India, May 11 -- A job seeker took to Reddit to claim that they were rejected from a job interview simply for using public transport to arrive at the workplace and were berated by the hiring manager over it.

Sharing the bizarre experience, the job seeker wrote a post titled "Nobody will hire you if you use public transport". In the post, they claimed that the potential employer decided to watch on security cameras as they walked to the interview and the conversation they had after meeting began with unsolicited criticism.

"Just had an interview. The boss said they saw me walk up to the building on the cameras. Then asked if I had reliable transport. He bashed me for a few minutes saying I shouldn't be using public transport. That no one...