Totally buggered up interview. Please tell me your awful interview cock ups, make me laugh and not feel like such a dumbass.

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Turned up a day early.
Drenched to the skin.
A. DAY. EARLY.
A full 24 hours.
Early.

Ha ha you div . How did that happen?!

Teeny tiny writing on an email with a 26th which looks like a 25th to my elderly eyes.

Fuckwit.

I’m going to the fucking interview tomorrow though, I am.
They won’t touch me with a barge pole granted, but I’m going anyway.

Better than 24 hours late and a perfect answer to "give an example of a time that you made a mistake"

Good luck for tomorrow

That’s not too bad OP! At least you weren’t a day late.

I once went to an interview for a masters in advertising (creative stream). I only went because one of my friends dragged me along, he wanted to do the masters and wanted me as a buddy I suppose.

Anyway I went in. There were 2 ultra-hip media types in horn-rimmed spectacles (this was 1998). They asked me what my favourite ad was. First I couldn’t think of one. Then I said “oh I like the Lucozade ad with the mods on mopeds”. They asked me what I liked about it. I said I liked the outfits

Shortly afterwards I saw the film “Quadrophenia” (sp), realised the ad was based on it, felt like an idiot and have been cringing ever since.

Plus I handed over a portfolio of artwork I had done in school. To this day I do not know what I was thinking. I didn’t get offered a place... obviously.

I’m actually glad to have got that off my chest.

A friend of mine tripped up as she entered the room. Following some sort of extended comedy gymnastic tumbling, she ended up flat on the floor and out of sight, obscured by the table at which the interview panel were sitting. It was a professional job. She still got it.

At least you're keen

That's not a disaster. 24 hours too late would be.

I got left in a room for nearly 2 hours waiting for the interviewer to appear......i was beginning to think it was a test to see what I would do......

Long story short - it wasn't. The interviewer was one of the top people in the firm - thank goodness I didn't know that or I would have gone to pieces. I got the job......

I was about 20 (old enough to know the meaning of words) and, in answer to a question about dealing with a rude customer, I said I'd try to be democratic. I meant diplomatic. I saw the exchanged looks of the interview panel but, for some reason, just sat there instead of correcting myself.

Oh dear!
I realised after an interview the bottom was missing from my blouse . Was feeling very embarrassed after.
I got the job and still work there and no one has ever mentioned it so assume they didn't notice otherwise I'd still be getting jokes about it years later!

Aw, better than a day late. Good luck!

I misguidedly applied to do an English degree at a particular university (got talked into it in spite of the fact I’d already set my heart on doing a different course). To this day I do not know what possessed me but I ended up telling the interview panel my favourite poet was T S Eliot - I think by that stage all I’d read of his work was ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’. Well, I babbled and it was appallingly obvious I had no fecking idea what I was talking about. I have the odd cringe about that to this day.

@VeggieSausageRoll

Better than 24 hours late and a perfect answer to "give an example of a time that you made a mistake"

Good luck for tomorrow

This, and they’ll remember you too.

I was put forward for a position for an interview, turned up and realised I had already interviewed for the same position a few months before
I had the same presentation with me...soldiered on, it was once again a no. Really didn't want to work there anyway.

The director at my place asked me "give me an example of when you have good customer service" I replied with "always" and then sat there laughing at myself. Must have worked as I now work there and this was only 7 months ago.

1. First appointment: Turned up for my interview as per my confirmation. Actually turned up 30mins early to collect myself. Boss was in Poland at a conference.

1. Second appointment confirmed for a week or so later. Again turned up early. Waited 45 mins over my agreed appointment time getting more irritated: Boss was in the office but in a Board meeting all day.

1. Third appointment (full marks to me for persistence!): Saw the Boss. Got on like a house on fire and worked for them for over a decade.

I made a joke about this a year or so later. "Thought you'd given me the job because of my sheer persistence to keep turning up, Ha! Ha!"

He'd known nothing about it till I told him!

Best job I ever had! 🌹

@Cuddling57

Oh dear! I realised after an interview the bottom was missing from my blouse . Was feeling very embarrassed after. I got the job and still work there and no one has ever mentioned it so assume they didn't notice otherwise I'd still be getting jokes about it years later!

How can the bottom be missing from a blouse? Did it have a detachable bottom?!

I had an interview at B&Q about 10 years ago, i was in my early 20s I was so nervous and half way through the interview I just stopped speaking, I couldn't say anything it was like severe stage fright, the interview lady popped out of the room and I ran away 😭🤣 I did get a call the next day but I didn't answer my phone.

I had a massive list of questions in my head and blurted them
out before they could get a word on edge ways

This happened to me before, it was someine I was interviewing, - they apologised at the beginning of the interview and we just told them not to worry, simple mistake to make - not a big issue, honestly! Perhaps tell them you read it on your phone and the writing was small - good luck, knock em dead! (Not literally 😯)

Oh dear! I add extra information (waffle). Also um and arr a lot. I never learn. I'm hopeless! Haha

Yeah, I had a wardrobe malfunction whilst in an interview for an insurance broker job. Three blouse buttons popped but I was oblivious to it and carried on talking whilst my bra was on display to the male interviewer. Anyone with big boobs will understand the blouse gap!

I think it's actually worse that I didn't get the job because maybe my boobs were that bad?!?

I turned up at a theatre for a comedy gig a whole YEAR early. Still can’t believe they were selling tickets two years in advance, just put it in the calendar wrong. 🤦🏻‍♀️

At my old company, someone came from an interview and reversed into the Head of HR's car in the car park. She got the job though!

I had an interview for a graduate job the day after my much loved gran's funeral. I asked to change it but they wouldn't. Having been on the other side of this I now totally understand that but at the time it seemed horrific.

I started crying half way through and the kind interviewer tried to call a halt to things, but I insisted we soldiered on.

Obviously I didn't get the job, but I do now see the interviewer from time to time professionally and he is still kind in that he never mentions it.

In the example I gave of dealing with unhappy customers, I gave an example of a group that were pissed off about something. The situation was quite distinctive. As it turns out, the head of the interview panel’s husband was in that group. Still got the job!