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People Share 30 Worst Job Interview Stories And Personal Experiences, And Some Are Hard To Imagine
You’ve all heard tips for what you should definitely not do in a job interview, like saying that your biggest weakness is your perfectionism, or neglecting to skim through the company’s website beforehand so you’re left asking what it is they do, anyway. In this Twitter thread, though, people are sharing their biggest job interview blunders that you weren’t warned about, but are so ridiculous that you shouldn’t need to be (even if some of these people ended up getting the job!)
Others in the thread have had the misfortune of ending up with an interviewer that made them seriously reconsider applying for the position in the first place. Either way, these stories will make you feel better about the job interviews that weren’t your proudest moments and give you the courage to go to your next one knowing you can at least do better than this.
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
I don’t blame you. Not the kind of people I would ever want to work for.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
But sadly, it's the kind of people you most of the times have to work for.
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Joshua Seaman 5 years ago
Just a reminder that science has confirmed that psychopaths are much more common in the finance sector.
Raine Soo 5 years ago
This reminds me of the movie "American Psycho" where investment bankers dressed to impress, debated where to have dinner in order to be seen, and who had the best looking business card. They were all sharks.
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Panda C. Bear 5 years ago
WOW. Kudos for just walking out of the interview and not throwing something at them...
Hollie Newton 5 years ago
Oh I get it I thought he meant carer I was like whut but he meant career
Electric Ed 5 years ago
There and then? I'd at least have tried with a 'no', just to see what happens.
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Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Whatever the truth is. People actually want to know what you can do!
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Eric Soliday 5 years ago
I think you made a statement that you are open to your ways it was actually a brilliant answer!
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
If I can google it or find it on your website, I consider it public domain.
Richard Tolan 5 years ago
Oh, and you were so close to saying: "well that's why you need a good IT guy like me to help remove it from your website"
Carol Stephen 5 years ago
besides, since this person was not yet an employee of the firm, he was not divulging client information...
Stan Chung 5 years ago
lmao, and law people are supposed to be smart.Enjoyed every minute of 'SUITS'.
You might be disappointed to find that when you’re preparing for an interview, studying tips religiously won’t help you—HR experts say that interviewing an applicant goes much more smoothly if the interviewee is out of “oral exam mode” and can respond to questions naturally.
This might sound discouraging and impossible to prepare for, but they add that real confidence in an interview comes from having really studied the company where you’re applying and considered the challenges that they face, so you can put serious consideration behind your answers rather than just repeating them from memory.
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Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Would you want to work for some asshat who locked you in a room?
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Death Metal Kitty 5 years ago
Another edgy hiring managing attempting a hare-brained approach to the "next" interview technique. I've been to so many interviews where the company attempts to replicate the cutting edge technique that they read about for 5 minutes in some MBA course, and miss the forest for the trees in doing so.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
This is somelike FU but I would love the oportunity to play Escape Room for free
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Ben Smith 5 years ago
Showing up to an interview hungover is beyond unprofessional. I’m amazed they even bothered interviewing you
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago (edited)
Yeah I definitely wouldn’t have interviewed them either. I understand having a hangover once in a while, but not during a job interview. On the other hand, maybe they hid it really well visibly. An interviewer might not notice, in which case, that’s fair game I guess.
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Veni Ch 5 years ago
Haha!!! Here s my dreadful experience...got to an interview once, nice secretary girl asked me to wait for the boss..she seemed to have fading bruises all over her face...the interviewer came in, was interviewing me while playing clocks by Coldplay non stop...i thought that was weird..then he opened his pack of cigarettes....female hair was spilling from it..i just ran!!! Whatever was going on in there was weird!!
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
What kind of job was it? And how can you tell the gender of a strand of hair???
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The seasoned interviewers also stress that you have reason to be confident when you show up for a job interview. The employer is the one who called you in for an interview, after all, so unless you’re unlucky enough to end up with some of the sadist interviewers in this thread, they probably already have a good impression of you. So you can skip the pre-rehearsed jokes, and definitely leave out the liquid courage.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Typical FB: We don't consider your workexperience as experience just as we don't consider our using and selling all your private information an invasion on your privacy.
Electric Ed 5 years ago
Please remind me, what was the point of of internships again? There are even places where internships are not paid, just because "you gain experience" from them. Weird attitude from the recruiter here.
John 5 years ago
Seriously!? Why wouldn't you count internships? That's their literal propose - experience while you're in school
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Bonnie Clyde 5 years ago
I'd hire them. Sign of strategic thinking, long term planning, and a better than average grasp of financial planning. So many folks have degrees, huge student debt and zero job experience. That's not a recipe for success.
JuJu 5 years ago
"We don't count your internships as experience, that makes you a beginner and so you can only expect a low beginner-payment. Good for us!"
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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
... While sitting on an armchair petting a white cat.
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Panda C. Bear 5 years ago
"...someone had been murdered outside. It involved a row between people I would potentially be working with." - Was this position at a prison or the lair of some evil supervillain???
RitaGG 5 years ago
Really! Did any of them go to jail for murder? Yikes!!!
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earringnut 5 years ago
Thank you. I was thinking that was all just part of one truly epic interview. 😅
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Jon Davis 5 years ago
Greatest day ever, well not for him but you......they may have started to cry because of their friend but then again I have no idea what they had for lunch
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Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
Not really. They saw he was willing to stick with it through all of that instead of caving in and going home. It told them he really really wanted the job.
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Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
Obviously an empathetic interviewer. The fact that you wanted the job enough to come in after you had been to the dentist said good things abut you and the interviewer saw that.
Thomas Turnbull 5 years ago
amazing you would have looked like you could take everything in your stride.
MagicalUnicorn 5 years ago
you must have been super good at your profession or they were kinda desperate
Ashley Kellers 5 years ago
Probs thought you were special needs and wanted to make their company appear diverse. Then became too awkward when they worked out everything later, so kept you on
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I went to only one job interview that involved a panel. I'll never do it again.
Blue Cicada 5 years ago
That happened to me at the doctors' office once. I was told to disrobe and put on the paper g own. After about 35 minutes, I poked my head out to the hallway and asked if the doctor would be with me soon. They were alarmed to see me. The doctor had been called to the hospital for an emergency, and all of her patients had been informed and asked to reschedule. Except they missed one. Me.
John Braines 5 years ago
Only once did I have an interview with a large panel( about 10 people) They were lined up on a Dias and there was a single chair on the other side of the room for the candidate. I went in picked up the chair and moved it to be much closer to the panel, but such that I could look at each one if necessary. They had all obviously been given a question to ask. I answered each in turn looking directly at that person. The last person to ask questions was the guy who would be the boss. I got the job.
deanna woods 5 years ago
You don't want to work for a bunch of people who get into arguments over whether or not they should hire you. Especially if they forget you are even there.
SandraG_lak 5 years ago
OMG. I hope the panel not only apologized but also gave the applicant the job.
Cheryle Fuller 5 years ago
I sure hope you kept looking for a job! I had similar happen, except it was an old fart who left for lunch while I was waiting to see him.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
My friends son went to an interview at a pizza place. When he arrived, he was told it would be a few minutes as it was the lunch rush and the manager was back helping the kitchen get caught up on pizza orders. When the manager finally emerged, he asked my friend's son what he thought this job was about. The young man answered "It's about making pizza so that you, as a manager, can do your job without having to stop to make pizza." He got the job on the spot.
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
poor thing... he's not the only one to have said something dumb during his first interview.
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Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
I hate how dumb people waste people’s time like this. You knew you weren’t capable of doing the job, and you are a drunk. Why go on the interview?
deanna woods 5 years ago
This going to the interview drunk or hungover is pretty much telling the interviewer that you don't want the job.
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Electric Ed 5 years ago
Isn't this kinda standard questions in programming? About 90% of interviews I've been to have had some kind of programming test. And the worth of a unplanned program done in 30 minutes isn't really that big.
EmpireStrikesHard 5 years ago
Agreed. I don't think OP understands how programming interviews work.
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
It's totally normal being asked to demonstrate your skills. They didn't lose anything in you.
Viviane 5 years ago
I've done tests, but they were either short tests (30 minutes) used for every candidate or they were paid work stints of a day or less. Some people overestimate their skills or lie about them and a test will winnow them out.
Load More Replies... Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
Heard one similar years ago: guy got an interview for advertisement designer, asked him to make a logo for a "fake"businnes. Turns out the bussines was real and used his logo. Don't know if they paid or hire him.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
That's the Brewdog Beer Company's favourite tactic: Get applicants to design adverts and devise sales pitches/strategies, then don't hire them (as there was no opening) but use the suggestions. Google it; horrible, horrible company.
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Mo Poppins 5 years ago
It’s a job audition. They want to see if you can do the job. How else would you prove your actual competency?
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Yeah, the famous, "We don't think you're as good as you say you are so you need to do some work for free." trick. There's still a lot of people that fall for it.
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Dorian Turner 5 years ago
You should have gotten that job. I would have thought you were going to be honest and weren’t afraid of saying how you really feel about something. I know you didn’t realize what the product was, but they didn’t know that. Next time, give em a stare and say, “I said what I SAID.”
Blue Cicada 5 years ago
I live in greater Cincinnati. Procter & Gamble is headquartered here. They have a particular image they want to convey, and just like the city of Cincinnati, it is about 50 years behind the times.
Donna Cheung 5 years ago
Well, you gave him an idea on how to improve P&G's ad. They should hire you or else you'd go to their competitor and pitch it to P&G to steal their business.
Scott Mueller 4 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but the TL;DR of this seems to be "What ad do you hate?" "Yours"
Stan Chung 5 years ago
They probably felt ATTACKED at that moment. Unless you put it in a subtler persuasion format. Advertising is all about persuasion.
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
As I used to tell my daughter when she told unbelievable tales, "Was that what you said, or what you wanted to say?"
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
People are so used to Instagram and amazing stories that actually a very normal, happen all the time story like this one is being called fake. Oooh please.
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
What have there to not believe? How many times fathers don't like the boyfriend of daughters. Is not something we never saw before. It's actually a very normal story.
Kira Leseman 5 years ago
And her father was Albert Einstein and everyone clapped when he answered and before her father chased him out. Oh he also did parkour and did a sick flip out of the window on the second floor and landed on a motorcycle flipped her father off and sped away into the sunset.
deanna woods 5 years ago
Not to mention, she jumped on the motorcycle and rode off with him.
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This did not happen. There is no way that that guy would be chasing him in front of his other employees and customers.
ShireenAin'tWoke 5 years ago
This person cannot be that stupid or ignorant... "He chased me out" Damn right!
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Viviane 5 years ago
I knew someone who got rid of former staff, but that was after they proved they had poor work ethics. Not a big deal if you're selling balloon animals, but a big problem if you're in the construction business.
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Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
Maybe his dad gave him the job because the company was going down the tubes and he wanted him to save it.
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earringnut 5 years ago
Half of folks who climb mountains are sociopaths. The other half are local guides.
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
I'll double check which one my husband is in the morning.
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cybermerlin2000 5 years ago
What I would have said "I have achieved the skill to read body language and verbal skills and right now my abilities are screaming that not only are you full of b******t but you are higher than kilmanjaro" and then I would have walked out. Don't take a job with an unstable nutter
deanna woods 5 years ago
That probably was his diet. No normal person shouts at someone they just met.
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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Mission accomplished. The company's mission, that is. 'We tried to hire women but they all declined.'
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
The first question I would have asked was: "OK, and is management backing me up if I decide to take the job or is misogyny an essential part of corporate culture? "
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I would have answered.."Then I hope they enjoy the unemployment line because what you are suggesting is harassment and that won't be tolerated under my leadership." Probably still wouldn't get the job.....
Gabriel Sbárbaro 5 years ago
You should not have declined the job... you should hve asqued if you had the authority to fire the people you were in charge... after the first fire dude everyone would respect you...
Living_Shadow 5 years ago
Personally, I wish she took it to whip their sorry asses into shape real fast and prove em wrong
Dorian Turner 5 years ago
I’m sure if someone asked them about it, they are the type to respond that they have “binders full of women.”
Olivia Masterson 5 years ago
I had something similar years back. Worjked at an auto repair shop that handled foriegn, high end cars. They got one in one day that I was familiar with, but they had no idea what to do in order to repair it. I put on my bossy woman facade and told the boss to put the car on the rack. After me staring him down for a few minutes, he did just that. I walked under the car, tapping on the spheres behind each wheel. When I got to the left front wheel, the sound was off kilter. Told them to replace the sphere, and it would run just fine. The car was a Citroen, and two friends in earlier years had one. From then on out, I worked on the cars along with the two guys there.
Lynn Morello 5 years ago
I would have told him that he therefor was not looking for quality staff, he was looking for mysoginists.
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Luuk Eegdeman 5 years ago
should have warned those ladies this guy sounds like a sexual offender (the filmmaker I mean)
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Pretty sure those interns by that time all knew the boss is a grabby creep.
Load More Replies... Jon S. 5 years ago (edited)
I have to say, Kasey Fox does sound like a porn name. I bet the sleaze was disappointed when he met you.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
"Ok, my next interviewee... hmmmm, looks like we have a pro."
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Harley Hans Hoglin 5 years ago
Hollywood producer, sexual asalted and even raped actresses. Now in prison and crying like a little b***h that they should let him out because he might get the Corona virus, in prison.
Load More Replies... Steve Barker 5 years ago (edited)
Wasn't a guy named Harry....or Harvey...... Wein..burg... sumthin' was it?
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Bobert Robertson 5 years ago
Would have been the perfect answer for the local parks and rec department
WhatEvenIsLife 5 years ago
I got asked that same damn question as a teenager interviewing for a job. I blanked hard and then blurted out that I had to be the one to tell my father that my sister had a baby in high school. She hid it from him for like a year (we lived with our mother). In retrospect I feel bad for the person interviewing me because, damn, TMI, but honestly I think it's a terrible question to ask someone with zero work experience. I also detest the "where do you see yourself in five years" question. I'm a paralegal; in five years I will be a paralegal. You do not graduate to lawyer just by virtue of working somewhere long enough. If only.
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Bobert Robertson 5 years ago
I’m not really interested in this job. I came here as a favour to Bob. He told me it was an ok gig. To this song I’ll add a jig. *dances my way outta there*
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Randy 5 years ago
I am a certified Behaviorist for Mental ill ,an am little older &heavy interviewed with two younger females interviewed for a position with amential hospital ,got told was perfect for job ,said great when do I start both looked kind of shocked then proceeded to tell me was to old and fat ,,umm talked to there supervisor she also did not understand why was upset .went to EEOC in city hall ,as I talked to the lady filling form found this was common complaint with them ..due to circumstances and mismanagement placed closed few years later ,I shed No tears .. ill trained ill educated bunch ..
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
So if you're excellent at your job but a cat-person you won't get hired?
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
The lesson here is to always have bacon in your pocket just in case. You never know when the boss’ pooch is the real decision-maker in the company.
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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Good thing they aren't allowed to ask those things here. No awkward moments. Also, it's none of their business.
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Hiker Chick 5 years ago
Aargh, this happened to me. My application didn't make it past HR for a job in my field for which I had a specific college degree. When I called HR to find out why I was rejected, she told me I didn't have the right qualifications. Turns out she had no idea what the technical terms were for the job skills. I learned to dumb down my language after that and ended up with a better job in the same organization.
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
How very strange. Why not look them up before the applicant arrives or maybe ask.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
If you’d gotten the job, you would’ve ended up hating all the cretins in management anyway.
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
Omg, how embarrassing. That happened to me as I was walking to the shops and stopped to chat to one of our neighbours. Eek
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Two words: dryer sheets. Then again, though they may cut down static, the dryer sheets themselves end up stuck on your clothes, sheets, towels, etc.
BoredHuman 4 years ago
This happened to my brother in law. He was the COO of a company and worked long days. He had taken off his pants and underwear the night before for a shower and put the same pants on in the morning. He was standing in front of the room chairing a meeting. Felt something running down his leg and it was last nights undies.
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BoredHuman 4 years ago
I was returning to the workforce after staying home with child a few years. I had a retail background and applied at a small pharmacy as a clerk. Called in during the worst rain storm by a very nice owner over the phone. When I got there she spent 30 minutes telling me that the only reason she called me in was because she wanted to see who would send it such an unprofessional resume. I had typed it up myself using an online resume template and thought it looked great. I was too in shock to say or do anything and just sat there and let her make fun of me in full view of the pharmacist ans customers. Walked home in tears and told no one. This was many years ago.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I would have said. "Well then it's a good thing I'm not your secretary because then you'd be broke from the enormous lawsuit you'd face for wrongful termination and sexual harassment." And I'd walk out.
earringnut 5 years ago
£200 you're a dude who doesn't believe men and women can "just be friends."
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
Ugh, that is just petty and a complete waste of someone’s time.
Jo Choto 5 years ago
On the other hand, how do you have a CV that you haven't checked to make sure it's all correct?
Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
Same way articles in newspapers and magazines, ads, professional documents etc. occasionally have typos. You could have a dozen people stare at something for hours and still, somehow, something slips through occasionally. Sucks.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
Show me a resume / CV with a typo, and I'll show it to the reject pile. Automatic.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Well, at least there’s one completely functioning brain in that family—-probably dying to get a job so he can get TF out of that house!
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DE Ray 5 years ago
I once had an interview with a young woman who appeared to be wearing full-on corpse paint. I wanted to hire her so badly, but she took a position with another newspaper before I could call her back. Her first year in the business, she won a state-wide journalism award for her writing.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Been there, believe it or not. Might’ve been a sign. All you can do is just make the best of it, and let the chips fall where they may.
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Got hit by a lorry early in the morning, while stopped at a junction. Arm was broken but I still did an interview that afternoon. Sometimes shock stops you realising you need to stop.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Because they saw you push through an unexpected extreme event completely unruffled.
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Worked for a charity helping to research arthritis and support sufferers. You learn that a handshake is a p**s poor way to evaluate people when there are hundreds of thousands of people suffering with the problem. When your hands hurt the last thing you need is some damned fool thinking a handshake should be a test instead a civil way of greeting someone.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I would have said "I can detect snarky A**holes from less than a mile away."
EtherealSponge 5 years ago
It is harder than one expects to reply to an insult of jab in a spur-of-the-moment situation.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I would have gotten up, collected my things and said "Well you won't be in practice for very long so this is a waste of my time." And if he questioned why or that I was being overly sensitive, I would have said, "The year is 2020 buddy, not 1820. If you don't get your sexist attitude adjusted, it looks as those these two are going to leave you high and dry and somehow I don't think you're going to make it on your own with that 'charming' personality of yours. Have a good day."
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I would have said "You know I don't have to be working for you to file a sexual harassment lawsuit, right?"
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
That interviewer either didn’t have a degree, majored in keg stands at the frat house, and barely graduated with a 2.0 GPA, or was just a f*****g moron. My vote is for the third choice.
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YoyoSthlm 5 years ago
This isn't a "worst interview". You didn't do anything wrong. Actually you behaved in a very good way.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
But having a terrorist attack disturb your interview still qualifies as a bad interview...
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Wow, lot of money being spent on such a low level job. Whoever was in charge of recruitment needed sacking. All the charities I worked for conducted equal opps interviews and were, bar one, very professional.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
I f*****g hate hate hate role play b******t. Lazy and sadistic bastards, putting people on the spot for a low-paying job, like you were put there for their amusement. You know, all they need to do is just look over the resumes and sit down and talk to every applicant who meets at least a majority of the qualifications. If they’re a good hiring manager, they’ll have (or their experience will have developed) a knack for picking viable candidates.
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
No doubt. Tits have control over practically any man.
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Thomas Turnbull 5 years ago
I would have paid to see that interview especially an ex police dog with no teeth reckon it could give you a nasty suck on the leg if you ran off.
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EtherealSponge 5 years ago
Those things are really confusing, windows are more or less infinitely better
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Not fair to use a Mac, since not everyone knows how to use one (because we can’t f*****g afford to buy one to learn).
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Naomi Armitage 5 years ago
Probably some stupid idea that, if it was something inheritable, the OP would run the risk of croaking on the job. IMO, the only reasonable response to a stupid, inappropriate question like that would be something like, "Auschwitz". See how fast they shut up.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago (edited)
Plan when there's a mass fatality incident: Bury them. There you are.
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Viviane 5 years ago
Music critic for Rollingstone Magazine would be a very specific example. On the other hand, I doubt that someone who listens to Beethoven would apply for that position.
Load More Replies... Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
A friend of mine thought the books a person read was a good way to select someone. In telemarketing. No, really not relevant and too subjective.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
I have a wide variety of music. Wonder if that would qualify me by that a*****e company’s metrics.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
My answer would have been "Everything but hard core acid punk/rock and twangy country music."
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Hans Felsh (TheRealMoleman) 5 years ago
I mis-read that as "...everyone PEEING over me" and thought WTF? 😂🤣🤦♂️
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Ex-driving instructor here. A lot of my colleagues told me real stories about young ladies offering services in trade for driving lessons. At that time a 1 hour lesson was €40.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Probably they “offered“ first. What teenaged girl would do that with a muddle aged driving instructor! Urgghh
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago
Where the heck were you interviewed, in a bloody toilet cubicle?
Mita Ghosh 5 years ago
Lucky bump. Now little junior can say i have been doing a job since birth.
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Saint Thomas 5 years ago
Those... for me they fall in the section "ask stupid questions, you get stupid answers".
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I had that happen too. I told them it was illegal for them to ask. I didn't get the job, but turned in the interviewer for asking the question. The company went belly up 3 years later.
Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
I highly doubt that your interview was the direct cause of the company going belly-up three years later.
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BannedFromABoatShow 3 years ago
“I’ll answer if you can tell me the last time you asked a man that.”
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Sounds less like an interview than five lazy asses trying to get you to complete their work assignments for free.
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I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago (edited)
Because sometimes you are only hired/contracted through a recruitment agency to do a job but if the company you are working for decide to make it a permanent position within the business itself the contractor can and has to apply for that position like anyone else. They don’t automatically get the job. My mum recently had to go through this.
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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
So what was your stance? I say stealing is different from forgetting to return them, as one is deliberate and the other is not.
NMN 5 years ago
Well, intent has serious implications, like with murder, intentional vs accidental. In my country's law there are crimes that only exist if there's intention to it, like stealing.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
He wasn’t talking about you. He was talking about life. Or love. But, you know, time and place,
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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago (edited)
Unpaid trial shifts? We have jobs here, you get paid for them and then you have (at least) one month 'probationary period', in which you can leave and be fired without notice or reason. We don't do trial runs for free. Silly thing.
Francis 5 years ago
here in switzerland this is quite common for jobs in gastronomy. but of course they pay you for your work! if you did it good, they would hire you but you got almost everytime a 3 month probationary period
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
So? To me it just shows that she knows very well to pick the right clothes for the job. 10/10 on clothing.
DE Ray 5 years ago
I once went to an interview in a boring grey business suit. The interviewer was wearing a similar boring grey business suit. After a few minutes my prospective manager came in, wearing an indistinguishable grey business suit. Nobody batted an eye because that's how men's fashion works, apparently.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Camouflage. That's why surgeons wear those facemasks. You can't recognise them when they botched up.
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Jon S. 5 years ago
I feel like this story is missing its last line. Why was the Taxi ride a problem/unexpected?
Naomi Armitage 5 years ago (edited)
You're right, it's missing the last line: "...stole our wallets, clothes, and phones, and left us there."
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 5 years ago
And then they were all trafficked to another country, had their passports taken away and were forced to work as marketing assistants unpaid?
Chris Malme 4 years ago (edited)
Going back to the original tweet, he finished the story in another tweet... "Only then did they reveal it was door to door charity f*****g fundraising!! Nothing else in their adverts had even hinted at that. Only bus back was the 7quid airport flyer and cos I was broke I had to walk miles home in the pissing rain in tight office shoes"
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Jon S. 5 years ago
A graph of web views. A story about an elephant called nelly got more views than other news stories. My guess, anyway
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athornedrose 5 years ago
didn't actually get to an interview, but was in line with a classmate to sign up for an internship interview at a job fair and we starting chatting with the guy behind the table. he didn't like that we couldn't take a full semester off to work there full time (we were on scholarship and couldn't afford it), didn't like that we had no experience in that line of work (we were sophmores), and then said we wouldn't fit in there anyway. My classmate (tall lanky black man) and I (short fat first gen american woman) looked at each other and then at him and asked "Why's that?". Middle aged white guy behind the table says "well seriously, just look at you!". i crossed my name out, walked over to our adviser with my classmate, and watched as his boss tried to back pedal when my adviser told them to leave and that they wouldn't be welcomed back on campus.
Daria B 5 years ago
I once witnessed the boss openly scolding an employee, right there in front of me, while waiting for the interview to start. Of course I didn't accept that position.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I witnessed a manager openly scolding and then firing an employee in front of guests at a restaurant. I contacted the corporate office as it was one of a chain and explained to them about how the other employees were embarrassed and apologetic to the guests for having witnessed it..especially since the manager was strutting around the restaurant with a smile on his face afterwards. I was contacted by their corporate rep who informed me the manager no longer worked there. When I returned to the restaurant, the fired employee was back. Turned out the manager had fired her because she broke up with him.
Load More Replies... Human #1,232,867 5 years ago
Got early and their office was not even built. A IKEA furniture box was around and the guy told me" As you are waiting; can you built this cabinet? " Took me 20mn to assemble it. Guy came back and was impress as IKEA staff told him it should take more than 30 minutes for average person. Got hired, stayed 3 years, position was for manager.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Best job interview I ever had? I was asked, "Do you know how to do this job?" and I answered honestly, "Not yet," and got hired. Honesty. It works sometimes!
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago (edited)
So true. I had a lot of training before I was allowed to interview applicants and it really annoys me that untrained fools are allowed decision making responsibility over hiring and firing. EDIT: I am not HR. HR didn't interview but made sure anyone managing staff knew how to do equal opportunities interviews, how to write Person Specifications and Job Descriptions. There is a skill to picking staff that can be taught. Just thinking that knowing the work in a department is sufficient is often erroneous. It pays to know how to recruit good staff.
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Drew Sauveur 5 years ago
Was a senior recruiter years ago for a small recruiting firm. I was asked to sit in on interviews because the person they would be hiring would be trained by me. Company owned by 4 guys who were still in their University Frosh days (into their mid 30's), Alpha Male 1 says to the female interviewee, "How do you feel about a**l sex jokes in the office?'' She just sunk into the chair, I quit a few weeks later. (Alpha Male 1 and 2, I later found out, were sued for sexual harassment).
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
I might have said, "Why? Are you into a**l sex yourself?"
Load More Replies... Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Group interview for a supermarket which shall remain nameless. 8 interviewees, so the group task was split in half. Each group was given an item that they had to "sell" to the other group, which each member speaking for a minimum of two minutes. So, four people, eight minutes-ish to "sell" our given product. Easy, right? Not when the product you're given is clothes pegs. How the hell are you meant to talk for eight minutes in order to sell clothes pegs? Somehow we muddled through, but I tanked it in the one-on-one interview that came after, because not every interviewer is impressed with volunteering, despite what you're told.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Back in the days before Google Maps, I was going to an interview in a part of the county I'd never been in before. I accidentally rolled through a stop sign and got pulled over by a cop. I asked him for directions and he told me flat out "No." I finally get to the interview 5 minutes late and explained why. She rolled her eyes when I showed her the ticket. The interviewer says "The previous employee in this position got pregnant and never came back. Do you have any future plans on getting pregnant?" I looked right at her and said "You know it's illegal to ask me that question?" Needless to say, I didn't get the job, I got a $79 ticket instead, but I think I dodge a bullet by not getting the job. Oh..and I turned the interviewer in to her boss. I avoided that section of the county on future job searches. The company went under 3 years later.
Saico Hipe 5 years ago
Schadenfreude in the extreme. I just left my old job without notice in order to work for my partner's company and was feeling conflicted about it. I learned a few days later that they (Lucky's Market) were closing all but a few stores (including the one at which I worked), as well as filing for bankruptcy. I am not in the least bit surprised, given how they ran their business. Absolute garbage from the top down
Load More Replies... athornedrose 5 years ago
didn't actually get to an interview, but was in line with a classmate to sign up for an internship interview at a job fair and we starting chatting with the guy behind the table. he didn't like that we couldn't take a full semester off to work there full time (we were on scholarship and couldn't afford it), didn't like that we had no experience in that line of work (we were sophmores), and then said we wouldn't fit in there anyway. My classmate (tall lanky black man) and I (short fat first gen american woman) looked at each other and then at him and asked "Why's that?". Middle aged white guy behind the table says "well seriously, just look at you!". i crossed my name out, walked over to our adviser with my classmate, and watched as his boss tried to back pedal when my adviser told them to leave and that they wouldn't be welcomed back on campus.
Daria B 5 years ago
I once witnessed the boss openly scolding an employee, right there in front of me, while waiting for the interview to start. Of course I didn't accept that position.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I witnessed a manager openly scolding and then firing an employee in front of guests at a restaurant. I contacted the corporate office as it was one of a chain and explained to them about how the other employees were embarrassed and apologetic to the guests for having witnessed it..especially since the manager was strutting around the restaurant with a smile on his face afterwards. I was contacted by their corporate rep who informed me the manager no longer worked there. When I returned to the restaurant, the fired employee was back. Turned out the manager had fired her because she broke up with him.
Load More Replies... Human #1,232,867 5 years ago
Got early and their office was not even built. A IKEA furniture box was around and the guy told me" As you are waiting; can you built this cabinet? " Took me 20mn to assemble it. Guy came back and was impress as IKEA staff told him it should take more than 30 minutes for average person. Got hired, stayed 3 years, position was for manager.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Best job interview I ever had? I was asked, "Do you know how to do this job?" and I answered honestly, "Not yet," and got hired. Honesty. It works sometimes!
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago (edited)
So true. I had a lot of training before I was allowed to interview applicants and it really annoys me that untrained fools are allowed decision making responsibility over hiring and firing. EDIT: I am not HR. HR didn't interview but made sure anyone managing staff knew how to do equal opportunities interviews, how to write Person Specifications and Job Descriptions. There is a skill to picking staff that can be taught. Just thinking that knowing the work in a department is sufficient is often erroneous. It pays to know how to recruit good staff.
Load More Replies... Drew Sauveur 5 years ago
Was a senior recruiter years ago for a small recruiting firm. I was asked to sit in on interviews because the person they would be hiring would be trained by me. Company owned by 4 guys who were still in their University Frosh days (into their mid 30's), Alpha Male 1 says to the female interviewee, "How do you feel about a**l sex jokes in the office?'' She just sunk into the chair, I quit a few weeks later. (Alpha Male 1 and 2, I later found out, were sued for sexual harassment).
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
I might have said, "Why? Are you into a**l sex yourself?"
Load More Replies... Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Group interview for a supermarket which shall remain nameless. 8 interviewees, so the group task was split in half. Each group was given an item that they had to "sell" to the other group, which each member speaking for a minimum of two minutes. So, four people, eight minutes-ish to "sell" our given product. Easy, right? Not when the product you're given is clothes pegs. How the hell are you meant to talk for eight minutes in order to sell clothes pegs? Somehow we muddled through, but I tanked it in the one-on-one interview that came after, because not every interviewer is impressed with volunteering, despite what you're told.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Back in the days before Google Maps, I was going to an interview in a part of the county I'd never been in before. I accidentally rolled through a stop sign and got pulled over by a cop. I asked him for directions and he told me flat out "No." I finally get to the interview 5 minutes late and explained why. She rolled her eyes when I showed her the ticket. The interviewer says "The previous employee in this position got pregnant and never came back. Do you have any future plans on getting pregnant?" I looked right at her and said "You know it's illegal to ask me that question?" Needless to say, I didn't get the job, I got a $79 ticket instead, but I think I dodge a bullet by not getting the job. Oh..and I turned the interviewer in to her boss. I avoided that section of the county on future job searches. The company went under 3 years later.
Saico Hipe 5 years ago
Schadenfreude in the extreme. I just left my old job without notice in order to work for my partner's company and was feeling conflicted about it. I learned a few days later that they (Lucky's Market) were closing all but a few stores (including the one at which I worked), as well as filing for bankruptcy. I am not in the least bit surprised, given how they ran their business. Absolute garbage from the top down
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