Commuter swears at passenger on way to job interview, to find man is the interviewer

We’ve all found ourselves in awkward situations, where we perhaps said something we shouldn’t have to the wrong person.

And a grumpy commuter who was on his way to a job interview may have inadvertently found himself in the most regrettable situation possible when after swearing at a man on the train, he discovered that the fellow passenger was the head of recruitment – and his interviewer.

Matt Buckland, Head of Talent at venture capital firm Forward Partners, was on a busy, delayed tube train when it pulled into Monument station in the City of London on Monday morning.