AIBU to ask you to make me feel better about this absolute howler of an interview? Or should I just leave the country?

Good luck and keep us posted! You will most likely get the job now 🤣🤣🤣

Sorry OP but I’m sitting here in tears laughing 😆

They'll certainly remember you which is ALWAYS A Good Thing!

Hahaha this is amazing!! Did you at least get the job? 🤣🤣

If anything you made for a memorable interview and that would be hard to top 🤣 xx

Love this op hilarious😁

I went for an interview for a job I desperately wanted and was extremely qualified for. The interview went really well until the last couple of minutes. I brought up that I have recently been mentored by someone well known and high up in the industry - and then I blanked on the person’s name. Through nerves presumably. It was gone. So I did something that I will never understand for the rest of my life - I said the name of someone else. I had a second to decide whether to confess to forgetting the name of this mentor or pretend it was someone else. I said ‘Jane Smith’ who I had never even met. One of the interview panel said - OMG she’s my best friend, what a coincidence! I wanted to cry. I did not get the job and I’m certain it is because they thought I was a compulsive liar and fantasist. I still feel sick 25 years later.

I think this is probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever read on here🤣🤣🤣 I’d be tempted not to believe it except for the fact that it’s the sort of thing that usually happens to me. One lesson I have learned from all the comedy sketch scenarios that have befallen me is - NEVER wear stick on chicken fillets in hot weather. And if you do, make sure your top is tucked into your jeans.

Honestly, don't worry about it ! As a previous interviewer I would have thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment, and it would have made my day. So long as you continued with whatever dignity you could muster at the time it will not affect your chances. Good luck, hope you get the job. Really, stop worrying. And on the up side, it will make a great dinner party tale once the embarrassment has worn off :)

Usually these types of hiccups means YOUVE GOT THE JOB!!!!!

I thought the OP message was funny (good luck with the job), but the story about your friend had me really belly laughing- having done lots of interviews I can only imagine the confusion on the part of the interviewer- hilarious

Interviewed over teams for my last job. The lights in the room were on some sort of motion detection system. I was sat in the wrong place so the lights kept going out, but they dimmed to black, so when the interviewers noticed it starting to dim they shouted- ~Kay- wave your arms! ~ and it went on like that the whole time. I got the job.

LOL, this also reminds me of an embarrassing food incident I had at a work function.

As I bit into a wedge of fresh pineapple, the juice squirted into my colleague’s eye!!!!! Mortifying 🫣🙈

I poured a glass of water down myself in a white blouse before a big job interview. I looked like I was taking part in a wet t shirt competition. Thankfully I was early enough that it had partially dried by the interview and I had a jacket with me.

My sister sent a cv in with track change on and turned up to the job interview in black stiletto heels with gold spikes all over for her first job post school. She made an impression and got the job!

Fantastic. Bet you get the job

That's absolutely hilarious OP.
At least you weren't on national TV and then viral worldwide.

Search 'Children interrupt BBC interview' on YouTube,😂

Sounds like the same plonkers interviewing me @12234m They were howling with laughter, apparently it was to judge resilience!

That reminds me @Dorothyperky. I'd got to the house where I was going to be looking after two small boys and they sat me in a chair which immediately collapsed under me. For many reasons I ran away once everyone was in bed.

This is very funny but @randomchap and the fart beats it

I once interviewed for a management consultancy. They had a 'joke' chair that fell apart and they were filming it with a hidden camera! Luckily I was wearing a trouser suit. I was furious.

I hope you get the job.

My friend's a criminal barrister and her go-to is "holy shitballs". Probably not in court though.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is also brilliant. This thread is a gift.

@TattyOldOwl Howling with laughter in the early hours (insomnia.) Thank you, this is priceless. If I was an interviewer this would make me more inclined to hire you, not less.

Not an interview but had to do an important Zoom call during lockdown. Had the kids at home so had scheduled it round husband being available to watch them. Set up in the office, door shut, good to go. About 10 mins into call, see the door handle moving up and down and can hear faint meowing. Door then opens, bastard cat bursts in. Decided to jump on my shoulder in full few of everyone on the zoom call. Apologised and chuck him off.. only for him to sneak up behind my laptop, slam it shut, completely lost connectivity to the call. I was mortified. Cat couldn’t give a toss, obviously.

Here’s my interview horror story. Online interview, 2 interviewers. Our internet was a bit dodgy in my home office which is in the garden so I’d come inside to the kitchen and blurred my background. All was going well - I’d prepared thoroughly, had some prompt cards. What I didn’t know was that young DD had somehow managed to change the chime and volume on our doorbell to a very loud cockerel sound. Half way through the interview it went off mid-question as a delivery arrived. It was so loud that one of the interviewers said why can I hear a cockerel? And the delivery driver was very persistent and rang the bell about 4 times before leaving. I totally lost it - stumbled through the rest of the interview unable to remember anything. Got the job though - and my boss still reminds me regularly about this

Years ago I had a phone interview at home. I prepped well, started the call, said hello, leaned back on the chair (v cheap crap ikea) and….

CRASH BANG WALLOP

It broke.
i fell off
I squawked.

They asked what had happened. I explained and (rubbing my elbows said I was fine to carry on.

I also got the job! Fairly serious in house legal job!