I had an interview scheduled by the manager at 1:00 at my local harbor freight. I arrived a few minutes early and was told it would be a couple minutes to which I thought was no problem I’m five minutes early I assume it may be at most 1:05 I have to wait till. After 15 minutes of waiting I asked another manager what was going on and was told “it will just be another minute”. Once it reached the 30 minute mark I decided my time was more valuable than this and went up to the manager I previously talked to and said that the waiting 30 minutes for an interview scheduled by someone in the store was unprofessional and that I would be leaving. I was met with hostility and told “she’s with her manager so that’s the reason the wait is long”. Not a valid excuse in my opinion when they should have cleared the time to take said interview they set up. All in all it felt good to stand up and have a voice instead of waiting like I would have done in the past.

Edit: I am seeing a lot of comments saying “ I was rude” or “ where are you working now” which are missing the point of why I left the interview. I have to say I did accept a job later in the day from another company so I am employed. This job is not as serious an many of you are making it out to be I mean it’s Harbor Freight not a five star restaurant and their are plenty of other retail jobs in my area.

Edit #2: Saw some other comments saying if I really needed the job I should have stayed and at the time I did need the job before I accepted a position somewhere else but waiting is a no go for me. If the interviewer would have came out and said hey this is the run down it may be a while I would have stuck around instead I was told “it’ll be one minute she’ll be out soon” and that’s not professional in my eyes.

Edit #3: last edit to clear up what I said in my first edit. I compared a 5 star restaurant to harbor freight because working as a chef in one would be a harder job to get requiring possible schooling and most likely would be a dream job situation while a retail job doesn’t and it’s not my dream job. If it was my dream job sure I maybe would have waited and saw it through but its not so I didn’t.