The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

I keep forgetting to tell you about the drunk manager at the interview. To cut a long story short, I'd been for the first part of an interview, & although a bit of a struggle I appeared to have won them over. They said they wanted their office manager to speak with me next & left me in the office alone for fifteen minutes until he arrived.

It didn't take me long to realise the idiot had either heatstroke or had enjoyed a rather generous liquid lunch. The trouble is you can never tell whether this is them trying to psych you out. All it takes is some "crazy interview technique" to do the rounds on Twitter for some bored manager to decide to do it midweek.

He kept saying "I want you to look me in the eye & tell me why you deserve this job, no really tell me, coz I'll know if you're telling me the truth, I know these things, that's why I'm manager". I got half an hour of his stupid questions, sometimes repeated. At the end of it he started asking me how I felt the interview had went! Bloody headbanger.

There was another I was at two days later. The place had enough noise to wake the dead. The sales department downstairs had music blaring all the time to keep them "motivated", & whenever all the members of a particular team had made a sale that day, they blared out "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang (I later discovered they all had to get up & dance when this happened!). They admitted to me due to all the noise they had a high turn over of staff as it drove many to distraction. I asked them in which case why didn't they turn it down or even off. Their HR manager's answer "Because this is how we roll". I suspect the real reason was to encourage a high staff turn over in order to minimise annual pay rises.

The world has gone completely mad.