If you love your kids don't go with them on job interviews [View all]

[ripcord]

Since complaining about the quality of the truck drivers HR was sending me I am now privileged to sit in on all the interviews with the final candidates and the first today took the cake. We were interviewing a 23 year old man straight out of truck driving school, he had a first class application and resume but we knew something was up by the look on the assistant's face when she brought him in, and his mother. Not only did she sit in but she did most of the talking and no matter how directly we asked questions of this young man his mother answered them, I don't think he said a dozen words. She informed us with a straight face that he was a self starter and as the interview finished she stated that when we hired her son, not if, we would definitely have to discuss pay because the amount we advertised was just too low.

Needless to say this young man is no longer being considered by our company, he might have worked out but his mother just wasn't a good fit.