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The boss showed me the shop floor, complete with loose floor tiles, out-of-date equipment and prospective colleagues eyeing me like a raw steak.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'm from Somerset
and my accent was so broad that even people in Somerset mocked me for it.

I had an interview for a software development job. In Derby.

One of their questions was, "would you mind if people took the piss out of how you talk?"
(I helped save b3ta! teedyay, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 11:51, 10 replies)
Hahahaha
And you responded "The irony would be delicious."
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 11:55, closed)
me duck
or is that dook?
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 13:55, closed)
*I like this*

(I helped save b3ta! skullfunkerry In case of implosion do not look into implosion, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 18:59, closed)
Or
Oi don't moind, Oi can droive a tracderr.
(username failed moderation, Tue 26 Nov 2013, 16:41, closed)
haha

(I helped save b3ta! browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 12:29, closed)
I bet that lolracism is rife in that particular workplace.

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 20:33, closed)
Despite saying I wouldn't mind (being used to it and all)
I didn't get that job.

I got a different one in Nottingham. Halfway through the first-day tour, I realised for the first time that I actually say, "oo-ar" where most people would say, "right, yep, got it". I was saying it quite a lot.
(I helped save b3ta! teedyay, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 22:50, closed)
Bloody hell you have got it bad.
I used to have quite a broad accent, but had it kicked out of me by poshos.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 26 Nov 2013, 14:56, closed)
Arrrrr!

(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 9:22, closed)
That's because
we don't have an accent in Derby
(An Alien sneezed on Bill Oddies binoculars, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 20:22, closed)

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