People have been sharing their nightmare interview stories and these 17 are just the job
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I had a zoom interview and hadn’t realised my background was still set as the Aurora. Which in principal is okay-ish. Workable. Only, my shitty old MacBook decided it couldn’t cope with the background and had a meltdown, weaving the Northern Lights through my face like I was some incorporeal being.
I panicked and had a brain fart trying to remember how to turn it off. So instead I just continued with the interview as I was, with a rippled blue green leer. I tried making the interviewers laugh by saying “I’m not the Aurora!” in reference to the famous lawyer cat face video, but no one responded.
Didn’t get the job.
backNbeyond
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I accidentally forgot I was in an interview and started doing impressions for about 10minutes. For a managers job. I didn’t get it.
PapaKitch
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My first ever job interview I said “I spent a week soliciting in school”. It was work experience at a solicitors office. Didn’t realise the mistake until I eventually found out that solicitors don’t solicit sex from prostitutes.
I still got the job 🤷♂️
TheSuperJay
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Once told the interviewer to fuck off when he said the following words just after I’d sat down, “I didn’t tell you it was okay to sit down”. Didn’t get the job.
WeDontWantPeace
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My mate Jonathan is known as Spud to all his friends, he had a presentation to give for his new employer and introduced himself as Spudathan 🤣🤣🤣
CharlieMattworth
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I had an interview where the interviewers seemed really cold and humourless. They asked me 4 times if I really thought I’d like the job, then on the way out they pointed out that the office had a slide. I was maybe TOO enthusiastic in my reaction because they invited me to go down the slide. I politely declined. They ghosted me.
3pelican
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So I used to be a vet nurse, went to an interview. Got asked a question I was not prepared for. “What animal would you be? And why?” Well… I panicked a bit, said elephant! Now you might be thinking I followed this up with, because they are big and strong and never forget. Nope… I said “because they don’t have to lick their own arse”. Yeah, I didn’t get the job. 😂
Novel-idea-92
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I interviewed for a job that was advertised as paying £37k. In the interview I was offered £25k, and apparently that was generous of them. I asked why they wasted my time, told them to have shit days and left. Turns out I misheard. They had said £35k, which I would have taken.
LowChemical8735
BONUS
u/willyegolassiego shared this outrageous bit of everyday sexism.
I went for my student nursing interview (in the late eighties) and the lecturer asked me “ as I was married could I still do the job and fulfil my wifely duties.” And would my husband be annoyed at potentially having to make his own dinner. I was taken aback and told him to mind his own business, it wasn’t the 1880’s. He was fuming but the other two interviewers were women so I got the place.
But has there ever been more of a nightmare interview than that of Guy Goma, who turned up at the BBC and was mistaken for an expert on the Apple Corps versus Apple Computer dispute?
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