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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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By catsofly7 - 30/01/2011 13:43 - United States

Today, I had a job interview at 9:00am. I left at around 8:30am, and as soon as I got in the car to drive to the interview, I checked my phone again, and it said 10:33. My boyfriend had decided to change the time on my clock as a "joke." FML

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By thanksmum - 29/05/2010 17:39 - Germany

Today, I decided to take a nap before a big job interview at 6. I set two alarm clocks to make sure I didn't miss it, but I woke up at 5:59. As I'm scrambling in a panic to get out the door, my mom says calmly, "I took your alarm clocks out of your room because you looked really tired today." FML

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By Anonymous - 28/08/2012 16:56 - Canada - Orleans

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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Welshite 39

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

BrownBallSack 9

Thursday 19 September 2013 6:20

I usually set an ipod alarm, a phone alarm and a digital clock alarm. Annoying as hell to close them, but really effective!

Moon_Dreamer22 12

Thursday 19 September 2013 6:54

the early bird doesn't always get the worm, or in this case the job

mooman36 15

Thursday 19 September 2013 8:30

Why were you up the night before doing all this prep work? Unless they sprung the interview on you shouldn't you have done it well in advance? This, of course, is only relevant if the prep worked caused you to go to sleep late and so wake up late. In which case YDI. If the prep work was nothing to do with the waking up late then you are unfortunate and FYL.

rawlings123 17

Thursday 19 September 2013 9:45

I call bullshit that your alarm didnt go off. You either slept through it cuz it wasnt loud enough or you didnt set it. ydi

siggy_mcsigx 22

Thursday 19 September 2013 10:53

I don't always have an alarm clock... I focus on waking up at a certain time before going to sleep, and I'm one of those people who naturally wakes up in the morning if there's something important on the next day. But yes, you should have set multiple alarms or gone to bed earlier the night before.