Most idiotic question you have been asked at a job interview?

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Inspired by another thread.

I have been asked what car would I be and what would I be if I could be anything?
I fell for the first one and answered. With the second one, years later I was mature enough to answer “Housewife” - all the manager was interested about is telling how he would be a helicopter pilot…

@Galatine 😁

@CornishPorsche this was in 2016/17 ish 😱

Best was, they actually ended up getting rid of me because the same men couldn't take working either with or for an opinionated woman 😂

Joining the police in Scotland in 1995. Did I have a boyfriend? Was it serious? Was I planning on settling down and having kids?
I'm 18 mate, I plan on getting this amazing wage (14.999) getting pished on my days off and buying a car. I stayed at home either parents til I bought my first house at 26, then met husband and had a kid at 29, they got 11 years child free. Now retired and realise there is life after the police and would now tell them to take flying fuck to themselves if they asked me that again

On a more serious note I had an internal interview for a more senior job & interviewer ( senior manager ) said - I don't really want to do this as women will go off and get pregnant & then I have wasted the money for the training fees . Reader, I did get the job a couple of years after he left but at the time I was flabbergasted . ( This was the early 1980s. )

That must have been in their Walmart days. When I applied there a decade ago the group interview involved such delights as blowing up balloons and other embarrassing ‘team building’ exploits. They used to choose someone to send on the Walmart AGM in the US, which was presented as a wonderful opportunity. I couldn’t think of anything worse than a shared bedroom in varsity dorms in the arse end of nowheresville in some Midwest state.

Are you a 'yes' person or a 'no' person?

Pen poised over notes plus enquiring look: 'Do you mind me asking how old you are?'

'Yes'.

.... 'oh.'

Didn't get it.

I had exactly the same question in the 90’s.

I don't know about idiotic interview questions - but this is the most idiotic comment on this thread .

I've done a lot of local authority interviewing and we are only allowed to ask questions based on the needs laid out in the person specification.

Obviously your interviewers were a lot more imaginative than any interview panel I've been on .

In the last 10 years… what would your boyfriends reaction be if you have to stay late and can’t get home in time to cook his dinner for him 😳😳😳

I can just imagine this!!

What does your father do for a living? This was in 1987. Very weird little place.

Was once asked how many hairdressers there were in the uk (was a marketing job, nothing to do with hairdressers)

Had already decided I didn't want the job so thought I'd be a bit of a dick.

Asked whether they meant shops, or individual people within the shops. If we were including barbers and mobile hairdressers. What about wedding stylists?

They panicked. Clearly had read the question on an interviewing website and not thought through the specifics,

Quite enjoyed the reaction though.

My answer to that would be "It depends who's asking!"

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