So I've finally got my job interview in London confirmed for next week
So I want to know what the best interview you've ever had is. Perhaps not the most successful, but possibly/hopefully the funniest.

alt q: Suggestions of things to try and slip in to the interview?

alt alt q: Anyone doing anything in the least bit interesting this evening? I'm apparently trying to teach someone guitar, but I'm not quite sure how I ended up in that situation.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 18:44, 34 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

the tricky interviews are the ones where you meet the other candidates
I've had a couple like that. I even had to have lunch with them and the interviewers once. I have low enough self esteem as this destroys me.

This evening I will mostly be berating myself for not doing work all day
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:01, Reply)

Well as I emailed them
And they said they'd like to interview me, and most of the other graduates are already interviewed, I shouldn't have that problem. Win.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:08, Reply)

oo, does that mean the others were shit?
this is potentially good news
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:09, Reply)

Nah, they're taking quite a few people on
But this department said they liked the look of my application even though it wasn't originally to them, so I'm hopeful.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:10, Reply)

all fingers are crossed

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:26, Reply)

chevron?

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:59, Reply)

oh yes

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:59, Reply)

i was at work not doing work
i nearly cried when my ds ran out of juice 45 minutes before home time :((((
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:58, Reply)

you should probably figure out a way to slip your willy in there somewhere
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tonight I'm watching True Blood and having dinner at my mums and loving on my dog who was not very happy today
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:04, Reply)

holy crap yeah ive well just finished my season two box set and golly eric is looking fucking fine

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:25, Reply)

He looks better in season 3, less peroxide is good on him
Alt Q: perfectly cromulent
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:29, Reply)

you're reading
old Conan books?
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:34, Reply)

No, watching the Simpsons every now and then.
I won a £50 bet to get that into my nursing portfolio last year.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:45, Reply)

hehe
we do that at work, you have to sneak obscure or stupid words into big communications meetings every month, it is starting to get a bit silly now though
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:48, Reply)

chevron

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:54, Reply)

dont fucking tease me im shit at downloading so i have to wait for the bawks sets

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:37, Reply)

I don't even have an internet :(

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:44, Reply)

gaaaaaaay
id lend you mine but then id be fucked wont i
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:45, Reply)

I'll have it on the 6th so long as things go to plan. Been without it for a month now and I'm running out of stuff to watch
Oooh, buy the box set of breaking bad, can't recommend it highly enough. No eyecandy though
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:47, Reply)

ok i have a cheque for 685 quid burning a hole in my hot pink velour hoodie right now and imma get it

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:52, Reply)

Damn fine choice m'lady

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 23:15, Reply)

bounce

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:55, Reply)

Have you still not managed to get that set up?
Sad times.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:45, Reply)

ch-ch-chevron

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:56, Reply)

Haha, I've not heard that in ages
It should be used more in general life, not just in interviews.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:39, Reply)

keep going

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:57, Reply)

YES

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:57, Reply)

The best interview I've had
was my Oxford entry one. I was there for five or six days and some of the other candidates took it madly seriously
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 19:50, Reply)

it's great when they do that
oddly enough, I never again saw the twat in the tweed jacket who I waited outside one interview with! He got very snotty when I answered his question about what school I'd been too.

Thing is, I was only doing it for a laugh, I was utterly convinced I wouldn't get in.
(Le Misanthrope last procrastinated on, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 0:58, Reply)

Good luck
The best interview I ever had was actually for my current job. Normally I'm really nervous, but for this one the very first question was something I was proud of. As it happened, what we'd just "tried" to do at my previous job (but been hindered to the point of failure by damagement) was something I was quite passionate about so I could talk on the subject all day. After that it became more of a conversation as I talked about how we could have avoided our mistakes and what I'd learned from it, throw in a few technical questions to prove I know my stuff and bob's your proverbial.

Things to try and slip in: an old one-liner - either the set-up (hard) or the punchline (easier) out of context. You'll know and they won't.

Today I amused myself by remembering the old one: What's white and slithers across the dancefloor? And giving it the new punchline "Darth Foxtrot".

This evening I will mostly be playing Angry Birds on my phone as I downloaded it last night and am now hooked.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 20:21, Reply)

Darth Foxtrot isn't a punchline.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 21:13, Reply)

He is now
What's blue and fucks old ladies?
Dr Preference.

See? Everyone's a punchline!
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 21:34, Reply)

A couple of years ago I was dole, applying for literally anything and everything.
By some extraordinary twist of fate, I managed to get an interview for some white-collar job at 9am on Monday. I turn up at a swanky office somewhere in central Leeds, tell the secretary I'm here and sit down at 8.55. By 9.10 nobody's turned up, but I think nothing of it. Time passes. Finally, at 10.05, a dozy-looking lad shambled into sight and escorted me into a side room.

Interviewer: Hi, I'm Rob. Are you [my name]?
Me: I am.
Interviewer: Can you tell me about your previous experience of bookkeeping.
Me: ...I don't have any.
Interviewer: OK, so what qualities do you have that would make you a good [accountancy position]?
Me: Hang on, that's not the job I applied for.
Interviewer: According to this form it is.
Me: Then your form must be wrong. I applied for [completely different position].
Interviewer: Oh... right. Would you mind just going to back to reception? This won't take a minute.

An hour and a half later, it turned out out he'd got my application form mixed up with someone else's and I'd actually been rejected before the interview stage.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 21:24, Reply)

Man, I hope this doesn't happen to me
5 hours of travelling to be told that wouldn't go down well.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 22:09, Reply)