been impressed with me as a customer in the café. They offered me an interview and a job with potential to move up etc and that I'd be starting as the restaurant manager on great pay, benefits etc.</p>21. Out before it's too late....
<p>I applied for the job because someone told me the manager was awesome, during the interview she mentioned that moving to the south was hard on her husband's health (humid air and bad lungs) and that they really missed home.</p><p>I had a feeling I'd be getting a new boss as soon as I started, and that's almost always a bad thing. I was right, she left 3 months later, and I heard the new boss was heinous. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3ftmwe" target="_blank">Spikito1</a></p>20. Frankly my Dear....
<p>The guy interviewing me kept calling me Frank and he wouldn't stop. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3ftkuk" target="_blank">-brightlights-</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3ftkuk" target="_blank"></a>If you didn't say <em>"well, to be frank, I don't want this job anymore!"</em> before you left, frankly, you missed out.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fv81f" target="_blank">legitimatelynonrobot</a></p>19. Cheers...
<p>Interviewed for a faculty position at a prestigious university on the east coast and was supposed to interview with the Department Chair. I had to wait outside his office because my interview was delayed by 15 minutes while he ripped apart this other professor over some billing issues. </p>18. ok... byeeeeee
<p>Was out of work, this was during a phone screen:</p><p>Me: <em>"I'm sorry that salary is significantly less than what I was making previously."</em></p><p>Her: <em>laughing</em> <em>"Well, it is more than you are making now, so..."</em><em> </em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g3eke" target="_blank">FakeNewsfortheWin</a></p>17. STRIIIIKE!!!
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTU0OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NTAzMDQ1N30.akpcBDPXy-s5GxE1BlHblfAzfeHZxw6TDhn3eyXBd3U/img.gif?width=980" id="0586b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7a80cb1c908d77477beb53744a2b3bf1" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>Applied to a bartending position at a new club, the guy's second club.</p><p>Strike one: when he said it was an unpaid position, just whatever tips were made.</p><p>Strike two: he told me that the bartenders at his other club had done the dance from coyote ugly to earn the bar more money. He asked me what lengths I was willing to go to to drive sales.</p><p>A third strike was unnecessary. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g4k4x" target="_blank">LaSwanduh</a></p>16. Goes Both Ways!Â
<p>Just happened yesterday.</p><p><em>"We want someone who can be committed to this job for a year or longer. It is part-time and you will get hours as we have demand. You can eventually get full time. We just had someone who has been here for three years become full time."</em></p><p>WTF? You want me to commit to you but you will not commit to me? I was also told they are in dire need to fill this position. I should be receiving an offer today. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g591a" target="_blank">Christiphis</a></p>15. No Kids!Â
<p>All went well until the male interviewer turned around and asked Me- <em>"kinda hoping kids aren't on the cards for you, I'm sick of you girls pulling maternity crap!" </em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fri04" target="_blank">PotatoPixie90210</a></p>14. Pack my tools....Â
<p>In welding jobs, you do a job interview, then take a welding skills test. I was taking the test and current employees came up periodically, introduced themselves to me talked to me a little. They all said pretty much the same thing. It's a s**t show in there. I was skeptical at first but I witnessed a father and son get into a super heated argument during my test. I packed up my tools and thanked the owner for the opportunity, and explained why I was declining the job and left.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g00cc" target="_blank">LasagnaFarts92</a></p>13. A Strong Woman Wins!Â
<p>I went to an interview for a machinist position. In a machine shop. I am a journeyman machinist. The guy didn't expect a lady machinist as someone else had called me to come and interview. He asked if I'd like to sell dietary supplements with his wife instead. Wtf? Ummm noooooo. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g7big" target="_blank">Reddit</a></p>12. Panera for the Win!
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTU1MS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MTA3OTM0MX0.sTuFyQKgdJrnGe4iu8MxSGffTThu4m4D-RJf4aAlfWM/img.gif?width=980" id="98d28" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1a536bb70925daebcce74b0ee462a400" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>First job interview out of college and it was for an account manager job that clearly said it was an office job where you make some cold calls, keep customer happy, etc. Show up in a suit and tie and as I'm sitting in the lobby another guy shows up interviewing for the job as well. The lady then decided to take us to Panera and interviews both of us at the same time. She then starts going on about the job saying it's best to wear shorts and comfortable shoes since we will be going door to door 6 days a week, 8am-8pm trying to get people to switch their gas and electric provider.</p>11. You Better WERK!
<p>It was doing a corporate, behind-the-scenes kind of role for a shoe company. I wore their shoes (I had some in the back of my closet) and a corporate looking simple black black dress and black jacket. This is important to note for later - I didn't look offensive, I looked respectable for the role I was applying to, and the outfit showed their shoes.</p>10. Not Three Pennies More....
<p>Graduated college with a teaching degree and a bunch of video production experience (shot college events, cut them into presentations and posterity videos, ran the college television station, etc.).</p><p>Interviewed with my state teachers union association. They posted an ad in the paper looking for someone to cover their events; drive to the capital, film the event, interview attendees, bring the footage back, cut it into three different videos: one for internal use, one for TV and one for the website. Also write articles for the website about said event. 3-5 days a week job, 7 hours a day, most weekends. Oh, and the capital is at least an hour and a half drive from here.</p>9. 18 & Up?
<p>When a few years ago, the interviewer asked repeatedly when exactly I was going to turn 18. Really sealed the deal when 20 minutes after I left he called again, just to confirm, exactly when I would turn 18. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fz2lb" target="_blank">budapestgirl</a></p>8. School Scam...
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTU2Mi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyOTAxMTQ3NX0.Y1OLdnY2Wk6Xm9iuavICYU071ybdjhTNQgW6eJNOTLI/img.gif?width=980" id="d713a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="47abd89d13921fc429c06295e41e3fde" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>Went in for what I thought was a low level IT job with some on the job training. Turned out to be an overpriced A+ Certification Course that essentially gave you a one week paid internship at the end so they could justify calling it a <em>"Job"</em> and advertise on job sites. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fqo14" target="_blank">DONT_PM_ME_BREASTS</a></p>7. Family First....
<p>Now I grew up in a small town in nowhere Montana, so I was prepared for the reality. The job I was applying for was in an extremely isolated area I had never been to before. The interviewer told me straight up it would take years to be accepted into the town. He also asked about what church we would be interested in seeing on the tour. That was when reality set in about what I was stepping into. The job itself was great, but I couldn't put my family into that situation. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3fzfxu" target="_blank">DarrenEdwards</a></p>6. Don't Ask....
<p>Not me, but a friend.</p><p>I guess this won't translate well for many people, so the background is: We live in a country where you are not allowed to ask about family planning during a hiring process, as this is considered discriminatory. Family planning is not supposed to be taken into account when hiring (the same way as you cannot chose to hire someone based on religion, sexuality etc.)</p>5. Forgotten?
<p>I mentored a student during his degree as part of an Alumni program. This fellow is destined for great things, off-the-chart smart, and keen to immerse in his industry. He tells me about an interview he went to with a large, well known pharmaceutical firm to get more lab experience - he ended up being accepted to Cambridge for his PhD - and he was left in a room on his own for over an hour (there was a short questionnaire he'd completed fairly quickly) and no one came to get him. Apparently, they forgot he was there. Needless to say that he declined their generous offer to join their team. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3gd1fc" target="_blank">geekpeeps</a></p>4. Family Craziness....
<p>I had a family owned chiropractic business interview me. And while they're having me small talk about myself I mentioned my daughter. And they asked about her dad and I implied I was a single mother and their response was <em>"yeah, so we're a heavily Christian based organization so we will be looking elsewhere."</em> I was so taken aback I just left and didn't realize it was illegal until after when I called my friend who hires people for a living! A**holes. I wouldn't have wanted to work for them anyway. I had to agree to morning prayer circles and crap. It was so weird. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g48an" target="_blank">pschlick</a></p>3. It's A Sign!Â
<p>They had me speak with two people separately and they both asked me what my horoscope sign is and then they said that if they wanted to move forward with me they would invite me to a dinner to see how I fared.</p><p>I'm sorry, but, an employer who is going to care about the stereotypes of what your horoscope signs are is bullcrap.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g104x" target="_blank">cookofthesea</a></p>2. Stay Alert...
<p>I had an interview a couple of days ago, at a smallish local bank - 12 branches, they do about 1.5b in business a year, so it's a legit company. I had a feeling I might be a little overqualified but applied anyway, and part of the application was a salary requirement. I got an email asking for my availability to come in for an interview, and replied with my availability, but suggested a quick phone interview first to make sure we're on the same page and not waste anyone's time since I'm already employed.</p>1. Y'all a Hot Mess!
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMTA4MTU2Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNjY2OTgwNH0.gmTF8s2ApE8wf4t2gT6kKHdDSvWpUL0Jg6_KKcYQPoQ/img.gif?width=980" id="1f7c5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="baec002b58c73e1b00605a272a9a3e9b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>I was interviewing for a teaching job. They did the interview in a closet room next to the gym where kids were screaming/playing basketball outside. It was so distracting. The principal came in and out of the room about 5 times and would jump into the conversation without any context. They asked me redundant questions and forgot which position I was being interview for. They also wrote and underlined specific answers that I gave that were obviously not what they wanted to hear. The entire thing was so disorganized and if I hadn't needed a job I would have walked out.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93su83/what_happened_during_a_job_interview_that_made/e3g1ecc" target="_blank">little_cranberry5</a></p>Lawyers are not the most popular people in the world and they don't care. They are there to win and claim victory at any cost. Half of the time you have to wonder... do they actually love lawyering or just flat out winning?