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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/ZeroVonZero on 2025-12-04 18:17:43+00:00.
So this literally just happened.
My family was relying on me getting an interview for a good job and this job was in another state (Arizona, coming from Idaho) that we would eventually move to. So I plan out everything, fly down and get to my brother in laws house yesterday, who are thankfully letting me stay with them, and prepare all my clothes and everything for today.
Come today, I check the time on my phone and make sure everything is good and that I have plenty of time. I eat and get ready and my brother in law comes in and asks if I am going to the interview cause it's at 10 and it's past 10.
I say no, it's 9 and about ready to leave and show him my phone, he says no, it's 10 and then I get an email from the interviewer asking if I'm running late.
I immediately respond and she says that she can't reschedule my interview because of how busy her schedule is.
I just start crying cause I know I messed everything up, for my family who were relying on me to get this and all the people that said they believed in me and wishing me good luck. Like I let everyone down.
I was looking at my phone and for some reason, the time kept jumping back and forth and would settle for a while on the original time then go to back to the new time. I had to look at the tike zone setting on my phone to see what was going on and there's a setting that says change the time zone based on location that was off. I hit it and it immediately switched to the new time.
So yeah, I feel horrid for letting myself down and everyone that was counting on me. If you have to fly to another state for an interview, please learn from me and have that setting on.
TL;DR Phone time was set an hour back and wouldn't update causing me to miss my interview until I updated it after.