WOMAN RESIGNS AFTER BOSS CANCEL HER INTERVIEW FOR ANOTHER POSITION CAUSE “SHORTHANDED”

I quit because my boss canceled my interview for another position without my consent.

That’s a story from a couple of months back when I used to work at a corporate hellhole in the pharmaceutical industry.

I was a technician and applied for an analyst position within the same company/site I was working at. After a week, I get an email from HR with my interview date and time, which was more than a month ahead of time.

I immediately warn both my supervisor and the person in charge of scheduling that I would need to be available for an hour on that given date for an interview. They both confirmed it was okay and marked it in the schedule as a “meeting”.

Fast forward to the morning of the day of the interview, and my supervisor tells me that the workload is too high for that day and that I -have- to cancel my “meeting”. I respond by telling him it was not a meeting, but an interview, and that both he and the scheduler gave me the okay 5 weeks ago. He goes “Okay, let me see what I can do” and leaves.

Not 5 minutes later, I get CCed on an email that my boss sent to HR saying: “Khriss1313 is not available for his interview today, please cancel it”. That effing pos did not even tell him it was his fault, and I looked like an effing idiot trying to explain what happened while staying professional.

I still got to reschedule the interview after talking with HR, but I chose to quit anyway since I thought that a company where this kind a disrespect toward employees is not worth my time.

Netizens’ comments

1. Boss: I had them cancel your interview because we need you here instead
   Employee: Okay. I have a way to ensure this won’t happen again.
   Boss: Wonderful.
   Employee: I quit. Now my availability at any given time is no longer your concern, nor business.
   Boss: Wait….
2. This is another example of you being a ‘resource’ instead of a ‘person’. Just bidness nothing personal. Take the stapler when you quit.
3. When I was a manager I saw part of my role in helping people move to the right job for them. If someone wanted to move on I would try to find out why and help them as much as possible. I saw part of my success as maximising the potential of a team member.