Niamh Shackleton
A woman relocated to a new state after being assured she'd landed a new job, only to later discover it was never hers.
TikToker Camryn Spina took to the social media platform to discuss her ordeal in a nine minute-long video.
In it, Camryn explained how she moved from Florida to Virgina (which is 800 miles apart and a 13 hour car ride) in recent months for the new position as a cheerleading coach at a college.
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She applied for the job knowing she'd had to relocate and after two separate successful interviews, her new boss told her that they wanted to hire her.
Excited at the prospect of landing the new and exciting job, Camryn then went through the gruelling process of packing up her life in Florida to relocate to Virginia.
Come July, Camryn's new boss told her he'd like her to start on August 1, but she still needed to submit her details to the college's human resources via the website as 'merely a formality', as per an email seen by Insider.
Camryn then had frequent correspondence with new boss (the head coach), who put her up in a hotel in Virginia while she looked for her own accommodation.
She had terminated her lease if Florida in light of her landing the job.
On August 1, Camryn started her new job and straight off the bat 'started doing official business with the team'.
But seven days later when she reached out to HR, she was told that her application was still under review - despite Camryn being told the role was hers.
Things got even weirder when the head coach asked her if anything would come up on her background check, for HR to tell her that her application never reached the stage in which her employer would run a background check.
A few days later she received a call from HR saying that they had 'decided to move forward with other applicants for this job'.
Understandably shocked and confused, Camryn called them for her to discover that there was no record of her as they confirmed her fears that she'd not been officially hired.
"It was initially a panic situation, mostly because of all the money I had spent," Camryn told Insider.
"That's a lot of money to lose in a couple of days without a guarantee of getting a paycheck to reimburse that."
She'd spent around $1,500 relocating to the state, FYI.
Camryn went on to explain in her now-viral TikTok video: "I write this long email to HR. Like, I understand that something happened that this didn't go about the right way and I am not hired and that's... whatever. [But] I need to be reimbursed."
Camryn argued that they owed her 'a lot of money' in light of her not only spending her own cash to relocate to Virginia, but for also working seven days.
She also threatened legal action if she wasn't compensated, and Camryn went on to get a cheque in the mail from them.
She also said that she's now jobless and homeless, but luckily she's able to crash with her parents for the foreseeable and has managed to get her old job back.
The college, which Camryn didn't name in the TikTok or in her conversation with Insider, did not respond to the publication's 'multiple requests' for comment.