Timeline for Potential employer flew me out for interview, cancels return flight
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| Jan 27, 2019 at 23:44 | comment | added | Sascha | No, i am claiming that "reasonable situation this would be a valid reaction to" is different from "reasonable explanation" (for the behavior). Other Answers gave examples where i would say "a reasonable explanation for the incident", but not an valid reaction from the company (like invitation was given by somebody without the authority or the company in severe difficulties). All of these are situations which are unreasonably caused on the side of the company, but may be possible and believable causes for the behaviour. | |
| Jan 27, 2019 at 2:05 | comment | added | Nobody | "The only reasonable sitation that this would be a valid reaction to would be if you lied on your CV in an important point" is in the Version 1 of your answer. My point is that "The only reasonable". In particular, that "only". Are you claiming someone else used your account? If so, you need to report it. | |
| Jan 27, 2019 at 0:22 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | -1 this answer by a non-lawyer states confidently that canceling a flight is a "valid reaction" if there was resume fraud, despite the lawyers on Law SE stating that it is not in fact a legally justifiable reaction. | |
| Jan 26, 2019 at 20:40 | comment | added | Sascha | @scaaahu: That is not what I stated. | |
| Jan 26, 2019 at 9:26 | comment | added | Nobody | I did not downvote this answer. But, I disagree with what you said that the only reasonable explanation is lying on the cv. The OP did say "I must have said something offensive to somebody in an interview.". To me it is also possible that the OP might have said something offending the interviewer, e.g. some racial remarks, some sexual biased comments, or possibly some profanity words. Any of these could incur some extreme actions. Some people are very narrow-minded. | |
| Jan 26, 2019 at 8:21 | history | edited | Rui F Ribeiro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2019 at 13:19 | comment | added | Sascha | I am not sure why this answer is so controversial. I understand that it's not well liked, but currently it is at 16+ and 8- votes...... | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 20:11 | comment | added | Joe Smentz | @TomSwirly - Yep, I've definitely experienced a "bad day" before - did an interview, froze up completely (even though it was stuff I've done a million times before and find pretty easy - it was parsing a CSV file) and didn't get the job. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 14:24 | comment | added | Tom Swirly | It's hard to imagine that they could have detected a false CV during an interview. I've interviewed candidates with pre-checked CV's who just did really badly - because they froze on the interview, or they just weren't that good and had softball jobs. You can't really tell a bad candidate or a candidate having a bad day from a fake candidate just by talking to them... | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 14:34 | comment | added | komodosp | Being realistic it's unlikely that they'd want to pursue a legal option of getting their money back. It would be a troublesome and potentially expensive way of recovering a relatively small amount, considering they're dealing with someone they'll never see again living (probably) a few states away or in another country, and they probably never stated honesty as a condition for paying the air fare. That's not to defend what they did of course... But it sounds more like the action of a spiteful and pissed-off boss than a HR person who saw it as a valid legal move. | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 2:35 | comment | added | Julie in Austin | Sadly, this is the only answer which matches all of the facts -- the OP stated they blew the technical questions and the interviewers didn't like them. I've interviewed candidates where I was fairly certain the candidate had stretched their experience, and things usually get very tense as the interview wore on. In one instance the misrepresentations were so obvious we wanted to know who the real person was so we could hire them. I would never suggest revoking a return flight for any other reason, but if fraud were obvious, I'd be open to it. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 18:27 | comment | added | BigMadAndy | I agree with that. Even if OP blew all technical questions on a topic he claimed to be an expert in, I don't think this would justify canceling the ticket. Performance during interviews is not just about skills/ knowledge, it's also about the psychological and physical state the candidate is in for example. The only exception which would justify canceling the ticket is a "hard" lie, something which was obviously a deliberate attempt to mislead the company on a very important matter. | |
| Jan 17, 2019 at 8:55 | comment | added | Fiksdal | I think even if (totally hypothetically, not saying this is the case) OP committed fraud by totally lying on their CV, canceling the ticket without informing OP, thus leaving OP stranded at the airport, is not a "valid reaction", and more than just unprofessional. If the company believed OP had committed fraud against them, they could have kept the ticket active, and then asked OP to pay back the travel costs. If OP refused, legal action would have been the most professional and acceptable play by the company, however, PR-wise, even that would probably not have been such a good idea. | |
| Jan 16, 2019 at 23:20 | history | answered | Sascha | CC BY-SA 4.0 |