Its always good on these vanities to try and be more obtuse and impenetrable. Otherwise we see right through you.
what does it pay?
I wouldn’t want to work for a company that would hire me as an employee................
What kind of work?
What if you took the job just to file a grievance complaint against them and then settle for a large undisclosed sum?
I interviewed a woman that wore dress that simultaneously, to too low, to high, too tight and too baggy.
The dress was just translucent enough to be able to tell she wasn’t wearing any undergarments.
This was for a position in an elementary school library at a Christian school.
It was frowned upon because that's what your two 10-min breaks were for.
No talking allowed.
My worst by far was the day I had to disguise myself as Alex Jones and sit through an endless interview with that dimwit Megan Kelly.. Clueleess. Why does NBC put up with her?
My worst by far was the day I had to disguise myself as Alex Jones and sit through an endless interview with that dimwit Megan Kelly.. Clueleess. Why does NBC put up with her?
Interviewer: "What do you think is your biggest weakness?"
Me: "I'm a perfectionist. I often spend too much time trying to make things perfect."
Interviewer: "So you are saying that the reason you have only a 3.2 average is that you spend too much time trying to make things perfect?"
Me: Sigh.
I had an interview about two months ago with a large manufacturing company.
I passed the technical part - easily - then, after I had told them time and time again that I wanted to AT LEAST part-time telecommute, the manager says “The job is 8 AM to 5 PM onsite, plus 6 PM to midnight Saturday, and you WILL BE the primary on call person 24X7”
I told them no way can I work those hours. It’s not the 45 hours a week + that got me bent, it’s the commute time.
I haven’t been doing what I do for 33 years to spend my time dead-ended in traffic for two hours each way. Period.
I’ve been HR but in a country where at the time unemployment was 0.5%. When I’d hire young administrative assistants for the departments, they’d come in knowing they could have any one of 20 jobs in town. So they would be asking me, “where is the desk? I’d like a nice view. I also don’t want to be next to the air conditioner, it affects my kidneys. Is there any draft in the room? I get very ill if there is any draft at all. Oh, and I am taking a six month vacation, buying a car in America and traveling across that country, that is coming up. And I’m going to need $25 an hour.” And we had to kiss their spoiled little asses because we needed help. But inside I was all “waaaaah, that’s my country and I always wanted to travel around it for six months....waaaaahh...”
The very first interview I did on TV (local). Disaster.
I figured that sh!t out quickly.
And no, I won’t tell, although there are two FReepers still alive that may remember.
5.56mm
The interview was with a large credit card company.
Had pre-interview testing; both behavioral and quantitative.
Scored so high on math I had to take it again prior to face-to-face interview to prove I actually took the test.
Face to face was going very well. Interview kept saying “excellent, excellent”. I was kicking ass.
Then the horror. Had to do what essentially was a break even analysis on issuing a new credit card.
They give you some information, some relevant some not. Some information needed to be derived. Some needed to be in a common basis etc.
Moving along, then suddenly a senior moment. I just went blank and could not recover. Sweating heavily by now and heart racing. Panic!
Did not get the position, but after having lunch with the guy I was going to work for, I really did not want it.
My best interview or my worst interview depending on how you want to look at it. The interviewer asked me what my bad qualities were. I told him to pick up the phone and call my wife that she would be able to tell him a lot better than I could
Best story I’ve ever heard ws the guy who went into an interview and the obvious question came up:
HR: What’s your biggest weakness?
Candidate: I’m too honest.
HR: Why, I think that is a good strength.
Candidate: I don’t give a shit about what you think.
My worst was with an owner who couldn’t make his mind up about was the job was. First it was p/t then f/t. Then he started vacillating on the scope of job. They had just moved into a larger facility and I think it broke his brain.
Ah,that feeling of getting to turn down a job and let em know why is a tremendous ego boost. Been there.
I have been on the other side too where rejection hurts.
Ow!
My worst interview ever?
Had to be one of the times, oh so many years ago, when I was locked at attention in front of one or the other of my various 1st Sgts while attempting to answer questions relating to my latest bout with near terminal stupidity.
My company of 20 years was recently acquired and having been through that as a middle manager before, I knew it was the end of the road for me. My boss at the time got a new job first and when talking prior to his departure, I said in my next job I needed to have some passion for the business and most of all, I was not going to suffer an asshole for a boss. Turns out, my old boss hired me. Teasingly, he said: “I just needed to know if you thought I was an asshole.” Pretty common in IT for people to move around with each other. Very fortunate I met both my goals for what will be my swan song.