I applied for a position with United Airlines. They had provided a very detailed form with instructions as to how flying time should be counted. During the course of the interview the question of how I had filled out the form was raised. The HR person said that the instructions were that flight instructors should NOT count their instructor time as Pilot in command time. I had done so. (There was a problem with civilian flight instructors jumping aboard aircraft and logging the time even though they were not flying).

The HR person asked in a huffy tone why I had done so. He asked if I had problems following instructions? I replied in an even more pointed tone, that I was instructing people fresh out of flight school in how to fly a Boeing 707. No one other than me was qualified to fly the aircraft. Often, they had never even been in one before. I stated that it did not matter if I were on the carpper, I was the pilot in command, and I was not then he could tell me who the he77 was.

Not surprisingly, I did not make the afternoon cut to continue the interview process.

Yeah, sadly this is the mentality of the airlines and their hiring processes are meant to identify employees who they can control rather than employees who will use sound judgement.

My own worst/best job interview was applying for a salesman job at a gun store. Met with the owner - "J.B" - and spent about twenty to thiry minutes identifying various types of pistols & rifles, describing how they operate, etc. Thought I impressed him. Then his wife came in at the end of the interview and said they'd call me if a position became available. Huh?

I walked across the street to get a cup of coffee and sort out my thoughts ... this was a stage in my life where my car had died and everything I owned could have fit in a ford ranger, so a steady job was critical at the time. As I was doctoring my coffee, the gun store manager showed up to get coffee as well. We talked for a moment, and he told me that I had impressed the owner to no end, but that his wife thought that any guy with long hair was a shiftless, worthless so and so. By this time, another one of the employees had showed up to give me the same talk lol

I took the hint, dipped into my dwindling cash supply, got a good haircut and came back the next day. The missus - who parenthetically handled the bookkeeping, accounting, taxes and the like - hired me on the spot. Turned out that while I was a decent gun salesman, I was far better at organizing & ordering inventory, keeping records of firearm serial numbers, hunting down rare and obscure guns for special orders and so forth. That was one of the best jobs I ever had, and only left it to come to Texas ... otherwise I'd probably still be there

never drink coffee before a job interview

Was asked one time "do you think you could kick a womans azz?"

... and what, pray tell, was the job you were interviewing for??

Nah east Texas.

That worst could have turned into the best. That's a big time no-no question! Instant grounds for age discrimination!

Worst interview I ever did was a guy walked in wanting a job. I looked over his resume and before I could finish he asked me, "How many days of vacation do we get a year."
I said, "365".

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.

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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.

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.

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