Interview fcuk ups

Worst interview was the time I was late and couldn't find their offices.
I was interviewing in Dublin (not my home city) and left myself enough time to get to the interview location. I took a taxi from Heuston station, armed with the exact address I needed to go to. Unfortunately for me, the taxi driver, despite saying he knew where it was, didn't know where it was.

So we're driving around in circles, I have no idea where the place is, taxi driver has no sat. nav., his taxi driver friends on the phone don't know where it is (surprise surprise), randomers on the street have no idea where the place is, and I'm getting more agitated and no closer to the interview. Eventually, the interviewers ring me on my mobile as it was 5 minutes past the interview time. I explain that we can't find their offices and they say no problem, pass the phone to the taxi-driver and we'll tell him how to get here. I hand the driver the phone and he listens to their directions, then says "oh yeah I know exactly where you are now." All good, or so I thought.

He then drives me to a building and says to me "that's their offices there, on the 2nd floor the woman said". Cheeky bastard charged me the full fare on the meter even though we were driving around in circles for 15/20 minutes. Since I was already late for the interview, I didn't have time to argue and just gave the w@nker the money.

All good now, at least I had found it, or so I thought. Went into the building and it turned out it wasn't where I was looking for at all. I asked the people working there if they knew the place I was looking for, they said they never heard of it. Turns out, it was only a stone's throw away, but they didn't know it. So I left the building, absolutely helpless, can't find the address for love nor money, asked a few more people and no one knows where it is. Eventually the interviewer rang me and asked me where I was, I described the part of the business park I was in, and she says to me, ok stay there, I’ll come get you. The junior interviewer drove down and picked me up in her car! It was an absolutely scorcher that day, and between the heat, wearing a suit and running around like a headless chicken, by the time I sat down for the interview, I was literally soaked in sweat!

Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.

Afterwards I was told by the interviewers that almost everyone has difficulty finding their offices, and that I certainly wasn't the first.

Dan133269 wrote: »

Worst interview was the time I was late and couldn't find their offices.
I was interviewing in Dublin (not my home city) and left myself enough time to get to the interview location. I took a taxi from Heuston station, armed with the exact address I needed to go to. Unfortunately for me, the taxi driver, despite saying he knew where it was, didn't know where it was.

So we're driving around in circles, I have no idea where the place is, taxi driver has no sat. nav., his taxi driver friends on the phone don't know where it is (surprise surprise), randomers on the street have no idea where the place is, and I'm getting more agitated and no closer to the interview. Eventually, the interviewers ring me on my mobile as it was 5 minutes past the interview time. I explain that we can't find their offices and they say no problem, pass the phone to the taxi-driver and we'll tell him how to get here. I hand the driver the phone and he listens to their directions, then says "oh yeah I know exactly where you are now." All good, or so I thought.

He then drives me to a building and says to me "that's their offices there, on the 2nd floor the woman said". Cheeky bastard charged me the full fare on the meter even though we were driving around in circles for 15/20 minutes. Since I was already late for the interview, I didn't have time to argue and just gave the w@nker the money.

All good now, at least I had found it, or so I thought. Went into the building and it turned out it wasn't where I was looking for at all. I asked the people working there if they knew the place I was looking for, they said they never heard of it. Turns out, it was only a stone's throw away, but they didn't know it. So I left the building, absolutely helpless, can't find the address for love nor money, asked a few more people and no one knows where it is. Eventually the interviewer rang me and asked me where I was, I described the part of the business park I was in, and she says to me, ok stay there, I’ll come get you. The junior interviewer drove down and picked me up in her car! It was an absolutely scorcher that day, and between the heat, wearing a suit and running around like a headless chicken, by the time I sat down for the interview, I was literally soaked in sweat!

Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.

Afterwards I was told by the interviewers that almost everyone has difficulty finding their offices, and that I certainly wasn't the first.

Hehe


It would be funny if the taxi driver was in on it and that that part of it was part of the interview process - seeing how you handle pressure etc. :pac:

Went to an interview once for a position in a hotel once, where there would be long hours and the guy on the other end, after asking me where I lived, then went on to request would I consider relocating to Dublin City Centre. I kinda looked at him, bizarrely and said no

Had an interview for a company that I got through the UL coop department for a company. I am studying science and I spent he night before remembering the company news about its science center. So I go into the interview and it goes well for around 5 minutes until they ask my what do I know about the company. So I told them what I learner the night before and this is when the interview went downhill because one of the interviewer turn and said she then asked me what do I know about about the business side and I just checked out.

Also the next interview I could not stop blinking

It was raining on the day of my interview so I decided to get umbrella out of the boot of my car in the car park before heading in. As i opened boot to get umbrella, the boot door flew up into the air due to a gust of wind, striking me on the forehead. I got a right wallop but thought no more of it as I was already running tight for my interview time. Ran into venue and was brought straight into interview. During interview I felt wetness on forehead. Believing it to be sweat I casually wiped my forehead discretely whilst answering interview questions. It was only when I got back to car that I realised I had split my forehead open when boot came flying up and it wasn't sweat I was rubbing in but blood!! No wonder I was getting funny looks from the interviewers!!

Went for one in Intel. Was absolutely dying of flu so I slept on it, making me late for the bus.

As I was sprinting down the street to the bus station through the rain, a mate on his moped saw me and stopped to help a brother out.

So in I went to the bus station on the back of this little 50cc chicken chaser moped, full suit and shirt, no helmet, tie flapping the wind and rain, hanging onto the back for dear life as we weaved through traffic. The seat was wet and I got soaked.

Got to the interview anyway. Still soaking and feeling worse. Probably looked like I was coming off smack. Answered all the questions in monosylabils and when asked if I had any questions of my own I said 'No,can I go now?'.

I went. Havent been back since. That was in '04.

I want an interview like this

i was in an interview and we were being interviewed in pairs and it was being done through french and the woman i was with misunderstood the question and answered about something else and wouldn't stop talking about something she hadn't been asked. pretty embarassing but worked in my favour

in another one i got a bit nervous and so couldn't think of a word i wanted and thought i said "ah fcuk it" in my head but i had said it out loud

OT, but my interview stories are kind of mundane. Carry on...