This Actually Happened

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Interviewing someone today who said, and I quote, "I am even tempered and try to get along with Hillbillies, Rednecks, and others."

Wut?

ETA:  Other recruiters / interviews- care to share your "Yep, this really happened" stories?

[Deleted User]

Whaaaaaaaaat. Bahahaha!

Seriously, this person couldn't just say "I get along with everyone"?!

[Deleted User]

abcdevonn said:

Whaaaaaaaaat. Bahahaha!

Seriously, this person couldn't just say "I get along with everyone"?!

But he doesn't get along with everyone.  He just TRIES to...

TrixieJess

I've had people ask if they could use their parole officer as a reference. Whether smoke breaks were paid, and if they could have have at least four in a six hour shift. I've had moms call in to set up for interviews when I have left messages on home answering machines and then get upset with me when I explain that I cannot do that.

Oh so many things...

AddieCake

WTF? That's awful. And why single those groups out, of all others?

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FeeleyToBe said:

abcdevonn said:

Whaaaaaaaaat. Bahahaha!

Seriously, this person couldn't just say "I get along with everyone"?!

But he doesn't get along with everyone.  He just TRIES to...

Sweet jesus, this person needs some serious interview coaching.

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TrixieJess said:

I've had people ask if they could use their parole officer as a reference. Whether smoke breaks were paid, and if they could have have at least four in a six hour shift. I've had moms call in to set up for interviews when I have left messages on home answering machines and then get upset with me when I explain that I cannot do that.

Oh so many things...

Yes.  What I see a lot of is parents calling for children and also wives/girlfriends.  Feel free to help job seekers behind the scenes but as soon as it's time to really interact w/ a company, those helpers need to grab some bench.

Had a dad email about two weeks ago saying his son was so upset about being fired and was pleading the kid's case.  If the guy was so upset about losing his job, why didn't he make the call himself? 

[Deleted User]

I'm currently working in a college admissions office and a mother sent us an appeal letter on behalf of her son, whom we rejected for admission. One line in the letter said:

"Although his grades are far from perfect, he once split a single peice of Trident gum into 3 parts so that each of his friends could have some. Now, isn't that the kind of person you want attending XYZ University?"

lyndausvi

FeeleyToBe said:

TrixieJess said:

I've had people ask if they could use their parole officer as a reference. Whether smoke breaks were paid, and if they could have have at least four in a six hour shift. I've had moms call in to set up for interviews when I have left messages on home answering machines and then get upset with me when I explain that I cannot do that.

Oh so many things...

Yes.  What I see a lot of is parents calling for children and also wives/girlfriends.  Feel free to help job seekers behind the scenes but as soon as it's time to really interact w/ a company, those helpers need to grab some bench.

Had a dad email about two weeks ago saying his son was so upset about being fired and was pleading the kid's case.  If the guy was so upset about losing his job, why didn't he make the call himself? 

I'm sure kid's verison and your are different too!

AddieCake

jenandtonic81515 said:

I'm currently working in a college admissions office and a mother sent us an appeal letter on behalf of her son, whom we rejected for admission. One line in the letter said:

"Although his grades are far from perfect, he once split a single peice of Trident gum into 3 parts so that each of his friends could have some. Now, isn't that the kind of person you want attending XYZ University?"

Best thing I've read all week.

DarthV8r

Nothing to do with interviews but when I talked to someone at one of my prospected venues she said" yes we even have salmon for you know, vegetarians." I tried so hard not to laugh but I did give her my biggest grin.

debbeau

I had a guy have a heart attack. He didn't say anything was wrong but he was sweating really badly and I asked if he wanted a glass of water. When I got back with it the poor man was on the floor. I called 911 but was lucky to have a coworker who was in school to be an EMT.

debbeau

I forgot to add he recovered and I did hire him.

novella1186

The one person I've ever interviewed lied a bunch on her resume. When I asked her about the stuff that was obvious lies, she said she put it on there cuz it "COULD" be true. Um...? 

The job was in my clinical research group but all she would talk about was her passion for teaching elementary school. 

When I asked why she wanted the position, she said she thought our robots were cool. We're in the medical industry. We do not have robots. 

lyndausvi

debbeau said:

I had a guy have a heart attack. He didn't say anything was wrong but he was sweating really badly and I asked if he wanted a glass of water. When I got back with it the poor man was on the floor. I called 911 but was lucky to have a coworker who was in school to be an EMT.

debbeau said:

I forgot to add he recovered and I did hire him.

That is crazy

princessleia22

AddieCake said:

WTF? That's awful. And why single those groups out, of all others?

Well, because it's politically incorrect (and often illegal) to discriminate based on race, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, etc.  I don't think any of those laws say anything about discriminating against you based on being a redneck or hillbilly. So, he just picked out the groups he could legally refer to without being considered discriminatory.

thisismynickname2

jenandtonic81515 said:

I'm currently working in a college admissions office and a mother sent us an appeal letter on behalf of her son, whom we rejected for admission. One line in the letter said:

"Although his grades are far from perfect, he once split a single peice of Trident gum into 3 parts so that each of his friends could have some. Now, isn't that the kind of person you want attending XYZ University?"

We recently dismissed a student for an egregious conduct violation. It's not behavior that is bad in general, but it's bad when you consider the profession the education is preparing the student for. Her mom wrote this massively long appeal letter accusing the school of all sorts of other ridiculous crap- that we can't even comment on to her due to privacy law- and then demanded we either reinstate her daughter or refund all her tuition. The reply to the mother was, in so many words, "your kid broke the code of conduct, a rule that is also part of the profession's code of ethics and the state licensing board's disciplinary code. No, you're not getting your money back and no, she's not being reinstated."

She also threatened to take the story to the news, which would be stupid-- sure, broadcast everywhere that your daughter broke a professional rule and how evil we are. She'll never get educated or hired anywhere else for that profession! You do that. Go ahead now. Eye roll. 

Lulawife

I was once given a resume submitted to an online job posting that was 15 pages of gibberish. What I could understand of the gibberish led me to believe the man thought he was Elvis' son. When I checked out his facebook page, sure enough, hundreds of posts saying he could prove he was Elvis' son. One of the reasons included that they had the same scars. Scars aren't hereditary, last time I checked. 

MyNameIsNot

It's really hard to get along with rednecks and hillbillies sometimes!

lachattefatale

I was in a group interview a few months ago at which a co-applicant went on for about five minutes about how she would do ANYTHING for this job except anything ILLEGAL. They finally cut her off because we were each only allotted three minutes to speak.

[Deleted User]

It's been a "good" week for random recruiting-related "weirdness."

I got a resume from someone named Shitina- can't help but wonder what her parents were thinking and feel bad for her; bet her playground years were awful.

ETF:  typo. 

vikinganna87

I don't have any strange stories from the hiring side, but there is one [phone] interview I had as an applicant several years ago that sticks out.  It didn't go well. It also seemed like the woman made up her mind about me before we even spoke. But that wasn't what bothered me; I was thinking, fine I don't have the job, no big deal.  Towards the end I asked her about her background and what attracted her to he company.  She [very rudely] asked if I'd looked at her LinkedIn profile [I had] and said - well, what do YOU think?

That's like someone asking me about my background and me responding, well, you looked at my resume so what the hell do you think?

I was appalled.

[Deleted User]

vikinganna87 !!!

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FeeleyToBe said:

It's been a "good" week for random recruiting-related "weirdness."

I got a resume from someone named Shitina- can't help but wonder what her parents were thinking and feel bad for her; bet her playground years were awful.

ETF:  typo. 

Tell me her last name was Can.  Or Barrell.  Or Pond or River or something else that makes some sense to shit into!!!!

ShesSoCold

I once had someone insist - repeatedly - that I conduct a phone interview on an evening or weekend. 

luckya23

adk19 said:

FeeleyToBe said:

It's been a "good" week for random recruiting-related "weirdness."

I got a resume from someone named Shitina- can't help but wonder what her parents were thinking and feel bad for her; bet her playground years were awful.

ETF:  typo. 

Tell me her last name was Can.  Or Barrell.  Or Pond or River or something else that makes some sense to shit into!!!!

I'm hoping for Shitina Box.

flbride2015

I saw this on FB today:

beachyone15

ShesSoCold said:

I once had someone insist - repeatedly - that I conduct a phone interview on an evening or weekend. 

...perhaps it was the same poster who came on TK that was clueless as to why she couldn't ask her interviewer for a weekend interview.

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beachyone15 said:

ShesSoCold said:

I once had someone insist - repeatedly - that I conduct a phone interview on an evening or weekend. 

...perhaps it was the same poster who came on TK that was clueless as to why she couldn't ask her interviewer for a weekend interview.

I was thinking the same thing!  "But lots of people work on weekends!  Why can't I be interviewed on the weekend???  I'll be working on weekends, so it makes sense, right?"

ShesSoCold

beachyone15 said:

ShesSoCold said:

I once had someone insist - repeatedly - that I conduct a phone interview on an evening or weekend. 

...perhaps it was the same poster who came on TK that was clueless as to why she couldn't ask her interviewer for a weekend interview.

I was actually kidding and referencing that girl. 

Shrug. I thought it was funny.

beachyone15

ShesSoCold said:

beachyone15 said:

ShesSoCold said:

I once had someone insist - repeatedly - that I conduct a phone interview on an evening or weekend. 

...perhaps it was the same poster who came on TK that was clueless as to why she couldn't ask her interviewer for a weekend interview.

I was actually kidding and referencing that girl. 

Shrug. I thought it was funny.

Apparently I don't have much faith in humanity as I thought there were multiple people out there who were that stupid.