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Why didn't you get the job?

Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
edited January 2008 in Social Entropy++
So in the past, what's a reason you guys haven't gotten a job you applied for?
Were you the smelly guy in the interview? Did you have a panic attack and fall off a chair?

I just got rejected from working at an internet provider in the sales department, because the personality test said I was too introverted.

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I'm too nice.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Because the nightclub I was applying to be the in house designer for would rather employ someone who's work looks like they downloaded photoshop yesterday and oh my god they can totally stick like five pictures of hott chicks together with a goat driving a car :3

    #pipe on
  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    @pi For what?

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I do not fail at anything
    srsly

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    i'm overqualified
    for everything

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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2008
    I wasn't a woman.

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    Can we get the chemicals in. 'Cause anything's better than this.
  • GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I couldn't work at the day care center because I rape children without remorse.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    you couldn't have faked remorse just for the sake of the interview?

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I've never been denied a job because I'm not a dead beat loser

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    i'm overqualified
    for everything
    Rocket surgeon

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I didn't have enough experience pumping gas, apparently

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    i'm overqualified
    for everything
    Rocket surgeon

    although qualified from a technical perspective, i'm too in touch with my feelings
    so they would rather see me in a human resource department, but i'm too smart to work in HR, so they denied me completely

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I have never failed to get a job I interviewed for.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Ubik wrote: »
    I've never applied for a job because I'm not a dead beat loser
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    I have never applied for a job I interviewed for.

    This is too easy :D
    <3

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    i have long hair

    i'm in a band

    mostly these

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    I have never failed to get a job I interviewed for.
    coz you're a girl

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I have never been turned down on a job

    although my employment history is:

    1. self employed

    2. worked for family

    3. joined military

    but there are many positions in the military(that I've taken) that are basically on an interview basis, and just like a civilian job your past performance, qualifications, and justification for applying are all taken into consideration and weighed against the other candidates

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Ubik wrote: »
    I've never applied for a job because I'm not a dead beat loser

    Believe me, I wish I could find a way to not apply for a job and also not be a dead beat loser.

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  • WidepathWidepath Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I did not know the internal cooking temperature of chicken.

    Fuck, i was glad to not get that job.

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    actually i've only gotten one job i applied for

    but then they fired me on the second day because apparently my hair is too long and they missed that when they hired me

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    did they give you the chance to cut your hair?

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    ok so it was like "i quit sort of but i still wanted to work there but man you gotta tell a bro when he's gotta cut his hair"

    i mean, it was just cleaning timeshare rooms up at the snowbird ski resort on saturdays

    nothing requiring too much proffesionalism

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    strangely enough

    very rarely when i was actually interviewed did i not get the job

    in fact

    quite a few times after the interview i was like "I'm sorry, but this position isn't right for me." and they are like "Are you sure?" and I am like "Yeah, I am not working 4:30 to 11:30 PM monday to friday"

    and then they look at me sad and show me the door

    seriously that is a dogshit shift

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pony wrote: »
    strangely enough

    very rarely when i was actually interviewed did i not get the job

    in fact

    quite a few times after the interview i was like "I'm sorry, but this position isn't right for me." and they are like "Are you sure?" and I am like "Yeah, I am not working 4:30 to 11:30 PM monday to friday"

    and then they look at me sad and show me the door

    seriously that is a dogshit shift
    As soon as I took the interview for that job and saw the working environment, I could tell it wasn't really something I wanted to be a part of.
    Think of the complete stereotype office job and that's what it was like.
    I wasn't dismayed when they rejected me.

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  • CampionCampion Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Wal-Mart. I kept staring at the lady's teeth. She was missing two. She shouldn't be interviewing people.

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    this reminds me, time to apply at various dead end high school jobs

    wooo

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Campion wrote: »
    Wal-Mart. I kept staring at the lady's teeth. She was missing two. She shouldn't be interviewing people.

    I was wondering where those people worked

    Wal-Mart

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I applied as a scalp hunter once. I came to the interview in a suit. They asked me why I wanted to be a scalp hunter. I said because I hear its good living and I hear that you make your own hours. Plus, I'm a psychopath with little concern between that line between right and wrong. Man said, well that's nice and all but you didn't really answer my question. I also said that I had my own knife, too. He said he'd let me know.

    Never did.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Campion wrote: »
    Wal-Mart. I kept staring at the lady's teeth. She was missing two. She shouldn't be interviewing people.
    She probably fits right in at Walmart.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    you know what really sucks?

    going in for what you think is a job interview

    but in fact it's actually a seminar for a commissions-based sales position with vector marketing

    ie the companies that are basically pyramid scams

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  • FlavabeanFlavabean Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Because they didn't like that I used a monologue from the Laramie Project.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Pony wrote: »
    you know what really sucks?

    going in for what you think is a job interview

    but in fact it's actually a seminar for a commissions-based sales position with vector marketing

    ie the companies that are basically pyramid scams

    you actually got roped in by one of those?

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I found out this summer how little difference there is between an illegal pyramid scheme and a legal contracting partnership

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I had an article rejected from OXM because it was too negative on the Xbox 360. Apparently they dont allow their writers to even mention the RROD. I got a response from the contributions editor I think like 3 weeks later (first rule of freelance, give them 4 days to respond, then move on) so by the time they rejected it the other magazine it did get printed in was already on shelves.

    (This was right after falcons started hitting stores, and the whole thing was a 'how to get a falcon' piece)

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    the first time i applied to toys r us they surprised me at the interview when they busted out tinkertoys and made us design a new toy and i wasnt in a real creative mood that afternoon

    then they made us play pictionary and i had to draw spider-man

    and the fucking people in the group interview couldnt decipher what i thought was a pretty clear and obvious spider man

    one person actually said bugman as i recall.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    oh man i want to apply for toys r us now

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    and you like

    stock shelves and work the backroom right

    and they had you designing toys? what the fuck

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    you know what really sucks?

    going in for what you think is a job interview

    but in fact it's actually a seminar for a commissions-based sales position with vector marketing

    ie the companies that are basically pyramid scams

    you actually got roped in by one of those?

    no

    i know better

    i realized what i was in when i got there and i left after like a minute

    they get away with this shit so easily!

    sell a bunch of people a bunch of high-quality kitchen knives

    get them to hawk them on the street to make the money back

    you would think it was illegal!

    it isn't.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    haha

    you got cutco'd

    that is the real life equivalent of rickroll

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    and you like

    stock shelves and work the backroom right

    and they had you designing toys? what the fuck

    yea i assemble bikes and power wheels

    but since its NOT christmas season goof-off time just increased ten-fold.

    and everyone that works there, all the way up to the store manager

    EVERYONE is under 25

    and were the best toys r us in the region

    why? cause were awesome

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