OK, not really a comeback but
I went through an assessment centre that was trying to pick 7 managers out of the 13 that existed at that level.

All very positive feedback from the external assessors, everyone feeling positive (foolishly)

Review with the Manager choosing these 7 lucky individuals.

"Your review states that you are: Highly motivated, committed to the company, highly intelligent with top marks in both the english and mathematic tests" {Just gotta say here - after 25 years they needed to assess me on that ?!?)

"There's no place for you on my team"

I was speechless for, oh, a good five minutes. She asked "Are you alright ? Have you no questions ?"

I finally dragged my self-respect up off the floor for a nanosecond to ask
"Why, do you only want puppets ?" (And in retrospect that should have been muppets)

Within 12 days I had my redundancy (which is what I wanted anyway)......
(The real vlad the impala, Fri 30 Apr 2004, 11:23, Reply)