Out of my depthAs a schoolkid, I signed up for a public speaking contest purely as a ruse to meet girls. It haunts me still: in front of 300 people, I started to speak, dried up, stood there for what felt like half an hour staring at the floor and then slowly walked back to my seat. Oh, and the girl I liked laughed.
Have you ever been utterly, completely, devastatingly out of your depth?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 15:07)
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Job InterviewI recently applied for a job, where part of the application process consisted of an on-line numerical reasoning test. Now I'm not the worlds greatest mathematician (understated !)so I happen to enlist the help of a number crunching Guru I sit next to at work. Success followed ! I was invited to the second part of the interview, where we were all congratulated on our performance - it was apparently a VERY hard test. Now, just to make sure we hadn't cheated, the first part of the interview consisted of some more numeric reasoning. By this time I felt sick, I was beginning to sweat profusely and could feel myself going Royal Mail Red. The *shame* as I headed for the door was almost unbearable - I can still hear the smug arseholes laughing now !
(, Tue 19 Oct 2004, 15:37, Reply)
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