One of each
I once went for a Mac support job at a magazine. First stage of the interview went very well. Next was a tour round the offices. I was then asked to comment on whether I felt I could support such an extensive network.

I asked how often they had problems with their network - the response was along the lines of "not that often, not more than once or twice a day".

I pointed out that the network topology was an nightmare and some unscrupulous salesman had obviously fleeced them rotten - for example by selling them a load of unnecessary Nubus ethernet cards when most of their Macs were Centrises, Quadras and early PowerMacs with built-in AAUI-15 connectors that could use much cheaper transceivers.

I went into some detail about how the network should be reconfigured and added that I was confident of saving significant sums of money by not having to rely on the 'shower of incompetents' that had set it up in the first place.

Turns out the guy interviewing me had set up the network himself and was looking for someone to manage it so he could concentrate on other projects. I didn't get the job.

(Many years later…)
The worst interviewee I've had was an applicant for an admin post. On his CV he mentioned that he'd worked as an administrator for an English Language College in central London - which I knew had gone bust about 6 months before he claimed to have been working there. When challenged, he then claimed he'd worked at a different college but had had an intimate relationship with his manager, left the job when the relationship ended and did not want to use his ex as a referee. More lies.

Myself and my colleague then spent the rest of the interview asking increasingly rude questions about his sexuality and parentage in an attempt to make him either cry or walk out but we eventually got bored and told him to foff.
(SpittyWoonerism, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 11:35, Reply)