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Showing Original Post only (View all)What's the Most Embarrassing Thing That's Happened to You in an Interview? [View all]
Let me just start by saying that I had an experience this morning at a job fair and it set me to thinking. I was just beginning to tell the interviewers all about how wonderful I am when the chair I was sitting on broke. I fell on my butt and ripped my pants (up the side). The only positive was that I was wearing a sport coat that hid the rip. Of course I behaved like nothing had happened.
So what horrible thing has happened to you while interviewing for a job?
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What's the Most Embarrassing Thing That's Happened to You in an Interview? [View all]
ProudLib72
Mar 2019
OP
I showed up at the office of a university dean for an interview concerning my possible
Atticus
Mar 2019
#3
He probably thought, "That Atticus is a party animal. No way could he make his grades!"
ProudLib72
Mar 2019
#10
I was in a phone interview when the cats came into the room and started a screeching fight ...
eppur_se_muova
Mar 2019
#4
The thing that irritated me was that I had closed the door for privacy ...
eppur_se_muova
Mar 2019
#17
I know someone who was giving a speech in university when her old pare of underwear started to
applegrove
Mar 2019
#28
My employment history has been rather spotty since I moved into the nonprofit world.
stopbush
Mar 2019
#15
I've only had a couple three jobs interviews in my life and got all the jobs but in court...
Shrike47
Mar 2019
#31
Never dressed up much except for an interview (or wedding, funeral, etc.)
captain queeg
Mar 2019
#33
In my early twenties the interview asks me...so what is that you think you could most improve upon
UniteFightBack
Mar 2019
#34
Never anything really embarrassing but I don't have a good record on phone interviews
underpants
Mar 2019
#39
I tend to be a fast-talker. And the faster I talk, the worse my enunciation gets.
Aristus
Mar 2019
#44