Not Getting the Job
Muns asks - Did you blag your way through a job interview, only to be caught out? Is your photography portfolio full of other peoples work? Did your potential employers google your name, before offering you a lucrative contract and discover something from your past you would rather forget? How did you fail to get the job?
( , Thu 11 Jun 2015, 12:00)
Muns asks - Did you blag your way through a job interview, only to be caught out? Is your photography portfolio full of other peoples work? Did your potential employers google your name, before offering you a lucrative contract and discover something from your past you would rather forget? How did you fail to get the job?
( , Thu 11 Jun 2015, 12:00)
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Not hilarious
I put in for a job as a lab assistant at the Mary Kathleen uranium mine. I got an interview, which went well, but at the end the interviewer Mr. X said I was overqualified for the position. But a chemist they had there might be leaving in a few months and they would contact me if he did.
In the meantime I had temporary work as a lab assistant elsewhere. One Friday after work I found a message to phone Mr.X on the following Monday.
So on the Monday morning I phoned the mine and asked to speak to Mr. X
"Is this some kind of joke you bastard? If it is, it's not funny" was what I got.
I explained the situation. They cooled down a bit.
"He's dead, he was drowned on Saturday"
"Oh Jesus, I'm sorry, I had no idea."
During the weekend there had been an almighty storm at Mary Kathleen and someone had been swept off a bridge and drowned. It was Mr X.
I never heard from them again.
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 1:30, 13 replies)
I put in for a job as a lab assistant at the Mary Kathleen uranium mine. I got an interview, which went well, but at the end the interviewer Mr. X said I was overqualified for the position. But a chemist they had there might be leaving in a few months and they would contact me if he did.
In the meantime I had temporary work as a lab assistant elsewhere. One Friday after work I found a message to phone Mr.X on the following Monday.
So on the Monday morning I phoned the mine and asked to speak to Mr. X
"Is this some kind of joke you bastard? If it is, it's not funny" was what I got.
I explained the situation. They cooled down a bit.
"He's dead, he was drowned on Saturday"
"Oh Jesus, I'm sorry, I had no idea."
During the weekend there had been an almighty storm at Mary Kathleen and someone had been swept off a bridge and drowned. It was Mr X.
I never heard from them again.
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 1:30, 13 replies)
Is it wrong of me to have thought that this was leading to a punchline involving a 44000 litre saltwater pool?
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:50, closed)
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:50, closed)
To be fair, if your name is Mr X. and you work in a uranium mine
you're clearly going to die in an unconventional manner, probably at the hands of an international spy.
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:52, closed)
you're clearly going to die in an unconventional manner, probably at the hands of an international spy.
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:52, closed)
I would thought
You would have been more likely to have ended up having a terrible accident and develop super powers
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 10:02, closed)
You would have been more likely to have ended up having a terrible accident and develop super powers
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 10:02, closed)
So an employee of a company dies suddenly
...and they're surprised that not everyone in the whole world has heard by Monday morning?
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 14:02, closed)
...and they're surprised that not everyone in the whole world has heard by Monday morning?
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 14:02, closed)
A reply to the only intelligible comment so far
Actually it had made the news on that weekend, but no name was mentioned. I suppose that all relatives had not been told.
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 16:22, closed)
Actually it had made the news on that weekend, but no name was mentioned. I suppose that all relatives had not been told.
( , Wed 17 Jun 2015, 16:22, closed)
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