Company Cancelled A Woman’s Job Interview Because She Asked “The” Question

Job interviews can often be a bit awkward, and they must come to a point when you have to find out what are the benefits and compensation of the position.

Taylor Byrnes passed the initial phone interview for a menu development job at SkipTheDishes – a food delivery service in Winnipeg – so she sent an email to the company’s HR person to ask about the benefits that came with the position and the salary.

The response from the HR person was that asking the question made Taylor unfit for the company and that her second interview has been canceled.

Apparently, the company believes in “hard work and perseverance”, so she shouldn’t have been concerned about how much she was going to get paid. According to the company, she asked about her salary too early in the interview process.

Naturally, it begs the question, exactly how early is too early to find out for how much you will be working for?

Tayler decided to share the screenshots of the shared emails on Twitter, and she called for a boycott of the company.

People quickly stood up on her side, saying that “you work for money”.

SkipTheDishes apologized to Taylor and offered her another interview.

Co-founder Joshua Simair stated that the email sent to Taylor was wrong and does not represent their team’s approach or values.

“We are very disappointed in how it was handled. We do share a compensation package prior to hiring. As soon as we became aware of it on Monday, we reached out to Taylor to apologize for the email and reschedule her interview.”

We still don’t know if she will accept the second interview or not, but we believe she will skip SkipTheDishes.