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The boss showed me the shop floor, complete with loose floor tiles, out-of-date equipment and prospective colleagues eyeing me like a raw steak. "Christ, what a craphole", I said. I think that's the moment I blew it. Tell us how you didn't get the job.

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(, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 13:06)
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5th "media sales" interview of the day (many years ago).
I was tired, bored, and should have cancelled. But at the end of a discussion about my CV, the director asked me the stunningly silly question "How long have you wanted* to be in media sales?".

Without thinking, I replied "as a toddler, I had a toy phone, and I'd pretend to ring up people I didn't know and sell them things that didn't belong to me in return for a very small percentage".


*Nobody has ever wanted to be in media sales. It's just something you find yourself doing. It's very much like a heroin addiction, but without the upsides. I have since escaped into advertising agencies.
(, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 9:28, 5 replies)
If you're doing something five times in a day then it isn't an interview.

(, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 10:07, closed)
What are you?
Official advisor to the NWO?
(, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 10:25, closed)
I'm whatever you want me to be, sugarlump.

(, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 10:48, closed)
I could use a footstool.

(, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 10:57, closed)
Ew.
Stools from feet. Mmm - a sort of slimy coagulative log of toe jam.

Sexy time.
(, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 11:05, closed)

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