# So how bad do you want this job? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 6, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193 "2013-09-06T18:24:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/21 "2013-09-08T06:17:46Z")
South West Airlines used to do something like this back in the 70’s. Their logic being; they didn’t want to hire anybody that didn’t have a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/22 "2013-09-08T06:56:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > “Before we hire you, here at Arthur Murray’s, we’d like to see you do some soldering.” Sure thing, boss! _stands at ease_ _stands to attention_ _ports arms_ _shoulders arms_ _right faces_ _by the left, quick marches_ ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/23 "2013-09-08T07:27:48Z")
“Uh…I was raised Baptist…” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/24 "2013-09-08T11:20:05Z")
If they asked me to dance in a job interview I’d take off my pants and ask them where there stripper pole was. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/25 "2013-09-08T14:38:58Z")
I worked at one of their warehouses once. No dancing. No interview, all agency stuff. The place was incredibly badly run, though. During the induction they bragged about how green they were and how they recycled everything that came out of the warehouse, which turned out to be a fiction, they just shoved everything in a compactor, all mixed in. They also had the most pathetic security set-up you could ever hope to see, even though the hole place was ringed with security fences and check-points. All you need to get past them is a key card. There was a metal detector on the way out, but the steel-toe-capped boots set it off for everyone (although they still made you take everything out of your pockets first, albeit without checking), so a computer then decides at random if you get searched. If you do, they just look in your boots and wand your feet. Anyway, one day a lorry drove up and collected more than £100,000 worth of goods, then drove off. Later than day another lorry came in for the same load. Turns out the first lorry were theives and none of the goods were ever recovered. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/26 "2013-09-08T15:11:09Z")
Every day, we get closer to the [Monty Python scenario](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo). ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/27 "2013-09-08T16:25:16Z")
> [@Trepa\_Mayfield](#): > > Every day, we get closer to the [Monty Python scenario](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo). I was thinking more [Mr. Show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaVSTsYyOI&feature=player_detailpage#t=49). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/28 "2013-09-08T18:51:18Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Sweet Jesus. > > That would probably piss me off enough to say “No, I think you’re going to dance for me.” in a vaguely threatening manner. 😛 > [@panache45](#): > > “In Soviet Union . . .” > [@Zebra](#): > > So you think you can get off unemployment? In Soviet Russia, unemployment gets YOU off! ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/29 "2013-09-08T19:08:03Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > Yo dawg, you gots to show me the stanky leg before you gets to be a lawyer with THIS firm, feel me? Here at Urf, Wynn and Fiyah, we get down like that. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/30 "2013-09-08T21:41:06Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I was thinking more [Mr. Show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaVSTsYyOI&feature=player_detailpage#t=49). I’m thinking [Coming to America](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXfLEoCMO3c) (very short but relevant clip). ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/31 "2013-09-09T16:40:53Z")
I think it was the music they had to dance to. _When I dance they call me Macarena And the boys they say que estoy buena They all want me, they can’t have me So they all come and dance beside me Move with me, chant with me And if you’re good I’ll take you home with me_ Los Del Rio - Macarena Lyrics ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/32 "2013-09-12T20:49:23Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > “Uh…I was raised Baptist…” “… so afterwards, I’m gonna have to fuck somebody.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/33 "2013-09-12T22:00:17Z")
One of my Facebook friends recently had THREE interviews with Best Buy, and didn’t even get the job. And that was for a cashier position, not CEO. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/34 "2013-09-13T02:09:42Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > One of my Facebook friends recently had THREE interviews with Best Buy, and didn’t even get the job. And that was for a cashier position, not CEO. This is totally unrelated, but…nice username. That’s not one of the more popular REM songs. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193/35 "2013-09-13T02:38:09Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > “In Soviet Union . . .” ". . . job hunts **you!"** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-do-you-want-this-job/668193.md?page=1)