Man walks into an Enterprise. Then he’s told to pick up the red phone: ‘What is this a speakeasy?’

A man applied for a job with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, only to go through an “interesting and confrontational” interview that didn't land him employment.

In a video that received more than 6,061 views, TikTok content creator Tatum (@tatumg123) shared the strange questions an Enterprise hiring manager asked him in 2017 that made him glad he didn't get the job.

The interview

Tatum recalled an interview he had with the company in 2017. The content creator said he was fresh out of college. He took advice from a friend, who worked at Enterprise himself, to apply for a job with the company. Tatum said his friend didn't have any issues with his job.

“[He] really seemed to enjoy the job. He was really hyping it up, would tell me stories about the shenanigans that would take place at work, and it really just seemed like something that I'd wanna be a part of,” Tatum said.

Tatum applied and landed an interview. But upon arriving at the interview's location, he received strange instructions from an employee. Tatum was allegedly told to pick up a “red phone” to let a hiring manager know he was there.

“You see that red phone over there?” an employee asked. “Pick that up and let them know you're here.”

Tatum wondered if he had ventured to a speakeasy with a secret code. Regardless, he ended up speaking with “the big head honcho for the Gulf Coast region of Enterprise” afterward.

When the interview began, he thought he was doing a fantastic job. He expressed his willingness to work in different cities and that he was even willing to wash cars in a suit.

However, that was just the first segment of the conversation.

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What happened during the interview's next round?

After a few preliminary questions, the region's hiring manager shifted gears. She asked to role-play a scenario with Tatum.

In the scenario, Tatum was supposed to role-play as a server at a fine-dining restaurant with a table of customers who consumed some wine, but didn't like it or want to pay for it.

“What do you do?” the hiring manager allegedly asked.

Tatum explained how he'd approach the situation.

“ Well, as you're familiar with fine dining, the protocol is to order the bottle of wine, and whomever orders it takes a sample of it after it's opened,” he told her. “ And once it's sampled and approved, the bottle is fair game. You are responsible for paying for that bottle.”

However, the hiring manager continued the scenario for “10 minutes.” She pressed Tatum to offer some sort of discount. After continued badgering, he said that the most he could offer was “10% off” the bottle. The hiring manager finally stopped asking about the wine and moved on to another question.

The hiring manager explained that Enterprise offers its customers car insurance when they rent a vehicle. In response, Tatum said that he was familiar with the policy; he had just rented an Enterprise vehicle himself, but he opted out of the coverage as he had a pre-existing policy.

This frustrated the manager and seemingly squashed his chance of getting hired.

“Well, how do you expect to sell something you haven't used yourself?” she allegedly asked. Confused by this question, he replied, “The same way that a female pharmacist can fill a male's Viagra prescription. You study it, you learn about it, and you sell it like you know everything about it.”

Ultimately, he never received a call back for the job, but he was grateful that he didn't.

“If that's how they treat someone who wants to work for them, then I could only imagine how they treat the people that are actually on their payroll,” he concluded.

Have others had bad experiences with Enterprise?

According to Tatum, he is not the only one who has had negative experiences with the car rental business. On TikTok, other creators have also shared stories about why working for the company isn't ideal.

One man said that working at Enterprise was the “worst job out of college.” Another content creator put the car rental business at the top of his list for “worst places to work.”

On Glassdoor, the Rent-A-Car business has a 2.8 rating. Only 17% of respondents said that they would recommend working there to their friends.

In the comment section of Tatum's video, some said he was lucky that he was not hired.

“You dodged a bullet,” one viewer wrote.

Buzz News reached out to Enterprise via email and Tatum via TikTok direct message for comment.