I want to play a game....
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Topic: I want to play a game....
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Subject: I want to play a game....
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 8:08am
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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. ------------- ? |
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 8:27am
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At my most recent job interview they asked me how fast I typed. The last time I remembered doing a speed test was back in HS. I was messing around, and spelled every word wrong, but got like 120 gwam. So, not thinking to hard before speaking I blurted out "Back in HS I scored 120 gwam" Both were in awe. Any who I ended up getting the job, and only then did it dawn on me that had to be grossly inaccurate, which it is. I immediatly told me supervisor who was one of the two who interviewed me the truth lol. Not sure if this helps. But I was always told to be completely honest. If I'm not suppose to get the job, I'm not suppose too. Good luck Reb, wish you best. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 9:26am
| 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. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 9:51am
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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.
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 10:19am
| You could wear your Confederate uniform to the interview and complete it in character. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 12:45pm
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. ------------- ? |
RoboCop wrote:Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 3:02pm
I'm genuinely surprised that employers still use the phrase "overqualified" in this economy. ------------- 
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 5:23pm
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Am I the only one who thinks there's material for an MS Paint thread in Reb's hiring odyssey? ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 10 July 2012 at 5:24pm
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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." ------------- 
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 11 July 2012 at 1:43pm
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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 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. ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 11 July 2012 at 10:52pm
There are a lot of crime-issues occurring in the oil boomtowns up here. -------------
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 11 July 2012 at 11:11pm
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I suppose you could have been attacked by a gang of midgets on the way to your interview. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 12 July 2012 at 3:39am
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. . . or part of the interview process includes rolling in bacon grease and being nibbled by a pack of hungry chihuahuas.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 12 July 2012 at 7:18am
I was told that this could be a part of the second round of interviews. ------------- ? |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 14 July 2012 at 10:49pm
I interviewed 11 people one day for a 2nd shift at my old job. The first 3 hours was paperwork & stuff, then the interviews; we provided lunch. Half way through one interview with a young lady, she abruptly got up without saying a word and she didn't quite make it out of our board room to where she was going; the washroom.  ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 15 July 2012 at 12:35am
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hah, during the orientation for my job at rambino's law firm I was alone in a small conference room reading and filling out new employee paperwork when I realized I reeeeeeaally had to poop. So, the HR lady came back into the room, which was filled with the pre-poop farts, and I asked her to show me to the restroom because I had no idea where they were on the floor of the office building. After the walk there, I insisted to her that I knew how to get back... but when I came back out, she was still waiting there after an obvious longer than pee time. Probably the worst thing that's happened to me, 2nd being that I ended up holding my current supervisor's hand for a good minute and a half after a failed handshake.
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Posted By: eddyronk
Date Posted: 19 July 2012 at 3:28am
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. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 July 2012 at 9:02pm
Wut |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 20 July 2012 at 3:31am
| 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. |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 20 July 2012 at 11:47am
Isn't that a requirement to live in Wisconsin? |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 20 July 2012 at 12:22pm
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |