Life Tip for Job Seekers

**Rain Man** · 09-23-2014, 11:11 AM

Show up at your freakin' interview on time. Seriously. If you show up 45 minutes late to a JOB INTERVIEW, it makes a BAD IMPRESSION. I don't care if you missed your bus or overslept or had other things going on. I don't care at all.

There are no excuses for being late to a job interview. Zero. If you were pulling people out of a burning car en route to the interview, that's great and I commend you for it, but it only takes three minutes to pull people out of a burning car. You should have planned ahead to be within sight of the interview location an hour before your interview. You should still be on time, but with a slight aroma of burning rubber and a great story for me.

I guess possibly if you were on your way to an interview in Holland and you saw a dam breaking, and you put your finger in the dam, and it then took an hour for the dam repairers to show up, then that might be a feasible excuse since you saved countless lives. But I'd still want to see it on the news that evening, and I'd want to know that there were no other people around who could have switched fingers with you.

Here's how you go to a job interview:

1. Drive to the interview with plans to be there an hour early.
2. Walk to the front door of the place an hour early just to be sure you know where it is.
3. Go to the nearest coffee shop and check out the company's web site and come up with some good questions and talking points.
4. Show up 10 minutes early.

Sheesh. Humanity amazes me sometimes.

Dayze · 09-23-2014, 11:12 AM

Did I get the job?

**Iowanian** · 09-23-2014, 11:12 AM

5. Don't call and back out of your interview 1hr before your scheduled time, and then anticipate an interview when you re-apply a year later.

**Iowanian** · 09-23-2014, 11:13 AM

6. Your potential employer doesn't have a bad girlfriend. You do. He doesn't care.
7. Don't answer a text while you are talking with a potential employer. Shut your phone off before entering.

**loochy** · 09-23-2014, 11:14 AM

I deserve this job because I'm a person. Pay me. It doesn't matter what skills I have or how hard I work.

Also, raise my minimum wage to $20 an hour - because I deserve it.

**The Franchise** · 09-23-2014, 11:14 AM

Don't "no show" to an interview. If you aren't going to go....****ing call and cancel ahead of time. Nothing pisses me off more than having to sit on a panel and waste an hour of my time because you decided to not show up.

**The Franchise** · 09-23-2014, 11:15 AM

Don't swear in an interview. Had one guy drop F bombs the entire interview.

Halfcan · 09-23-2014, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Pestilence

Don't swear in an interview. Had one guy drop F bombs the entire interview.

Did the mother****er get the ****ing job or what.

**The Franchise** · 09-23-2014, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Halfcan

Did the mother****er get the ****ing job or what.

Yes, but only because I work for the government and we were ****ing hard up for temporary employees at that time. AND I talked to him about it afterwards.

Halfcan · 09-23-2014, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Pestilence

Yes, but only because I work for the government and we were ****ing hard up for temporary employees at that time. AND I talked to him about it afterwards.

Put him on the phone with the asshole customers that want to talk to a "manager" he sounds like he would be perfect.

Customer- is this the manager?

Newguy- Yes ****head-what the **** is your ****ing problem-hurry up your wasting my ****ing time you ****ing ****tard ****wad?

Customer- click

**Rausch** · 09-23-2014, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halfcan

Put him on the phone with the asshole customers that want to talk to a "manager" he sounds like he would be perfect.

Customer- is this the manager?

Newguy- Yes ****head-what the **** is your ****ing problem-hurry up your wasting my ****ing time you ****ing ****tard ****wad?

Customer- click

Sometimes I miss my old part time job.

The great thing was our phone at the Mom-n-pop pizza shop was pretty loud. Once the customer said some BS that was clearly not true (you put my pizza in the box upside down!) we had free reign. And we were not kind...

WilliamTheIrish · 09-23-2014, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Pestilence

Don't swear in an interview. Had one guy drop F bombs the entire interview.

You know the best interviewer I ever had, with the one of the top guys in his field at GE, the guy cussed up a storm.

58-4ever · 09-23-2014, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

You know the best interviewer I ever had, with the one of the top guys in his field at GE, the guy cussed up a storm.

He was interviewing you?

WilliamTheIrish · 09-23-2014, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by 58-4ever

He was interviewing you?

Yes. Top flight guy. Pretty much stunned me. And he had one of his subordinates there too. Was a great interview.

58-4ever · 09-23-2014, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Yes. Top flight guy. Pretty much stunned me. And he had one of his subordinates there too. Was a great interview.

I think that's OK. I'll sometimes throw in a few to break the ice if a candidate is super nervous. You just have to be careful and know your audience.

View Poll Results: Showing up late to a job interview is...
A sign that you don't want the job.	27	26.73%
A sign that you can't manage the basic requirements of life.	56	55.45%
A good negotiating strategy, since it shows that you don't need the job.	8	7.92%
A way to exert control over a situation that historically favors the hiring party.	4	3.96%
The way things work in the modern world. Only the uncool show up on time.	5	4.95%
Sometimes necessary if you're watching the end of a really good TV show.	5	4.95%
A colossally stupid move.	60	59.41%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 101. You may not vote on this poll

09-23-2014, 11:11 AM	Topic Starter
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $3318491 VARSITY	Tip for Job Seekers Show up at your freakin' interview on time. Seriously. If you show up 45 minutes late to a JOB INTERVIEW, it makes a BAD IMPRESSION. I don't care if you missed your bus or overslept or had other things going on. I don't care at all. There are no excuses for being late to a job interview. Zero. If you were pulling people out of a burning car en route to the interview, that's great and I commend you for it, but it only takes three minutes to pull people out of a burning car. You should have planned ahead to be within sight of the interview location an hour before your interview. You should still be on time, but with a slight aroma of burning rubber and a great story for me. I guess possibly if you were on your way to an interview in Holland and you saw a dam breaking, and you put your finger in the dam, and it then took an hour for the dam repairers to show up, then that might be a feasible excuse since you saved countless lives. But I'd still want to see it on the news that evening, and I'd want to know that there were no other people around who could have switched fingers with you. Here's how you go to a job interview: 1. Drive to the interview with plans to be there an hour early. 2. Walk to the front door of the place an hour early just to be sure you know where it is. 3. Go to the nearest coffee shop and check out the company's web site and come up with some good questions and talking points. 4. Show up 10 minutes early. Sheesh. Humanity amazes me sometimes.
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09-23-2014, 11:12 AM	#2
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09-23-2014, 11:14 AM	#5
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09-23-2014, 11:14 AM	#6
The Franchise Most Valuable Villain Join Date: Dec 2006 Casino cash: $3105047	Don't "no show" to an interview. If you aren't going to go....****ing call and cancel ahead of time. Nothing pisses me off more than having to sit on a panel and waste an hour of my time because you decided to not show up.
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