| Hi guys. I'm currently job hunting (but shhh! Don't tell my current employers), and I was wondering if anyone here has some interesting or memorable job interview stories? I'll start off with one. I got an interview once, and from start to finish, the guy interviewing me wouldn't stop insulting me. He would frequently say stuff like, "How can you not know this?!" or "This is not how you dress for an interview. Button your collar!" Not to mention, he would ask a whole bunch of difficult and irrelevant questions. By the end of the interview, I politely thanked him and left (and paid for the $8 parking at that place, wtf!). I knew instantly that I never want to work for someone like him again. A day later, I called him to tell him that I am no longer interested in the job. He was utterly shocked and almost begged me to reconsider. Being a pushover, I agreed. I went to more rounds of interview, in which he was very impressed and toned down his condescending attitude. Ultimately, the company hired a previous employee because he had one month more experience than I did. Heh... |
 Thanks, person who gave me this on another site a long time ago, lol. |
| When I applied for Toys R' Us, they had group interviews where we had to talk to the other applicants and say what we learned about them along with other cheesy activities you'd expect from kindergarten. We even had to find something from the store and then do a act like we were trying to sell it to the group. |
| whoa, $8 for the parking? damn. I wish you good luck on the job hunting |
My DeviantArt and Pixiv and still waiting patiently for a 3rd season of Spice & Wolf :'| |
| You should have asked the interviewer to pay for your parking |
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Choroshi said: whoa, $8 for the parking? damn. I wish you good luck on the job hunting $8 is a bargain, $15 a day at the last place I worked for us lowly normal human beings. Of course the people on 100k+ a year were paying $10 a week for parking. Makes complete sense when you think about it.... |
| A manager was totally not happy with the way I dressed for the interview and didn't think I would get the job. It wasn't anything bad, just jeans and a nice shirt, it's not like I'm going to walk into a store dressed in a suit for a job. I got the job anyways, and said manager told me about it months later. Gave me a good laugh. I don't really get that "dress for success" aspect when you're just applying for a simple retail position. I can understand it for the corporate or professional world, but the work uniforms I got back then were worse than my button up that I wore to the interview. I'm just glad the guy interviewing me wasn't really interested in what I was wearing and cared more about the actual purpose of an interview. |
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| Drove 40 minutes to a job interview that lasted 5 minutes. The interviewer didn't even seem interested. On my way back home, a rock hit my windshield and cracked it. Turns out they had already guaranteed that position to the wife of some guy who already worked there. So yeah waste of time. |
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| Had an interview at a hospital. Gave me all the hints in the world that I was gonna get the job. Didn't get it. Tf.. |
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| I once applied for a job which doesn't require programming, but after the interviewer learned that I was a computer science student from X university, he told me to do a 5 hour programming test. I did it in 3 hours, got lunch for free from them, refused the interviewer invitation to their programmers' base, then went home. Later, they gave me a phone call, told me that I passed the interview and the test for programmer position. Since I hate programming very much, I rejected them saying, "I have no interest in working as a programmer." Really, what a terrible way to waste my time, but at least I got free meal. |
wanderingplayboy said: I once applied for a job which doesn't require programming, but after the interviewer learned that I was a computer science student from X university, he told me to do a 5 hour programming test. I did it in 3 hours, got lunch for free from them, refused the interviewer invitation to their programmers' base, then went home. Later, they gave me a phone call, told me that I passed the interview and the test for programmer position. Since I hate programming very much, I rejected them saying, "I have no interest in working as a programmer." Really, what a terrible way to waste my time, but at least I got free meal. This story is whack. |
| I had applied for this local factory, didn't expect to get the job but meh. Anyways my interview is given by this woman with a face ugly as sin, bed hair, mumps on her face, sloppy lip gloss, I couldn't bare to look at it, I would have made a snide remark. However the bitch also had a low cut shirt on with her cleavage expossed. Which well SEXUAL HARRASMENT. So I spent that whole time looking at items on her desk, out the window. Just doing everything I could to not stare at her. I was so happy when that job offer was done. I laughed as soon as I got out of her room and cursed. |
kittyn said: Drove 40 minutes to a job interview that lasted 5 minutes. The interviewer didn't even seem interested. On my way back home, a rock hit my windshield and cracked it. Turns out they had already guaranteed that position to the wife of some guy who already worked there. So yeah waste of time. Wow, that really sucks! I would be so angry if that were to happen to me. Sheesh, and I thought my experience with interviewing was bad. |
Thanks, person who gave me this on another site a long time ago, lol. |
| Guy screamed at a co-worker for a good 5 mins in between the interview. He then asked me to "please get the hell out." Never applying on cragslist again... |
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| I had the weirdest interview. She was like , "so tell me about your self?" Then the woman got undressed and she was wearing lingerie (mmmm) |
Endycia said: We had sex. Then somehow it ended up in a pornographic website under the name : Reverse casting. Must have fapped to you at least once then. |
| My friend had an interview with the League of Legends people. It went really well, until, on his way out, the interviewer casually asked him for his opinion on the game. He said: "I've never played it," and the interviewer replied: "What the hell, man..." |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| One day Myanimelist.com was looking for new mods, and was hiring. I was so happy as this was my chance to be the alpha otaku. I immediately sent my shabby resume to kineta and eagerly awaited her response. 3 days later I get PM from Kineta saying that I got an interview spot! Felt so goot. Since I didn’t have a digicam or skype, we agreed to do a phone interview. One day, at 9 am while I was butt ass naked while taking a dump, I get a phone call from a strange foreign number. I pick it up, and low and behold, it’s Kineta plus all the other mods ready to do a group interview. I was thrown off guard due to miscalculation of time zones, but I still was ready to roll. As soon as the interview started, things went south. Kineta did a background check on me and noticed that I had a criminal record. When I was 18 I took a piss behind a tree and was cited. Luna asked me “Vot ze ‘ell eez ze meaning ove zees?” I did not know what to say everyone was silent and I could hear Xinil heavily breathing through the phone. I got real nervous and started sweating. Suzune chan the merciful saved me by saying “OK, we’ll let you go on this one, but one more strike and youre out.” As interview went on, i had the urge to fart and completely let loose. I had 5 dollar Mexican food the night before because I’m cheap. I had to pucker my cakehole and clamp my buttcheeks so hard to hold it in. too bad my butt cheeks were getting sweatier and sweatier from the background check and Luna grilling me. Interview was going OK, until the sweaty, juicy buttcheek slipped on the toilet seat and the structural integrity of the barrier collapsed. The thunderous fart and unloading were simultaneous, and the fart was amplified by the echoing in the toilet bowl and the bathroom, straight into the phone. I could hear Xinil giggling and everyone else screaming, and then they hung up and that was that. They ended up hiring some shady Romanian guy because the Canadian guy forgot to check his PMs. |
Mamimii said: My friend had an interview with the League of Legends people. It went really well, until, on his way out, the interviewer casually asked him for his opinion on the game. He said: "I've never played it," and the interviewer replied: "What the hell, man..." It took me ages to realise how crap that game is |
RandomChampion said: One day Myanimelist.com was looking for new mods, and was hiring. I was so happy as this was my chance to be the alpha otaku. I immediately sent my shabby resume to kineta and eagerly awaited her response. 3 days later I get PM from Kineta saying that I got an interview spot! Felt so goot. Since I didn’t have a digicam or skype, we agreed to do a phone interview. One day, at 9 am while I was butt ass naked while taking a dump, I get a phone call from a strange foreign number. I pick it up, and low and behold, it’s Kineta plus all the other mods ready to do a group interview. I was thrown off guard due to miscalculation of time zones, but I still was ready to roll. As soon as the interview started, things went south. Kineta did a background check on me and noticed that I had a criminal record. When I was 18 I took a piss behind a tree and was cited. Luna asked me “Vot ze ‘ell eez ze meaning ove zees?” I did not know what to say everyone was silent and I could hear Xinil heavily breathing through the phone. I got real nervous and started sweating. Suzune chan the merciful saved me by saying “OK, we’ll let you go on this one, but one more strike and youre out.” As interview went on, i had the urge to fart and completely let loose. I had 5 dollar Mexican food the night before because I’m cheap. I had to pucker my cakehole and clamp my buttcheeks so hard to hold it in. too bad my butt cheeks were getting sweatier and sweatier from the background check and Luna grilling me. Interview was going OK, until the sweaty, juicy buttcheek slipped on the toilet seat and the structural integrity of the barrier collapsed. The thunderous fart and unloading were simultaneous, and the fart was amplified by the echoing in the toilet bowl and the bathroom, straight into the phone. I could hear Xinil giggling and everyone else screaming, and then they hung up and that was that. They ended up hiring some shady Romanian guy because the Canadian guy forgot to check his PMs. I laughed hard. |
| I had an interview at a large clothing shop, it was a group interview and I was nervous back then, didn't know what I was doing. So they asked us all to go out and list anything you notice wrong or out of place in the store itself. Anyway we all go out and come back and everyone says like one or two minor things but me...apparently nerves cause me to act more like an asshole. So I go off on a 10 minute long list of everything I found wrong and I mean EVERYTHING. I even questioned their taste in music, calling it mind numbing and detrimental to the overall feel of the shopfront. I tore into their quality control, their placement of stands, their laziness at leaving piles of new clothing in a corner on the dirty floor by the time im finished I thought I'd done a good thorough job. Obviously I didn't get the job, hey don't ask for faults if you're not looking for them. Good thing im not in the role of store inspector for the company, nobody would pass lol |
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LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
RandomChampion said: One day Myanimelist.com was looking for new mods, and was hiring. I was so happy as this was my chance to be the alpha otaku. I immediately sent my shabby resume to kineta and eagerly awaited her response. 3 days later I get PM from Kineta saying that I got an interview spot! Felt so goot. Since I didn’t have a digicam or skype, we agreed to do a phone interview. One day, at 9 am while I was butt ass naked while taking a dump, I get a phone call from a strange foreign number. I pick it up, and low and behold, it’s Kineta plus all the other mods ready to do a group interview. I was thrown off guard due to miscalculation of time zones, but I still was ready to roll. As soon as the interview started, things went south. Kineta did a background check on me and noticed that I had a criminal record. When I was 18 I took a piss behind a tree and was cited. Luna asked me “Vot ze ‘ell eez ze meaning ove zees?” I did not know what to say everyone was silent and I could hear Xinil heavily breathing through the phone. I got real nervous and started sweating. Suzune chan the merciful saved me by saying “OK, we’ll let you go on this one, but one more strike and youre out.” As interview went on, i had the urge to fart and completely let loose. I had 5 dollar Mexican food the night before because I’m cheap. I had to pucker my cakehole and clamp my buttcheeks so hard to hold it in. too bad my butt cheeks were getting sweatier and sweatier from the background check and Luna grilling me. Interview was going OK, until the sweaty, juicy buttcheek slipped on the toilet seat and the structural integrity of the barrier collapsed. The thunderous fart and unloading were simultaneous, and the fart was amplified by the echoing in the toilet bowl and the bathroom, straight into the phone. I could hear Xinil giggling and everyone else screaming, and then they hung up and that was that. They ended up hiring some shady Romanian guy because the Canadian guy forgot to check his PMs. i cryed, fucking Romanians stealing everything. |
Choroshi said: whoa, $8 for the parking? damn. I wish you good luck on the job hunting |
Nyaaaria- said: You really are the king of marathoning  |
| Thanks for all the support, guys. And I lol'd at the obvious BS responses. |
Thanks, person who gave me this on another site a long time ago, lol. |
| I just recently had an odd experience. I had two telephone interviews with a good, well established company. They offered me the job after the phone interviews. I thought it was strange that they didn't need to interview me in person. I accepted the offer, and the job has worked out well so far. |
| It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. |
WeirdHeather said: Is that really that abnormal? I've gotten two job offers directly following phone interviews, and I've only ever had four jobs.I just recently had an odd experience. I had two telephone interviews with a good, well established company. They offered me the job after the phone interviews. I thought it was strange that they didn't need to interview me in person. I accepted the offer, and the job has worked out well so far. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
Mamimii said: WeirdHeather said: Is that really that abnormal? I've gotten two job offers directly following phone interviews, and I've only ever had four jobs.I just recently had an odd experience. I had two telephone interviews with a good, well established company. They offered me the job after the phone interviews. I thought it was strange that they didn't need to interview me in person. I accepted the offer, and the job has worked out well so far. Lucky you two. Usually, a phone interview is as far as I ever go. It doesn't matter how well it went or how much they seemed to have like me. |
Thanks, person who gave me this on another site a long time ago, lol. |
| Well, for my first job it really wasn't even an interview, I just had to recite the ingredients to every item on the menu and I had the job-- lol. I walked in one day to get a sheet cataloging the ingredients, went home came back a couple days later and had a job. And recently I had a phone interview for some regional alarm company. He really didn't ask too many questions, he more just gave me advice on my future-- I think he was sort of implying I wasn't gonna get the job. He did ask what kind of nerd I was though, which I wasn't expecting. |
guyklc said: All of my jobs have been seasonal and non-professional, so not much to write home about. Keep yo' head up!Lucky you two. Usually, a phone interview is as far as I ever go. It doesn't matter how well it went or how much they seemed to have like me. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
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j0x said:  Become a Mahou Shoujo |
NarTaco said: What's wrong with being Egyptian?One of my first job interviews didn't go well. The guy found out I was Egyptian, everything went downhill from there. He was rude and tried to rush everything, in the end I didn't get the job. |
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camerawr528 said: Had an interview at a hospital. Gave me all the hints in the world that I was gonna get the job. Didn't get it. Tf.. lol this is what happened to me last week but my one was at kfc... -.- |
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| Interviewed for the army, had to fill out forms with the Sargent, and there was an empty diagram of a human body, and the sargent said i had to circle where i have toes. I was like 'wut'. But I circled the toes at the bottom of the diagram and the sarge said 'ouch, that must of been really painful'. I had this feeling that I was fucking up somehow, so I asked him to repeat what I had to circle, to which he said 'you need to circle where you have tattoos' and I was all like; 'Dude. I thought you were asking me where my toes were.' the sargent bursts out laughing and just then a freaking general walks in and GLARES at both of us, particularly the snorting sarge. I still feel like a retard after that. |
| Well there was that time I applied for a job, went through the whole process and then got a job offer a week later. The only problem was that it wasn't for the job I had applied for......O_O |
| If you pretend to feel a certain way, the feeling can become genuine all by accident. — Hei |
| I have a pretty awesome job (I work at a local bike store) but how I got the job is pure luck. Back in summer of 2012 I was just getting into cycling. All my friends were gone for the summer and I had nothing to do, I also had a wonderful $150 every week from a part time job I had been working at for a year. Anyway I'm into cycling and I follow this bike store and start doing the events/ group rides with the sales reps and the mechanics when I can. Then I just would kinda go in on my day off and hang out and learn about bikes for a hour or so. Anyway I'm hanging out one day and one of the mechanics tells me that I should to go to his improv show tonight because he has something important he needs to tell me that he can't mention at the shop. (I think he just wanted me to go to his show) After the show I'm talking to scotty and he says to me straight faced "Quit your job, Patrick is going to offer you a job next time you're in the shop" I had known scotty for a good 3 months he was funny as fuck but would never lie to you like that. So I quit my job and sure enough I was working on my bike at the shop with scotty (putting on a new computer) and pat walked down the stairs and asked if I had a minute. They offered me a part time sales position that started at $8.00 plus commission. That's how I got started selling bikes. I never once expressed interest in a job though, I heard later from Alan (another mechanic) that Scotty liked me and when the managers asked who they should hire Scotty sold them on me. Last Saturday was a year for me at the shop and also was annual 4/20 pub crawl. We had a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone at the bike store <3 |
| I have really funny thoughts that no one will get to hear. |
| I went to a job interview and the manager asked me if I played Counter Strike and I said "Yes" and he asked me for my stream name so we could play together. Weird~ |
There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah, a heart made fullmetal. - Fullmetal Alchemist |
Mikixa said: I went to a job interview and the manager asked me if I played Counter Strike and I said "Yes" and he asked me for my stream name so we could play together. Weird~ Terrorist Win. Reminds me, not a interview. But in my area a local hospital was hiring Armed Security. Pay wasn't that good overall, but its the best you can hope for in my area. The job wouldn't be a problem for me to land but when I looked into it more. The hours weren't fixed, more of a "come to work when we say to" type deal. Have firearms training, or if you had it show a willingness to engage with the use of force when orderd. You had to escourt bodies to the morgue.. Be able to physically take down and restrain visitors or patients. And Guard Prisoners and inmates recieving medical care. I was like....... No thank you I don't want a interview. Too much bullshit, responsibility, dodgy wording, for the what is basically shit pay. |
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