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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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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)
A tragic end to the Streets of Rage saga.

(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 7:52, closed)
A tragic end to the Operation: Mindcrime album.

(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:27, closed)
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)
A tragic end to the R** F******** affair.

(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 11:01, closed)
Yes it was.

(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 16:24, 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)
Very much this.

(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:55, 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)
Comic book Mr X is slightly telepathic.
Big woop.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 10:30, closed)
that could be a side effect of the brain cancer

(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 11:03, 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)
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)
Alright
Fellow person from The Isa.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 20:41, closed)

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