How NOT to interview!

[LordSplodge]

Hang on, I dont understand!

 

[Spend_day]

Tell me you weren't in your sailor outfit, riding on a torpedo whilst asking him that...

tell me u were it would make my lunch break

 

[Skiddley]

We have this secret sign when interviewing....might be take off your watch, turn over your phone, whatever - a sign to the other interviewers that you're vetoing the candidate and to end the interview...

So we had this young chap applying for a development role, his phone goes..i think 'this is where you turn it off, and apologise'. The muppet answers it...and has a conversation right infront of us...and I swear it was his mum. *takes off watch*

 

[melbourne720]

^^^ LOL

I'll remember the watch thing

Nice one Huddy, lad needs to work on his confidence...

 

[cleanbluesky]

Nice one Huddy, lad needs to work on his confidence...

Nice one?

Yeah Huddy, should have insulted his mum.

 

[something_totally_different]

We were interviewing a candidate this morning for a junior programmers position. Poor lad was so nervous. He was shaking like mad, so I told him to relax and tried to lighten the mood. On asking him about his qualifications, he stated he had a degree in Economics.

When he told me this I replied, "Oh, I have a CSE in Home Economics, is that the same thing"?

I thought the poor lad was going to cry.. Interview over

opps!

awww, give him another shot, he may be very good for the position! he could be a talented youngster just waiting to be molded into something special.

 

[something_totally_different]

I was interviewing a guy yesterday morning for an admin/scripting role.
I asked "Do you have any experience with domain networking?"
"... Do.. main.. Net.. wer.. king?"

"I see your last job subsidised your degree."
"No! I just took that job to pay for university!

case and point that im smarter than some people who have these degree`s

 

[melbourne720]

Nice one?

Yeah Huddy, should have insulted his mum.

It wasn't you was it CBS?

 

[Cupra]

It wasn't you was it CBS?

it would be so funny if it was

 

[touch]

case and point that im smarter

O'RLY?

 

[cleanbluesky]

it would be so funny if it was

It was indeed, I was a secret shopper from head office. We'd had reports that someone in the company had been telling **** jokes whilst interviewing candidates.

 

[melbourne720]

LOL

icebreaker - a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere; "he told jokes as an icebreaker"

 

[sunnysingh]

poor lad !!!!!!!!

 

[something_totally_different]

O'RLY?

yes actually. but quote all of what I say in future, otherwise what I say is easily taken out of context which was either your intention or your error.

 

[GreenMint]

case and point that im smarter than some people who have these degree`s

You mean case in point

You didn't use any capitals or show any correct usage of punctuation.

The ' from I'm seemed to fall into degrees making it own something.

You're not that smart

 

[stevenazari1]

I r smarterer than u all

so smarterer I get susffended coz I r so cleverer than uuuu

 

[Tefal]

yes actually. but quote all of what I say in future, otherwise what I say is easily taken out of context which was either your intention or your error.

 

[chesterstu]

ROFL. You should write it up properly and submit it to thedailywtf.com

 

[Malc]

case and point that im smarter than some people who have these degree`s

You make a degree sound like a new notion.

[Anchorman]

Champ Kind: What in the hell's diversity?
Ron Burgundy: [clears throat] Well, I could be wrong, but I believe, uh, diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

[/Anchorman]

 

[Gog]

On a similar vein, I've been sifting job applications this week. I kid you not, when asked to demonstrate effective writing, one person wrote :

"I always use the spel check funktion in Miscrosoft Word"

It was copied for the "funny folder" and filed in the bin.