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Interview situation : What type of animal .....

  • 12-05-2016 9:30pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭


    Have you ever been asked this in an interview situation,

    If you were an animal what type of animal would you be.

    What kind of a stoopid question is that?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Was it a job for Dublin Zoo?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Just answer that you're a party animal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    horse cause i'll horse it into you boss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Hippocrocadogapig


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I'd be a Great Dane so little kids could ride around on my back like a pony


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    If that exact question was ever put to me at interview, I would stand up and walk out from the interview and seek a job elsewhere.

    What a stupid question to put to a person at a job interview. Only an idiot employer with a bad business would ask such a thing.

    I would pick wolf, so I could eat the employers head off for asking me that question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    A Luasdriver Shark


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭Easca Peasca


    I'm a labradorable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    A dung beetle.

    I will eat all the shít you send my way and ask for more.

    That is how much I want this job.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    If that exact question was ever put to me at interview, I would stand up and walk out from the interview and seek a job elsewhere.

    What a stupid question to put to a person at a job interview. Only an idiot employer with a bad business would ask such a thing.

    Some employers have new age ideas. 3 used to. At the time it was the best paid job I'd ever had and they asked for very little work.

    I distinctly remember the gems of the way of the beaver and gift of the goose bollocks.

    As an aside I was over in London training and met a guy whose job it was to buy porn. That was it, buy porn he was a porn buyer. He flew around the world - well mainly - America and went to the playboy mansion etc. and did I mention he bought porn. So before you stand up and walk out... :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    imme wrote: »
    Have you ever been asked this in an interview situation,

    If you were an animal what type of animal would you be.

    What kind of a stoopid question is that?
    Were you watching that programme on UTV about the clothing retailer? I was thinking it was so ****ing stupid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    A lawyer bird


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    fatknacker wrote: »
    A lawyer bird

    Excellent answer if you're going for a position in the field of Bird Law.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Excellent answer if you're going for a position in the field of Bird Law.

    I guarantee you either here or somewhere in the UK or indeed both there's some 70+ Senior/QC/whatever the Jocks have, making an absolute fortune, doing very little work on this very topic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    Seeing as I spent 10 mins on my hands and knees today pretending to be a dog in a vain attempt to get a giggle I wish I had been asked this at interview......
    It might have given me an idea of what I was letting myself in for! :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭stoplooklisten


    I would ask the interviewer had I turned up for the interview to replace his guard dog, or the job advertised.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,757 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    stupid interview questions like this make me so glad i'm self employed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Koola bear....Sleep alot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I'd be a lion, cause I've been a lyin' my way through this whole interview!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Koola bear....Sleep alot

    Yup. They're a bunch of kooler than the other bears.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Nidgeweasel


    A foxy bastard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    I guarantee you either here or somewhere in the UK or indeed both there's some 70+ Senior/QC/whatever the Jocks have, making an absolute fortune, doing very little work on this very topic.

    Highly possible in the UK, but Bird Law in this country is not governed by reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭dresden8


    imme wrote: »
    Have you ever been asked this in an interview situation,

    If you were an animal what type of animal would you be.

    What kind of a stoopid question is that?

    A bonobo ape.

    I will fnck all the women in the office as a greeting.


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    If I got asked that question in an interview I'd know straight away that I wasn't a good fit for that company.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭cumulonimbus


    imme wrote: »
    Have you ever been asked this in an interview situation,

    If you were an animal what type of animal would you be.

    What kind of a stoopid question is that?

    The correct answer is: What do you mean "If you were an animal"? Humans are animals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,190 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    A friend of mine got asked a question like that once. She reckons she just stared at the guy who asked 'with pity in her eyes' and said 'will we move on to the bit where I ask a couple of questions now, and then just wrap this up? Yes?'.
    She got the job.
    I would have no idea what to answer to that question to be honest - so I suppose it would have the desired affect of weeding out applicants who can't think on their feet?!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 256 ✭✭Bobthefireman


    I'd be a cat. Secretly despise all of you but willing to purr when I need something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I'd be a Great Dane so little kids could ride around on my back like a pony

    Or you could be a pony so you could do impersonations of Scooby-Doo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Highly possible in the UK, but Bird Law in this country is not governed by reason.

    Of course not, it's for the birds.


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