Interview Funnies

[SIRandyraven]

What's the wackiest thing you have ever had happen at an interview ?

Mine are :

- Fire alarm went off and we finished interview in car park in the chap who was interviewing me car !

- Chap who was seeing me , sat and ate his dinner ! ...Fish and Chips as well ...

- BP finance - Job was to watch batch jobs run on a computer system.
Job involved turning up at 6pm and working until 1am in the morning and then taxi home paid for by BP.
Chap say's what will you do to keep awake ...errr I said "oh check the system , do this and that blah blah " ...Then he said "I suggest you fetch in a t.v. set !"
He was serious ...I took the job and it involved getting in at 5pm ...kick off the overnight run at 6pm ...put a tape on the system at 7pm ..then that was it till 1am , when the batch job finished ...so watching tv was an option ...

[SIRandyraven]

Well say something interesting then Kosmos

[SIRandyraven]

Yes ...Guessed so ...
Keep trying and respond with some thing positive ...you see that's a start.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

[DTCwordfan]

"Where would you like to fight in World War 3?" From the Chairman of Delta Metals.

Answer, "Sri Lanka" - "And why there?"
"Well if we are starting with such ridiculous questions, I am out of here."

I had been tipped off though - a mate of mine had been interviewed - the job was in South Africa with them and I can understand their concerns about having left wing folk out there, but in the middle of a business school??!! I think that the Group Chairman and his S-African MD thought that we were the pinkos of the LSE.....

Anyway this mate was asked if he had been out to SA or knew anybody who had. He replied "Yes, my closest friend went on VSA work in his gap year before studying for medicine, working in the Black Townships."

Group Chairman, "Don't think that this was a very good idea, interfering with God's nature."

The ex -ambassador and then non-exec director, Sir David Scott, whose obituary was in the D-Telegraph today, responded "Steady on, old chap, bit strong, what!"

[boxtops]

My sister's male friend took his elderly mother to an interview (jeez, don't ask why...), and when she got up to leave, her knickers fell down.

[society]

Boxy, you must be joking. No... seriously! LOL

[DTCwordfan]

Another mate of mine, with a strong Yorkshire accent, went to interview with a well known investment bank. The interview was with the Chairman. He walked into the room to be confronted with a very long boardroom table and only two chairs - at either end with the Chairman already sitting in his.

My mate went and got the chair and brought it right down to the other end, just next to the Chairman, and said, "We'll cut this fooking crap out straight 'way"

He got offered the job and refused to take it, going onto be MD of Mazda UK.

[boxtops]

Yes, seriously, society, and he was in his late forties at the time, I cannot imagine why he took his mother to an interview - let alone a mother with loose elastic...

[DTCwordfan]

It is possibly apocryphal but there is that wonderful one of a prospective student going to Oxford to interview at Balliol. It was a December afternoon and the light was drawing in. The prospective knocked on the Prof's door and a "Come in." He entered and the Prof was reading the Times. From behind the paper, "Sit down" and he carried on reading, the only light being from a single Tiffany desk light.

A few minutes passed and, eventually, the Prof lowered his paper, slid his horn-rimmed half moon specs down his nose, looked at our prospective and said,
"Prove you are brilliant."

The interviewee whipped his cigarette lighter out of his jacket and set fire to the paper.

[society]

I'll be thinking of that all day at work tomorrow and laughing to myself. That is so funny. Can you guess how childish and naughty my mind could be. :-)