My partner had an interview where a full naked body (either from a roommate or s/o?) was exposed on the interviewers side of their Zoom background. No apology or acknowledgement towards the situation was ever expressed during/after the interview. She decided to bring it up to HR and they completely brushed it off as well. She is emotionally scarred and in such a slump by the situation and job search in general. Is this normal agency behavior, especially from HR?! So grossed out by the response.

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Dear lord. Well she clearly dodged a bullet. Do what you can to cheer her up - go out to dinner/drinks or whatever she enjoys to do. One day she will be able to laugh about this. Job searches, rejections, ghosting, etc are really demoralizing in general, but this experience of hers was something else. No words of wisdom here other than stay positive and something will come along soon. There are a couple of bowls here for job referrals, have her post there.

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Appreciate it. I told her she definitely dodged a bullet based on how it was all handled.

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Maybe therapy is a good idea if seeing a naked person in an interview by accident is cause for being emotionally scared.

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Since it’s this simple, here’s hoping it happens to all of us!

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The description of the story doesn’t really offer enough detail to objectively evaluate whether HR and the interviewer were on the wrong…

- was it an extended period of time? Did the interviewer even notice? Was it obvious the interviewer knew and allowed to to go on?
- by what does “brush off” mean? Refused to even aologize? Apologized but not profusely?

I can understand how something like this is could be traumatizing if it felt like the interviewer was consciously allowed this to go on, but if it was a fleeting glimpse of nudity I could also see how it might go unnoticed by one party and how HR might not really know what else to do beyond a straightforward apology.

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OP’s partner is feeling “dicked over”

Wait what?!?!?!? Like a naked person was just hanging out in the background. I have so many questions.

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What’s sad to me, is that people in real life workplaces will talk about how they’ve been emotionally scarred from misogyny, white supremacy, and toxic masculinity in the workplace- and people will be all “oh that’s not that bad” or “slavery ended 400 years ago” or “the most talented people get the jobs” or “reverse racism is real”.

And this person comes on here pearl clutching & screeching about seeing a naked person and people are like LEAPING to her defense “consider her past experiences” “this is not ok” “this could be actually upsetting” “what an unprofessional environment”.

JFC.

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Odd but come on. "Emotionally scarred?" Was this an interview for Kindergarten?

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This is apology-worthy, but unfortunately something that will occasionally happen in our Zoom world. It is probably more traumatizing for the person who was accidentally naked on camera than it was for her.

My take is that the interviewee is somehow typing to make this WHY they didn’t get the job. And maybe a do-over on the interview?

That never works. Just move on.

Get over yourself

Questions for OP :
- did your partner mention it at the time it happened or any duration to the interviewer?
- which came first, them reaching out to HR or the email saying they didn’t get the job?

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