Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.

'Shindig'


Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Sparky1 - Jul 31, 2006 7:32:58 am PDT #6147 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

And fit in your pants (that works either if the food is great, or horrible).

Great at dinner (and we get to have booze, too), not so great at the lunches. I'm getting sick of making small talk without asking any illegal questions.

So, what's the craziest question people have gotten during job interviews? My sister, a math professor, was asked by the President of an Unspecified California Campus, "So, I see you lived in Cambridge... Don't you think people in Boston drink a lot of vodka?"


Aims - Jul 31, 2006 7:43:07 am PDT #6148 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

So, what's the craziest question people have gotten during job interviews?

I was once asked, "What offends you?"


Vortex - Jul 31, 2006 7:45:10 am PDT #6149 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I was once asked, "What offends you?"

Stupid Questions.


Aims - Jul 31, 2006 7:45:58 am PDT #6150 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

snerk


Beverly - Jul 31, 2006 8:14:48 am PDT #6151 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

::passes Nicole virtual Aleve. thinks. passes Nicole a bunch of lovely alcohol.:: (stoopit formatting skills)

Feel better , hon.

Have I told you guys this story? When I was working in my last office, my mom used to call all the time. What she usually wanted was for me to pick up a loaf of bread or a jug of milk on my way home. My boss always asked if everything was okay, and over time, she'd simply ask, "Bread or milk?"

It was a surprise to see her at the funeral home when my dad died, but a welcome one. I met her in the center of the room and she gave me a huge hug. "How's your mom? She holding up okay?"

I said yes, and she held on and continued. "Is there anything she needs? Bread or milk?"

It so took me by surprise I shouted in laughter. We both stood there in the middle of the room shaking with giggles, hugging each other and trying to pretend we were crying. I'll never forget her for that, and I'll always be grateful.


Glamcookie - Jul 31, 2006 8:17:08 am PDT #6152 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

On conference call with most annoying people EVAR. So full of shit. Yuck.


Glamcookie - Jul 31, 2006 8:21:41 am PDT #6153 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Dying of the shitbagginess...


ChiKat - Jul 31, 2006 8:22:03 am PDT #6154 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Beverly, that's the best story ever!


Polter-Cow - Jul 31, 2006 8:23:34 am PDT #6155 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

That is a lovely story. What a great boss.


Fay - Jul 31, 2006 8:25:59 am PDT #6156 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

So, what's the craziest question people have gotten during job interviews?

Him: Have you read The Lord of the Rings?

Me: (delighted, if bemused)Yes!

Him: Okay then - how many rings were there altogether?

Me: Well... Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. So that's twenty. There were twenty.

Him: Very good! Now I have a theory that the One Ring is not the one that the Dark Lord had, but that it's a seperate ring. So they could still make a sequel to the movie trilogy.

Me: (boggling) No, fuckwit! What medication are you on? Wow, that's, er, really clever! I never thought of that!

This was my FormerBoss, the guy at the first school I worked at in Cairo. The king of crazy unprofessionalism.

...really, I have only myself to blame for not realising right off the bat that he was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.