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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/felixWake22 on 2026-03-21 10:32:35+00:00.
My roommate Lena had a final round interview at a company she had been trying to get into for almost two years. Big deal, morning slot, 9am. She told me the night before that she was nervous about oversleeping because she tends to snooze through everything, and asked if I could knock on her door at 7:30 just in case. I said absolutely, no problem, I'm usually up by seven anyway.
Here is where I messed up in a way that is so stupid I can barely explain it. I set an alarm on my phone to remind myself to knock on her door. The alarm said "wake Lena" and I set it for 7:30. What I did not do, and this is the part that haunts me, is check whether the alarm was set for AM or PM. I have an iphone and sometimes when you scroll the time wheel it flips without you noticing. I went to sleep feeling like a great and responsible roomate. I woke up naturally at like 9:15, looked at my phone, saw three missed calls from Lena and a text that just said "why."
She had woken up on her own at 8:50 somehow, saw the time, called me, I didn't pick up obviously because I was aslep, and she had to jump on the call still half awake with wet hair and no time to prepare. She said the interview went okay but she could tell she wasn't at her best and she didn't get the offer. The company told her they went with someone who "seemed more confident."
She was genuinely kind about it to me which is the worst possible outcome of this whole thing.
TL;DR: Set an alarm to wake my roommate before her dream job interview, accidentally set it for PM instead of AM, she missed her prep time, didn't get the job.