Woman reveals insane reason why job offer was rescinded: ‘So unprofessional’

A text message revealed the wild moment when a boss boldly rescinded a job offer, and the worker was shocked.

Ben Askins is a workplace expert who has found his niche by sharing anonymous text changes between bosses and employees online.

The most recent text exchange has always amassed over 400,000 views, and Askins seems genuinely blown away by it and has called it “idiotic.”

It all started when a woman named Kirstie received a text from her new boss who asked if she had five minutes to talk.

To be clear, the worker had not started working at the company yet and had just received a job offer.

She explained she was just about to jump in the car and asked if everything was okay. The boss replied that it was not.

“We have made the tough decision to withdraw the job offer,” the boss wrote.

The boss apologized and wished her nothing but the best of luck in finding a position elsewhere. Kirstie was shocked.

“Wait what? I left my job last week, and I’m due to start next week! The contract is all signed what happened?” she asked.

The boss replied that the candidate the company originally wanted to take the job had come back into the picture, and the company would pay her a week’s worth of wages.

“I actually can’t believe this. This is so unprofessional,” Kirstie replied.

The boss didn’t back down and claimed it wasn’t “unprofessional” because they had two candidates for the job, and unfortunately, she came in “second.”

Kirstie then asked if she could at least get a reference explaining the situation but the boss declined and said he couldn’t because the company hadn’t seen her work.

“Thanks for nothing,” she texted back.

A few weeks later, the boss messaged her again because he’d noticed she’d written a negative review on the website Glassdoor, where workers can review workplaces.

She had said the company’s recruitment process was unprofessional, and the boss claimed the feedback wasn’t “fair”, and asked her to take the review down.

Kirstie didn’t reply and the boss sent one final text just writing “hello” clearly wanting a response.

Askins slammed the boss and said it wasn’t okay to “pull the rug” out from someone at the last second and leave them unemployed.

It was even worse that the boss didn’t own their behavior.

“It is fine to prefer one candidate over the other. That is what the interview process is for, but if you go down the road of picking someone you can’t just do that,” he said.

Askins said that if you do something like this, of course, you’ll get a “bad reputation” and that it was “poor” behavior.

Online, people were horrified by the way Kirstie was treated and left in a vulnerable position.

Someone called the text exchange “wild,” another said the whole exchange just seemed “strange,” and one said that the same companies have “no shame” when it comes to how they treat people.

“That is so messed up,” one wrote.

Another said the boss was being “disrespectful,” and many questioned whether the exchange could be real because it didn’t seem “realistic.”