Unless you’re a trust-fund kid, won the lotto, were born into extreme wealth, or have someone else to help pay the bills, chances are high that you need to work to live. Over 161 million people are employed in the U.S. according to data from late last year. More than 7 million people don’t have jobs. There’s a big group of people seeking work, and it includes some who are currently employed.

But as they’ve discovered, navigating the recruitment process can sometimes be hell on earth. From dumb job descriptions to ridiculous requirements and expectations from recruiters, and endless interviews that go nowhere slowly, people seem to be going through the most.

Online community Recruiting Hell has over 770,000 members, all commiserating with each other about the horrors of job hunting and/or hiring new talent. “We’ll pay you in experience!” reads the page, before inviting people to share their nightmarish stories of searching for work. Bored Panda has picked the best posts from the community, and we can only hope you have the good fortune of not having to encounter any of these situations anytime soon.

#1 Anyone Relate To This?

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#2 UNO Card

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#3 We Need To Make Discussing Salary Normal

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#4 I Just Want A Paycheck While Not Having To Join A Cult

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#5 Hiring Managers And Recruiters

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#6 This Guy Gets It

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#7 Opinion

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#8 Why So Secret?

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#9 I’m Done

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#10 Company: My Next Hire Needs To Be Enthusiastic About The Role So This Doesn’t Happen Again

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#11 We Don’t Count Internships As Experience Here, So Let’s Just Forget All Of That

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#12 I Will Drink To That

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#13 Job Ads Nowadays. Sorry If Repost I Didn’t Find It In Search

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#14 I Have Been Interviewing With A Company For Over 6 Weeks And Have Talked To Ten Different Interviewers. Emailed Today Saying I’ve Moved To The Next Round. Finally Sick Of It

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#15 That’s It

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#16 This Happens All The Time

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#17 Saw It Online

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#18 A Delightful Find On Linkedin

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#19 It’s Really Not That Complicated

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#20 Don’t Know If This Has Been Posted Here Yet

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#21 Enough Said

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#22 Can I Get A Second To The Motion?

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#23 This Should Be Mandatory Training For All Interviewers

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#24 That Backfired Spectacularly

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#25 A Little Too Accurate

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#26 This Guy Gets It

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#27 Nothing They Can Do

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#28 Who Were You In Your Past Life?

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#29 Burn

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#30 A Story Of Two Parts, Recruiter Edition

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#31 A Company Found Me On Linkedin And Reached Out To Me, This Was My Response

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#32 Felt So Good To Talk Back For Once

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#33 Gold

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#34 This

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#35 After 22 Online Rejections And Ghostings, I Finally Got An Interview! When I Arrived I Was Told They Had No Intentions Of Hiring Me And Just Wanted To Encourage Me To Continue My Education

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#36 The Truth About “Nobody Wants To Work” (That We All Knew Already)

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#37 So Inspiring

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#38 Robert Half Being Called Out On This Linkedin Post

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#39 Another Way Of Putting It : My Quality Of Life And Mental Health Is Being Dictated By Others

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#40 I Ran Into One Today

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#41 Got An Email From A Recruiter Today. I Was Interested Until They Disclosed The Pay. It’s Seriously Insultingly Low For The Role And Requirements. So I Told Them Just That Over Email

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#42 Contrary To A Number Of Recruiters’ Popular Belief, I Do Very Much Care About The Money. Did You Think My Childhood Dream Was To Send An Email To Request Reimbursement Approval For Airport Parking To Pick Up Someone Snotty Visiting From The Head Office?

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#43 Was I Being Impolite? Had This Exchange On Linkedin

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#44 Found This On Linkedin, Thought It Probably Belongs Here…lol

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#45 Counterpoint: If It’s Taking 6 Months For An Upper Manager To Fill A Position, The Company Should Be Looking To Fill 2 Positions

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#46 I’m Tired Of Recruiters Avoiding My Questions And Playing Dumb

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#47 Rejected From An Internship For Not Having Enough Experience

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#48 This Is What It’s Come To

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#49 Saw This On Linkedin And Had A Good Laugh!

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#50 Not Sure If It Fits Here But Reminded Me Of R/Recruitinghell

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#51 “No One Wants To Work!”

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#52 Better Start Hiring Then

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#53 Hard Same

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#54 As An Autistic Person, I Despise Everything About This!

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#55 Funny How The Language Changes Between People And Businesses

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#56 Interviewing For My First Recruiting Job – Why Did I Start This Life??

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#57 For The Memes, Because We’ve All Been There

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#58 Just Stop Please

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#59 Recruiter Moment

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#60 Listen Up!

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#61 No Idea If This Will Work, But Hey – Worth The Try

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#62 “Minority Drawers” Should Be A Crime

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#63 I Am So Sick Of These Ridiculous Screening Questions

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#64 I Had To Take A Walk After This

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#65 A Linkedin Laugh

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#66 The Companies vs. Me

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#67 Naming And Shaming Done Right

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#68 I Cant Do This Anymore

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#69 I See Why Recruiters Ask Stupid Questions Now. I Apologize

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#70 4+ Years Of Experience In A 2 Year Old Technology

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#71 People Are Human And Human Things Happen

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#72 Recruiter Asked Me To Record A Video Response To 4 Questions. This Is My Reply

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#73 What Usually Leads People To Find Another Job

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#74 Solid Advice

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#75 Someone Pls Try It And Tell Me If It Worked

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#76 “How I Got A Job At Big 4 Being In My 20s.”

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#77 Damn, That Felt Good!

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#78 Solid Advice From The Man Himself

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#79 Oh No It’s Totally Cool, I Love Booking 3 Separate Meetings To Be Bailed On Each Time By Someone With Crap Grammar

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#80 Ayo This Lady Working For UPS Really Tried To Get Free Labor Out Of Me LOL

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#81 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

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#82 “This Is Your Only Means Of Interview” – So I Simply Refused

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#83 Goddamn This Felt Good

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#84 Interviewer Cancelled An Hour Before The Meeting. I Know My Worth

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#85 At 58, A Recruiter Says ‘Too Old To Code’—heartbreaking ?

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#86 The Only Acceptable Application. 2 Seconds If You’re Slow

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#87 Gap In My Employment History, In 2017 I Was Fourteen

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#88 Well!

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#89 Just Going To Leave This Here

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#90 Um…no?!?

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