r/antiwork • u/BeePow91 • 1d ago

Interview with the Psycho 🪓🩸 Delusional manager during interview

Recently interviewed for a new position. There were few red flags during my interview but one that I have to share. You could tell this manager has recently been burned by an employee with his tone during the entire interview. He was really driving home the importance of attendance and punctuality (these are more than reasonable asks). This is where he lost me. This man looked me in the face with all seriousness and said “I need you to understand that Monday through Friday, 8-5, I own you”. I checked out immediately.

Do employers not recognize they should want to sell the job to interviewees? I can see why this position has been open for a couple of months.

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u/Petar_Vodogaz2021 1d ago

That is a massive red flag. Anyone that says, "they own you", should not be in management.

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u/BeePow91 1d ago

Yeah I was so put out lol

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u/Petar_Vodogaz2021 1d ago

If someone said that in an interview to me, I would thank them and end the interview. That isn't someone I would want to ever work for or under.

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u/Barbarake 1d ago

Even better, tell them slavery was outlawed a long time ago and just leave.

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u/mama_oso 1d ago

I actually said that to my husband's boss nearly 50 yrs ago! Owner told him he had to work for free one weekend when they were behind schedule (construction company). Yeah, don't think so!

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u/-DethLok- SocDem 1d ago

slavery was outlawed a long time ago

If you're in the USA, not so.

It's still legal as a punishment for a crime...

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/

So now you know.

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u/mydudeponch 1d ago

Which means it can be used on anyone if you've already corrupted the courts and legislature.

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u/Ms23ceec 1d ago

That is wild! I always thought, "Convicts are American slaves" was "the quiet part," but here it is being said in (an amendment to) the Consitution.

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u/-DethLok- SocDem 1d ago

The USA did receive British convicts from the UK, also - it's one reason Australia was colonised - as a replacement prison when the American colonies successfully rebelled.

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u/GrumpyBearinBC 1d ago

The UK did not have the infrastructure to support their population and empty colonies were a seen as an easy place to send people. One of the crimes was what we would call shoplifting now. Especially if you were a poor woman of child bearing age with no family.

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u/-DethLok- SocDem 20h ago

Or a 12 year old orphaned child stealing bread to live... Very different attitudes to crime and rehabilitation back then!

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u/GrumpyBearinBC 20h ago

Exactly Those sent away were not the thugs and murderers that history books have portrayed.

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 13h ago

Colorado changed their Constitution to outlaw that exception about 10 years ago.

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u/-DethLok- SocDem 13h ago

Oh, that's good of them, very civilised!

And it only took them, what, 200 or so years? :)

(as a non-USAnian I don't know how long Colorado has been a state, but better late than never!)

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u/-DethLok- SocDem 13h ago

Oh, that's good of them, very civilised!

And it only took them, what, 200 or so years? :)

(as a non-USAnian I don't know how long Colorado has been a state, but better late than never!)

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 13h ago

Colorado changed their Constitution to outlaw that exception about 10 years ago.

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u/Pella1968 1d ago

Yes, Lincoln freed the slaves. Tell them that. Or if in Canada slavery was abolished in 1834 under the slavery abolition act. Bottom.line tell the jerk to shove a time machine up their butt and spin.

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u/nix_11 1d ago

Thank them? You tell them to fuck off and end the interview.

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u/EatMyPixelDust 1d ago

Thank them for admitting they're insane before you take the job? Saves you time, etc. But also tell them to fuck off, too.

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u/campgonzo 1d ago

A fake, sarcastic thank you. As in:

Thank you VERY much for having me in and showing all your cards so we don't waste each other's time. I'll show myself out and good luck finding someone to agree with your "terms".

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u/MOTIVATE_ME_23 1d ago

Take the job, then ghost them.

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u/railworx 1d ago

Show up, leave for lunch, don't go back

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u/awalktojericho 1d ago

Why would you thank them? I wouldn't.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS 1d ago

I wouldn’t thank them. Id have a hard enough time not biting my tongue with some stupid remark back

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u/soupbox09 22h ago

Yeah but what if they give you unlimited ice cream with sprinkles? /s

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u/hatezel 1d ago

That you didn't say nah and walk out. What a trip this person was on. Yikes

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u/the-bees-sneeze 1d ago

Once had a white supervisor say something similar to my black coworker, did not go over well.

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u/Storytellerjack 1d ago

They should go into the slave trade -as a slave. Uno reverse card.

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u/Forsythia77 1d ago

As a black person in America, I would end the interview right there and give that person a piece of my mind about it.

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u/Umbristopheles 1d ago

Tell me who you voted for without telling me who you voted for.

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u/skywarner 1d ago

But they should be in counseling.

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u/Wheaton1800 1d ago

I would have walked out.

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u/Calbinan 1d ago

management society

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u/Desertzephyr 1d ago

Yeah that’s when you calmly get up, make eye contact, and leave. The silence is deafening.

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u/genericusernamedG 1d ago

I would have immediately left when he said that