I had an interview at Burger King and got rejected for employment

[F4Frenzy]

I am no longer depressed and I'm now thriving with my essential job of making candles and soap. Life is good yall
ily all

[F4Frenzy]

Originally posted by swillfly:

Red flags prevent employment no matter where applying.

The popular advice "just be yourself" is terrible. From relationships to jobs to whatever.

Oh definitely...
Although at my current workplace, the co workers are chill af. I don't have to fake anything with them except the big boss who visits every now and then and the office workers. I'm down at the warehouse part and it's basically 'peasants' vs the rich.

I'm very thankfully for where I work today because everyone there gets my humour and I get theirs. I did have to hide this at the interview stage, of course.

[swillfly]

Employment (i.e. working a job at any company) is like a costume ball; wear a happy face and match the tone, then dance like an idiot for money.

You are not selling *you* - you are selling whatever their product/service is and doing chores with an invisible leash on.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Show that you're a true fan by making Burger King scented candles and soaps.

[Breathe]

Sometimes a closing door slams so hard another one opens.

[nellanella]

Originally posted by DestrockQc:

Originally posted by Breathe:

Sometimes a closing door slams so hard another one opens.

Not in my experience lol. Not before dozens of CV later.

the door was just really far away but you eventually found it

[F4Frenzy]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Show that you're a true fan by making Burger King scented candles and soaps.

Yessss let's gooooo
and honestly, if it goes wrong, then nothing changes. I'll admit, the company I work for sells some awful smelling ones at times but most are pretty good.

[Caldari Ghost]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Show that you're a true fan by making Burger King scented candles and soaps.

i would buy

[Othobrithol]

Originally posted by Caldari Ghost:

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Show that you're a true fan by making Burger King scented candles and soaps.

i would buy

It depends. A whopper scented candle yeah, but one that smells like the restaurant... no thanks. I'm more into sandalwood than "floor cleaned by underpaid teen".

[Caldari Ghost]

Originally posted by Othobrithol:

Originally posted by Caldari Ghost:

i would buy

It depends. A whopper scented candle yeah, but one that smells like the restaurant... no thanks. I'm more into sandalwood than "floor cleaned by underpaid teen".

That is true

[Dutchgamer1982]

any reason for rejection?

here they generally don't want people that "fit the team" which means you generally see all employees in 1 mcD or burger kind all of the same agegroup and ethniticy..

they won't hire me as a male white guy in a restaurant that has all surinames as employee..
but the reverse generlaly is true too..

here also we have youth minimumwage.. person of 19 costs only 1/3d the wage of a person of 21 and older.. thus if your to old.. they not want you.

here we also have that if you get sick while on the job.. the employee has to keep paying you full wage for however long you are sick.. even if that sickness was already present like depression.. or caused by own behaviour like an accident because of a hobby you do.
***
legally they may not ask you to your medical history...
but they can ofcourse GUESS
the first red flags to them..
thus people who have long gaps in their cv.. or have switched jobs a lot.. that may signal you are one of those stressed/burn out people.. no ty.
and ofcourse how you present yourself in your talk also has effect.

compagny's will evade risk. they profile.
if say one proifile group has a 1 in 10000 chance to get a dropout that looses them money..
but another has 3 in 10000... they WONT hire anybody in that second group?
even though still 99.7% of them are perfectly fine workers.
it makes just no buisnuiss sense to accept 3 times the risk.

so to become hirable.. you must try to fit in another profile group.

[F4Frenzy]

Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:

any reason for rejection?

here they generally don't want people that "fit the team" which means you generally see all employees in 1 mcD or burger kind all of the same agegroup and ethniticy..

they won't hire me as a male white guy in a restaurant that has all surinames as employee..
but the reverse generlaly is true too..

here also we have youth minimumwage.. person of 19 costs only 1/3d the wage of a person of 21 and older.. thus if your to old.. they not want you.

here we also have that if you get sick while on the job.. the employee has to keep paying you full wage for however long you are sick.. even if that sickness was already present like depression.. or caused by own behaviour like an accident because of a hobby you do.
***
legally they may not ask you to your medical history...
but they can ofcourse GUESS
the first red flags to them..
thus people who have long gaps in their cv.. or have switched jobs a lot.. that may signal you are one of those stressed/burn out people.. no ty.
and ofcourse how you present yourself in your talk also has effect.

compagny's will evade risk. they profile.
if say one proifile group has a 1 in 10000 chance to get a dropout that looses them money..
but another has 3 in 10000... they WONT hire anybody in that second group?
even though still 99.7% of them are perfectly fine workers.
it makes just no buisnuiss sense to accept 3 times the risk.

so to become hirable.. you must try to fit in another profile group.

Probably because I held the digital thermomater gun to the side of my head that made it look like I was about to off myself. (This was during covid times btw)

[☮ne✟rue𝓢ax☯n]

You should have given them a false name on your CV...... Ron McDonald was never going to go down well!

[AlienTestosterone]

apply for another one

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Figure out if they have two different hiring managers... if the guy you interviewed with is out that day schedule your interview. If you get hired the other guy has to put up with it.