every get turned down for a job..

MrJoshua wrote: I applied for a job at Eckerds (a CVS type store) back when I was a teenager. They offered to "Interview" me on the spot. The first "Interview" was a really long multiple choice test that was designed to see what it would take to get you to steal money from the company. The early questions were variations on "Would you take money from the register if you knew you would get caught?". They progressed to "You need money to pay you electric bill. Would you take money from the register if you knew you would loose your job but not go to jail?" By the time I was 3/4 of the way through and they were hitting me with variations of "Your best friend/Mom/etc... have cancer and you could take the money and have it back without anyone knowing..." type questions I had had enough. I pretty much said I would take money from the register to buy Girl Scout Cookies because they were yummy at that point.

I think Target used to do the same thing.

Which is worst? Stealing from your employer or cheating on your wife?

I did the interview process for a temp agency back up in Pittsburgh early this year.

ALL the questions were variations of theft and do you do drugs. All 80-some of them..

spitfirebill wrote: I interveiwed for two jobs with the state's environmental agency. Both times I was told almost first thing they were looking to fill the job with a black female. So why did you call my lily white pecker packing self in?

Because they had to show that it was a "fair and balanced process".

spitfirebill wrote: Which is worst? Stealing from your employer or cheating on your wife?

And you can't skip or not answer the questions either.

NGTD wrote:

spitfirebill wrote: I interveiwed for two jobs with the state's environmental agency. Both times I was told almost first thing they were looking to fill the job with a black female. So why did you call my lily white pecker packing self in?

Because they had to show that it was a "fair and balanced process".

Affirmative action in the workplace is awesome!

I've had a few. One was another one of these places that asked more about how I'd fit in than job-related stuff. Lots of questions about office politics. Right up front I had to fill an application form saying that I would be drug-tested (for a job as a sysadmin), I thought about walking out right then but I decided I'd go through with the interview and just tell them to keep the job if they wanted to go through with it.

And then I applied for a job with good pay but that was SO boring it probably would have driven me insane. Didn't get called on that one. Meh.

There was one time about six years ago when I ended up telling a recruiter, "Sorry, but there's no way I'm taking this job." I'd just lost my job when the company closed the division I worked for, and this was a similar job for a competing company in another city. I had the interview with the guy who would be my boss, and he came off as a total sleaze. There were several rather unbusinesslike things he did, but the weirdest had to have been that he suggested, in all seriousness, conducting the interview at his favorite strip club. In case you were wondering, he was married.

That company also had a sister company that had been in the news for a scandal where managers had been covering up sexual harassment cases. Guess I found out what they'd done with the troublesome managers...

MadScientistMatt wrote: There were several rather unbusinesslike things he did, but the weirdest had to have been that he suggested, in all seriousness, conducting the interview at his favorite strip club.

That's not weird

If you're interviewing for a job as a gangster

I used to work for a raging alcoholic. That's the kind of thing that doesn't usually come up in an interview.