What's your weirdest job interview experience?

Firstly, congrats on getting the job ALEX! :) That does sound like a completely terrifying interview. I think I would've run out of there! That would be so weird! It's great that you got the job...but I don't know if I could work for those people..it would scare me!

I had a job interview the other day, and though it was mostly normal, the man who was interviewing me asked me if I planned on getting pregnant any time soon or if I knew how to use a condom...just to be safe, he said. He was concerned that he'd have to pay for my maternity leave.

I just turned sixteen a few months ago.

Needless to say, it was very awkward and the guy freaked me out. I got the job, but didn't show up for my first day of work. I don't plan on showing up. Ever. My dad called in for me (I didn't want to talk to Mr. Creepo) and they will not be contacting me in the future. Thank god!

EDIT: I don't see why some people are getting thumbs-down? These are personal stories...how can you get a thumbs-down for a personal story? Whaaaaaaat?

I had a job interview for an internship... the interview lasted 3 hours. 3 HOURS! I drove 4 hours to get there, hoping to interview then hang out with my friend in town. I had to discreetly text my friend several times, pushing back my expected arrival time.

After the initial, normal interview, they led me around the entire building and introduced me to everyone as if I was the new hire. I had long conversations with all of the department heads (despite my attempts at not keeping the conversations going).

Then after the introductions, I was sat down and led through the website that I was going to be updating.

I suddenly realized that they had no idea the difference between a "designer" and a "programmer"

• a "web designer" can design a website (colors/buttons/layout).

• a "web programmer" can actually MAKE that website work.

I can do the former, but not the latter. They wanted the latter not the former.

So after 3 hours, I said that I REALLY MUST be going, and I called from my car, saying that I was going to take a job elsewhere.

Ugh. Horrible. And WEIRD! Who treats an interview like the first day!?

I was the Sales manager, but the Branch manager ran the interview. The guy that came in told us how he was wanting a job after his vasectomy operation ... EEEEWWW. He got an infection, and swelling and ... already that was too much information. I walked out.

The branch manager pitied him and put him on my sales team. The guy then repeated the story every time he sat in front of a customer.

The only sales he got were the ones I rescued.

I now help Santa at Christmas.

To find out if I was jolly or just acting as though I was good with kids, they tried to get me angry at a kid in a story, or swear.

I passed that and the police checks and have been wearing red for 3 Christmases now.

(Another thing is that they may call me with a hour notice to change the roster. When the real Santa comes to town, then I don't have to work that shift)

Had an interview at a pet shop a couple weeks ago. It was normal until they asked me to "sell" them a product. I was given about 1 minute too look over some obscure fish tank fluid. He then asked me the weirdest questions about it like "I am clumsy, what happens if I just accidentally dump the entire bottle in the tank?' And "Why is the bottle dusty, is it old or something?" WTF do you say to that? Umm no sir it is just dusty because we don't bother to clean the store? Or better yet yes it is old, frankly it is crap and no one buys it! And to the clumsy statement... Do you like OD on pills and what not too because you dump the entire bottle down your throat? They put in their newspaper ad that they were looking for someone with experience handling small animals and birds, I assumed the job would mostly be taking care of the animals maybe with some customer service. When I arrived they told me it was all about sells sells sells! And we were to basically harass customers and con them into buying higher priced crap by lying to them and telling them we personally use it. They also made the pointe that is was minimum wage and minimum hours, sad thing is all the other people I saw getting ready to interview looked to be professional adults that is how pathetic the job situation is anymore. Another horrible one was actually Petsmart (go figure with the pet stores) they asked what my 5 yes 5 greatest weaknesses were! How do you come up with 5 acceptable things? Ummm let's see, sex, drugs, booze, and stealing!

The job interview I went through to get my current job with my local library. The manager of the library location I interviewed at was a former children's librarian. I happened to be interviewing at the library I went to as a kid. There is nothing more nerve wracking (or odd) than being interviewed by the person who gave you your first library card and has known you when you couldn't even spell your name right.

It wasn't really a JOB interview, but I tried out for a kids TV show, and got past the first audition.

Then they put us in a little circle and walked out of the room, letting about ten kids who didn't know each other, to talk amongst themselves. I'm pretty sure we were being video taped during this whole thing.

But it was really awkward, until one kid (he was probably the oldest one) started talking about how that old TV show "That's So Raven" got canceled, and then we all talked.

Then they started the real interviewing part, where they asked us questions. They were odd questions like: "What's your family like?" or "If you could time travel anywhere, where and when would you go?"

I bombed the interview, though. I got so nervous :P

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I went to an interview one time expecting to do the usual 'why I would be great for this job' interview. Instead they did some kind of personality interview. They asked questions like, which parent do you get along with better and why. It was the strangest most uncomfortable thing in the world.

They finished with asking, "If you were a consumer product what would you be?"

I said, "Uh, lipstick?"

<head thump>

Needless to say I did not get that job!

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, apply for a job with Westpac. The recruitment process takes about a month and they, and Hudsons Recruitment, the agency they use, will treat you like dirt. They must have phoned me at least ten times wanting to know minor details about my application, often leaving voice mail messages while I was at work or uni, asking me to call back URGENTLY, they harassed my referees in the same way, and I was constantly getting asked to come in, often on an hours notice to do dumb group exercises with other applicants, like building a tower out of straws, or answering basic mathematical questions. And lots of questions on the history of the company.

All this for a damn call centre job.

When I finally got an interview with the person from Westpac they started the interview an hour late, walked halfway through to talk to a plumber who had come in to fix the outside fountain that was leaking, bought themselves a coffee from the canteen and finally returned to finish the interview.

A day later, they phoned again, asking for more referees, in addition to the three I had already given them.

The day after that, they rang back again to ask more minor questions.

Finally, at 8am on a Monday morning, they phoned to ask me how I felt about the interview process. I didn't know what to say, because I for some insane reason I still wanted the job. I did the best I could, they asked me a whole lot more questions and then, after forty-five minutes on the phone added, "We're actually calling to say that Westpac decided directly after your interview that they did not want to employ you."

Needless to say, they got told to f.uck off.

No job interview I have ever been on has come close to what they put you through! Good grief! All I can say is I hope the job was worth it!!!!

And, I can say from the other side of the table, I have never done that to a job applicant! That's down right mean!!!!

I really feel for you......