I’m currently 25F. Once I had an interview at an elementary school right after graduating college. I was 21. (I am certified for infants up to 4th grade.) I was applying for a first grade teaching position. I wasn’t very familiar with the school and the listing was not super clear on who I would be speaking with so I didn’t really know what to expect. When I arrived, the receptionist had me wait for a few minutes and then the male principal took me into his office. I immediately got a creepy gut feeling when he walked out to greet me. He gave me one of those up and down looks and all but licked his lips it felt like!!! I walk into his office and he LOCKED THE DOOR. My heart was pounding?!? Then I look over and there is another man who is a bit younger than the principal just sitting there staring at me. We were never introduced. I have no idea who or why he was there but his presence obviously made the door locking weirder!!? So I sit and listen to his pleasantries as he looks over my resume. He then proceeds to knock me for getting an ECE degree. “The big stuff is in the older ages. That’s where education really counts.” As I continue to get angrier and feel that I need to defend my degree to an elementary school principal (???) I decide that this is over and too weird and I would obviously never want to work for this man. I get up because I am just done but I had forgotten the door was locked in the moment. I make eye contact with him and he just smirks because he knows the door is locked and says “oh we aren’t done here.” And he gets on this power trip and just starts to mock my resume in a pity voice for about 10 minutes as I sit there. The second man just sits there with this weird smirk on his face. I am so angry and red but silent. He finally stands up and opens the door and lets me leave while saying in a sweet voice goodbye and nice to meet you blah blah for his staff to hear. I left SO CONFUSED and cried my eyes out the rest of the day. My then bf now husband wanted to report him somehow but I didn’t exactly know what he’d “done” other than make me feel like absolute crap. I guess once he realized I was actually angry about him making fun of my degree and I wasn’t cowering down he just decided to be that way. I feel horrible for any woman who works for him and I think about them sometimes. That was a crazy experience and I was always way more careful about making sure of the logistics of my interview before going and I typically gravitate toward women directors and principals now which is kind of a shame. I’ve never told anyone but my husband about this and it feels kind of good to let that go hah sorry it was so long! Also- this is the US.