A very modern way of rejecting an applicant.
Going for a job can be really very stressful, and waiting for that all important call or email can be nerve-wracking.
However, we’d rather wait around for a formal decline than get a text the minute you walk out the door.
That’s exactly what happened to 18-year-old Megan Dixon when she was going for a job as a waitress in Miller and Carter steakhouse in Leicester.
During the interview, Megan was told she’d get an email in a matter of days.
However, minutes after she walked out of the interview she got a text to say she wasn’t successful in her application – only in not so many words.
After being bluntly told ‘it’s a no’ eleven minutes after the interview began, she was then told it was because she was ‘too basic’.
Perhaps the worst part of it all is that it featured an emoji which just added insult to injury.
https://twitter.com/megrdixon/status/828989097146466304
Megan posted the text conversation to Twitter.
When Metro reached out to the restaurant a spokesperson for Miller & Carter claimed that the messages were supposed to be sent to the restaurant manager, but we accidentally sent to Megan. Either way, it’s really not very professional.
