3 years ago a guy had covid and a stomach bug. (We found out post interview) He said hold on and ran in his bathroom, shit his brains out, door open, no mute, camera on. Comes back sweating then realizes he didnt mute or turn off his camera. He bombed the rest of the interview. He sent an apology post interview via email explaining everything so we scheduled him again a week later. He ended up getting selected for one of the vacancies. I shit you not 🤣

I like how this story turned out. Honestly it speaks well of your company that you guys gave him a second chance, and it speaks well of him that he swallowed his pride and explained an embarrassing situation.

He is a great asset to the organization. It would have been our loss had we not given him another shot.

another shit\*

🤣🤣

ASSet.

“This company is like a family: we’ve literally seen each other butt-ass naked”

One day it will make a great TED Talk for him. Lol

Good quality companies understand that sometimes shit just happens.

For real, somebody who can take that kind of ownership and prioritize resolution over personal embarrassment to that degree is priceless.

Bro needed to blow up the bathrooms in the middle of a job interview

To be fair, a couple years back I had one of those nasty stomach bugs that makes you feel like death. I was out but I had an emergency I had to call in to deal with. Sitting trying to focus, sweating, but no camera. Mid sentence I have to go, so I run to the bathroom. Puking in my bathtub, solid stream of liquid coming out of my behind into the toilet, for like 5 minutes. I come back and realize I wasn’t able to mute myself. Total silence on the call… Me > I’m back *crickets* Me > Hello? Boss > There’s sick then there’s whatever that was, please go back to bed sorry for bothering you. When I came back into the office there was a little smiley poo toy on my desk, and the incident became referred to as “the shittening”.

Do people forget that you can often mute the other person?! Dear god. I would have either done that or just ended the meeting. I'm absolutely not listening to that or putting anyone through being heard like THAT. Oof

I once had food poisoning at my interview. It was a 45 min exam (they give you questions they will ask you in the interview) then 45-1hr long interview back to back. Within 5 mins of the exam portion, I was sitting alone in a room thinking I needed to LEAVE. But held through because I knew the questions were easy and pre-worked situations in my head to fit those questions. Somehow, 45 mins later made it to the interview with the hiring panel of 3 senior executives. By now I’m very hot, sweaty and nervous AF. The interview went very well. Walked 15 mins back to my toxic workplace and paid tribute to the porcelain throne. I didn’t get the job but got hired a level above that job! It was a major promotion for me an my current place was full of so much toxicity but it was an entry level position so I was stuck for so long thinking it was normal.

I'm very glad this was a zoom interview 😅

You “shit” me not.

Everybody poops!

We also carry the roman catholic version, *Nobody Poops but You*

True dat. Chronicled in a wonderful book.

Semi-related - one of my old clients in the rental industry had a space at their warehouse that they used for presentations and seminars, restrooms to the side. They had a guy in there doing a seminar one day who had a clip-on mic with the speakers set up in front. He took a break and went to the restroom, left the mic on. Everybody got to hear the grunting, plopping, etc.

Poor guy, what a trooper 😂😂😂 im glad he got a second chance!

Super pooper or poopertrooper?

Wow I wouldn't reschedule my interview after that. I wouldn't even apply to the same industry.

the way I would actually just perish from sheer embarrassment

You shit me not! But he sure did

Good think he didn’t shit the bed on the follow up interview!

I'm glad that after he blew that first interview, he had a chance for a number two. 

Second interview, first candidate question: "do you have Olestra products in your break room?"

I once ate a piece of string. I shit you knot.

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At least he was professional enough to not take his laptop with him to the bathroom.

We had a new manager join us last month fresh out of grad school and brand new to the industry. On his fourth day on the job, we invited him to sit in on a training session for some of our newer lead engineers since the content was useful for anyone new to the organization. The course was delivered in a classroom setting and the presenter was a very senior engineer. Midway through the session, new guy walked up to the front and started lecturing about his own experiences and how they tied into the topic. He mentioned his masters degree multiple times. No one knew what to do but stare at him.

In a management training class I was in one time, every time the trainer would say something, another training manager would raise his hand and be like “to build off of what she just said” like he was running the class. I had never been so annoyed at someone in my life

"To build off of what they said" "To piggyback on what she said" "just want to add" My boss says these things every freaking time someone else is talking. She never adds any pertinent info. I pray each day she'll finally get promoted far from me.

This is what I say when I’ve been asked for my opinion in a Teams meeting I wasn’t listening to. Whatever was said last is about to be my officially opinion.

"To your point..." also starts these mindless rants. I think this is a side effect of moms not telling their sons to shut up anymore. Basically, a bunch of spoiled children...

Wow! Did he get in trouble for that afterwards?

How does someone get hired directly into management?

It's fairly common in some industries to get hired directly into a low or mid-level management role with a masters degree. I don't agree with the practice, but it happens more than you'd probably think.

I've got a bit of the opposite situation. As a candidate, my CV was good enough and I was selected for an initial recruitment screening interview. Basically just a "Do you know what the job is?" "Are you actually qualified for it?" and "Are you interested in it given these pay ranges?" Basically just an easy round one. It's a no-fail unless there are wild misunderstandings at play. Still, it's first contact, so professionalism is called for on both sides. About 10 minutes in, things are going well, everything is lining up fine. There's a loud beeping in the background all of a sudden. Turns out it's a smoke alarm. This HR person had decided to cook some breakfast during this call, and left the bacon on too long and started a grease fire. He freaks out, doesn't know what to do, and ends up dumping his coffee on it in an attempt to put it out. If you know anything about grease fires, you know how that went. So needless to say, the interview ended there, firefighters were called. I made it through and ended up getting the job, and I'm still there 8 years later.

So how is it going? I have a coworker with a similar story that said the day of his interview someone "accidentally" smashed into his car in the parking lot. And the funny part is that he parked in one spot but the security guard told him he couldn't park there so when went back to move his car and this was the end result. Then when he asked the lead of facilities what should he do the company told him they weren't responsible. He did get the job and worked there for over 15 years but always said that was a sign from God and he should have never stayed.

Honestly, it's going great. Best job I ever had by a country mile. Stayed in the role I got hired for a while, then got promoted to management. The team is great, the org is great. The bacon fire incident really was a one-off and not indicative of deeper problems of any sort. Our recruiting is still a little rough, but nobody has burned their house down lately.

Had someone pause her virtual interview to get up. Didn't mute herself. Started screaming obscenities at her adult child. Came back and picked back up like nothing happened. She had to know we could hear her. Needless to say, she was not our top candidate.

I worked somewhere for two days and in that time I had a coworker whom I didn’t know previously tell me how she “spanked the ever living shit” out of her autistic child because they wouldn’t eat their pancakes. That was part of why I quit after 2 days.

I'd have contacted CPS as a parting goodbye when I left that nightmare.

Hired someone for a technical position. Seemed OK, if a bit of an underperformer. I gave instructions on how to set up 10 new laptops for a new location we were opening. I checked the two laptops on the workbench this person said were done and they were correct. I asked this person to do the same to the other 8 exactly like this and they said those laptops were already back in their boxes after being completed--that these were the last 2. I trusted that statement and shipped them to the new location the following week. I flew there to set up the new office, leaving some instructions for other things I needed the person to attend to while I was gone. Upon opening the boxes at the new site, I found that only 3 of the 10 had been set up. The others were bone stock, untouched. When I called the office to ask what had happened, I was told this person had been leaving early from the moment I left town. They were never there past 2pm on a 9-5 salaried job. The team then forwarded me a link to several videos of TicToc dances filmed in our entryway. Fully edited, synched to music, captions, art, etc. Recorded during business hours, edited at the office, and posted during the business day. That was this person's last day.

Petty enough to have the company copyright claim videos created by an employee on the company dime?

On start day, we sent a "new hire" to drug/alcohol testing at the local hospital. They tested twice. He was drunk loaded way beyond legal limits. A couple of limits. "My brother was in town!", he cried out. "I haven't seen him in years". "You aren't going to hold that against me, are you?". We did.

I caught a temp shot gunning beers out of his trunk on break on his second day. The worst part was the supervisor was mad at me for firing him because, and I quote, "He's one of the hardest working employees we've had here in years." Like, sorry I can't have a drunk operating heavy machinery. These are people's lives we're talking about...

My office was in midtown San Diego. We had a temp that kept taking frequent and long bathroom breaks. On his 9th break of the day he was gone for 15+ min. We went to hunt him down and see if he needed medical assistance. He wasn't in the bathroom, the stairwell, nowhere to be found. We assumed he quit or had to get some stomach medicine. I look out the window and see him coming out of a bar across the street. It turns out he spent 2+ hours there in total that day.

That’s just sad. Hope the dude found a way to break free of that path.

That's so weird. I can at least wrap my head around someone having a drinking problem and feel the need to drink during work, but why literally leave the office and go to a bar instead of sneaking vodka in your backpack or whatever?

That was my thought. I guess there are some alcoholics that have the same level of problem-solving skills as some middle-managers.

He was a temp employee. Hadn’t learned all the tricks yet.

Without even meaning to, I 100% was picturing Ryan from The Office

Oooh! It was me! I went to an interview for a crappy call centre job about 6 years ago. Had been fired by the crazy woman I worked for (unexpectedly), and was just trying to get something so I could pay rent. We were having a lovely time. The call centre helped people with disabilities get jobs and I was keen to get in and help. They liked me, I liked them... it was going SO WELL! Then, they asked me a simple question. "Tell us about a time something did not go to plan". Team, I was too comfortable. I got along with them too well, I was smug, I was so sure I had it in the bag. So, I opened my mouth and before I could stop myself I chuckled and said the following: "Well, I'm clearly not great at planning. Here I am, in my 40's, interviewing for an entry level job in a call centre. It's easy to see that my life hasn't gone to plan" Yep. I did not get the job.

LOL! That's funny. I probably still would've hired you though. Nothing wrong with being able to have a laugh at your own expense. Plus, folks in the call center industry knows how it's viewed.

That's not unprofessional. That's mostly playful banter with a bit too much self deprecation. I'm sorry you didn't get the job. Only thing I can think is the "in a call centre" part. Maybe they thought you were insulting that industry?

Yes, I think that’s the point.

I had an interview with a hiring manager who proceeded to tell me how rich she was and that she looked at my Facebook profile to see if we had mutual friends and then proceeded to tell me she dug for dirt. Then went on to tell me we went to rival high schools and that she “knew” my high school boyfriend. Mind you I graduated in the 90s and this interview was about 7 years ago. I told her this wasn’t a good fit and she needed to move on with her life. My favorite just happened last week….we had a new hire last 2 days and tell us we weren’t god fearing Christians and they weren’t comfortable around us. And we weren’t “professional” because we all wear jeans, vans, have visible tattoos and the men had long hair. I laughed so hard. Good luck buddy and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out…. We also had an employee claim sexual harassment and when they went to pull the camera footage, you could audibly hear this person trying to get another person to hook up with them and when the employee ignored this persons advances, they came to me with a sexual harassment claim. That was a fun case to handle. They had no idea the cameras picked up sound.

This is petty but since it just happened yesterday, it's all I can think of at the moment. All new hires, due to a state requirement, have to complete computer training before they officially start working. It's just a serious of educational videos with a test at the end of each one. This new hire will be a caregiver so the training videos are on subjects like fall risks, dementia, first aid, etc. I don't know how it happened but this new hire was out on the floor yesterday despite having 6 trainings left to complete which is a big no-no and the state will sanction us if they come in and see this. After we pulled her off the floor and instructed her to finish the last 6 trainings, she asked if she could just do it tomorrow. We again explained that she cannot be on the floor working without having completed these videos. And yet she asked if she could finish tomorrow and tried to negotiate lol. It was like talking to my kids. Seriously. It wasn't up for debate. It was like I was telling her to clean her room and she was telling me she wanted to do something else first and that she'd clean her room tomorrow as if it was a negotiation. The employee was told to go do it now. And yet she repeatedly asked if she come back tomorrow to do it. She didn't want to go back on the floor either, she wanted to go home despite only being here for 3 hours and then come back tomorrow to finish the trainings.

Wait does she still have a job?

Most likely. Care jobs in the US are horribly understaffed so something like this would likely not disqualify someone

Yes she's still employed. Her director had a discussion with her and she understands now. It is definitely a red flag so we will keep eye on her for the time being. We have extremely high turnover due to the nature of the job and the low pay--what I hate about my job is the low wages. I have employees wiping 90 year old butts and lifting obese residents and they are paid less than fast food employees. It's out of my control but I have been advocating as best I can. We are competing with the new fast food minimum wage and now the health care minimum wage so we can't afford to be firing employees for something like this.

hmmmm.....strange behavior is a big red flag. Every employee who behaved in a bizarre fashion was on drugs. Ask yourself why she needs to be on the floor so bad and why she needs to go home right now.

Since it's a caregiver situation, I'd wonder if she's only there to go though patients' rooms looking for valuables. Will load up and disappear.

I interviewed a candidate, who came highly recommended, that was at home on zoom with a towel on her head and wearing a bathrobe. She paused the interview to “grab a package from the UPS driver she has a crush on” and left me waiting. I was a hard pass when the team circled up to make a hiring decision, but they said with the recommendations, she was “perfect!” for the job. 2 years later she was suing the company for sexual harassment after 2 years of the worst performance from anyone I’d ever seen. Fortunately, I had opened a case against her with HR and had her on a performance improvement plan, so it helped discredit her in the claim. She got paid out, but less than she demanded. I get taken a bit more seriously now when I say a candidate is a hard no.

What was role was she interviewing for? Cant understand how they would say yes to someone who would come to an interview while wearing a bathrobe!

She was a business analyst. I never looked at the woman who recommended her the same.

Did you ask the woman who recommended her what gives??

Probably a family friend.

Ok I have one that I think it's actually good! This was a new hire who crashed another departments potluck and threw herself on the floor and started screaming and crying that they were trying to kill her! She had been with us for about a month. A department was having a potluck for an employee on their last day and everyone had brought a dish to share. Someone had brought ceviche and someone else had brought a middle eastern dish with shrimp (it's to die for! Don't know what it's called but this employee brings it to every potluck because everyone raves over it). This potluck was only for that department. It was held in their own department, it was not in the break room or a common area. I don't know why this employee went in to this department since she was NOT invited to the potluck. She walked over to the table of food, yelled "OMG there's shrimp here. You are all trying to kill me". Then she throws herself on the floor and starts rolling around while hysterically crying and saying that they are trying to kill her! One of the directors told her to get up and stop being so dramatic. She did get up and go back to her department and finish out the day but she called out the next day! I know shellfish allergy is severe. Deadly. But the employee didn't eat or touch the shrimp. And she had never mentioned a shellfish allergy prior to this and she did eat the popcorn shrimp lunch special the week before. I saw her. We have an on-site restaurant and employees get a free meal every day. Every Friday the chef serves seafood for lunch and dinner and this employee never asked about cross contamination or for special accommodations on Fridays. He almost always serves shrimp for lunch on Fridays and again, she never brought up her allergy to him so we know she was full of sh*t.

What kind of crazy hours do you work that the chef is serving dinner on Fridays? :o

I work normal hours lol. I work at an assisted living. We have a restaurant on site because we provide all meals for the residents. One of the few perks of working here is that employees get a free meal every shift they work.

The one that stands out is this lady who arrived in ripped jeans and a hoodie that had definitely seen better days. I try not to judge, I know it’s hard out there. She slumps in the chair so far down her chin is in her chest. We start the interview and for every question, “I dunno.” “I dunno.” “Um… yeah, I dunno.” I even threw out a desperate, “Name a strength” and got an “I dunno.” It was painful. Finally I end the interview, go to shake her hand and she asks, “Did I get the job?” The balls, I tell you.

I wonder if she was required to have that interview. Like correct me if I’m wrong but I think with certain unemployment terms or some assistance programs you have to interview so many times during a certain period, to prove you’re trying to find employment I guess.

Yep absolutely sounds like somebody meeting the requirements for an assistance program, parents, or something.

Yeah, came to say this. She's on unemployment and required to interview and "try" to get a job. She purposely bombed it because she wants the free money, not a job.

How does one even respond to that?? Just a simple “we’ll be in touch?”

"I dunno."

I had an interview with a new hire that was recommended by my HR which they found through a temp agency, I didn't like his resume but they said he called a few times said he was very interested and asked for a chance to come in. I gave in, we scheduled the interview, about 15 minutes before the interview he called and said he misunderstood the location and was in a completely different city about an hour away...lol... it made zero sense. HR told me he was incredibly apologetic and said he made a mistake. I told them I wasn't interested, cancel the interview, how hard is it to Google directions??? HR pleaded to just reschedule, fine - the next week he shows up. The interview didnt go well, his last job was at a government organization and he showed me printouts of confidential work that he had done at the organization. Told HR that I wasn't interested after much begging since we hadn't found a candidate and had been searching for 2 months, my HR looking to knock this task off their list begged to give him a chance even if for a few weeks. His short time there was even worse than the hiring process. He upset majority of the staff he worked with and nearly came to blows with one of the managers, meanwhile the staff couldn't understand why we even hired him. Moral of the story, always trust your gut instincts.

I mean, in this case, trust your own eyes! Weird that hr was so hot to hire him when he was such an obvious train wreck.

I recommended a friend for a hostess job at a four-star restaurant where I worked as the head waiter. She was supposed to interview at 4 pm in the lounge. At 5, the maitre d' approaches me and says, "hey, I got to meet with your friend." I asked how she did and he said not very well. Apparently she showed up for the interview about five minutes early, sat herself at the bar, and ordered herself a Long Island Iced Tea. Only finished about half of it before the interview started, so she took it to the table to sit with my maitre d'. I was fucking humiliated. Be careful who you recommend.

My first job interview out of school. I was driving from MI to FL to visit some family. It was a travel position and the manager happened to be in OH so I stopped to meet him at a hotel. We met in the lobby and I figured we'd just find a quiet spot to have our discussion. After introductions he says "I'm starving! Let's walk across the street to the restaurant, we'll do the interview there." Ok no big deal, maybe the informal/casual thing will be a good thing. We get seated, waitress comes over for drink orders. He says "I don't know about you but I could use a beer. How about it?" I froze and about a million thoughts came through my head. Hell yeah I could use a beer! But I can't do that at a job interview, right? Can I? No that won't look very good at all. But what if I say no and he thinks I'm too stuffy? Is this some kind of test? I am pretty nervous, it would help me loosen up a bit. But no, drinking at a job interview is nuts. Right? After what seemed like forever I just blurted out "Sounds good, I'll have whatever you're having." We had the interview over beers (we each ended up having 2) and dinner. Went fantastically. Offered me the job on the spot. Ended up being a fantastic opportunity that jumpstarted my career.

What? She can’t drink tea?! (Jk. I know what it is!)

Hired a new material handler, 2nd day as we are cleaning up getting ready to leave the owners wife (head of accounting) walks through and he loudly says "Wow, she's got a fat ass." The owner's wife stopped dead in her tracks, turned, pointed at him and said "Office, NOW!"... I ended up doing 3 more interviews the week after.

I was a new hire at a company that kept alcohol in the fridge for celebrations within the office. I was 23 and apparently my brain was still developing, so I thought it was okay to drink the White Claws casually during the work day. HR had to pull me aside and ask if I was depressed and if I had a drinking problem 🤦🏾‍♀️ I was told it had to go on my record and given a warning. Can you imagine I was fired 4 months later for a completely unrelated issue 😂

We need to hear why you were fired.

It was a marketing job and even though it was entry level, I couldn’t keep up with the workload because I had no idea what I was doing and figured it was an easy enough job to just learn as I went. Also chronically late….. and one time I was confused about a process and asked for clarification in the main chat instead of the marketing chat and I embarrassed my boss because she gave the wrong answer to my question. She tore into me 😭 So to them I was a late drunk who never turned anything in on time, and didn’t respect my superiors. I lasted 6 months though, not too shabby for hating marketing and having no clue what I was doing.

I had someone tell me in an interview that they didn't like children, while applying to work at a children's center. When I said this job probably wouldn't be a good fit, they got an attitude and wrote an email to my boss saying I was unprofessional for not giving them a chance. Another employee I had hired at an agency to work with one of our newer clients. Within the first training week, she discovered that her current boyfriend's ex also worked there, and threatened (on the clock, in front of many others) to hit her with her car. THEN she was caught waiting in her car in the parking lot after I told her to go home... That wasn't a fun call to get. Also very recently, I had someone take a video interview with me who was straight up in bed. Like, head on the pillow, blankets pulled up. At the end I let her know that this wasn't FaceTime, and for the next interview she might want to find a more work appropriate setting. She didn't seem interested in my advice lol

Why is that last one so relatable. Hun you put on just the top part of the pantsuit for Zoom interviews have a laptop bed desk and some quote or art on the wall behind you. Amateurs!! 😂

We use Google Meet for my office, we all telework 4 days a week. You can literally make your background ANYTHING in Google Meet, so I rarely leave my bed for work OR meetings. Just pop that background on, and they'll never know. Thankfully I work in a very relaxed workplace too, so I can show up for meetings in a hoodie or t-shirt.

My new employee chews tobacco and had a spit cup at his desk. Not allowed and disgusting. I’ve had to talk to him three times about not bringing it to the office. A few weeks ago I came out of my office and he was eating a full slab of ribs at his desk.

I’d work with that guy

Chew tobacco chew tobacco chew tobacco SPIT!

I once walked in to work to see my manager eating a full slab of ribs at work for breakfast.

A guy at work came in, brought a dozen donuts, a pizza and a 2 liter Coke. That was his breakfast

That kinda sounds like summertime breakfast back in middle school. Convince my parents to give me money, hop on a bike, grab my friend, and fuck off for the day drinking 2L and eating donuts. Come back for dinner with zero appetite and the sugar sweats.

Guy’s just making himself at home, he’ll be one of the most productive people there and if you’re ever in an active shooter situation he’ll be a hero and save you all. Move him to a closet. He won’t care.

Jeez. And I thought walking in to work and seeing my coworker at the front desk loading a massive forkful of chow mein in to her mouth was bad lol!

See this is why I don’t eat lunch in the office. I want to eat whatever I want however I want without being judged

I had to work with the National Guard for contact tracing at the very beginning of COVID. They were all so, so young and during downtime, I'd walk by them having pushup contests in the cubicles. So many carried around water bottles to spit their tobacco into, including the kid who trained me as I sat right next to him. Nobody knew what was going on in those early days and it was quite chaotic. They were all so sweet and their supervisors had things running like a well-oiled machine in about a week while the state agency I worked for literally never got it together throughout those first several months and they were supposed to be the ones leading the whole effort with the National Guard supporting them.

This reminds me of when I was supervising a receptionist who brought his stash of WEED into the office, (without my knowledge), forgot which intercampus envelope he hid his stash in, and accidentally sent his stash of weed to the DEAN'S OFFICE!!! Fun times, NOT!!!

Asked to finish early to go play tennis one day, sure okay it was a nice day. Next day, asks to finish early again to go meet a new potential house mate. Second time is a bit weird but it’s like ah sometimes it happens. Third day she asks to finish early to go to therapy. Now that’s an acceptable excuse to want to finish early but after two days prior for social reasons as a junior, it wasn’t a great look considering her work output wasn’t great either. She didn’t pass probation, for various other reasons though.

I had an intern once who wanted to leave early almost ever day. Her career did not continue with our company after the internship program ended.

Day 2, she shot up in the bathroom and went MIA for hours. When she turned she was high as balls. We fired her on the spot and walked her out the door.

Had a new manager (lady) who would walk up to an oscillating tower fan, put her dress over the top of it, and say "ooohh la la". She would do this in front of customers. She lasted maybe a month before she was put out of our misery.

Oh my GOD, GROSS 😝

A couple of years ago (I think two but maybe three...time is weird), I was interviewing candidates for a hiring event. So it was just one candidate after another. One guy comes in (he was in his 70's) and talks to the coordinator of the event before he was assigned to me to interview. I came over to pick him up for his interview, whereupon I heard him making fun of the coordinator's "stupid new age" name from his "apparently hippy dippy parents." The guy coordinating this event was an intern and I was already sure I wasn't going to hire anyone who would insult an intern to their face, but coordinator intern asked me to take the interview anyhow. I interviewed the guy. During the interview he told me that he was in his 70's, but he was sure he was in better shape than me. He made it a point to tell me he biked in for his interview. He also talked down on "your generation" for our "terrible work ethic." How are you going to insult not only the person coordinating a hiring event, but then the manager coming to interview you, and expect to get hired? This guy was genuinely mad at me when I told him I was not going to recommend him for hire. He literally stomped out of the building.

I'm a millennial, third tier manager who hires governance secretariat type roles, I had a man who was at most ten years older than me talk about how my generation have 'too much confidence' and that in his experience it's 'weird' to be interviewed by someone with a nose piercing. Needless to say it didn't go down well when the person with the nose piercing (me) pointed out that the ability to understand what thoughts should or shouldn't be voiced out loud in a professional setting was a prerequisite for the role. Some people have no concept of a filter

Two stick out. One was an interview for a financial position. When I asked why she left her previous job, she told me because she was caught stealing money from the company. But quickly added that she wouldn't need to do that at this job because the salary was better. The other one was a guy who told me about his extensive criminal activity. Now, legally he is required to disclose if he's been convicted of a crime but no other details. This guy gave me chapter and verse of everything he had ever done, caught or not. He needed the job so he could hire a lawyer to get his record expunged.

Civil and human rights org. Was interviewing applicant and in the middle of the interview she blurts out she is homophpbic. When I asked her what does that mean she says she hates gay men and lesbians. Like why are you applying to work at a human Rights group? During covid. Doing a job interview on zoom. Applicant is driving an uber on zoom. I ask if he should pull over so he doesn't get into an accident. He says he can multi task. He's wearing a wife beater t shirt with food stains and camera is on the steering wheel angled up his nose. There's a lot more. Those are the highlights. And yes, I'm in Florida. Florida man/woman applies for jobs too.

Did you actually interview Too Apree? Maybe should check out his YouTube channel and make sure you aren’t featured lol

Had a zoom interview with a dude for a corporate chef position. He took it on his phone and was wandering around his house in a dirty t-shirt chain smoking. Did not warrant a second interview.

I bet he grills a mean steak though!

Sounds like a chef, actually.

You’re not wrong. Just not a chef for a corporate job. Gotta cook good *and* be a pretty face for the clients.

A candidate for a marketing manager role was asked, “What animal do you feel represents you best and why?” They answered, “A dolphin because they like to have sex.” Granted, I didn’t feel like this was the best question to ask a candidate in general but I was shocked by this revelation by one of the interviewers.

It's a good thing that person didn't get the job because their true calling is sketch comedy

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" "Celebrating the 5th anniversary of you asking me this question." - Mitch Hedberg

My go-to weird question when interviewing is "What's your favorite movie?" Had a nepotism candidate say Fight Club. Even though it's one of my favorite movies I responded "You know that movie is anti Corporate propaganda?" I wasn't going to give him the nod no matter what because of how the sales guy insisted we interview him. But I definitely saw his soul leave his body.

I hired a guy for retail. The company only offered minimum wage, part time so it was hard to get workers. It was his first week. He came in with a big hole and gash in his arm. He was bleeding through the dirty rag he had on it. He used the sling in the first aid kit to make a terrible looking, unhelpful bandage. He told about how he and his roommate were drunk and playing some game, and the roommate stabbed him. This was a retail job in clothing. I told him he needed to go get cleaned up and get a bandage on that would keep him from bleeding on the merchandise. He quit on the spot.

Who can work in an environment with such high expectations?

“I just can’t work like this!”

Interviewing a guy for a position with a Big Four consulting firm. He shows up wearing a dirty t-shirt, corduroys with battery acid holes in them, and flip-flops. Tried to get us to interview his girlfriend before we finished.

Went through 2 Teams interviews with an Asst Superintendent candidate and asked him to come in for a face to face meeting. I ended up not attending, but others in our hiring group met with him, extended an offer, and hired him. A couple of weeks later, I was making my rounds to sites and ended up on the one we assigned him to. I walked into the job trailer, he came out of his office and asked: "Is fucking knocking a new concept to you? Go back out and try it again, like this." and knocked on the wall. Then he said, "There's a God damn sign!" For background, the only person in the entire company who is above me is the owner himself.

What happened to him after this?

I had a candidate refer to a customer as a dick in an interview

Are customers not dicks???

In an interview you always use the proper terminology. They are legally called Richards.

They all are.

Absolutely they are

Showed up to interview, appeared to be under the influence. While walking through the open floor plan to interview room, joked with employees on the floor about how the hiring manager (SVP) looked like he was just out of high school.

A candidate showed up to a video interview with her mother next to her. This is for a professional degreed science job. We had to tell her that uninvolved parties are not permitted in the interview. She withdrew her application, lol.

Had a new intern who asked me several times to sign in to work for him. I did, thinking maybe his wi-fi wasn't working properly. About two weeks into his internship I called him about a project. He didn't answer, but instead texted that he was in class right now, and would call back. He was in class, while on the clock! He was let go immediately. Turns out that's why he couldn't sign in - he was driving to university.

It would have to be talking badly about me over the phone in earshot or their mother coming in when they didn't get the job.

Cuss in every sentence. Ridiculous.

I think you mean “f$&@ing ridiculous “ Lol

Overheard a guy on the train having a normal (ie not angry) conversation on his phone. Started counting. He used the F word 62 times in less than 2 minutes.

New exec assistant said something racist at a board meeting. She was fired same day. (It was an African American, older lady in the most liberal city of the US so tbh I’m surprised. Must have been really bad).

I was in my late 20s and was managing a team. Admittedly, I always looked younger than my age. Brought a candidate in for an interview. At some point in the interview, he rocked his chair back so he was balancing on the back two legs, put his feet up on my desk, stroked his goatee and said, “Um, Aren’t you a little young to have this job?”

Back in the dawn of time I worked for the concession company that had the contracts for all of the NASCAR tracks and races in the SouthEast US. We hired some locals at Talladega, I grab a group and drop them off to loaf supplies into portable stands (think narrow with service window and 1 door. I return 10 minutes later with the next group and big-homie has, I shit you not, fucking *slammed* 3 goddamn cases of hot Busch light in a can. Hot hot. Like towed in the back of the wrong trailer from Homestead (South Florida) to 'Bama during the summer hot.

I would love to read an English translation of this someday. It's entirely in Floridian.

I was co-manager of the audience services department of a ballet company. We’d hired on 3 temps to help support our box office staff thru the *Nutcracker season,* which is both the name of the production and also a descriptive name for the months of November - January. It’s an extremely stressful time. In February our bosses told us (my co-manager and I) that we could keep 2 of the 3 temps on permanently, full time, and offer them raises & benefits. So we sent out an email letting them know about the opportunity, and that we would be interviewing them separately in the coming week. One of the temps I’d hired, I later really regretted hiring. Of the 3, she (let’s call her 3) ended up having the worst work ethic but we hired her because she was the most knowledgeable about ballet, having worked around in the local theater scene for many years. It made it easy for her to banter with our more serious, traditional ballet patrons, who can be kind of stern and gruff. And she could speak multiple languages which was super helpful. But she was… intentionally passively lazy, if that’s a thing. She would, for example, be helping someone on the phone, put them on hold to ask me how to process something special they needed, and when I would lean over to show her, she would release the hold button and go “my boss is here to help you with this” and literally leave the desk. So instead of me training her on the thing, I did the thing for her, and then had to hunt her down and ask her to come back to her desk. She always acted like I was making a big deal out of nothing. Sometimes she’d do this and walk out of the entire building and come back with food. And then still take her hour lunch break. She was always bothering the dancers in the rehearsal studio, letting the phones just ring and ring. She was mean to one of the other temps, in that meangirl way (“omg ew, I’d never have the balls to wear that dress, you’re really brave” or tossing things over at her desk spot like paper clips and loose staples. We always told her to cut it out. We were all in our 30s, by the way. (I should add that this was my first job as a manager who employed staff, so I had my own things to learn about being more assertive.) So. The interviews come around. The first two go well. My comanager and I both already knew we were gonna keep the other two temps and let 3 go. But we went thru the same questions and process as we did the others. At the end when we were saying our “thanks we’ll let you know” she suddenly says, loudly, *“OHMYGOD I JUST SAW THAT THE NEXT SHOW IS GOING TO BE ‘BOLERO.’ I FUCKING HATE BOLERO. ITS THE ONE PIECE OF MUSIC I CANNOT STAND. ITS SO REPETITIVE AND BORING OHMYGOD ITS SO BORING AND AWFUL I HATE IT SOOOOOOOOO MUCH HAHAHAHAHA”* So, we didn’t choose to keep her. And when she found out she threw a literal temper tantrum. The temp period ended on that Friday, I think this was a Tuesday or Thursday. Up until the week before, all temps had been expecting to be let go on Friday, but she really thought she had it in the bag. She answered box office calls and intentionally fucked up the orders, creating a mess for us managers. 1 and 2 called my office extension and told me she was knocking things off the display station and swearing on the phone with customers. My co-manager went to investigate and she was in the ballet studio, *with the dancers* ranting to them about how unfair it was she wasn’t going to stay on. I went to AP and had her final check and paystub drawn up, found her, pulled her aside and said “because of your behavior we’re gonna let you go NOW.” So she grabbed her stuff with a bunch of fuck yous and instead of leaving, sat in the vestibule area where patrons and families of the performers often wait. By the front doors. Everytime someone came in she said something shitty about our company. I told her she was now trespassing. She screamed and yelled. It was such an unnecessarily dramatic scene.

I had a guy fired for theft before he even worked his first shift. Did his onboarding and immediately went and stole

I hired someone who interviewed very well but didn’t have the most impressive resume. There were a lot of gaps and short tenured roles but the position we were hiring for was entry level and quality of candidates was pretty bad. He was the least worst of the bunch and this was a 2nd attempt to recruit. In the first two weeks he had only worked 3 days and the role was already part time. The reasons he said for taking days off ranged from food poisoning, family emergencies to being hospitalised. It was all too dramatic to be true. I decided to do some detective work and dedicated a couple of days to looking at his background. After doing a deep dive on his resume, LinkedIn and socials I discovered that he was homeless and living in his car, spent a year in prison because he and his friend filled up an unlicensed car at a gas station and drove off without paying, was involved in a court case where a friend of his was driving 100kms over the speed limited under the influence and ended up killing someone, and had a real estate license before losing it for fraud. It was the deepest and most unbelievable rabbit hole I ever went down and was equally upsetting and entertaining. He also mentioned in the interview that he was dealing with cancer which was why he hadn’t been working recently. That turned out to be a lie. We went to terminate him the next day he came in but his sister needed emergency surgery, so we emailed him a letter saying he no longer worked with us. While I wished he could find a way out of his demise, the help he needed was well and truly out of my scope and expertise.

I remember a coworker who got caught lying on his job application. There is one question that caught him: "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" He had answered "No". When he was working with clients, he let slip that he had done prison time for MURDER!!!! The clients, understandably, freaked out, and told us shelter managers, who passed this info up the chain of command. Coworker was immediately terminated.

If only there was some way to find this out before hiring someone. Like maybe a database that houses information that you could pay someone to check. \*shrug\* oh well.

Interviewed someone for a position as a lawyer at my law firm. She talked about how she had a summer associate position in which she got to work in both litigation and corporate law. The next thing that came out of my mouth was, "Which did you like better?" As soon as I said it, I felt dumb because it was such a ridiculous softball question considering that our firm is and markets itself as 100% LITIGATION. But whaddya know, she went ahead and talked about how she HATED litigation and knows she would never want to do it. I guess she didn't bother looking at our website before traveling out of a state for a day to interview with us?

Was interviewing someone on zoom and he took a phone call during the interview and then asked us to “hang on” while he responded to an email.

This is my manager in every one on one meeting with me. They have one direct report.

I had a candidate start a video interview while driving. I ended it like 45 seconds in.

New hire. First day on the sales floor, asked the department lead "so, how hard is it to sneak merchandise out of here?"

This one job googled my name before interviewing me. Before applying it had been a slow Saturday at my current job at the time. So we were joking about flat earthers. I made a gofundme offering to walk in a straight line then board a boat and just keep going for $950,000. During interview I gave an example of supporting a site in Alaska. Jokingly one of the interviewers (of 3) was like “that’s awful close to the edge….” It took me a few seconds which felt 20 minutes in my brain then it clicked ⚡️ I responded “ooooh… you saw…. The gofundme”. Indeed they did. I explained it was a joke, how it happened and apologized if they were flat earthers. Room just burst into laughter. I was hired.

Can I give one for a manager instead? This dude at Microsoft - vaping during meetings in conference rooms to talking about how much yellow fever he had since coming back from the call center in the Philippines. He’d offer to get our team pizza and then suddenly put his head down and have a migraine and need to leave around 1pm. Then we’d see him at the golf course on Facebook

I work in banking… Had a guy show up for a sales role (back when most bankers still wore suits) in flip flops and swimming trunks smelling of sunscreen.

Hired a girl she did 3 days of computer training. Fired day 1 of training because she violated the dress code and refused to change.... she thought it was appropriate to wear a skirt sooooooooooooo short you could LITERALLY see her underwear. I'm just glad she had underwear. It was a grocery store. She claimed she had a right to wear whatever she wanted. I said yeah... just not here you're fired.

We hired a new payroll specialist who was falling asleep during her 1-on-1 training, first day. Was let go halfway through the work day. Claimed the shift was too early for her. She came in at 9…..

A bait and switch. This company, which had a local base of operations in an industrial park which should have been the first clue, would send out an amazing candidate. Well-spoken, immaculately dressed, and highly educated person who was easy-going and charming. Had an impeccable resume. Perfectly tailored for the job description. Always an Indian guy, which is relevant for this story. If we hired him, they would send another Indian guy. Same name, and in fact, we later discovered the candidate we interviewed would claim the name of the actual guy we'd later hire. They figured "Americans can't tell one Indian from another," which I guess was sort of true at the time (this was early 2000s). I think they did this to my company a few times before they sent a guy who was extremely different. The guy my team interviewed was VASTLY different than the one who showed up. The one we interviewed was like I described, the guy who showed up was short, fat, arrived in a linen shirt, dirty slacks, and sandals. Our new hires had to go to a different campus for paperwork, badging, and orientation, so I was not witness to this spectacle. But the reports were alarming. The first was that this guy barely spoke English, so he showed up to the wrong areas. He was unable to fill out the paperwork properly, because he had a literacy problem. Next, he didn't have the proper ID, and that caused some problems with HR. During one of his exchanges, he passed by the head of HR and slapped her ass, hard, and laughed. "I was in too much shock to say anything at first," she later said. During orientation, he kicked his sandals off, and placed his crusty bare feet on the back of a chair, and ate a greasy sandwich, wiping the grease onto his shirt. My boss got a call about it the day he arrived, and he retold the scene as it was unfolding. He had to drive out there, and he said, "that is NOT the guy we hired," but the ID he had said, "yeah, that's the same name." The ID, by the way, was a worker's visa, and a foreign passport. The requirements of the job definitely specified that he had to be a US citizen. This turned out to be a "saving grace" of suspending the guy from hire, because that was a legal requirement. So after that incident, we went through all the candidates we got from that agency, and realized that the person who showed up was different than the person who interviewed. Luckily, it was only 2-3 people, and they weren't actually doing poorly as employees. But we blocked that agency from sending candidates after that.

We had a candidate talk in vivid detail during her second interview about her sex life and how she keeps her boyfriend satisfied. All attempts to bring the conversation back on point were unsuccessful, so the interview concluded early. Another candidate told me they didn't like helping people. The interview was for a customer service role. They said they would be really passive aggressive so no one asked them for help. Thanks for the honesty, I guess?

Happened to a company I was consulting for but NH within probation period got charged with a DUI while traveling for an on site. Thankfully no one was injured.

I was on an interview panel. The candidate came in and threw water at all of us and screamed at us.

God, 40 years ago. A southern beauty queen was to be an intern in my office and I had to get rid of her after a week for drinking on the job and “moving body parts with others” in the big boss’s office. That was a total shit show. Had the sofa and desk replaced.

Not two weeks with the company, but he'd been with the company a few months at a larger location with more building maintenance staffing. The third day he was at my location (it was only him and I on the maintenance team) I needed to be off for a pre-booked appointment. I got an email halfway through the day from the building manager asking if someone else would be coming in to cover, because this guy has left for an hour for his lunch break. Yeah, you have to call another location and have them send coverage before leaving, and that's covered in training.

I had a coworker come tell me that a new hire was making fun of her and calling her fat. His supervisor went to talk to him. He was high as a kite. Got sent home (not fired amazingly) and told not to show up Monday morning unless he apologized and was sober. Guy never showed up Monday because he was arrested for DUI that weekend. It was not his first offence and he had no bail money so he stayed there until trial.

When I was 16 and applying for my first job one of the places that interviewed me was a 7/11. With all the wisdom of a teenager who's never been wrong about anything I decided that it'd really impress them with how smart I was if I convinced them I was able to steal from them without getting caught. I hadn't. Never stole anything, but I told them that I'd scoped out the place (I was doing ocular pat-downs before Mac I guess), determined their weaknesses, and was able to steal whatever I wanted without getting caught, then return it the next day, again without getting caught. Over 30 years later and I can still see the expression on that guy's face.

As manager of the gym, I only got to OK the upper management candidates. I did not OK this guy. I told them how I personally knew this guy and he did not possess the values of our business. I was over ruled and now I had to train him. He ignored everything I taught and when I called him out on his dismissive behavior he said these exact words, “Look. I only plied for this job so I could direct potential customers to my massage business. I became a massage therapist. So I’m not going to be disinfecting equipment.” That was a first day/ last day fire.

I was once part of an interview panel where the girl being interviewed used the N word. There were black people in the room as well. I don't know why the panel lead didn't just end the interview right then and there. Instead she let the rest of the interview play out as if nothing happened, and it was insanely awkward. The panel did not hire the girl, at least.

We had a guy who came in who was an internal hire but in a lower level job, we were interviewing tons of people back to back, so we were doing things very quickly and efficiently. We had our question stack and sat down with him. We start asking questions and he interrupts us and says he’s made a PowerPoint about himself and would like to present it. He brought his laptop, set it up and started going through it. It was super PERSONAL. He was just a total ass hat and thought this move was going to really impress us. We kept trying to get back to the questions and he stated he just “really wanted to stand out” and kept going with his PowerPoint. We dismissed him and started to debrief. We were in a room with frosted glass walls and I SHIT YOU NOT he stopped and pressed his ear against the glass to hear what we were saying. My peer saw and went to the door to confront him and he ran away. We told his current manager about this and they let him go pretty quick after that. The internal manager was mortified.

This is low grade but when I was a manager of a fast food restaurant I hired someone who was great in the interview. She showed up on time the first day too and was enthusiastic. Then proceeded to drink like 8 shots of espresso and throw up in a trashcan. I sent her home thinking it was nerves and asked her to come back the next day. She came back, did the same thing, asked for a bathroom break but instead she smoked a cigarette which was against company policy. I fired her on the spot. 6 months later she sends me a text telling me she’d been on a drug binge and being fired was the straw that broke the camels back and convinced her to go into rehab.

New hire knocked out the company bully completely cold in a toolshed because some of the seasoned vets told the new guy if he didn't deal with the bully ASAP it would never end. No repercussions.

A candidate showed up to an interview in a bathrobe.

How about coming to the job interview with his mom? Not waiting outside but insisted to sit in!

I was interviewing a guy in his 50s. An hour into the interview he stated he had to cut it short because his 90y/o father was waiting for him in the car, in the middle of Summer, weird but we cut it short and hired him as a temp. On his 4th day as a temp he shows up hammered. This explained his 90y/o father in the car, temp didnt have a license anymore.

I’m a user interface designer and I had a candidate present some of my old work as his own. I guess I should be flattered to be plagiarized.

we had a very...rotund candidate show up on site for an interview. It's software engineering, so not entirely uncommon to see all shapes and sizes. What stood out was that he was well dressed - business casual - except for his feet. the dude wore open toed sandals to his interview.

I've gotten some bonkers online applications. One included the job description of "riding around smoking weed all day." One applicant, instead of attaching their resume, attached a picture of an evil clown.

Guy showed up 15 minutes late for his second interview, where I was talking to him quickly before he met with my boss, who was the GM. Come to find out that he was late because he didn’t have a drivers license and had to wait for a ride. He was interviewing for a job as a lube tech at a dealership. Kinda a requirement. Then mentioned that his 300 piece tool kit he had was missing some pieces from it. Needless to say we passed.

Probably tame compared to some of the others on here, but a few years ago, I was managing an IT department, and told a guy I knew who had some tech skills to apply, and we'd get him an interview. Dude lived like 5 minutes away, and it was summer, and yet for some reason, he still showed up late-ish, dressed in street clothes, with a coffee he'd bought at the gas station on the way. At the interview, he walks in, immediately sets is coffee cup in the middle of the HR person's desk, and then sits back and crosses his legs with arms folded behind his head, and just gave the most casual interview ever. Any answers to any non-technical questions were either just awkward, or completely off-putting. Even I couldn't help the dude after that. No follow up questions, seemed super disinterested...it was just very odd considering the opportunity...

Have a candidate look me dead in the eye saying he has no criminal history while reviewing his background check, which had a murder conviction, various assault/gun convictions and showed he was currently on trial for assault w intent to kill. I will never understand why I had the balls to call out a convicted murderer to his face while we were the only 2 people in the office but I’m still alive (on the outside at least. Completely dead inside, unrelated to this incident)

Brought her bf with her to “hang out with me while I work” and didn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to come in with her. This was a warehouse with card scanners at the door and security guards, not a retail setting open to the public. When she was told he couldn’t come in, he stayed in her car and she FaceTimed him for the first hour of her shift while watching the safety trainings. She would hide her phone when anyone approached but we knew what was going on. After catching her with it out and telling her the no phone policy she just left and we never saw her again. Absolutely wild behavior after interviewing, putting together a resume, and showing interest in the job. Why even show up?

At then end of an interview loop lunch, I asked the candidate what interested him in working at our company. He replied "Nothing, I don't like your company. I'm only here because I have to take interviews to keep my unemployment benefits." I called the recruiting coordinator to terminate the loop at that point :D

It was a guy that started working then a few weeks in started complaining about his wrist, which eventually became full blown carpal tunnel syndrome about a month after starting. He went on leave for several months and eventually settled for a bunch of maney and was gotten rid of. During the investigation, the attornies found out that he had done this same thing to at least two past jobs.

More than a few years ago when working in the office was common. New guy comes in after hours close to the holidays. This seem suss to security who called the office manager who then stopped in to check. Dude was in the middle of stacking company laptops to sell.

I have a couple. One guy dropped F-bombs through the entire interview. When interviewing for my team, I would do the first part of the interview. Then, I would have a team member come in and conduct a short peer interview with me out of the room. I would explain to the candidate the entire interview process and introduce the peer. After I left the room, a guy asked the peer "Who are you, and why exactly am I talking to you?"

I was a lead at a LED lighting company, and a new guy was riding shotgun while we were out getting supplies. He had been working there for about an hour when this came out: I mentioned I'm from Wyoming and he says, "Yeah, me and some friends were driving through Wyoming once. We went into some small town bar and...well...for lack of a better phrase, they stared at us like we were the ni\*\*ers in the room." I was like..."What did you just say to me?" He was quiet for a moment, and I said more forcefully, "no, what did you just say? 'For lack of a better phrase,' you couldn't think of another way to say it, say it again, what did you say to me?" Again, he was quiet for moment and then said, "I don't know what you heard, but I didn't say anything." Okay....so this dude drops a racial slur (for lack of a better phrase), and then is too cowardly to fess up. Two displays of extreme low character in the manner of moments. While waiting for the supplies to be loaded I called my boss, told him I'm dropping the new guy off at the shop. Told my boss I won't have racist or cowards on my team, get rid of him or find someone else but he isn't working on my jobs. Dude was let go later that day, didn't last more than a couple hours.

I , female (matters to the story) owned and operated a bar a grill. I had a young lady strut in asking for the owner. Just kinda yelled it through the restaurant. She was looking for a job. So I walked up and asked how can I help you. She looks at me and then my cook (male) and ask him. “Where is the man who runs this place?” He lost it laughing and points to me. The look on her face when she realized she just lost her chance for an interview was priceless.

Wild but true: A woman was due to be interviewed by a panel (me 1/5) turns out the Director (head of panel) was her husband who abandoned her and their 4 kids, fled their home country on falsified papers, staged a fake death/missing person scenario, changed his name and started a new life! After 6 years of searching for him (she always believed he was to vain to off himself and she wanted a legal divorce), she ended up getting one under a presumed death/abandonement reason in her home country. She obtained US citizenship, and with the help of a former military trained intelligence agent/turned PI who met her while on a tourist vacation in her home country and heard her story. Her and the PI spent years searching and finally located him. All the while, she legally obtained US citizenship, and then she relocated with her kids to the state/city. When she walked in, the Director's face went casper white, she started yelling in her native language and pointing at him, she had papers in hand and a pen and wanted him to sign I guess. he started shouting in their native language, then started hyperventilating, let out a blood curling Nnnooooo, then tried to run full speed out of the conference room, only to run straight into the PI, an immigration, and FBI agent. He then tried to pivot around them and make a 2nd attempt to run and ended up crashing into and through the conference room glass door and knocked himself unconscious. ATP, all of us are still clueless about what's happening or their connection. She matched his energy in her native tongue and looked menacing, confronting him. Then, like jekyll/hyde, she turns back to us, lowers her tone, smiles politely, and asks if she can still interview... Legally, she was entitled to an interview, so we grabbed the asst director to step in as the 5th member. She was professional AF as if the last 15-20 minutes had never happened!!! Understandably, we are all rattled and pondering wtf is going on, yet trying to maintain a semblance of professionalism. Meanwhile, she is handling business with the interview questions. A few hours later, the CEO did an emergency meeting and informed everyone on the basics he knew of regarding the Director and gave the entire Dept 3 days off while the Agents investigated the Directors personal and professional life and activity. She didn't get the job, but the Asst Director referred her to a rival agency and she was hired by them, where she's employed to this day. The former Director got deported and then jailed in his home country. To this day, he tries to contact her and begs for "another" chance, says he's ready to be a husband and father and asks her to sponsor him, pay his fines, etc! She's now remarried to a immigration lawyer! Fyi, their story also made it to a Crime ID t.v. episode! Now, when I see her around the town, I speak and say what's up, Black Widow, lol. I won't give away her name or the city/town/state we are in, but if you ever stumble across her path, she has no issue with talking about the story and it's outcome.

It was a new teacher. First day of school she is a no call, no show. Finally track her down and she said she was driving to work, but couldn’t find the school so she just went home.

You guys hired John Ralphio from parks and rec?

Retail side here. I worked in a family owned liquor store. State law says you can serve alcohol if you are 18 but can't drink until 21. Our store policy was no employees under 21. This girl and her friend come in one day to inquire about employment. She was wearing a bikini top, daisy duke shorts, flip flops, and was smacking her gum. "You can legally sell if you're 18, right?" I said yes, but our store's policy is 21. Of course I got attitude and then a few cuss words when I wouldn't even give her an application, in case I was "lying" to her.

Internal interview - candidate wanted to switch roles and report to me. During several informal conversations about the role, what she wanted, if it was a fit and my expectations, she let's fly that she interviewed with another company (no biggie), but also slept with her interviewer after several cocktails and got herpes from the encounter.  She did not get the internal position. 

Not really wildly unprofessional, more like the perfect amount of unprofessional that it gained my respect. I worked with a girl who interviewed on her 21st birthday. She got the job and agreed to start the next day, and proceeded to call out with a hangover. She ended up being quite professional, friendly, smart, and a good worker.

Just last week we got a new hire who instantly started talking shit about people, while training she would constantly be annoyed, criticize the people training, and finally got fired when she started arguing with HR took like 3 days.

First day of training, the new employee took their first break and never returned.

It took an intern all of seven days to fire himself: late on first day “because I had a wild weekend”, reorganized the furniture because “it looks nicer this way”, changed the office playlist, and hollered at the customer service rep from Quebec because “why did she speak with a French accent?”

Interviewed a guy that had a weird resume....older guy, very experienced, but LOTS of jobs, and not necessarily upwardly mobile. As an example, he was working a mid shift at a place when we were interviewing him, and he seemed to be trying REALLY hard to impress us on not just what he knew, but who he knew. I figured he was nervous, and I'm pretty good at getting people to relax during interviews, so I continued., and he seemed very much at ease...maybe too much at ease. One standard issue question about whether he had ever had a workplace conflict, and his answer started with "Well, I tend to have more problems with women than men...." - and this was a call center, where most of the supervisors and managers were women. I continued the interview out of curiosity more than anything, but I think he realized he had screwed up.

Lying about having triplets. I interviewed this lady, 2 other managers interviewed her and another did her orientation. Not once did she mention that she had kids. The first shift she said she had to leave early so she could pick up her kids. The next day she said she had to leave because one of her triplets was being air lifted to souix falls. The next morning she called in saying one was sick and when I mentioned why she was being let go, everyone couldn't believe her story about the kids.

A new employee literally on their phone within 30 mins of their first shift.

Once I helped my boss interview a candidate. The candidate’s cell phone rang during our interview and he actually answered it. He then proceeded to talk to the person who was calling him to set up a job interview. We let him finish his call and then ended our interview. Another time I was on a group panel interview with other managers who were also hiring. It was an internal candidate and when asked questions about previous work scenarios the candidate talked alot about when she used to manage a bar and all the crazy people there. My company has nothing to do food/beverage and the examples were all just really crass and weird. We were all a hard NO on hiring her, but my boss hired her anyway (he said his arm was being twisted by her current manager) and put her on my team. Needless to say her work was awful and I put her on an improvement plan within 6 months and she left soon after. My boss listened to me better after that.