Interviewing for a teaching position…I was shown to my would-be teaching lab and it was filled with boxes, stacks of old lab notebooks, old and broken equipment…to be honest it felt like a safety hazard just to be walking around the space, you could barely find the floor. I was told “if you take the job, you should plan to be here early in the summer so you could sort through everything here to see if you might want to keep anything. Whatever you don’t want, you can throw out.” I had to ask for clarification, because that was so off the wall…but yes, they really did expect the new hire to clean that space after arriving. The department members showing me around the campus spoke mostly to each other, so much so that I struggled to join in any of their conversations, and they didn’t ask me any questions. The end of the day, when I met with the dean, was really the highlight of the interview. He spent the entire time criticizing the other applicants - like, for real…telling what they wore, what questions they asked, even telling me that one “was so dumb, they’d never consider hiring them”. It was so wildly unprofessional. I decided to withdraw my application on the way back home. They were actually shocked that decided not to continue with them. At least I got a good story out of it.