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Oh, fun.

*After I’d been a working photojournalist for five years and had publications in nationwide outlets (not just Army), was told while applying for a similar job that I had “no experience.”

*When I was attempting to break into the IT industry, I interviewed at a large regional public-facing computer repair shop. While I was waiting around at the front to be interviewed, a customer came in and was frantically looking for help with a problem. I glanced at the front desk person with a “Can I help this woman?” look and he nodded his head yes. She told me she’d brought the computer in three times and they’d not fixed it. I fixed the issue in about five minutes. After the interview, I was emailed back and told that — you guessed it — I had “not enough experience.” That’s one of the few times I’ve ever sent a really nasty reply email stating that I fixed when I was waiting in the front a problem that their own techs could not in three times of trying, and that not hiring me was their fucking loss. A year later, they were out of business.

*Was rejected from another IT job because I my technical skills were so far beyond those of the interviewer that when I corrected him about something that was easily possible, he basically kicked me out of the office and argued with me about it. Glad I got that early warning, because otherwise the job sounded great.