Where is the funniest/strangest place you had a job interview?

[Soup890]

I saw some have a job interview in a busy lunch hall at a manufacturing company where people where staring and trying to listen in.

I had a job interview where people walked in and out of the office and you felt that people were checking you out?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I had a phone interview once for a job in a timber yard, a friend who worked there had told the manager I was looking for a job.

Manager: do you want the job?
Me: yes
Manager: when can you start?
Me: now
Manager: you better get down here then
Me: OK

My last interview was in a cafe/bar at a hotel in Birmingham airport.

 

[Mugshot]

I worked for a lage DIY chain for a number of years. In a number of their stores they'd have their "offices" at the back of the checkouts, with a low wall around them, it was the perfect height for putting your elbows on and leaning over. The managers "office" was approximately 8ft sq and had this low wall on two sides. Whether I was conducting interviews, doing appraisals, giving somebody a rollicking or having a bite to eat people would regulalry come and lean on the wall and watch. Bit like being in a zoo I guess.

 

[tyred]

I had an interview with a manufacturing company once at 2pm. The manager took me to the smoking area as he wanted a cigar after his dinner.

My newly dry-cleaned suit ended up stinking of King Edward smoke and I didn't get the job anyway

 

[MontyVeda]

In a VW Golf, in a car park... the two interviewing me occupied the front seats, i sat in the back. This was for a job BTW, not a drug deal or police interview... or a blow job for that matter!

 

[ayceejay]

I always needed extra help in the summer so I would post an ad on the university site and get dozens of replies telling me that their whole career thus far was leading up to working for me and a CV as long as your arm that included helping old ladies cross the road kind of BS, then I would spend two days interviewing in a Tim Horton's. The proof was in the pudding as they say over here and 99 out of 100 were definitely puddings. In the end I found the method TBMc describes more efficient.

 

[fossyant]

How about a whole day interview/tests/trial by lunch with the staff, then second interviews. Tough. I got the job though !

 

[martint235]

I had an interview at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt many years ago. It basically consisted of 4 separate interviews with Head of IT, Head of IT Strategy, Head of IT Operations and Head of HR. In between these I was basically paraded around the IT dept where any member of staff was allowed to ask pertinent questions regarding IT ability/experience etc. I didn't know until afterwards that my answers to these questions and the way I engaged with the staff would also be used to help decide whether or not I got the job. It's probably not allowed in this country but what a great way to see if a candidate fits your organisation.

 

[FeistySquirrel]

I had a job interview to get a contract for the job I had been doing for the 6 months previous to it ...

 

[Donger]

Not me, but a friend/colleague of mine, some time back in the late 1980's (I think).
She was half way through a promotion board interview up on the fourth floor of our office block when the interview had to be suspended due to an earthquake - in Gloucester! I was working on the ground floor at the time, and couldn't work out what that rythmic squeaking/rubbing noise was, until I spotted two wall panels moving against each other. The whole office was evacuated for half an hour or so, and the interviewee had to stand around with the interview panel in a corner of the car park well away from everyone else. When we all went back in, the interview was re-convened as if nothing had happened. She failed, but was granted special grounds for appeal, and a fresh interview.

 

[tadpole]

As a young man, (many years ago) I was interviewed for a full time post room job for a computer company, my interview was held in the door way of the ladies shower room. the head of personal was having a shower at the time. (i was working there at the time through an agency) I'd only been married about 6 weeks, and needless to say i didn't want to help her shower so didn't get the job.

 

[Glow worm]

I had an interview at the European Space Agency

 

[Fnaar]

As a young man, (many years ago) I was interviewed for a full time post room job for a computer company, my interview was held in the door way of the ladies shower room. the head of personal was having a shower at the time. (i was working there at the time through an agency) I'd only been married about 6 weeks, and needless to say i didn't want to help her shower so didn't get the job.

I saw a video like that on the Interwebs once, but he "got the job" so to speak.

 

[stephec]

I saw a video like that on the Interwebs once, but he "got the job" so to speak.

Did he go in and sort out her plumbing?

 

[Fnaar]

He certainly used his plunger.