Personal story
I Contemplated Suicide After a Job Interview
It was the best day of my life.
I came home from a job interview, crashed into my bed, and broke down in tears.
I wasn’t crying because, once again, I couldn’t get the job. I mean, yeah, it hurt, but that wasn’t what made me cry. It wasn’t even because the interviewer had told me — without mincing words — that I didn’t deserve to be employed anywhere because of my religious beliefs… or lack of it, to be more precise.
“Non-religious folks like you are untrustworthy and immoral,” he told me. It was no longer an interview to determine if I was indeed qualified for the job.
This guy was hellbent on shoving his opinions down my throat because, after all, I couldn’t possibly be a good person without being told by an old book.
Believe whatever you want. It’s not my business. I don’t waste my time arguing about religion. I don’t defend myself for being agnostic. You may or may not take offense to that. So yes, I walked out of that interview when I realized it was going nowhere. And get this, the man was actually offended that I walked out on him. He even said that was proof of my disrespect because I had no religious guidance.
