Even if it has a happy ending, the job interview is far from being a pleasant exercise. This is all the more true if the employer has decided not to let anything pass and/or to play it as the supreme boss rather than an easily accessible superior. This is the experience that Olivia Bland, a 22-year-old Briton, had and shared online when she was aiming for a position as a communications assistant at Web Applications UK, a company that provides services to the travel industry and who is based in Manchester. After two hours of nightmarish exchanges with the boss of the box, a certain Craig Dean, the young woman explains that she felt lower than earth. So much so that she simply decided, the next day, to decline the job offer for which she had been selected. Even better, she replied with a long letter to the one who should have been her superior, and we can say that she did not mince her words. Small anthology of the best passages:“ I would like to thank you for the offer, but I have decided to refuse it. […] I understand the impact Craig tried to have on me, but no one should walk out of an interview so upset they cry at the bus stop. […] I do not understand that a man tries as best he can to intimidate and crush a young woman with his power, and that he continues even when she has tears in her eyes. I also think it's very strategic of him to bring other people into the room, who have nothing to do with the interview, just to magnify his sense of power a little bit more when 'he humiliates a candidate ". It's cash!
The young woman continues, revealing part of her traumatic past. “I recently returned home from Brighton after coming out of a year and a half long abusive relationship. The two hours I spent across from Craig was, to me, the same as being in the same room as my abusive ex. I spent two hours hearing that I wasn't good enough, and all the reasons for it. And to top it off, I'm offered the job which I guess is supposed to make up for all the mean things he's said before. I know that:they drag you down, push you to your own limits, then take you out to dinner or give you a gift to apologize and come across as the good guys. This work serves as a gift, I do not want it. […] I don’t want to work with someone who likes to pick on young women, call them incompetent and make them feel uncomfortable on purpose. I don't want to work with this kind of individual, and all the good things about the job wouldn't change my mind for the world ". Olivia Bland still ends on a positive note, with a "Good luck for the future". And his rant had the desired effect:beyond his enormous success on Twitter – where he was shared nearly 40,000 times and “liked” 132,000 times – he encouraged said boss, Craig Dean, to apologize via a social media post. 22 years old and already quite a bit of a woman! Kudos to her!
