I want to play a game....

As a few of you might know or remember, I'm still on the job hunt. At first, the interview process wasn't that scary. Until this point, the only one I'd gone to before, I nailed with flying colors, so I went into these with a false sense of confidence, and got burned for it.

Now, I'm nervous as all hell- especially as our due date for baby #2 draws inexorably closer.

I've been wished luck, had people say prayers, conjured up good juju, all that stuff, and while its appreciated it doesn't seem to be working yet.

So, inspired by a facebook post I made yesterday, I want you guys to conjure up the worst possible case scenarios that could result in my interviewing for a help desk position at a hospital today. This way, if I do screw this one up too, I can come back, and say 'At least THAT didn't happen.'

So....humor me if you have the time. Make it horrible.

If you have seen Horrible Bosses, hopefully the interviewer isn't a woman that tries to have sex with you on the table right then. Well maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing except you have a family.

You could wear your Confederate uniform to the interview and complete it in character. 

Reb Cpl wrote: RoboCop wrote: If you have seen Horrible Bosses, hopefully the interviewer isn't a woman that tries to have sex with you on the table right then. Well maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing except you have a family. She WAS very attractive. Which surprised me, since often when you meet women in the IT field, they're not what one would refer to as 'lookers.' The guy on the panel was a fellow firefighter, and we spent a few minutes BSing about that. Then the term 'potentially overqualified' was dropped, and I went from feeling good about it to feeling like I was kicked in the nads. That's about as telling a phrase as "Sorry, you're too stupid to work here." is.

I'm genuinely surprised that employers still use the phrase "overqualified" in this economy.

Reb's problem is that he doesn't have the right tagline on his resume.  Up there under his name where it should say something attention getting that makes people want to hire him it probably says something lame like "experienced and energetic."  What it should say is something like "crackshot that can figure out where you live."


Edited by Mack - 12 July 2012 at 12:06pm

merc wrote: you could be interviewed by a panel of 12 all rifling questions at you as fast as you can answer them... think up a good comeback for overqualified. How about "I may be overqualified but I will only work half as hard to make up for it?" how attached to NY are you? out in ND and eastern montana there are tons of jobs working oil rigs making 150+ a year... its not easy and you have to move but its work. i dont have any web sites but i have heard the same thing from a lot of people. even had a guy next to me on the airplane saying they couldnt keep mechanics at the ford dealership paying 30+ dollars per hour because as soon as they were certified the oil rigs would steal them.

There are a lot of crime-issues occurring in the oil boomtowns up here.

. . . or part of the interview process includes rolling in bacon grease and being nibbled by a pack of hungry chihuahuas.

usafpilot07 wrote: You could get so nervous that you defecate on yourself. Following that, the smell is so bad the interviewer throws up everywhere, in turn making you vomit. You would then have to walk back to your car, and drive home to your wife; jobless, decrepit, and covered in your own bodily wastes/vomit.

You could wear your Confederate uniform to the interview and complete it in character. 

Or, you could be like me and earn money by copying the posts of others on internet forums, spamming in your sig and getting banned.


Edited by Mack - 19 July 2012 at 9:33am

I went to a "job fair" that the current healthcare system I work for threw at a restaurant.  I went up to my current boss... at the time I knew him, but not that well.  I went in for a handshake while asking if he had any jobs available.  Mid-conversation, I went to withdraw from the handshake at an appropriate time and he didn't let up.  At that point I recommitted to the shake and we basically held hands for a solid minute before he started to let up.  To be fair, I'm pretty sure he's an alcoholic and it was an open bar that night.