To ask for your interview fuck ups

At what point did he learn the true meaning of well-endowed and connect it with what he had said in the interview?

One time I went for a job and one of the other candidates fell asleep in the waiting room… I specifically did not wake them as I didn’t want the competition…

I got the job.

I once drank the interviewers glass of water.

Another one from me... I went for an interview in a bar... The manager had two CVs, he mixed us up, kept telling me "Oh so you do DJing in your free time" - "No, it's not me" etc, then he took mine out and went "oh this one is yours, but it's missing a page?" (it was only one page as I was at uni and only had one two short-term part time jobs). Dont know why he expected a 5 page CV for a job to pour beers and serve burgers. Didnt call back but I was quite grateful for that in the end.

My pencil skirt ripped all the way down the back as I walked in, had to do the interview with my arse out. Also and god knows why they saw on my CV I’m a trained singer and they asked me to sing…and I did! Why oh why in a ripped skirt. It was my first job out of uni so cringe

DW was doing an online interview and halfway through her desk collapsed- one minute she is talking to the interviewers, next minute there they hear banging and scraping (and swearing!) and DW is looking sideways at the camera trying to untangle the laptop from the chaos. She got the job!

I was desperate for a new job so had applied for loads. They were on council websites where you can save your details so just required a little tweak rather than a full application form. I got an online interview for a job. I did my research prepared, signed on for the interview. It was a totally different job! One I had no recollection of applying for, and wouldn't be able to do due to physical expectations. I can only think I must have applied by mistake. I got through the interview but surprisingly was not offered the job.

Not me, but DH. He managed to knock his cup of scalding hot black coffee into the crotch of both the men interviewing him 🤦‍♀️ apparently they both leapt up and there was much cursing and crotch dabbing. DH was mortified but he got the job!

I’ve done some awkward things…but none as bad as someone I interviewed last week.

They kept calling me ‘Claire’ when my name is ‘Charlotte’ (not real but example). They did it every time I bloody spoke ‘thank you Claire, thats a really interesting question.’ My name was literally on the bloody computer screen (teams interview).

I was interviewed by a husband and wife team but I didn’t realise they were a couple (even though it’s well known in the industry).
the wife tells me they got married X year.
I thought it was just a slightly odd anecdote as in they both happened to get married in the same year (but to separate people). I was so floored by how odd a thing this was to say that I stared blankly. Could even manage congratulations.
We moved on and then 5 minutes later the penny dropped and I said “oh to each other!” More odd looks exchanged. Still no congratulations from me. I must have come across very socially awkward. Job involves people skills.
I got the job!
good luck…

Don’t be put off because of one fool.
I stopped work for the same reason, and have got back.
Keep trying 😊

Oh this takes me back to some bad memories! I had a colleague once who would do this, but he did it ALL THE TIME. The worst was when he would come and stand next to someone to talk to them, whilst they were sitting at their desk, and do this whilst his crotch was at their face height. It was just awful.
He was technically supposed to give presentations to clients as part of his role, but as that would have been a disaster we were all unofficially required to find ‘reasons’ he couldn’t each time. The few times that we failed and he gave the presentations we ended up with pissed off clients asking what he thought he was doing. No one could figure out why he hadn’t been fired. There was however a magnificent occasion once when he did it in front of a marvellously posh older lady, who just stared at him and boomed, “for God’s sake man, stop fondling yourself!”

Second interview for a job I really wanted, I was told Head Honcho would be in the interview. She breezed in for five minutes and the whole thing was over in fifteen, I assumed she had decided no way so went to the nearest bar where I cried into my wine and had a few more than I should. Got a phone call the next day, I had got the job. When I started I asked Head Honcho about the interview and she said she literally just wanted to meet the person the panel recommended before the formal offer was made. Moral of the story, don’t overthink it!

Oooooh no! On the other hand, I’m in too much pain to sleep, and this made me laugh so much! So thank you!

I had an interview for a job I desperately wanted and was really optimistic, I was answering questions confidently and seemed to be getting nods of approval.
When I was leaving and walking away after shaking hands I noticed the interviewers staring at the floor, I looked down in confusion and found a pair of knickers had dropped out of my trouser leg! Luckily they were clean and must have ended up getting tangled in the leg in the washer or drier, it was extra embarrassing though that they were control pants.

I was mortified but picked them up with as much dignity as I could manage but I have a really bad habit of blurting out inappropriate things when I’m put on the spot so I said “Sorry gentlemen you charmed the pants off me”
I don’t know why I said it and I still cringe over 15 years on.

The men two men interviewing me gave a polite chuckle but I didn’t get offered the job.

One of my best friends was unemployed and kept getting sent to interviews by the job centre for really rubbish jobs, the job centre threatened to cut his benefits unless he accepted the next job he was offered and sent him to a sausage factory that accepted everyone.
He went to the interview late and kept yawning then said he was exhausted because he’d been up night building a space ship and was on a come down from class A drugs.
When they asked him his reason for leaving his previous job he said stealing and winked at the woman interviewing him and said her dress was sexy.
It backfired because they knew he’d been forced to attend by the job centre and that he hadn’t stolen from his previous employer so they offered him the job 😂.

I heard Karl Pilkington on a podcast saying that he had filled in an application form with “English - quite good” when asked what languages he speaks - he didn’t get the job!

I have a friend who as a grad put that he liked sailing, on his CV. To make him look interesting 😬

He got the job as his new boss loved sailing 😬

And then spent the next 2 years trying to find ways not to go on various sailing trips his boss organised. My friend didn't know one end of a boat from another 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Where I work is on a bus route that runs every 30min. Unless you trust it to get you there bang on time (I wouldn't!), we would expect people to potentially be quite early. It's an industrial estate so nowhere else to go in the interim.

My worst interviewee was a chap who turned up drunk and told us he likes to take cocaine at the weekend. For a job that requires a high level of security clearance. I ended the interview at that point and had security remove him from our secure facility.

Two really embarrassing interviews,

First, I turned up in my wheelchair and got asked if, despite it being a purely administrative role, I'd mind helping clean if I got the job. I didn't.

Second, company swore they had accessible entrance. They didn't. Luckily I'd done a drive by of the building. Had to phone my dad to come lift me & chair into office.

They then interviewed me, only for me to realise they had decided not to hire anyone at all! My dad had to wait to carry me back out.

I wish they'd been upfront.

Had first interview, went great. Second one was scheduled.

Second one started which was with the person who would be my new boss. She only fucking knew my old awful terror of a boss from a couple of previous jobs. 'Oh I see you worked at XYZ place, I know XYX/awful person, they are a good friend of mine'.

😫😫🥴

I basically froze and stopped answering questions and ended the interview really abruptly. It would never have worked.

Years ago, I had an interview with a tv station. The night before we got a takeaway.
And a few hours later I got really sick.
I called the guy at the station and told him I suspected I had food poisoning and that I was very sorry, and could we please reschedule?
He was rude and disrespectful and said no and accused me of “faking it.”
I ended up having to go to the hospital, so a few days after I got better, I got dressed up and took my hospital papers into the station.
They ushered me back to the guy’s office, and I said, “Hi Mr. Smith - I’m DreamTheMoors, the faker. I just wanted to drop these by in person.”
And then I left. I didn’t wait around for him to react - he probably wouldn’t have been very apologetic.
I think that food poisoning saved me from working for a gigantic arsehole.

This made me howl!!

I once interviewed somewhere just after splitting with my EXDP. It was for quite a senior role, and in a male dominated field (finance).

The interview itself had gone pretty well, and I was confident about getting the job based on my technical capabilities, which I'd prepared for.

One of the two-man panel then asked me to "tell us a bit about yourself and what you do outside work.

I completely froze as didn't have any answers prepared, and didn't want to get into anything regarding my relationship or having DC, so waffled on about visiting my parents who live 10 minutes away. They looked at each other as if I had two heads, and needless to say, I didn't get that job.

Got headhunted for a new role a couple of months later, which I did get, paying 20% over what the one I missed out on was paying #everycloud

Good luck OP, I'm sure you will be fine!

I had an interview by a rather bored Partner who obviously had no idea who I was, hadn’t read my cv and I wasn’t too sure he knew what the job was.

I gave up by the end (sure I hadn’t got the job) so when he yawned and asked me what the time gap on my CV was (clearly marked in front of him as ‘parental leave’ ) I blurted out ‘I was in jail’.

This had been joke when I was in art school that when you did your first presentation you had to talk a bit yourself, and the tradition was that people always tried to fit in the most outrageous lies to see how long before people realised - mine was ‘I was in jail…’ and for some (perpelxing) reason people seemed to believe me until and it built and built… the shocked faces finally got the joke when I said it was for abusing frogs… long story. I’m either a good liar or look like an ex jailbird. Or maybe honest…

anyway, I got the job and wish I hadnt as it was hellish and the second worst job I ever had.

But we need to know what the interviewer said/did!

I've been on a couple of interview panels with memorable candidates. One turned up late and picked a fight with a staff member before he'd even got to the interview room (he didn't get the job). Another knocked a jug of water everywhere during the interview (he did get the job).