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It was always somewhat funny to me that when folks came in for an interview at the company I worked for many of the management types, who really asked very probing and sometimes demeaning questions, had never actually interviewed for their own positions. They were just given their jobs because of seniority or were popular with the management cliques that flourish in the corporate world.
A few months back I interviewed with an out of state correctional agency and one of the questions they asked was "Why do you want to be a CO?" For some reason I am unable to fathom today, I immediately blurted out "Because I need a backup job in case my other prospects don't come through" much to my embarrassment upon realizing what I said; I ended the answer with the usual spiel about getting experience and job satisfaction. Even MORE surprising was that I actually ended up moving along the process....
I was walking into the interview and slipped and fell, cutting my knee, ripping my nylons and dripping blood down my leg. Because I was young, shallow and concerned only with how perfect I looked I didn.t tell her what happened. I got the job, but I will never forget how embarrassed I was. I covered my knees up with my dress but when I got to the car I was mortified.
Nowadays? Older and wiser? I.d sue for slip and fall cuz the sidewalk was not salted and a sheet of ice.
I was walking into the interview and slipped and fell, cutting my knee, ripping my nylons and dripping blood down my leg. Because I was young, shallow and concerned only with how perfect I looked I didn.t tell her what happened. I got the job, but I will never forget how embarrassed I was. I covered my knees up with my dress but when I got to the car I was mortified.
Nowadays? Older and wiser? I.d sue for slip and fall cuz the sidewalk was not salted and a sheet of ice.
I would too but only if I had truly gotten hurt and could prove that a salted sheet of ice was the mitigating factor that made the sidewalk that much harder to walk. I mean if you broke a heel, you'd have the same outcome too or perhaps the bottom liner was going out on you.
i interviewed for a job as a traveling assistant to the owner of a smallish company and the whole interview was him talking about his divorce and how his ex wife was always jealous of his assistants and oh if i was good at the job he might pay for an apartment for me.... **shudder**.
i was interviewing long distance and he said he was going to do a trial run of working a day together when he was in my area but he never got in touch... and i think that's just fine with me.
also it was an IT company and their in-house job application software looked like it was from 1983 (in 2013).
I have had a lot of weird and goofy experiences during interviews, but the ones that really sticks out:
-I drove an hour to the place, waited for 10 minutes, and then about 5 minutes in after asking me 2 questions she ended the interview. This was in Denver.
-Another one they were 20 minutes late, didn't apologize for being late, asked me a few questions, and then let me ask questions. I was able to stretch what would have been 5 minute interview into a 40 minutes interview lol. It was in Chicago.
-There was a panel interview with 4 guys one of which was the owner. He was stoned out of his mind based on his general behavior and red eyes (it was in Denver). Two of them were condescending *******s. Only one of them seemed to truly care about interviewing me.
-Another one in Denver, I thought the interview went okay, but I saw them mock me as I was leaving.
-Yet another one in Denver one of the interviewers kept asking me irrelevant questions about a previous job and another one was very condescending.
I haven't had a terrible interview yet, but I recently had one where the interviewer turned me off the job and the company before it was even half over. All she did was badmouth and speak condescendingly about her unionized staff (the job I was interviewing for was higher up, not a union position). Not to mention she openly talked about recent layoffs at the company (which, having done my research, I already knew about).
I could tell I wasn't her top candidate... I walked out not wanting the job... and I wound up not getting it. ;-)
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