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  • So i guess it's hip to bring families to interviews.

    So I went on an interview that paid about 5 times what I'm making now plus it's something I really like doing (helping people lead fitter lives) but it was all messed up, imho, because of the interviewer's family being there D:
    She brought her husband and preteen son, and all they did was argue, bickering about the son not being able to bring someone over late at night? Anyway it was verrrrry distracting and made me feel uncomfortable. I felt like the interview didn't go as well as I'd hoped becuase of them, but I didn't want to say anything becuase maybe...it's the THING to do now? Take the family everywhere? Idk. is it bizarre to take you kid and SO to interviews now? She didn't seem like anything was bizzare.
    Can't reason with the unreasonable.
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  • #2
    I've never heard of this. And if the family needed to be at her place of work they CERTAINLY didn't need to be at the interview.

    If you don't get the job I would file a complaint with her superiors about this...

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    • #3
      If this is a corporation, I'd complain. That's grossly unprofessional. If it's a mom n' pop thing... I'd consider that I dodged a bullet.

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      • #4
        This place has shown you the interviewer has no boundaries between personal and professional life, and her personal drama is always going to be brought into the office. If this is the person you'll be working for (not an HR person who does interviews but won't actually be over you), I'd think really long and hard about accepting a job there.
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        • #5
          I think you just found out why the job pays so much -- They could be desperate, due to their own behavior.
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          • #6
            Another possibility: it might have been to see how you react to an unusual situation.

            Doubtful, I know.

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            • #7
              Quoth WishfulSpirit View Post
              If this is the person you'll be working for (not an HR person who does interviews but won't actually be over you), I'd think really long and hard about accepting a job there.
              ...and if it is an HR person, can you imagine what a nightmare dealing with them would be?
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              • #8
                I've heard bad interview tales of this happening the other way with the interviewee bringing their family but not the interviewer.
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                • #9
                  I think you may well have been given an early warning about the kind of workplace it'll turn out to be.
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                  • #10
                    I clicked on this expecting to read a helicopter parent story.

                    Now I'm wondering if hubby doesn't trust wife to be alone with applicants, and Sonny-boy is too young to left home alone, so will be at the workplace after school and on weekends. Awesome management situation.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth CyberLurch View Post
                      Another possibility: it might have been to see how you react to an unusual situation.
                      With interviews taking on psychology tests, that's possible....I doubt it in this case.
                      Quite unprofessional, I'd complain if that was an option.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth taxguykarl View Post
                        With interviews taking on psychology tests, that's possible....I doubt it in this case.
                        Quite unprofessional, I'd complain if that was an option.
                        Yeah, I agree. I think the OP dodged a bullet, personally. Any manager or HR person who brings personal life into the workplace, let alone an interview, isn't someone I'd want to work for. Bad juju all around.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth CyberLurch View Post
                          Yeah, I agree. I think the OP dodged a bullet, personally. Any manager or HR person who brings personal life into the workplace, let alone an interview, isn't someone I'd want to work for. Bad juju all around.
                          100% agree. This was a huge red flag and just reeks of anything from dysfunctional to complete mismanagement. OP now knows to avoid this place like the plague...

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                          • #14
                            I too expected this to be about an interviewee, not the interviewer!

                            You're sure this wasn't a set-up for a hidden camera show?
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                            • #15
                              If they weren't trying to get releases, it wouldn't have been for a hidden-camera show. No TV station would broadcast it without the releases, since people who'd been filmed would be likely to sue EVERYONE involved - and the TV station would have the deepest pockets.

                              As for it being hip to bring families to interviews, I'd say it's a different body part, but one located VERY close to the hip.
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