With the chaot­ic nature of the job mar­ket and the ris­ing cost of child­care, some­times you just have to do what you have to do. Whether you’re a new par­ent or a sea­soned one, drag­ging your kids along with you can be a pain — whether it’s to the super­mar­ket, out to din­ner, or even to a job inter­view. It’s just life.

In a post to Red­dit a woman shared how she was reject­ed from a posi­tion after show­ing up for her job inter­view with her baby. “She told me imme­di­ate­ly that after 20 years, she’d only done this twice… she said I ‘was­n’t a good fit’ for the posi­tion.”

A woman brought her infant to a job interview at a childcare center, only to be upset when the director told her that she wasn’t a ‘good fit.’

After show­ing up ear­ly for a job inter­view at a child­care facil­i­ty, the mom said she sat patient­ly wait­ing for her turn to inter­view with the direc­tor — qui­et­ly mind­ing her infant next to her.

“I had done a phone inter­view, and they knew that I would have to bring my baby with me to the in-per­son inter­view,” she wrote in the post. “When I got the call yes­ter­day to come in, I ver­i­fied they had room at the cen­ter for my 7‑month-old.”

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Despite being rel­a­tive­ly good the entire time she wait­ed, she quick­ly noticed her infant start­ed to get fussy just as the direc­tor came out for the inter­view. 

While she could’ve sim­ply soothed the baby or tried anoth­er option, as many com­menters sug­gest­ed, she instead turned to the direc­tor to ask for time away.

The woman told the interviewer they’d have to wait because her ‘fussy’ baby needed to be fed.

“After fill­ing out the forms, I was called back to the direc­tor’s office just as my son was fuss­ing for his lunch,” she admit­ted. “I asked the direc­tor if there was some­thing I could set his car seat on while I fed him.”

When the direc­tor looked at her con­fused, she could­n’t help but get a bit defen­sive. She was inter­view­ing at a child­care facil­i­ty, so she assumed they’d pro­vide some grace for her sit­u­a­tion. “I smiled and said, well, he’s hun­gry now, and I’d like to go ahead and take care of that. She told me there was­n’t any­thing to put him on, and she had no food for him.”

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After clar­i­fy­ing that she’d brought his food but need­ed a few min­utes to set­tle him down, the direc­tor dou­bled down, let­ting her know that it would have to wait until after the inter­view. 

“I laughed a bit and invit­ed her to explain to my infant son that he need­ed to wait, say­ing he may lis­ten to her, but I’d doubt it since, you know, he’s a baby, and when babies are hun­gry, you feed them.”

While com­menters were divid­ed on how they’d han­dle the sit­u­a­tion, most argued that it seemed “unrea­son­able” to make your inter­view­er wait. “The fact that they allowed you to bring your baby in the first place speaks to their flex­i­bil­i­ty, but you took it too far,” one com­menter point­ed out. “I would even give you a pass for want­i­ng to feed him, but read the room. Being snarky with your inter­view­er isn’t going to go well.”

Delaying the interview didn’t do her any favors.

While hes­i­tant, the direc­tor ulti­mate­ly agreed to inter­view oth­er can­di­dates first, allow­ing her time to feed her baby. How­ev­er, when she came back, she was met with an unfor­tu­nate response. 

“I sat on the floor, out of the way, in the lob­by,” she wrote. “I was almost imme­di­ate­ly called back by the direc­tor. I thanked her for being flex­i­ble.”

When she sat down in the inter­view­er’s office, they let her know they’d be mov­ing for­ward with oth­er can­di­dates, as she “was­n’t a good fit for the job.” Being that she’d already had a phone inter­view and dis­cussed her qual­i­fi­ca­tions, it was clear the sit­u­a­tion with her infant was the rea­son.

She expressed annoy­ance and con­fu­sion over the rejec­tion in her post, but she did­n’t receive much sym­pa­thy. “I’m strug­gling with this one because it seems inap­pro­pri­ate,” one com­menter said. “They made the excep­tion for you to bring him there, but feed­ing him imme­di­ate­ly when he was fussy seemed like a waste of the inter­view­er’s time.”

At the end of the day, some par­ents don’t have the lux­u­ry of child­care. Per­haps it should be more nor­mal­ized to allow peo­ple the option to bring their chil­dren to pro­fes­sion­al spaces. How­ev­er, we’re not there yet. 

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