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

[TattyOldOwl]

So I had an interview today and it was over Teams in front of a panel of 3. I prepared well, and was sat in my home office at my desk on my new office chair

Anyway, before the interview, I’d been fiddling with the height adjustment of the chair as it wasn’t quite high enough for me. Finally got it sorted and all good.

so, I’m sat there and half way through an in-depth answer to a multi pronged question. I’m all animated and talking away when I suddenly feel myself descending but ever so slowly. I kind of stutter a bit as I’m SO distracted by this and I try to hold myself up by gripping my desk but it’s no use …. Literally, one moment I’m in their line of sight and then next, i gradually disappear from view as my hydraulic chair takes me all the way down as low as it will go.

I end up inches from my floor, desperately trying to scrabble myself back up and then I sort of PING back into view like a jack in a box to find one of the women on the panel literally helpless with laughter.

I just can’t. So mortified. Please tell me you’ve had worse?

Hahaha I can just imagine the Bwooonggg

Your story reminded me off that scene in Johnny English where he's in an important, serious meeting and his chair slowly started to descend, until his chin was level with the desk.

Well you certainly made yourself memorable! 😂

Wishing you the best of luck!

It depends on what you say and whether the interviewers have a sense of humour.

I would write: "You may wonder why I slowly disappeared during the interview. It was not because the floor opened up, but because my chair literally let me down.

I'm keen and think I could make a real contribution to your firm. So if you've stopped laughing, I hope we can carry on from when my chair betrayed me,.

I'm so sorry I laughed so hard at this 😂

Im so sorry but this is the funniest thing ive read in a long time and worthy of a comedy sketch.

Regardless of this event you will either be the right person for the job or not and I dont thi know they would let this put them off xx

Once answered a skype call in my pyjamas with bed hair back in the day. It was a job interview for an international school: I'd miscalculated the time difference.

I fell off a wheeled stool at a interview! Didn't realise it had wheels, & was a tiled floor. Bit embarrassed but hey ho. The interviewer came rushing over to help me up but I was ok & said I could manage it. So I flipped over to get up from a kneeled position & farted when I stuck my bum in the air, moved & farted again. Mortified I beg pardons & said a few oppsie daisies........I didn't get the job!

At uni, my tutor had a habit of sliding down his chair.

One day he went all the way down and slid right under his desk. He then scrambled up and continued as if nothing had happened.

I feel for you, OP, but it's not the end of the world.

🤣🤣🤣 having a right old chuckle at this….too funny 😂😂

Excellent. I do hope you got the job. I stood at the end of an interview and my smart new interview skirt fell to my ankles. Not only did nobody laugh, but as I reached down, grabbed it, pulled it up and redid the button and zip, nobody acknowledged it was happening.

I’ve got an interview coming up - I m totally going to try this, lol. Good luck op, I hope you get the job. Let us know

Honestly you will have stood out.

I reckon they'll offer you - and the chair - a job. 😂

I also once speared a tomato with my fork during a departmental lunch on an interview day, and the tomato seeds flew out and hit the head of department. I actually still got the job.

@Whyarentmysquashesthriving ha ha.

now that reminds me of a food related incident I had last year. I was at a dinner thing for a charity event. Sat at a table of about 12 and chatting to people as I ate … the meal was chunky chips and battered fish. ANYWAY … I speared what I thought was another chip with my fork and put it in my mouth only to quickly realise it was actually a large wedge of lemon!

And me being me, and because I didn’t like to draw attention to myself , just chewed it and swallowed it, rind, pips and all.

it was disgusting

As someone who has interviewed hundreds of people over the years, you do find one interview/interviewee can tend to blend into the next. You on the other hand would have made my day. Don’t worry, you handed it well and I hope you get the job.

This is so brilliantly written.
They should give you the job.

I used to interview people and that would have made my year! At least you’ll be memorable!

Very best of luck OP and I think you should get the job ;-) My Teams interview "incidents" have been boring connection fails. My hitherto impeccable connection at home failed. I reconnected, carried on and got the job.. I think your situation is comparable..Truly hope you get the job.

After I started my manager sent me a screenshot because in a meeting my cat had jumped on my lap and was obliterating my face. It looked as if cat face on my body. Haha
Please update us and don't feel bad!

So why is it not ok for people to say similar but using the words of Islam. Mohammed etc? Or other religions. Saying what she did is apparently fine for many to hear nowadays but is very offensive to some. A religious version of swearing the "worst" swear words.
By definition what she said was blasphemy (although admittedly it could be said the random descent and reascent of the chair as an act of God! ha ha)
Id still give her the job though if her answers were good/best candidate. But I would ask her to not use language of that sort in front of clients (so as not to offend and because its unprofessional behaviour).

This is SO funny 🤣🤣 fingers crossed you get the job xx

Not personally, from my daughter who used to work for a major recruitment firm. Two of the firm directors were recuiting for a directorate position. Unfortunately the rectuitment firm had been out on the townthe night before. Part way through the interview one director fell asleep, the shortly afterwards the other one did too!! The candidate just got up and left. Didn't get the job.

This thread is funny. I’ve walked out of an interview before as they had the wrong job description up and I thought I was interviewing for something I’d be ace at and I wasn’t. Think head of ivf but the interview was for the menopause clinic. Pointless for both of us. So I just gathered my things thanked them for seeing me but this was a waste of time for both of us. Must have been a theme though because they re advertised the position a week later with an updated job description. I didn’t apply

After a very rough week this made my day!