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What is the worst job application blunder that you've ever seen?
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:50 am
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:50 am
Or what is the best job application experience or story that you have had or heard about?
I ask this because I think I may have recently seen the most unfortunate spelling error ever on a job application form.
I work in a medical field with a lot of foreign graduate applicants. One guy repeatedly misspelled "cook" as "cock". I shite you not. I was cracking up at my desk for quite awhile.
"On the weekends, I like to cock with my friends. I have an intense passion for cocking."
A true cocksman. Welcome to the States, my man!
I ask this because I think I may have recently seen the most unfortunate spelling error ever on a job application form.
I work in a medical field with a lot of foreign graduate applicants. One guy repeatedly misspelled "cook" as "cock". I shite you not. I was cracking up at my desk for quite awhile.
"On the weekends, I like to cock with my friends. I have an intense passion for cocking."
A true cocksman. Welcome to the States, my man!
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Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:51 am to Blob Fish
I’d hire him on the spot
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:52 am to Blob Fish
He didn't misspell that.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:52 am to Blob Fish
Guy puts on his application (under "reason for leaving" a past employer) "failure to comply with the company's property management policies."
He had stolen $400k from his prior employer and went to the pen for it.
Unfortunately, I was reading his app after he was fired from the second employer.
He had stolen $400k from his prior employer and went to the pen for it.
Unfortunately, I was reading his app after he was fired from the second employer.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:52 am to Blob Fish
I've seen an application with a prior job title at Subway being a "Sandwich Artist". He got hired, but we still give him shite about that.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:54 am to Blob Fish
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:54 am to Blob Fish
quote:
One guy repeatedly misspelled "cook" as "cock".
You're assuming he had a spelling error; maybe the dude likes cock
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:54 am to Blob Fish
quote:
"On the weekends, I like to cock with my friends. I have an intense passion for cocking."
Why is this on a job application to begin with?
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:54 am to Blob Fish
Had a guy come in and fill out an application years ago in New Orleans. Stated he went to high school at "Old" Perry Walker HS. My manager said if doesn't know the name of his own high school then we aren't even talking to him. He threw his app in the trash.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:57 am to Blob Fish
Not me but a friend took a drug test and tested positive for five different substances ha ha
He did not get hired
He did not get hired
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:58 am to Blob Fish
Someone listed their email address as sweetpickles69 at yahoo. Com
Posted on 11/13/17 at 11:59 am to The Dudes Rug
quote:
prior job title at Subway being a "Sandwich Artist".
Isn't that what they call them though?
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:00 pm to StealthCalais11
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Why is this on a job application to begin with?
Hobbies and outside interests
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:01 pm to Blob Fish
This is kind of brilliant. If he gets the job he can claim that it was a typo. If he gets rejected, he can claim it was discrimination based on sexual orientation. This kind of political savvy shows some really upper management potential.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:08 pm to Blob Fish
For my first professional job (internship for an engineering firm in college), I had no technical experience.
But one of the last jobs I had before that was as a groundskeeper at a state facility, so I listed the manufacturer and model of all of the large equipment I had used there: Kubota B8200, Gravely 5260 etc.
Pre-internet there was no easy way to check that. I told my boss what all of that was about 3 years later.
But one of the last jobs I had before that was as a groundskeeper at a state facility, so I listed the manufacturer and model of all of the large equipment I had used there: Kubota B8200, Gravely 5260 etc.
Pre-internet there was no easy way to check that. I told my boss what all of that was about 3 years later.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:11 pm to Blob Fish
1. Some joker had his contact address "baldnsexy@something.com". Never forgot that one.
2. Another one couldn't correctly spell his own college major. He made the same mistake in three places. How in hell do you get a degree in a subject without knowing how to spell it?
2. Another one couldn't correctly spell his own college major. He made the same mistake in three places. How in hell do you get a degree in a subject without knowing how to spell it?
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:15 pm to Blob Fish
I had someone tell me in an interview once they left their last job because they were tired of being told they didn't like change and were resistant to change.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:17 pm to The Dudes Rug
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I've seen an application with a prior job title at Subway being a "Sandwich Artist".
Thats the official title with that company though...
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:19 pm to The Dudes Rug
In hs one of my friends worked at subway. They call it "sandwich artist" and gave him a vhs tape to watch. It was this crazy music with a whispering voice showing a sandwich being made in slow motion saying "visualize the sandwich...be the sandwich..make the sandwich your own..." we got high as hell and laughed our asses off watching that.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:19 pm to chinhoyang
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He had stolen $400k from his prior employer and went to the pen for it.
Sooo, is that a negative thing to put on an application? Asking for a friend
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