Not an interview - but the two cheese-wits I employed.....
I run me own internet company - doing webby stuff all day and getting paid for it isn't as much fun as you'd think... - but being your own boss sure beats the alternatives....

AAnyway - I got two graduates on this scheme where they'd be subsidised for the first 10 weeks - to give them a chance at some work and me a chance to see if I liked them....

It was one of my first interviews and I didn't cack it too badly - but I never followed up their references with the gestapo-like intensity I now realise is vital....

Suffice to say they were fuckwits: they were a matched pair of a bloke and a girl and I found they could use NONE of the programming languages on their CV's - and that they had identical spelling errors on their CV's in the same place....

I would tell them something one day - in an email and via a printout - and they would not know it the next day: not just that they had forgotten it, but they did not rememebr being told it... I spent 10 weeks trying to get them to be functioning employable human beings then fired their arses.

I REALLY should have walked them off the premises - because in the few hours notices they had they tried to delete three months worth of work from another freelancer AND change a customers PayPal password for future fraud....

BUT: sweet, delicious revenge came: they asked me for a fuckin' reference!! I could not believe it! I wrote what I legally could - "fired for gross misconduct" but also called them and gave them the most scathing but turthful assesment I could...

Unbeliveable! What gormless, moronic, incompetent lackwit gives a reference for a job he got fired from?!?!
(chairman_of_the_peoples_democratic_republic_of_birmingham, Wed 26 Jan 2005, 9:56, Reply)