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Best and worst at the same time. Lady interviewing me was attractive, had massive breasts, and was wearing an outfit where half of them were bubbling out of the top. I'm talking waterbed motions as she walked. Super cleavage.

I didn't stand a chance. If her aim was to weed out pervs it worked flawlessly.

I found out after three rounds of interviews that they knew who they were going to hire the whole time and I was basically a filler candidate so they could pretend they were doing their due diligence.

No you gotta give more than that! There's a whole part of the story between "super cleavage" and "I didn't stand a chance" that you gotta tell lmao

Best and worst at the same time. Lady interviewing me was attractive, had massive breasts, and was wearing an outfit where half of them were bubbling out of the top. I'm talking waterbed motions as she walked. Super cleavage.

I didn't stand a chance. If her aim was to weed out pervs it worked flawlessly.

Went to an interview for one position. Nailed it the interviewer really loved me and at the end of an hour interview told me they accidentally posted the wrong position and offered me a lesser one.

I was about 3.5 years into doing tech support. I thought I was hot shit and believed I was ready to move on to a networking job. I landed an interview to work in a network operations center at a company in north Austin, TX. I walked into the job interview pretty confident that I was going to get the job. The interview started, and he began asking me some basic technical questions.

Question 1: Have you ever heard of the OSI model?
My answer: No

Question 2: When you have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.252, how many usable IPs are there?
Me: 1

There were no more technical questions after that. I knew just from that fact that I had bombed the interview hard. After it was over, I sat in my car outside the building for about an hour and was incredibly angry at myself. It was a soul crushing experience. It was at this point I realized that, while I had been doing very well at my ISP tech support job, I had been spinning my wheels and was not setting myself up for the future.

Looking back at it now, I needed that to happen. If I hadn't done that interview, I probably would have continued doing tech support for a lot longer than I did.

Interviewer came in with a freshly ripped dress shirt. At that point, I knew I had power over this guy and got the job.

Btw this is a tactic employers use, not necessarily an accident

they hope by the time youve invested all that time youll take the job anyway

So what? Interviewers really like asking about that stuff. Ask yourself this, those hard tech questions in that interview, you would have used that stuff all the time if you were hired there?

• The OSI model is a framework that defines the basic framework of how networking functions. The TCP/IP model is what is technically used today, but the OSI model is still commonly referenced. I refer to the OSI model over the TCP/IP model myself because it's more specific.

• A subnet mask of 255.255.255.252 is the most commonly used subnet mask in networking. You get two usable IP addresses, and it's most often used for links between two layer 3 devices. I thought the answer was 1 because I learned subnetting improperly at my ISP tech support job. The way I learned it was that with that subnet mask, the ISP uses 1 IP, and the customer gets 1 usable IP. So I thought only one of them was considered usable, which is completely wrong.

I got the job.

Five or six years back, I interviewed an applicant for a security guard position at my hospital. Former cop, had short stints as a security guard elsewhere, on paper seemed like a perfectly acceptable applicant.

Within fifteen seconds of his butt sitting down in my office, he voluntarily outed himself as an absolutely hardcore Trumper, and kept bringing it up at basically every opportunity for the next few minutes when, believe me, there is nothing remotely political about the position.

Then he starts talking about how bad vaccines are (this was pre-covid) and asking if this place performed abortions as well, with him being visibly heated with each passing moment as he kept talking himself into a crazy corner. He then erupted into shouting when I told him we were probably not going to offer him a position, at which point an actual security guard stepped in to give the guy a glare which settled him down as the good guard had a foot and about a hundred pounds of muscle on him.

As he was escorted out, he faked that he was hit, threatened to sue, and in the same instant took a swing at a second, shorter security guard that had also stepped in to assist. Our two security guards proceeded to take him to the ground and held him there until police arrested him.

He was charged and a restraining order was placed on him for everybody and everything associated with the hospital. Before it could go to trial, he committed a pretty bad assault on a neighbor of his and he is in jail for a couple more years as of last check.

Five or six years back, I interviewed an applicant for a security guard position at my hospital. Former cop, had short stints as a security guard elsewhere, on paper seemed like a perfectly acceptable applicant.

Within fifteen seconds of his butt sitting down in my office, he voluntarily outed himself as an absolutely hardcore Trumper, and kept bringing it up at basically every opportunity for the next few minutes when, believe me, there is nothing remotely political about the position.

Then he starts talking about how bad vaccines are (this was pre-covid) and asking if this place performed abortions as well, with him being visibly heated with each passing moment as he kept talking himself into a crazy corner. He then erupted into shouting when I told him we were probably not going to offer him a position, at which point an actual security guard stepped in to give the guy a glare which settled him down as the good guard had a foot and about a hundred pounds of muscle on him.

As he was escorted out, he faked that he was hit, threatened to sue, and in the same instant took a swing at a second, shorter security guard that had also stepped in to assist. Our two security guards proceeded to take him to the ground and held him there until police arrested him.

He was charged and a restraining order was placed on him for everybody and everything associated with the hospital. Before it could go to trial, he committed a pretty bad assault on a neighbor of his and he is in jail for a couple more years as of last check.

Former friend had his superior at a pyramid scheme (sorry, "MLM company") call me and try to recruit me, despite constantly telling this friend that I don't want to get involved and that he was being scammed.

Intentionally tanked that interview, called the guy a scammer who knew he was in a pyramid scheme taking advantage of people, and ended the friendship as soon as I hung up.