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Being in a professional environment requires a certain kind of conduct. You can't be too familiar with people and talk to them like they're your besties. You can't ask too many personal questions, like how much they earn, who they voted for in the recent elections, or what they did with their wife last night.
Religion, politics, and intimate relationships should automatically be topics people should never breach at work, whether in a job interview or just a casual conversation at lunch. Yet some people still do it. So when a person asked, "What is the most awkward question you've been asked in a professional setting?" people had all sorts of stories.
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#1
During my interview. I am female. Interviewer was female.
"Are you a breeder or non-breeder? Cuz we just hired a non-breeder and I like to keep the department balanced".
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#2
"Does your wife ever bring other women into the bedroom?"
Needless to say, it wasn't a healthy professional environment and I don't work there anymore.
#3
Less than five minutes into a job interview they aggressively started asking if I was gay or not.
#4
"You and your wife aren't planning on having kids soon are you? Because the goals we have here ... I'm not really sure that would work."
I was younger then, I now know how illegal that question is lol.
Was offered a job but turned it down. The place later went on to have many scandals and controversies and is regarded as a complete sh_t place to work.
#5
“Have you ever been with an older woman?”
Asked by a ~40 year old of 16 or 17 year old me. Went over my head that she was hitting on me. She told me I reminded her of her son shortly thereafter, which seriously creeped me out when I reflected on this conversation years later.
#7
“We want to send you to help with our booth at the Indy 500. Is that something you’d be able to do?…You’ll need to wear a bikini.”
I was the director of market research for a nationwide tire trade publication.
#8
In previous role managing hospital unit, was asked the following:
Did this employee ask the other employee something about their “bun hole”?
Why yes, Employee A did ask Employee B something about their bun hole.
I had to give a verbatim description to a chief nursing officer that an ER tech put his finger in a female nurses hair bun, and then employee said that “he couldn’t NOT put his finger in that tiny little hole”
It was a low point in people leadership.
#10
My husband and I used to work in the same department at a hospital. My old charge nurse over headed for me to come to the front office then proceeded to ask me how well endowed my husband is. Mind you, she asked me that in front of my husband and about 7 other employees.
#11
Do you plan to start a relationship with any coworkers and would you use a secret of your boss to blackmail them.
#12
"Why does this chat log just consist of the two of you saying balls to each other for the past two weeks?" I don't work there anymore. .
#13
"What would you do if you got to heaven and found out that God is a woman? "
--The new HR Manager as I was just trying to fix her printer
She wasn't around that place very long.
#14
I had a business owner ask me if I was a Christian as the first question of the phone interview.
Had I been recording and a horrible human being I would have blackmailed him for the job.
#15
“How would you feed yourself if you lost your job?”
I ended up being laid off as well as my whole division.
#17
Why do you celebrate Christmas when you are an atheist? Random question from an admin when I mentioned that I was not religious.
#18
I had to explain to my boss, a fully tenured professor, what a furry was after she showed our research group a pic of her cousin who goes to "conferences" in costume.
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