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The boss showed me the shop floor, complete with loose floor tiles, out-of-date equipment and prospective colleagues eyeing me like a raw steak.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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(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 13:06)
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I would rather ask: "What pathetically useless questions do you know have been used in interviews?"
I nominate: "If you could invite three people living, dead or fictional to a dinner party who would you invite?".
I've vowed to myself that, should I ever have to respond to this, I shall reply "'Chopper Reid', Howard Marx and the inmate formally known as Charles Bronson.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 18:54, 15 replies)
crazylols

(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 19:28, closed)
Edgy.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 19:31, closed)
"Your two daughters and Jimmy Savile."

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 20:12, closed)


(SlantedScience, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 4:59, closed)

Interviewer: "Why do you want this job?"
Me: "Well the moderately decent-sized fortnightly paycheck is a pretty big incentive."
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Fri 22 Nov 2013, 22:29, closed)
did you mean "formerly"

(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 0:06, closed)

The prisoner formerly known as Michael Gordon Peterson is now formally known as Charles Bronson.
(I helped save b3ta! Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 10:22, closed)
I was waiting for the proofreaders to fuck that one up. Could not have happened to a better chap.
Made my weekend but not my end weak.
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 11:15, closed)
What an exciting life you lead.

(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 25 Nov 2013, 1:47, closed)
is he informally known as something else then?
this is all very confusing
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 18:25, closed)
OMG YAWN - you're wrong. Deal with it.

(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 23:04, closed)
^^pretentious, self-pitying troll^^

(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 23 Nov 2013, 23:44, closed)
I did.
I think he's formally known as Charles Ali Ahmed now.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 24 Nov 2013, 20:18, closed)
Who's Howard Marx?

(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 25 Nov 2013, 1:46, closed)
Karl's pot smoking cousin.

(dchurch bah, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 14:25, closed)

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