I had a group interview at a Walmart a week or so ago. It was for an overnight stocking position. One of the people in the interview was there for a different one, the other person was there for the same overnight job. I had better availability (completely open), previous experience, and could start right away whereas the other person couldn’t start for a while and expressed some concerns about working nights.

I felt I had it in the bag. Couple days go by, no update, so I call the store. They say I’ll hear back in another few days. Couple days later I get an auto-rejection from their Workday site, at like 11PM, past the time the store is even open. Did a human even click that?

Here’s the kicker, they reposted the same job for the same location after I was rejected. They clearly need someone; my question was, why was I rejected? And why is it so hard to get a simple, minimum wage job? I answer all their questions how they want - open availability, previous experience in retail/cashier/stocking, can start immediately, etc. but it never seems to be enough.