The deaf CEO
About 15 years ago I went for an interview at the head office of a small retail chain. First i/v fine. Second i/v was with the CEO (lets call him Ciles Glarke) – who tells me he’s deaf and so I end up having to bellow loudly to answer each of his questions.

Despite this, I get the job, spend a week working in a store to get experience and then turn up at the office the following Monday. So there I am, first day being walked around the office being introduced to people when this deaf CEO comes bounding in to the building at 200mph, sees me, stops & says “good morning Battered”. Remembering he’s deaf I shout a reply of “good morning Ciles”.

He stares at me for about 10 seconds, forehead bulging and turning red then storms off. The whole office (about 40 people) is in silence. Turns out he wasn’t deaf – he had an ear infection when he had interviewed me which had cleared up by the time I started the job.

We never got on after that – I had to spend quite a bit of time with him despite being a junior who reported to someone several layers down & he eventually fired me a year later. Cunt.

He is now Chairman of the ECB and to my knowledge still a cunt.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 14:34, Reply)