He Stomped On Her Feet During A Job Interview To Teach Her A Lesson, And Her Boyfriend’s Accusing Her Of Overreacting After She Yelled At Him
Job interviews are nerve-wracking enough without getting your literal toes stomped on. But that’s exactly what happened to this 24-year-old woman, dressed professionally and unknowingly sent into a muddy construction site, where a steel-toed stranger decided to teach her a lesson by crushing her shoes instead of using his words.
She stood up for herself in that moment, something she’s not usually known for. But now, after her boyfriend called her dramatic and blamed her for being unprepared, she’s starting to second-guess everything.
Yesterday, she had an interview with a construction company for a job in their civil engineering department.
When she left her house, she had no idea that the interview would be taking place at an active construction site, as she had not been informed about this.
When she arrived at the location, she was shocked to find that she was standing at an enormous construction site covered in mud.
She had on ballet flats and a pair of dress pants, as she assumed the interview would be held in an office setting.
She did feel irritated that she hadn’t received a heads up, and before the hiring manager ushered her into an office on the opposite end of the construction site, he had her wait outside for a couple of minutes.
“As I was waiting, this large construction worker came around the corner and literally stomped on both my toes in his boots and said, ‘You gotta be in steel-toed boots to be on site,’ literally ruining my shoes in the process,” she explained.
“I’d worn new ballet flats just for this interview, and I could tell he sort of twisted his foot to further ruin them. At that moment, I kind of saw red and went off on him, telling him not to touch me, and we had a bit of a yelling match.”
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“I called him out for harassment, and that’s when he realized he’d [messed] up and just scurried away. My hiring manager came out to see the very tailing end of it, and I’m not exactly sure how much he saw, but he didn’t say anything.”
The remainder of the interview process went well, and she did not bring up the man who stomped all over her new shoes.
Later on, her boyfriend told her she was being dramatic when she recounted the day’s events to him. Her boyfriend felt the man who literally stepped on her toes was looking out for her safety, and she shouldn’t have argued with him.
Her boyfriend then criticized her for showing up to the interview unprepared. She thinks she was right to stand up for herself and call the man out for not respecting her.
“Even if I was in violation of their footwear code, he could’ve at least told me professionally and not like a petty child stomping on my shoes, especially since he clearly saw they’re brand new,” she continued.
“I’ve always been a bit of a non-confrontational person, but this is one of the few times I felt I asserted myself well and stood up for myself.”
“But now I’m not sure if I handled the situation properly or if my boyfriend is right and I overreacted, I’m in a loop of overthinking now after this whole thing.”
What do you think? Was she out of line—or just finally refusing to be stepped on?
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