Now Hiring By Text (Unless You Send Messages Like These)
A British mobile media company is now requiring people to apply by text message before getting a job interview. We see the potential for blush-inducing disaster.
Short and sweet messages aren’t just for funsies anymore. A mobile media company in the U.K. is changing the job hunting game by moving its hiring process to SMS: You text in 160 characters about yourself; they text you back if they like it. Only then can you get a real interview.
It’s a novel concept, especially for a modern media company. Still, we see one potential problem: the mistext. You know, that godawful moment when you type a message, hit the first couple letters of the recipient’s name — then realize, after it sends, that it went to the wrong destination. Jessica, instead of James. Mom, instead of MyBootyCall. A British mobile media company, instead of the dude you got drunk with last night.
You know it’s bound to happen to someone, and odds are, it’ll be with the most inappropriate message imaginable. A message like one of the texts below, all of which are (allegedly) real texts from real people, shared after the fact via textsfromlastnight.com.
Here, then, are The 15 Worst Texts You Could Accidentally Send When Applying For a Job. Please don’t be the one to make the mistake.
Tweet15. I just masturbated at work. Does that make me a prostitute since i just technically got paid to have sex?
14. He came in the heat vent in my car. Don’t ask how it happened.
13. I’m at a job interview and I smoked a little before I came. I thought it would make me less nervous. Boy was I wrong.
12. seriously this is one of those moments where im glad i dont really talk to or know the people i sleep with
11. good call on bringing her. it’s always good to invite chicks who mix booze and prescription drugs.
10. Do you think “I had sex with my co-worker last night I don’t think I can come in today” is a good excuse?
9. In these economic times, linking arms taking tequilla shots with your boss as an underage girl is the best job security I can think of
8. I wanted to tell him he wasn’t actually in me, but my god, awkward?
7. I got drunk and threw up on a kid at the amusement park. I think they’re pressing charges.
6. I think condoms have that nasty latex smell to remind you in the morning of how gross you are.
5. Could guys at least pretend I require some amount of money to be spent before I randomly go down on them?
4. New rule: no balls on the kitchen counter.
3. there are singles shoved down my panties. this is the type of summer job i always wanted.
2. I’m worried someone is gonna take a black light to my work computer. But the connection is faster here.
1. i mean really, i cant compete with a cucumber
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