In a brilliant move, make 2 separate tall jokes when you meet me and when we part. Oddly enough, normally I wouldn’t really care because I have a great ability to laugh at myself and I am very comfortable with my height.
But, to be so unoriginal as to resort to the lame cracks about the weather up there and being able to reach the tops of shelves in the store shows me you are not of the mental caliber to be able to successfully do this job, let alone operate something as complex as inserting your foot into your mouth, which I get the feeling you do on a regular basis.
Maybe this person had had previous luck with this approach?
I have a (White) friend who went for a job interview at a company owned and operated by a Black family. She was interviewed by a Black man and, because her friendship with me had, she said, “made her more comfortable around Black people” :rolleyes: she felt quite proud of herself for jokingly asking the guy if they’d be nicknaming her “Cracker” if she got the job.
Step 8 - even tho the ad said send in a resume, no phone calls, call up anyway. I’ll write your name down so I’ll remember it when I’m looking through resumes. Your resume will be the one that “accidentally” falls into the shredder.
Step 9 - remark how much you dislike jobs that require standing, while interviewing for a job that requires standing
Step 10 - In answer to the question “Tell me about a time when you and your previous supervisor disagreed” outline in great detail how when you worked for H&R Block you gave a woman’s private tax information to a man claiming to be her ex-husband and didn’t see what the big deal was because he was a mexican guy and the woman’s last name was mexican.
Step 9 - When they ask you what your biggest shortcomings are say something like “If not closely supervised, I tend to become very lazy.” or “You don’t check us for office supplies when we leave, do you?”
Step 10 - When you are applying for a job as an insurance adjuster, mention that you want to go to law school soon. (I actually did this, first interview out of college.) D’OH!
Meet your interviewer/future boss at the main office of the Faculty your interviewing at. Assume she is a receptionist or secretary of some sort. Be rude and condescending during the entire walk over to her office. Back pedal as quickly as is humanly possible, practically sticking yer lips clean on up her butt-hole as soon as you realize your mistake.
Heh heh…nope. It was as a writing tutor at a college.
To be fair to me, the interviewer was a seventy-something woman who was frail of health, and she may have forgotten the time of the interview instead of me. And I didn’t really press the issue: I just apologized for when I’d come, and said I really thought the interview was today. And I interviewed at 8 am, before either of us had had coffee. And I’d worked as a writing tutor for a different department in the college, and had a good track record there.
Still, I was pretty amazed afterward both at my behavior and at the subsequent job office.
Best part is, I didn’t take the job. Got a much more boring, significantly higher-paying job with a lawyer’s office.
#13) Tell me that my schedule should hours you insist on. (not in the “I have to take my mother for diylasis on Tuesdays, so if the job requires me to work past five on Tuesdays, then I’m not suitable for the positition” sense, but in the “I love the Colorado Avalanche, so if there’s an in-town game, I won’t be here. And if they win, I may be late the next morning, depending on how hung-over I am, so you’d better plan your schedule for me around that” sense- which someone actually said to me.)
