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re: What's the strangest job interview you've ever had?
Posted on 1/10/20 at 7:42 am to JohnnyKilroy
Posted on 1/10/20 at 7:42 am to JohnnyKilroy
I was working at a marina while finishing up my college degree and I was making decent money with tips and everything for a college kid. Then January 2008 comes and three weeks after I graduate, they lay off about 20 people from the marina. So I was able to get unemployment because I worked full time for them for three years so I being a good tax paying citizen abide by the rules and apply for jobs. I get an interview at a "medical facility" for a management trainee job. I go to the interview and this is a plasma donation facility in the ghetto. I have to sit in the waiting room with people that you more than likely do not want to sit in a room with for an hour and wait for the interview. Thinking the whole time that frick I do not want to work here so ill tank the interview and look for something else. I purposely bomb the interview which in itself was terrible anyways. I knew these people were idiots when the first question asked is if you were and animal what would you be. I do my best to be the worst possible candidate and leave. Mother frickers offered me the job a week later and since on unemployment I took the job. 4 years later I finally got out of that hell hole which was good because the managers ended up in federal prison for selling SSN#'s to file fake tax returns.
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Posted on 1/10/20 at 7:43 am to JohnnyKilroy
Yeah, you're a lawyer. We get it, Nancy Grace.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 7:44 am to JohnnyKilroy
Yeah I’d rather a colonoscopy weekly then to put up with a company like that
Posted on 1/10/20 at 7:52 am to SEClint
quote:I was watching one of those true crime shows the other day and that's what the guy did. They looked all over for the missing person and could never find them, until the guy confessed.
guy I was working for talked about how easy it would be to off a person and bury them under someone else's casket.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:02 am to JohnnyKilroy
Interviewed for a pharm job. Really wasn’t interested in the job itself. I just wanted interview experience because I had a couple medical device sales interviews lined up. I meet the interviewer and he seems ok. Interview goes well and they ask me to come back for another interview. I said why the hell not. Meet again and it’s in front of 3 people. They are hitting with questions like I can’t breath. Then one of them asked me a stupid question like if you could be something else what would you be? I’d had it and said nothing, just myself. Then I returned the question to him. He vaguely responded. Then I asked the second one the same question like I was turning the interview around on them. By this time I’m done with their bullshite and ready to go. I said anymore questions as I slowly start to stand up. They are surprised and said I guess not. I turn around and just walk out.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:12 am to JohnnyKilroy
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What's the strangest job interview you've ever had?
The one I had first thing in the morning after eating acid the night before. I was still tripping when I got there. I obviously bombed it, but I didn't really want the job to begin with.
Had another interview years ago where the guy did the interview in his car as he was driving around Midtown Atlanta. Like I got there, the receptionist put me in a conference room, then he came in there, introduced himself, then lead me to his car. I almost didn't get in because of the weird vibe he was putting off, but he ended up being pretty laid back and hilarious. I wasn't really qualified for the job and didn't get it. Still scratch my head over that encounter.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:17 am to kingbob
Had something similar happen, sales interview in Texas. Old dude running the joint seemed nice but during the interview just wanted to talk about himself. Then he starts talking about the area I would be working in and how it has gone down hill because of blacks.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:20 am to JohnnyKilroy
I had an interview with a major environmental company for a Senior Industrial Trainer position. This VP requested I do a 5 minute presentation on "How to change a light bulb," so I made a powerpoint and did well. two weeks later this VP brings another VP with him and I had to do another presentation on "How to tie shoelaces." Did well again, HR person called and said the VPs were impressed and I was getting the job. Turned in my two weeks notice at my current job. A day or two before my last day at my current job, I call the HR guy and get told that corporate decided not to fund this position.
This post was edited on 1/10/20 at 8:21 am
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:22 am to JohnnyKilroy
I don't have any really bad stories about interviews, just a couple that I was unprepared for, but still got the job both times.
The first time I was applying for a trainer position and ended up having to give an impromptu speech about a random topic. They gave me about 5 minutes to prepare.
The second time a recruiter reached out to me about a remote job. I let her know that I was interested and told me that she'd be in contact with me. I was called randomly about a day later by the hiring manager who wanted to do an interview immediately. I was caught off guard, but I suppose I did well as I still have the job 3 years later.
The first time I was applying for a trainer position and ended up having to give an impromptu speech about a random topic. They gave me about 5 minutes to prepare.
The second time a recruiter reached out to me about a remote job. I let her know that I was interested and told me that she'd be in contact with me. I was called randomly about a day later by the hiring manager who wanted to do an interview immediately. I was caught off guard, but I suppose I did well as I still have the job 3 years later.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:23 am to kingbob
I had a similar experience at Microsoft HQ, of all places. Walked up to the reception desk and told the lady there my name and exactly who I was there to see. She said something like, "it's so nice dealing with white people, you always know where you're headed."
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:26 am to Bustedsack
Had an interview with Cintas for a sales position right out of college. Hands down the worst interview experience I've ever had, and I made it to the last round. I'll never have anything good to say about that company or its culture.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:27 am to JohnnyKilroy
Interviewed for 8 goddamn hours. Met every single person in the department. Went to lunch with everyone. Everyone told me that I was the only candidate that had done any of this.
Then they just promote from within.
I don't know if it was that strange, but it was certainly frustrating, considering I walked out that day 100% believing that the job was mine.
Then they just promote from within.
I don't know if it was that strange, but it was certainly frustrating, considering I walked out that day 100% believing that the job was mine.
This post was edited on 1/10/20 at 8:30 am
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:29 am to JohnnyKilroy
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:36 am to JohnnyKilroy
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This one was very adversarial and the main dude asking the questions was basically negging me the entire time.
IMO. It's not you. There is an exec/partner that doesn't want to hire anyone, or has promised that position to someone else, and he found out that morning an interview was scheduled. Main dude is a hatchet-man or was roasted for calling you in the first place and was told to dispatch you.
Strangest job interview: Embassy Construction. Best analogy would be a general practitioner interviewed by a panel for a brain surgeon position. I really thought I had the skills, but after about ten minutes I quit trying to sell and conceded to avoid embarrassing myself. I drove away from there dumbfounded and relieved at the same time.
If you can't determine who is the least intelligent person in a meeting, it's you..
This post was edited on 1/10/20 at 8:39 am
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:37 am to JohnnyKilroy
Man, you shoulda been with my baby mama when she did hers to be the hostess at shoneys! Wanting to know grill heat, how to melt butter how many hours the eggs stay on the buffett. She came home and drank 10 of them 211
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:46 am to JohnnyKilroy
I went on an interview with Entergy a few years ago. It was a three person panel, with all three asking questions. After each question, they all three hand wrote my response to the question, so there was always an awkward two minutes of silence between each questions. I didn't get the job, but it was fine with me.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:48 am to JohnnyKilroy
Got a call from a friend who was involved in a new start up. They needed someone to come in and run a new division they were starting. She sets it up where I go in and meet with the two other partners without her there. I go in and one of the partners is running the interview and asking a million questions about me and how I would run the division, my ideas for the future, etc. I had prepared and basically laid out a business plan for development and growth including a Power Point.
About an hour in, the other partner suddenly erupts and yells at me (raised voice and all): What the hell? Why aren’t you asking us any questions? Why are you just talking about yourself and your ideas?
His partner and I just stare at him and I said. “Well I thought this was an interview of me and not you. I would guess you know how you want to do things and would be most interested in my thoughts.” It was bizarre.
I got the position and later found out the guy who did the yelling was a whack job liar that was stealing from the company from day one. He was also hacking everyone’s emails and doing a bunch of other bizarre shite. He got fired. Craziest part was that the dude was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and was somehow involved with our business on the down low. I was in the office one day and he comes out in his BDU’s and I said “where are you going dressed like that?” And he tells me he has to go to base to take care of some stuff at the office. I go in and the other partners tell me that he is active duty and has a scam worked out where the folks on base really don’t ever know where he is at. I was like WTF?
About an hour in, the other partner suddenly erupts and yells at me (raised voice and all): What the hell? Why aren’t you asking us any questions? Why are you just talking about yourself and your ideas?
His partner and I just stare at him and I said. “Well I thought this was an interview of me and not you. I would guess you know how you want to do things and would be most interested in my thoughts.” It was bizarre.
I got the position and later found out the guy who did the yelling was a whack job liar that was stealing from the company from day one. He was also hacking everyone’s emails and doing a bunch of other bizarre shite. He got fired. Craziest part was that the dude was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and was somehow involved with our business on the down low. I was in the office one day and he comes out in his BDU’s and I said “where are you going dressed like that?” And he tells me he has to go to base to take care of some stuff at the office. I go in and the other partners tell me that he is active duty and has a scam worked out where the folks on base really don’t ever know where he is at. I was like WTF?
Posted on 1/10/20 at 8:59 am to jbgleason
Some weird advertising sales position in college. They were a national firm.
Interview was super intense, and included how interns were encouraged to take cold showers every morning to start the day. I noped the frick out of there and ignored all calls/emails trying to offer me a spot.
Interview was super intense, and included how interns were encouraged to take cold showers every morning to start the day. I noped the frick out of there and ignored all calls/emails trying to offer me a spot.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 9:01 am to JohnnyKilroy
I interviewed at a firm and when I got there it turned out the owner was a Scientologist. Before I interviewed I had to review and sign an acknowledgement that the firm was run according to the principles of Scientology.
They then had me take the Scientology personality test/survey. Immediately after that I interviewed personally with the owner and he was nice enough and it seemed a positive interview with not one mention of Scientology. He even said he was looking forward to working with me.
I left and I guess they graded my survey, because I never heard from them again.
They then had me take the Scientology personality test/survey. Immediately after that I interviewed personally with the owner and he was nice enough and it seemed a positive interview with not one mention of Scientology. He even said he was looking forward to working with me.
I left and I guess they graded my survey, because I never heard from them again.
Posted on 1/10/20 at 9:03 am to USMEagles
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She said something like, "it's so nice dealing with white people, you always know where you're headed."
Where in the hell are you people interviewing at?
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