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A rather grumpy commuter travelling by the tube during rush hour shoved past and swore at a stranger while trying to get off at the busy Monument Station in London. Nothing unusual in that, you may think. Happens every second on crowded trains. While that's true enough, in this particular case, the two strangers met again a few hours later.
Only this time, the rude commuter arrived for a job interview and his interviewer turned out to be the man he had 'tube-raged' that very morning. Matt Buckland, who handles recruitment at Forward Partners - The Startup Catalyst and goes by the handle @ElSatanico, described the crossing of paths as 'karma' on Twitter.
His tweet has been re-tweeted over 17,000 times since February 16. Many sympathised with the interviewee, because well...the stifling, crowded tube!
Interestingly, the interviewee did not remember Mr Buckland and it was only after several hints were dropped and tube-related questions asked that he remembered.
There are now several hilarious tales of karma biting back on Mr Buckland's timeline; with a user who goes by the handle @Alconcalcia said that a Creative Director was once told he would 'never make it' and later interviewed the man who had pronounced the damning verdict.
Another user had a happy story in which his dad bumped into a man's car on his way to an interview, and stopped to leave his details. As it turned out, it was the interviewer's car and his dad got the job. You only have to sift through some of the tweets to believe that strange things do happen all the time:
While the interviewee did not get the job, Mr Buckland insists it wasn't because of the morning's incident. In a reply to one of the tweets, he agreed that 'the tube makes everyone angry'. "I want to hire humans, emotions are good!", wrote the head hunter.
Okaythen. But might we still suggest expletive-free train rides. You never know when karma's lying in wait around the corner.