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#7072262 - 01/20/12 11:08 AM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: CaddoAggie96]
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Registered: 04/02/08
Posts: 6823
Loc: Grapevine, Texas
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I have a streak going on interviews. I have always gotten the job or at least an offer from every interview I have ever done (goes back to my first job). I have had pretty stable work history so I am only talking about 4 or 5. I don't remember a really bad or good interview I did.
With my current job I conduct job interviews on a regular basis. Most of the interviews are decent to good but I have seen all sorts of funny things. Most of the funny things are deer in the headlights looks when they don't know how to answer a question. I am always entertained when someone answers a question that was never asked. It can also be funny to call BS on them when you have done your homework before the interview and know more about them than they think. I had one preson decide about 15 minutes into the interview that they were no longer intrested in the job and got up and left.
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#7072285 - 01/20/12 11:20 AM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: CaddoAggie96]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 12/12/08
Posts: 1270
Loc: Roaming West Texas
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I had two bad experiences. First was in high school. The guy asked if I'd ever smoked marajana. "Well...yeah. Hasn't every body?" Turns out you're supposed to lie about that sort of thing. Second was fresh out of college. Big accounting firm in San Antonio. First time I'd ever been in a parking garage. Much different from my little podunk home town. To make matters worse, there was very attractive woman doing the interview. I remember being extremely nervous. Scared to death, in fact. I was completely out of my element. We were in a fancy conference room with high-backed leather chairs going all the way around a 20' cherry wood table. I was trying to look relaxed and put my elbow on the back of the chair next to me and rested my head on my hand. About that time, the chair I had my arm on swiveled and I almost fell out of my own chair. I didn't get that job....or her phone number. 
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#7072328 - 01/20/12 11:31 AM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: CaddoAggie96]
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TFF Guru
Registered: 06/21/07
Posts: 13691
Loc: Dallas
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Coming out of college I interviewed for a few jobs that I was absolutely not qualified for. Those were pretty embarrassing and self-esteem killers.
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#7072345 - 01/20/12 11:40 AM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: Derek]
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TFF Celebrity
Registered: 10/23/08
Posts: 5628
Loc: Corsicana, Texas
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I don’t thing I’ve ever interviewed for a job. I pretty much walk in and they say that dude is a bmf. Hire him now. Been snapping necks and cashing checks since 1992. Top 5 funniest comments I've read on here
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#7083394 - 01/23/12 02:28 PM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: Monty Wright]
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TFF Celebrity
Registered: 08/27/08
Posts: 5059
Loc: Texas
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I don’t thing I’ve ever interviewed for a job. I pretty much walk in and they say that dude is a bmf. Hire him now. Been snapping necks and cashing checks since 1992. Top 5 funniest comments I've read on here LMAO
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#7083947 - 01/23/12 04:50 PM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: Derek]
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Registered: 03/01/02
Posts: 23337
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I don’t thing I’ve ever interviewed for a job. I pretty much walk in and they say that dude is a bmf. Hire him now. Been snapping necks and cashing checks since 1992. did you get the m f ing catalina wine mixer?
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#7084423 - 01/23/12 07:22 PM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: CaddoAggie96]
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Outdoorsman
Registered: 07/01/09
Posts: 203
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At my current position, it is my job to set up all the interviews and have the oral board put together. I have been doing this for about the past 5 yrs and tell everyone the EXACT same thing...
So, I tell applicant to come dressed for a professional interview but to bring work out type clothes for a physical agility. After the interview, you will perform the PT.
Guy shows up in sweat pants for the oral board and sits down in front of us. Then we noticed he's chewing bubble gum. Ask if he remembers what was told in reference to the dress code and he becomes confrontational about it. Then I ask if he considered chewing bubble gum in an interview appropriate.
No joke, guy stands up and asks if "you just want to end the interview!" I inform him I think it's time. Then he yells "you guys are a bunch of A-Holes!" and walks out. Needless to say he didn't get the job. Worst one I can recall in the last few years.
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#7085357 - 01/23/12 10:49 PM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: CaddoAggie96]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 03/22/11
Posts: 509
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I interviewed to work at Dicks over the summer. I was in a hurry to start making some boat money and was expecting to get hired pretty quickly. The first interviewer asked about all sorts of outdoorsy stuff (i'm an eagle scout, lifelong hunter, and obviously an angler.) He told me to come back for a second interview in a week (I was kind of irked since I had never had a 2nd interview before). When I interviewed the second time, the woman basically told me that me wanting $8.00 an hour was too high, I was only going to get around 15 hours a week, they probably weren't going to start me in lodge (which was the position I interviewed for and was very qualified to do), and the real kicker, I wouldn't start for another 2 WEEKS. Oh, and I was hired. That would be nearly half my summer gone. After she said all that, I asked her if she was out of her ******* mind and walked out.
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#7085373 - 01/23/12 10:58 PM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: tx_basser]
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Registered: 03/01/02
Posts: 23337
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True Story..
During my last semester at UNT I interviewed at Boeing for QC/QA position. My father knew one of the VP's and got me in the door and an interview set up with the Director of Quality. Well, I guess the Director was told to interview me, and got mad as he did not want to and had another candidate in mind for the position.
I had a great resume, prior experience in the Navy that matched the job, grades were good at UNT, etc... but the dude was a complete azz. He proceeded to grill me and every 10 mins would tell me I had nothing that I could offer Boeing and really not qualified to do anything. I took it in stride and just said, I appreciate this time, and told him to call me if anything changed, then he barbed me as I left and assured me he would not be calling.
5 years later I am the Qualty Manager at a large Aerospace and Defense manufacturer/distributor of parts and assesmblies to Boeing. I was looking to hire a Quality Engineer and notice a resume in my stack... Yep, it was the same D1ck from before that I interviewed with and told me I was not qualified for anything.
I had HR call the guy in to set up an interview. Met him and escorted him back to my office and started chit/chat. I was going to play this out just like he did me. I kept him there for over an hour, quizzing his background, successes he said he achieved, and would shake my head and say how I just don't see the connection between his work experience and what I need done. The dude was floored and said how his resume matched exacty what we were looking for.
I then dropped the bomb on him that I was the young man that he told was not qualified to do anything, and if he remembered me. Well, he said he did now, and his eyes got real big and he started shaking. I told him after he rejected me, I was hired at another Boeing facility for the exact same job he said I was not qualified for. He told me he had been laid off from Boeing and trying to find something to make ends meet for about 5 years till he was ready to be fully retired.
Karma so you hired the poor old guy? you're a good guy.
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#7087034 - 01/24/12 12:56 PM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: CaddoAggie96]
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TFF Team Angler
Registered: 04/13/09
Posts: 4842
Loc: Buda/Port A
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I was a young gung ho law enforcement officer looking for a better paying gig. I applied to go to work for a particularly liberal department that happens to pay well and has excellent retirement. I breezed through all the preliminary BS pretty easily and got to the Oral Board.
At the OB there were the standard "what if" scenario questions, which I answered easily. I had some pretty good experience and worked with a bunch of retired, old school Houston cops. Probably a little too old school. Anyway, the OB got around to asking, "You pull a car over for suspicion of DWI and discover that it's a fellow officer. What do you do"? I answered, "Park his car and take him home". "What if he resists"? "Then I park his car and take his bloodied, busted butt home".
Now, remember that this was some 20 years ago and LE was different then. Having been taught by old school HPD I had a different mindset. But I answered honestly. And of course, I did not get the job.
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#7130419 - 02/04/12 08:57 AM
Re: Best or Worst job interviews you remember
[Re: CaddoAggie96]
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Green Horn
Registered: 01/18/12
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