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By Anonymous - 18/09/2013 17:41 - Canada - Red Deer

Today, I had an interview for my dream job. I spent all of last night preparing, researching the company, and making sure everything was perfect. My interview was for 8am. I woke up at 10:30 to an alarm that had not gone off. FML

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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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By Anonymous - 25/11/2018 13:00 - United States - Seattle

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

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Wednesday 18 September 2013 22:52

Always set multiple alarms. When it's something this important, you don't leave anything to chance.

LaurenLo 17

Wednesday 18 September 2013 22:53

Sounds like you have a pretty alarming problem.

Comments

stardustjunkie 12

Thursday 19 September 2013 0:12

Although not as big a deal as your unfortunate situation, I know the feeling OP! I worked till 1am and had a 7:30am important doctors appointment to get up for. I'd waited 3 weeks for my appointment and what did I do? Woke up 2 hours later, alarm had gone off but it didn't wake me up. Hopefully you can work something out and have another interview. Good luck!

perdix 29

Thursday 19 September 2013 0:15

Tell them you are the perfect employee, except for the reliability part.

jerryj 27

Thursday 19 September 2013 6:21

Interviewer: So, tell me about your weaknesses. OP: Well, I have an alarm that doesn't always ring when it's supposed to, and... Interviewer: I see we could have a potential problem here.

anonomot 11

Thursday 19 September 2013 0:23

i feel bad for your situation, but next time, don't wait until the very last minute to prepare, especially for a "dream" job. and, like many have said before, set multiple alarms.

HighasaCloud 46

Thursday 19 September 2013 1:43

Happens to me quite often. I can never figure out if I've subconsciously turned it off or if it just didn't go off :

MegaError101 10

Thursday 19 September 2013 3:30

Call them back and say something happened and you could not make it.

fukre 3

Thursday 19 September 2013 3:31

Oh... So sorry for u... Next tym Remember to keep 2-3 alarms...

ITS_Arnold 7

Thursday 19 September 2013 4:31

Probably used an iPhone didn't you?

jackyjoker 2

Thursday 19 September 2013 5:23

Poor thing, but can't help to think you deserved it. Its exactly the same as last minute study all night for an early exam the next morning and find yourself late.