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A first for me...I had a phone interview set up for yesterday at Noon my time(the interviewee are on ET).
The time was good, because I would be home.
I get a call at 10 asking if they can push it to 11am. I'm just about to walk into an 50 minute appointment, but I said sure.
I ended up sitting in a Safeway parking lot for 30 minutes answering questions and giving my opinions.
Felt like it went well..and when I thought back on it later in the day, being out of my comfort zone, kind of kept me on my toes!
bif
(22,685 posts)I ended up getting a 2 week freelance gig out of it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... later in life there were interviews in restaurants and airports, but the all-time weirdest was on the roof of a motel.
That same day I learned that re-tarring roofs in searing heat was not for me. I quit that job at noon the first day, still a personal record (second place - noon the second day).
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Not such an unusual place, you might think. But they were rebuilding and the workers started up soon after the interview started. Wev ended up having to yell at each other because we couldn't hear each other. Noise and dust.
I got the job.
hunter
(38,303 posts)I was young and naive and should have figured out what kind of videos they were making from the ad and the initial phone contact, but I didn't. They were offering me a job in television production!
I walked out of the front room office and there were lights, cameras, and naked people.
Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, everyone was really nice to me and the guy who set up the interview gave me money for gas and lunch and sent me on my way.
Eventually I did get a job in television, broadcasting city council and school board meetings, but the pay wasn't nearly so good as the porn job had promised.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)In mine, I was handed a recently-used penetrative sex-toy mid-interview, being interviewed between shots while set-up was going on, so my interviewer could have both hands free to apply nipple make-up. I was amused how matter of fact it was: "Here hold this, I have to use both hands to apply lip-tint to her nipples. They're washing out under the lights. So you most recently worked for the Digital-media lab at ________ Univ. Tell me about that."
I would have taken the job because money is money when you're 24 and broke but they hired someone who didn't stare so much.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)Really!
When I got my first meaningful job at the British Library in the British Museum.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)The owner even took me upstairs to see the casket room.
becca da bakkah
(426 posts)But, over 30 years ago I interviewed to work for a wheel chair manufacturing company in Los Angeles. What was freaky....there were no regular chairs in the building, just wheel chairs. That's what everyone sat in, and they were all mobile. Awkward moment when the guy who interviewed me told me to take a seat, and I'm looking around for a chair that isn't on wheels!
PS: I didn't get the job, but that didn't bother me!