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This list is supposedly from company HR execs and these are the lowlights of interviewing people.

  1. She wore a Walkman and said she could listen to me and the music at the same time.
  2. A balding candidate abruptly excused himself. Returned to office a few minutes later, wearing a hairpiece.
  3. ....asked to see interviewer's resume to see if the personnel executive was qualified to judge the candidate.
  4. ....announced she hadn't had lunch and proceeded to eat a hamburger and french fries in the interviewer's office - wiping the ketchup on her sleeve.
  5. Stated that, if he were hired, he would demonstrate his loyalty by having the corporate logo tattooed on his forearm.
  6. Interrupted to phone his therapist for advice on answering specific interview question.
  7. When I asked him about his hobbies, he stood up and started tap dancing around my office.
  8. At the end of the interview, while I stood there dumbstruck, he went through my purse, took out a brush, brushed his hair, and left.
  9. ...pulled out a Polaroid camera and snapped a flash picutre of me. Said he collected photos of everyone who interviewed him.
  10. Said he wasn't interested because the position paid too much.
  11. While I was on a long-distance phone call, the applicant took out a copy of Penthouse and looked through the photos only, stopping longest on the centerfold.
  12. During the interview, an alarm clock went off from the candidate's briefcase. He took it out, shut it off, apologized, and said he had to leave for another interview.
  13. A telephone call came in for the job appliant. It was from his wife. His side of the conversation went like this;
    "Which company? When do I start? What's the salary?"
    I said, "I assume your not interested in conducting this interview any further." He promptly responded, "I am as long as you'll pay me more." I didn't hire him, but later found out there was no other job offer, it was a scam to get a higher offer.
  14. His attache case opened when he picked it up and the contents spilled, revealing ladies' undergarments and assorted makeup and perfumes.
  15. Candidate said he didn't really want to get a job, but the unemployment office needed proof that he was looking for one.
  16. .... asked who the lovely babe was, pointing to the picutre on my desk. When I said it was my wife, he asked if she was home now and wanted my phone number. I called security.
  17. ...pointing to a black case he carried into myoffice, he said that if he was not hired, the bomb would go off. Disbelieving, I began to state why he would never be hired and that I was going to call the police. He then reached down to the case, flipped a switch and ran. No one was injured, but I did need to get a new desk.
  18. Found an applicant stretched out on the floor filling out the application in crayon.
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