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

It wasn't an interview but I did once famously finish a meeting with my newish boss and tried to sweep out professionally, walking straight into a glass door. It made this BWONNNNG sound that reverberated around the whole open plan floor. By the time I got back to my desk I had about ten emails with laughing emojis.

I actually think this may have gone in your favour because it will make you memorable 🤣 it’s not the kind of embarrassing moment where they felt uncomfortable and awkward, you made them laugh which is good. Shows that you are able to deal with stressful situations and a sudden change in circumstances!

good luck with the job OP

Brilliant! 😂😂😂

Op, honestly I wouldn’t worry, it was a funny thing to happen, and let’s face it however serious the role, we’re all human. The fact that one of them was openly laughing I’d say is a good thing.

This made me laugh. Do let us all know if you got the job.

This has made me laugh so much. Thank you @TattyOldOwl

(I think you will still get the job!)

This wasn't an interview, but in my last job, office administrator, I had a manager who was fine, we were friendly, nothing more.
I used to suffer migraines regularly, and took a codeine tablet to cope with the pain, however they did make me feel pretty spaced out.
One day at work, a migraine came on so I took my tablets and waited a bit. Realised I needed to go home as it wasn't shifting.
My manager was fine about it, and walked me to the door; then he sorted of leaned forward, I now realise to open the door, but I got momentarily confused and thought he was leaning in for a kiss (why, why would I think that?), so I pecked him on the cheek and left. ...
Walked home with my head banging but crying with laughter....and concerned that I might get a call from HR....
To this day I'm not really sure what I was thinking....

I remember reading on here about someone who was asked “what gets you up in the morning” and he said “well usually I need to go to the loo” except he didn’t put it that politely.

@TattyOldOwl So it's a sideways move in the same company? I suspect they'll see the funny side and if you're a good fit, they'll overlook your "seating arrangements".

Expect to be sent on a training course on how to use a chair!😁

There was a woman who posted on here a few months ago who had accidentally changed her teams settings so she had a top hat on for a serious meeting.
I don’t often laugh out loud when reading posts on line but that had me laughing for days, it was the way she’d phrased it that made it extra funny.

I went for an interview in my early twenties and when I sat down the chair made a loud farting noise.
I said “that wasn’t me” but the two men interviewing me didn’t speak and just stared at me.
I started to panic and started babbling that I promise it wasn’t me and it was the chair. Then I really made it worse by doing a loud sniff and almost shouting “see there is no smell, I promise I did NOT do a fart!”

One of the men had to clear his throat and say “shall we move on” to get me to shut up and I still cringe thinking about it.
The worst part was that as I was getting up at the end of the interview (that I made a pigs ear of) the chair made the same noise. I was about to point it out when I saw them exchange a frantic look and one of the men quickly got up and started talking about seeing me out and practically propelled me through the door 😆.

One of my best friends started working for the company a year later and I went to meet her from work one day and one of the men who interviewed me was there.
He kept looking over at me and I was praying he didn’t recognise me when he started laughing and said “oh it’s fart girl”.

I’d managed to force myself to forget about it until this thread…
I obviously didn’t get the job and was far more qualified than my friend who did but I don’t blame them because I must have cone across as an absolute nutcase!

A side move? Nah... sounds like a downwards move to me! 🤣

Thanks for making me laugh really hard after a challenging week. I bet it was hilarious for the panel, and you shouldn't count yourself out yet!

Had an interview after a bout of digestive difficulties. Thought I was fine

As I sat down, I let out a fart of impressive duration

Did not get the job

I really hope you do

Ahahahahahaha nooooo whyyyyyyy

@TattyOldOwl
I'm totally 😂 here (and hope it's true).

I once fell on a dais walking to the podium in front of a hundred people, or so. I was on the floor behind the podium, I reached up and had to sort of pull myself up, hair and glasses askew. I fixed myself and noticed a look of astonishment and bemusement from the group. Then gave my report. 🤷‍♀️

(Argentina just won against Cabo Verde, 3-2)

Brilliant 😂😂

Genuinely, if you’d laughed it off and shown that you don’t take yourself too seriously, I think for me it would have worked strongly in your favour. I am far more inclined to hire someone who shows their human side than some of the robots I’ve interviewed over the years.

🤣🤣

This is brilliant. They’ll remember you. I hope you get the job.

Love it 🤣🤣🤣

I once burped mid sentence in an in-person interview. I didn’t even say “excuse me” or “sorry” I just carried on talking and didn’t even acknowledge it. I think I was too embarrassed to acknowledge it.

I got the job. And a few weeks after my manager was telling me one of the reasons she liked me was because I didn’t let the burp fase me and I just carried on.

Thanks for the laugh, OP!

I had a zip go down the back of my dress during an interview. I was broke so bought it from a charity shop and it was a bit snug so I wore a cord jacket over it. It was mid summer and baking hot so I had to take the jacket off as I was overheating. I ended up trying to struggle back into the jacket whilst backing out of the room so she didn’t see the back of my dress gaping open. I was so flustered then but now would make a joke about it but I was young and inexperienced.

Brilliant. Please do this!

You've clearly not met (m)any litigation lawyers. Swearing is very much in the vocabulary! Nobody would bat an eyelid at 'Jesus Bloody Christ', not even the clients!

Blaspheme? How very … quaint. She wasn’t interviewing to be the next Pope or Archbishop.

Presuming OP is in the UK we are a secular society. Religious in the minority now. Who cares if she says JFC, I certainly don’t.

So you didn’t have s bad interview then?!

@TattyOldOwl
Thank you for sharing this it has made me laugh and I have no doubt it that as you are qualified that you are in the running for the job. I hope you get it.

I think you did well to hold your own and finish. It would have been funny for those on the other side, (who would also be having to try and control their reactions to it), they would know this is something out of your control and therefore not react. Although, if it was me, I would be the woman laughing because we are all human.

Don't worry at all about saying "Jesus bloody Christ" It is a natural thing to say in that circumstance.

I can beat that. Went for an in person interview in the 80's that I knew I was unlikely to accept (long story). I was sat across from the male interviewer on a swivel chair. Having an indepth and animated conversation and feeling comfortable, so I sunk back into the chair and as I did the back disappeared and I fell backwards off the seat and landed unceremoniously on the floor with my legs in the air and skirt over my head - good job I had my Brigit Jones Knickers on!

He apologised whilst trying to stifle a laugh and said he didn't realise they had put the broken chair in there. I was beetroot red.

At the end of the meeting, the cheeky beggar said it had been very illuminating and that he had got to know me better than he expected (!!! cringe!!!) and said I would fit in with his team, did I want the job!