Funny Interviews: Meet the Dumbest Job Applicants

Reader's Digest ^ | april 2014 | Reader's Digest

[Innovative]

"An individual applied for a customer-service job, and when asked what he might not like about the job, he said, 'Dealing with people.'"

"I had somebody list their prison time as a job. And an exotic dancer who called herself a 'customer service representative.'"

[Aunt Polgara]

Speaking of travel agents: We needed to change a plane reservation from Los Angeles to Honolulu. The reservation clerk was having difficulty, but finally, she excitedly exclaimed that she had gotten us a non-stop flight! She acted puzzled when I said: “Well, I hope so!”

[tbw2]

That actually doesn’t sound stupid. I knew a man who broke down in tears because, in the section for “who to contact in an emergency”, he had no one he could count on.
Fortunately, ministry lifted him up and he’s in a better place now. But the answer is actually reasonable if there is no one to help.

[Mase]

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[Ellendra]

Some of those might have gone well in the right context. Others, I’m pretty sure they were hoping to fail so they could keep getting unemployment.

To anyone who complains about how a business is staffed: this is what employers have to sift through!

[Calvin Cooledge]

Here are my four favorites that I interviewed.
1. Candidate who answered all questions with his head down (forehead actually pressed against desk).
2. Candidate who said "can you let me know pretty soon because I have an offer from another company and frankly the job you are offering me is not very interesting."
3. Candidate who fiddled with the screws in the chair he was sitting until the arm came off. Which he then handed to me with an apology.

And my favorite:
ME:You seem to have been at your last three or four companies for very short periods of time.
CANDIDATE:I dunno, it's like managers are always out to get me.
ME: Hmmm. Well, why do you want to move from Illinois to Virginia?
CANDIDATE:Because Virginia allows concealed carry.

[Intolerant in NJ]

He replied, ‘don’t lie to me, I looked on the map and Florida is a very thin state!’...wouldn't surprise me about Bernie Sanders....

[autumnraine]

Sadly for someone like (both parents dead,only child) that isn’t so far fetxhwd. People take family for granted.