Train Driving...
I was off sick some time ago and instead of saying "Don't bother coming in" work found me a really interesting job at our company recruitment centre in London, helping out, photocopying things.etc

Once or twice I did structured interviews for applicants for the trainee train drivers jobs. Usually, we get thousands of applications for only very few vacancies, and the nature of the job means that we get some very odd people who like the railways very much (think duffle coat, thermos flask.etc).

Anyhew, one interviewee manages to get through all the aptitude tests, physcometric evaluations and reaction/concentration tests, and I get told to go through the interview with him, and mark off his scores on the sheet.
"Any probs, I'm just in the next room" the HR woman tells me.
So I introduce myself, tell the guy that I'm a driver, and the first question was something like "so why do you want to be a train driver?".
I then had to listen to 20mins of the interviewee tell me everything I don't want to know about the railway. How he wants to drive Unit Number such and such, how he dreams of signals and stations, how he spent £3,000 travelling around Poland looking at steam trains. I think I knew he was about to fail when he asked me if I'd driven his favourite train and did I have any photos, because he'd email me some if I wanted...

Failed for being too enthusiastic (and living with his Mum, when he was 42...) and having 'poor personal hygiene issues'.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 21:45, Reply)