Mine was trying to take a sip of water but my hand was so shaky that they all saw me spill a bit. From then on I decided to keep my hands under the table no matter how thirsty I was!! I didn't get the job, by the way, but I don't think that was the reason....
2006-09-04 05:06:59 · 24 answers · asked by Jo Crow 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I went for this interview once, and these two guys were in the office.
As I entered the room, I said "Good afternoon, gentlemen".
Then one of them said "That's no gentleman, that's my mother."
To which I cheerfully replied "And a very handsome woman indeed, sir. You must be proud."
Things kind of went downhill from there, and I didn't get the job.
2006-09-05 22:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to an interview a few years ago and the two women interviewing me were asking the strangest questions. I guess they thought they were being really deep and thoughtful and trying to get some insight to what really makes me tick.
One woman would ask a question and then they would look at each other like they couldn't believe what I just said and then they would ask me some other weird thing and I would say I don't know. They made me so nervous I felt like running out of there crying. I usually do well with an interview, I get along with most people and can think of things to day but these two were crazy. I was glad I did not get the job I am sure they would have been awful to work for.
2006-09-04 05:13:13 · answer #2 · answered by mom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Final year at at uni and after exams had finished. So it was pretty much 24 partying. Unfortunately the night before the interview I had to, (for various reasons involving my keys having been lobbed into the river), break my kitchen window to get back in the house. This I did (for various reasons involving being a very stupid pi**ed student) with my fist. So I got this cut on my arm and went to bed with it.
Next morning, cut still there, bandaged it as best I could, got the train to London, and in the interview it started weeping pus and watery stuff, which seeped out of the bandage and down into my right hand. Which I then used to shake the hand of my intervewer. Who DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. What a star.
2006-09-04 06:01:41 · answer #3 · answered by Otter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had one that went OK but had potential for disaster. The interviews were held in a huge old fashioned hotel. Finished the interview, got up turned around and was confronted by two doors. One of these is a walk in closet I figured, hurriedly looking for a telltale difference. "The one on the right" said someone. The fact that they spoke made me wonder if someone had already made the wrong choice. What would you do? - I'd probably walk in and stay in hoping that they would forget about me.
2006-09-04 05:21:53 · answer #4 · answered by Silkie1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I kept apologising because I was so nervous that I couldn't speak coherently! I also used my hands a lot while I was answering questions and 2 or 3 times I put my head in my hands because I knew I was making an absolute fool of myself!
Needless to say I didn't get the job!
2006-09-04 05:11:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh god, I had this excruciating interview once... it was seriously the most hardcore, difficult interview you can imagine (it was for a sales job) - and then the chap interviewing me said 'Right, I'm an eskimo, and I want you to sell me ice... go on, off you go.'
And my mind just went utterly blank. Oh god it was awful. You know when you can just feel your face turn this horrible shade of puce. I was just stuttering like a fool, going 'er...er...well, erm, yes, er hello Mr Eskimo, can I interest you in some ice...'
(god it still makes me cringe...)
Actually, my teacher training interview was pretty horrible recently, I made a right idiot of myself by proclaiming that I 'loved Shakers' (by which I meant Shakespeare) and also, claiming that 'Junk' by Melvyn Burgess should be on the school syllabus, as 'drugs and underage sex was all that children did nowadays'. What a thing to say when you want to be a teacher, eh???
How I got accepted for either, I don't know!
2006-09-04 05:21:59 · answer #6 · answered by gruffalo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Being the interviewer and having to to good cop bad cop. My other interviewer was being the bad cop and made the lady we were interviewing cry! Luckily it was an internal candidate who we both new so we managed to smooth it over and she did end up getting the job. The thing was the bad cop interviewer was the nicest bloke in the whole company so she thought he was just being a complete git!
2006-09-04 05:18:00 · answer #7 · answered by Monkeyphil 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I applied for a job, flew 1000 miles, rented a room and a car, went to the interview and they told me that they had hired someone for the "top" position during the previous week.. then they asked if I would be interested in a job at minimum wage?
2006-09-04 05:11:49 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I turned up late because i was locked in at home! Just had my lock changed and would you believe ... Couldn't let myself out. I phoned to explain i was going to be a little late, due to the traffic (Couldn't tell them i couldn't figure out how to undo the security lock in my own home). Eventually i managed, took a taxi and arrived totally frantic. I was sweating! And just felt totally shaken and beat! They were Ok, told me to relax, no worry etc. But i couldn't relax! I kept wondering if i had switched my mobile off or not, didn't want it to ring in the middle of the interview. So i must have looked awful, nervous etc. I was asked to attend a second interview but didn't! I couldn't face them again but it proved worthwhile because the job was my second choice, i really, really wanted another job and i found out i had got it just days later!
2006-09-04 06:32:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would have to be my first formal interview in senior year college. It was for a systems analyst position and the interviewer asked me what my favorite course was and why. I answered, "computer architecture, because I learned many aspects such as multiplication, division, and addition...". I think I was trying to describe logic gates and multiplexers. i was so nervous.. and mumbling my answers to the other questions, so it was doomed from the beginning.
2006-09-04 05:31:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋