I am applying for a big company today and hoping to do well on the interview process. I have been unemployed for two months now and desperately need to work.
I meet two people whom I assume are conducting this interview. I am taken to a room. There is a desk, phone, piece of paper and a pen. The two people leave me in this room and advise they will be in the next room conducting the interview from there.
My phone rings and I answer in a professional manner naming the company, giving my name and asking how I can make their day the wonderful or whatever. I’m feeling good about this. They begin to ask me questions that I feel are no brainers. I start to doodle on this piece of paper. I write such things as: this interview’s lame, how easy was that question? I am not feeling the outcome because I cannot see their face. Do I impress them? My doodling gets more vulgar and I write: I just want to go home, they’re not going to hire me. Fuck this interview. Suck it. Let’s just get this over with. They thank me and say the interview is over and return to my room.
In they walk. Okay Michele, we have a few more interviews, we’ll be in touch with you. If you would just hand us the piece of paper we left for you you’re all set to go. As I swallow the huge lump in my throat I reach over for the doodle paper with obscene pictures and vulgar outbursts. I walk out with my head down.
A week later they called and if you could believe it they hired me. We never discussed the paper but I always wondered what they thought.
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This story, no matter how many times I hear, makes me laugh! I know what your face looked like, and I know what you were thinking. The only thing that could have made this a better story is if I could have been there to see it all happen.....LOL!!!!
That is the funniest thing I've read in awhile. Why EXACTLY haven't you been discovered yet.? They hired you because you were honest...or wait, maybe they could not believe someone would write all that stuff on a piece of paper while being interviewed so they knew they must hire you because if you would write stuff like that what would you say in a situation like that??? It was funny that's for sure.
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