Job InterviewsIf it's not the "where do you see yourself in five years time" question, it's the trick questions they throw at you to make them feel superior. Tell us about your worst job interview and the most unsuited candidates you've seen. BTW: Please don't use the question board to send messages to each other. It makes the whole thing unreadable for everyone else.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 9:51)
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why the forms? why?Applying for a job at Booths (northern supermarket chain) a few years back to be a weekend shelf-stacker/tillgimp, I went to pick up the application form, which was the size of a small dictionary and contained such vital queries as "what key skills can you bring to this job?" (ability to lift boxes and use my index finger?) and "when have you shown originality of thought in dealing with a problematic situation that occured in the workplace?" (calling for more change and a mop in aisle six?) I think I cracked on about page 9 ("What would you say was your proudest achievement?") and wrote something along the lines of "completing this ridiculous form without stabbing myself in the eye with the pen."
Never heard back from them, oddly enough. But then of course, I went to Oxford, where me and my overpriviledged, get-everything-we-want-far-too-easily chums and I lounge around all day cockily talking about how damn rich we are, of course. So everything’s just dandy.
Get over yourself, you ballbag, and stop with the stoopid misconceptions. people are only telling stories.
/rant – sorry all
(, Mon 24 Jan 2005, 21:59, Reply)
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