Stock answers
“When working on a problem I tend to get obsessed with solving it, and can be brusk with anyone who interupts what I am doing without good reason.”
“I get exasperated by people who can’t articulate precisely what they want, I try to be patient but sometimes I may come accross as being unkind when making them explain what they require.”
[SIZE=4]DAMN YOU!
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Beat me to it! 
I am perfect in every way and have no weaknesses that I know of.
Hmmm? Unless cracking bad jokes when I’m nervous counts?
Mine is that I really believe if I want the job done right, I have to do it myself.
I have no trust in my coworkers. I guess that’s bad in a large company environment, but it’s worked in my very small office for 6 years now.
Quote from Family Guy:
“Dont say doing your wife, dont say doing your wife, dont say doing do your wife…”
“Doing your uh…son?”
Yea I know it wasnt the same question but this still poped into my head.
“I have a short temper for stupid questions.”
Or you could go for the humorous angle:
“Sometimes I have a tendency to say words like ‘fuck’ in the most inappropriate circumstances.”
Oh, you mean you want the job? Errrm, 
I’ll get back to you on that.
There was a Dilbert cartoon where he was interviewing for a job.
Interviewer: Do you have any weaknesses?
Dilbert: Sometimes I work too hard.
Interviewer: How is that a weakness?
Dilbert: Well, sometimes I work so hard that I forget to eat or bathe, eventually dying. My bloated, stinking corpse will sit in my cube forever, spreading disease and decay!
Back at the office.
Wally: How’d it go?
Dilbert: They want someone hungrier.
Many years ago, an interviewer asked me whether I had any weaknesses.
My answer: “I am very nearly perfect, except for my excessive modesty.”
This made the interviewer laugh.
I got the job.
My weakness? I’m too devastatingly handsome.
Often when I’ve successfully complete a project I get so excited I poop…just a little bit.
I have a pretty good standard answer for this… though it may not fit your circumstances.
I’m a computer generalist, I can work on pretty much all aspects of office electronics. Networks, servers, desktops, faxes, copiers, printers, and phone systems (and the Soda machine!).
Q: What’s your greatest weakness?
A: It’s the same as my greatest strength. I have a wide range of knowledge, and can fix/maintain nearly all of the equipment in the IT Environment, but the weakness in this is that sometimes I don’t have the great depth required for some problems. I do, however, know how to find the information I’ll need to fix the problem, sometimes it just takes a little longer than I’d like.
(The above response apparently did get me a position a while back, the boss, and the guy I was replacing liked that answer, as they were looking for a real generalist)
Good luck!
-Butler
My weakness is the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
“I have found in my career that if people come to me and want to talk about subjects X, Y, or Z, I have an unfortunate tendency to become enraged and stab them repeatedly in the face with a broken bottle. I have chosen to mitigate this failing by posting a sign on my office door that reads, ‘Do not ask me about subjects X, Y, and Z unless you want to be stabbed repeatedly in the face with a broken bottle.’ It has been a remarkably effective solution, and I look forward to implementing this approach in my new position here. Presuming, of course, that I am given a door, in the absence of which all bets are off. Hey, is that a bottle?”
In my experience when interviewers ask these questions they are looking for why NOT to hire you. Some of these answers will have a response question that will be even more difficult to answew. For Example
“Mine is that I really believe if I want the job done right, I have to do it myself.”
So you are not able to delegate?
“When working on a problem I tend to get obsessed with solving it, and can be brusk with anyone who interupts what I am doing without good reason.”
So you aren’t a team player?
“I get exasperated by people who can’t articulate precisely what they want, I try to be patient but sometimes I may come accross as being unkind when making them explain what they require.”
You have problems getting along with your co-workers?
“Well, honestly, my weakness is wanting to know and do to much. I enjoy being challenged so much that sometimes I just love to jump into every situation and solve it. This can be annoying to people who are less…enthusastic than myself, and has caused some problems. But sometimes has also made others around me re-evaluate themselves and their work effort.”
So what you are saying is that you take over other peoples work at the cost of your own?
During a career seminar, it was suggested that we say something like “Shopping! So I really hoping there is some opportunities for overtime”
Also emphasise you are enthusiastic and punctual. One of the biggest concerns that employers have is employee absenses.
I really think that’s a good answer adhemer .
I’ve got a job interview on friday so keep the answers coming. I haven’t had an interview in so long that it didn’t even strike me to think this question would come up. I hate it. It’s a loaded question.
Sunlight, garlic, and holy water :eek:
The word “Ni”, anyone?
Or sock puppets and beer, for that matter…
I was just talking about this today, and the dept chair (at a HS) said that he would say (and be willing to hear) his own: “I’m messy. I use a lot of lab equipment, and it gets all over. Some people can’t get along with that if they’re a very neat person. I’m working on it.”
“Heroin. But I’ve pretty much got it down to evenings and weekends.”
“Well I have a tendancy to get this overwhelming urge to suck the dick of anyone who asks me question in which the letter “W” is used.”
“I expell gas when I’m nervous … and that was me.”
“In a word, Yahtzee!!!”
“I gotta admit, I love the nightlife, I like to boogie.”
“I am a hard worker, an out of the box thinker and a chronic masturbater. Do you have any Kleenex?”
“Well I have a little problem telling the truth, you handsome bastard.”
“Well sir I find my greatest fault is the fact that I tend to clog the toilets fairly regularly.”
“I like calling people “Mookie”.”