sometimes you should just buy new shoes

[swamp]

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[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I slid off a chair during an interview.  My pants apparently did not have good traction and it was a slick chair,  I moved to adjust my leg and there I went.   Like the blogger I did not get that job.

[billisonboard]

I would not hold this against the person.  A part of me would sympathetically think the person could really benefit from getting the job.

[Deleted]

LOL thats a pretty good story.

My worst interview story was I cleaned my ears before an interview and was startled and piledrove one of the Q Tips into my ear.  After screaming in pain I drove the hour to the interview and went through 3 hours in incredible pain.  I was offered the job but didn't end up taking it.

[Tennesseer]

I had several applicants sitting at a table completing applications.  I would periodically reenter the room to see how they were coming along with its completion.  I started noticing the smell of burnt sulfur.  I looked for its source but could not find it.

A little while later I reentered the room a saw a pile of burnt matches sitting on a chair.  I asked the applicant next to the chair if he knew what the matches were all about.  The applicant told me the guy sitting there had some gastric gas problems and was lighting the matches to burn off the stench.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Nov 12, 2019 16:55:47 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I had several applicants sitting at a table completing applications.  I would periodically reenter the room to see how they were coming along with its completion.  I started noticing the smell of burnt sulfur.  I looked for its source but could not find it.

A little while later I reentered the room a saw a pile of burnt matches sitting on a chair.  I asked the applicant next to the chair if he knew what the matches were all about.  The applicant told me the guy sitting there had some gastric gas problems and was lighting the matches to burn off the stench.

That is awesome.

[Tennesseer]

Nov 12, 2019 17:00:01 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Nov 12, 2019 16:55:47 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I had several applicants sitting at a table completing applications.  I would periodically reenter the room to see how they were coming along with its completion.  I started noticing the smell of burnt sulfur.  I looked for its source but could not find it.

A little while later I reentered the room a saw a pile of burnt matches sitting on a chair.  I asked the applicant next to the chair if he knew what the matches were all about.  The applicant told me the guy sitting there had some gastric gas problems and was lighting the matches to burn off the stench.

That is awesome.

Not to the other applicants.

[zibazinski]

I rarely wear heels anymore but decided to Saturday night to see Fiddler on the Roof. Well they basically fell apart while I was wearing them. So in the trash they went. They made my feet look so sexy but obviously it’s been over 5 years since anyone cared whether I had sexy feet or not.

[jerseygirl]

I was being interviewed when the chair I was sitting on collapsed. Guess I recovered gracefully since I was offered the position. I weighed only about 125 then so was a problem with chair not me

[zibazinski]

Nov 12, 2019 17:30:37 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

I was being interviewed when the chair I was sitting on collapsed. Guess I recovered gracefully since I was offered the position. I weighed only about 125 then so was a problem with chair not me

I’d blame the chair no matter how much I weighed!!

[Tiny]

I wasn't really "caught" by the story of the disasterous interview - I was struck more by the fact that the guy could choose to wear what might have been 10 year old (or much older) shoes  and they weren't obviously out of style or the wrong shade of color.     Guys are so lucky...   
  
I'm pretty sure a woman wouldn't have made the mistake of choosing and old but in good shape pair of shoes -  they would have been the wrong style or the wrong color.     I'm pretty sure you could create a time line from the 1900's forward using women shoes and that most women (even non-shoe aficionados)  could accurately put the shoes in the correct time order.        

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Nov 13, 2019 10:31:44 GMT -5 Tiny said:

I wasn't really "caught" by the story of the disasterous interview - I was struck more by the fact that the guy could choose to wear what might have been 10 year old (or much older) shoes  and they weren't obviously out of style or the wrong shade of color.     Guys are so lucky...   
  
I'm pretty sure a woman wouldn't have made the mistake of choosing and old but in good shape pair of shoes -  they would have been the wrong style or the wrong color.     I'm pretty sure you could create a time line from the 1900's forward using women shoes and that most women (even non-shoe aficionados)  could accurately put the shoes in the correct time order.        

I am not entirely sure of that. I pay no attention whatsoever to shoe style and whether something is "in" or not.

[nidena]

Not for an interview but for my last re-enlistment ceremony, the shoes of the enlistment official were deteriorating in much the same way.  He left footprints all through the gray-carpeted auditorium because his low quarters were about ten years old.  We chuckled over it.

[lynnerself]

DH did something similar. He put on his dress shoes (that he hadn't worn for years) the day of our daughter's wedding and realized they were falling apart. Flaking off just like on the above story.

This resulted in an emergency stop on the way to the wedding venue.

[Bob Ross]

One time I had a job interview and forgot to wear pants. 

Luckily the job was for "crazy guy who stands on the street corner yelling stuff". 

I didn't end up getting the job though.  I lost it to a guy who forgot to wear pants and underwear.