So I ordered my food and the cashier (I was at the Drive-Thru) used a calculator to figure out how much change I needed. I knew it was about $5. She gave me $15. Then when I got to the window to get my food the guy in front of me was getting the last of his food (a happy meal) and the lady working sticks her hand out with the happy meal on it and just drops it. She wasn't even looking to see if he had a hold of it. So it fell on the floor. That guy and myself about died laughing.

In my 30 year working life as a manager I've interviewed hundreds of job applicants.
The breadth and depth of peoples inability to either dress appropriately, speak and spell correctly or answer a simple question never ceases to amaze me. I could write a book -
The first line on a cover letter, "By now you know..." Huh?
Objective on a resume, "To get a good job" Really?
On their qualifications for a marketing job, "I communicate good" No you don't!
My favorite is the non-professional (or even proper) email address for online applications such as - "babygotback@..., or hotsexymama215@..., or even better, freakydeaky@... - I just want to rush out and hire them. Maybe I will write a book.

I was a substitute teacher for three years before I started my present job (where I blissfully work alone 99% of the time). My preference was high schools because it meant rotating students.

Last school year I had a tenth grade class in geography who were assigned to draw a map of our county and mark it with main roads and landmarks. It did not have to be precise and it did not have to be detailed filled.

None of those students could do this simple task. They said they didn't know what the county looked like, the names of roads or what landmarks where. So, to try and simplify it for them, I said to just draw a map from their house to the school. That was too much to ask as well. These are students who would be driving in the near future! Not one of them could even tell you what city our school was in.

American workplace, meet your future employees.

There is a great movie theater in Ellijay, GA. Two screens with new release movies updated frequently. Tickets are only $5 and concessions are also very reasonably priced. Most of the concession items are either whole dollar amounts or multiples of a quarter and they include tax, which you would think makes for easy change calculations. Well, I went to the counter before the movie started and my total came to $5 for the items I purchased. The concession stand worker honestly had to take out a calculator to figure how much change to give back from a $20. I am confident he was not going to get a raise anytime soon!

I work for the worlds largest computer company 300000+ employees.

I was training a new hire (I didn't hire her) fresh out of college with a degree in computer science, who couldn't figure out that her password wasn't the same on every server.

Perhaps not surprising, she was a smoker.

Or when employees would use our email distribution lists to send out bogus chain letters, virus warnings, etc. You'd think they would understand that Bill Gates does NOT give a dollar to a charity for every time an email is sent (our email servers are now smart enough to weed these out).

My last supervisor kept a public calendar where he would mark various assignments for each team manager daily, he would also mark employees as late on the same calendar.

Soon he began working from home for about a week and one day I noticed that he had marked me as late even though I was actually a half hour early that day and after checking to see if someone else had added the note I happened to find out from his mother in law (who was HR) that he was actually not working at home but on a cruise to Mexico with some of his friends. That's when I started marking him as "Out of Office" on the calendar, a total of three weeks worth before he came back into the office again.

I was given a group of consultants to manage and most of them were remote to where I live so I could only communicate with them over the phone or email. Well I got an expense report from one and when I saw the flight cost I was shocked. He lived in VA and the project was in Pittsburgh so a $2k flight was nuts. Then when I got him on the phone he explained that his previous manager ok'd him charging the client for him to fly to Africa instead of VA as his family moved there and he wanted a transfer there. Well when we refused to pay for it or bill the client and they booted him off the project I noticed that he was charding 700miles RT to Jersey from Northern VA. Again I asked and he said he was going out to dinner, where back home every night? Needless to say we caught onto that scheme to pay for the flights. After me working with HR for another 2 months to fire him, he was a no show on another project, he was also a double protected class, over 40 and a minority, he finally resigns. I asked HR what to do, reply or what, and they were like accept, accept, immediately. No kidding?

"Worst call in excuse ever!"
"I can't come in today because I'm too drunk."
Yes, I actually heard this!

I am a recent college graduate with a B.A. in History and was applying to multiple jobs in various industries. I decided to search the web rather than the classifieds for possible employers. After hours of numbing searching and submitting (including all of those annoying multiple choice fill in the bubble background check/assessment tests) I came across a government position that wanted me to explain in under 400 words my most recent encounter with the internet that could prove I have the skills required to send emails, research on the web, and so forth. Naturally I replied very simply: I submitted this application online, didn't I?

I work in a production oriented industry and we have a lot of Hipsanic workers. I had to take a worker to HR because of excessive absenteeism. When the HR person asked him his name he replied,"my name is Juan". All of his identification said Jose. Oops.

As a foreman of an electrcal company, I have seen a lot of good ones, but one comes to mind. Working in the freezing cold one winter, I sent a guy to go get some fittings from the Hardware store. There were 2 ways to the store. One was 5 minutes of driving on cleared roads, and the other was 10 minutes where you had to pass under a one lane tunnel going under a train track. Yes, he took the 10 minute drive. 30 minutes later he returned with my fittings, and stuttering around he began to tell me that my van does not fit under the railroad bridge, and that the ladder rack(which was bolted to the top of the van,) was laying down at the tunnel. Needless to say, he is no longer with our company.

I applied to be a dispatcher for the local Police Department. As I had dispatch for the Sheriff, I was one of only five people that was interviewed.
During the course of the inverview, I was told that there were over 100 applicants for the job. They did the first elimination by running the applicants for any local warrents. They were able to make several arrests.

So, I work with this 400lb gumball, and she's so fat she had to have her knee replaced. That's right, REPLACED. She went out on short-term disability from August to November, and tried to have her disability extended due to "complications". Well, turns out that when you show up to work once a week to have lunch (the irony kills me)with your co-workers, your insurance and HR folks can draw the conclusion that you are capable of sitting in a cube and working. They turned her down and she was dumbfounded. Idiot.

We the employers of the Sen. McCain and Graham , having voted them into office as republicans , should be fired .

In the early 90's I was informed in a job interview that it was against company policy for anyone to have a firearm in their vehicle while on company property. I told the guy interviewing me that I had one in the car now and asked should I go take it home. I don't what I was thinking, nervous about a job, stupid, etc.

The interview was with a company in Atlanta, that guy might remember me and submit the story here.

I didn't get the job.

Working in a call center, you get tons of them. We hired this man of middle-eastern descent for sales calls. 3 months into his employment, we get a phone bill with $3000 worth of charges to Pakistan.... I mean really, you're the only person in 50 from the Middle East. I heard he was working on a law suit... lol

Are work release stories... A friend of mine sold connectors for a living, those of you who are not in the industry industry, it is parts for assembly. Anyway, as a lot of you will know, warehouse work is pretty scruffy, its hard to find people who stay. So this friend of mine just gave up trying to find quality warehouse people and starting hiring work release people. One guy was to deliver $30k worth of parts to a large government contractor out here in Research Park (this is in Huntsville AL). Well the parts never got delivered and the guy never returned to work. He was later captured by police trying to sell them to a recyling plant...

As a junior in high school, I worked at a grocery store as a bag-boy. It was a fun job, but we did have to deal with some rude customers.
Like if we asked whether they wanted the 12 pack of drinks placed into a bag, they would say "what do you think?"
(or something just as unpleasant. A simple yes would do).

So whenever we got one of these unpleasant people, we would do the EBT (empty-bag-trick). We would make the brown paper bags - there were no plastic bags at the time - as heavy as we could.
We would load the cart while they were writing their check, and we would place an empty bag into the cart along with the full ones.

Then we would gather the rest of the bag boys to go to the window and watch... you could almost hear them grunt each time they lifted the heavy bags and place them into the trunk.
Man, when they got to the empty bag, they would almost throw their back out - they would go flailing across the parking lot waving that bag, trying to catch their balance - hilarious!!



A few years later, while in college, I re-invented the EBT, this time as the empty-box-trick. I was working at Godfathers Pizza. The girls that worked the front counter and the guys in the kitchen always had some sort of battle going on - usually dough fights or something else fun like that.
Well one of the girls got me good with a glass of coke, so she needed payback.

Customers would call in advance and order a pizza, and then come pick it up 20 minutes later. When we had these advance orders, we would cook the pizza, box it up, and place it on top of the oven to stay warm.
Well I placed an empty box on top of the oven along with all of the other full pizza boxes. And when the customer came to pick up his pizza, instead of handing the pizza though the little window to the counter girl, I threw the empty box through the window.
She of course expected it to be heavy, and when she went to catch it, she ended up smacking it into the air, and was trying desperately to bring it under control. The look of panic was awesome!! The customer was completely freaking out.

I was doubled over laughing in the kitchen, and the girl had to come around and get the pizza herself. Man - those were the days!! Wish I still made minimum wage!!

You would be surprised how times people coming to interview at TCCC think it is funny when asked if they want something to drink say, "Sure, can I have a Pepsi?" Amazing! Most do not get hired!

As a Second Lieutenant in the Army in the mid 1970's we saw some pretty interesting things. The Army draft had just ended and we were relying on an all volunteer force. I was station in Virginia and we had several lakes (ponds) on Post and as often as not they were populated with Water Mocasins. I got a call from the MPs one Saturday to come pick up one of my more troublesome PFCs. As it turned out he had decided to take up scuba diving and went and bought a wet suit, mask snorkel etc and was practicing it the Snake infested lake.

While on vacation, one of my employees told the manager on duty that his grandmother was really sick in California. Unfortunately, he told all his co-workers that he was really planning a trip to Las Vegas. When he did not call or show for two days, his postion was terminated. Later we learned that someone else in the company had been in Las Vegas for a bachellorette party and saw him at 2am gambling!

In the '60s, I worked for a company doing military electronics. During the interview, we got to the part of his application asking if he had ever been arrested. (now it's convicted, but this was the '60s). He pulls out a list of arrests in Thailand, Shanghi, South Africa, Alaska, the Phillipines, Australia, and other ports around the world. He tells me "I quit drinking two years ago". He was one of the best engineers I've ever hired.

As a contractor, I hire helpers to load and unload tools and electric cords before and after work. One day I told a new helper to roll up the power cords and put them on the truck. Later, I asked him why he had not done it yet and he said he could not figure out where they were plugged in.

I once had an applicant who put his first name on the application as "Micheal". When I mentioned that it was an unusual spelling of the name, he said "It is? Let me see it!" He looked at the application, took his pencil, erased it while quietly laughing, and corrected the spelling to "Michael". Needless to say, no ruler test necessary on that one.

One coworker at a former place of employment always, ALWAYS either arrived after lunch or failed to show up on Mondays. He was always sick, had a death in the family, car not working, etc. Then he started coming up with more elaborate stories. One morning he called in 2 or 3 hours after he was supposed to be at work claiming there was a terrible multi-car accident in which there was an explosion and he had pulled multiple people from burning vehicles and had gotten burned himself and therefore could not come in to work.
Surprisingly there was NOTHING on the news about this horrific accident....

I was at a Honda dealership in Phoenix AZ and was paying for some oil and a filter and the bill came up to $29.11. I handed the cashier 2 20's. Her computer was down, and the lady actually had to whip out a calculator to figure out how much change to give back to me!

When I ran a call center for a replacement window company, one employee stopped coming in for his scheduled shifts.

After a couple of days of this, I filled out the paperwork to terminate him. Before I could finish, I saw the employee back in the office. I asked what was going on, and he said he was cleaning out his desk, and that he was quitting. I changed the termination type from involuntary to voluntary.

A week later, the former employee called me and asked why I hadn't called him back to work. Surprised, I reminded him that he quit and asked why I would call him back.

"I figured that if I quit, you'd realize how much you needed me, and you'd rehire me with a raise."

Oh, if it were only that easy...

As the newly promoted VP of a mid-sized Canadian based manufacturer suffering severe financial difficulties, I was charged with turning things around...and fast.

The first order of business was to visit our factories, review procedures and make quick changes.

On the way to the factory floor at one plant, I had to walk through a warehouse where there was literally a mountain of manufactured product that I knew was a chronic slow mover. I quickly realized that this amount of inventory of one finished product amounted to at least a 2 year supply and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As it turned out, this product could be relabelled, and shipped in replacement of a cheaper product, thereby liquidating the inventory in about 30 days.

I made it clear to the factory superintendent that the purpose of the relabelling exercise was to liquidate the inventory and then drop the item from our sales line, altogether.

60 days later, I returned to the factory to find the mountain of inventory still in place. After questioning the factory super, I was informed that he had done as instructed, relabelled and shipped old inventory (at a loss) BUT because the product had moved so quickly he had run a second shift at the plant to keep his inventory level sufficient to meet the increased demand.

He was gone in 10 days.

A few months ago, I overheard a conversation in a group of 3 or 4 people. It went like this: “Bruthu (not exactly the word used, but whatever) If you take a drink of chocolate milk, then take a drink of regular old white skim milk, it taste like straight up water.” “Bruthu, how is that even so, cuz chocolate milk is brown, regular milk is white, and water is blue.” “Bruthu water is not blue, water is invisible.” Has you ever seen the ocean? Water is blue. “Bruthu that’s cuz it got salt in it, they take the salt out of it and then it turn invisible, if you go over to the sink it come out invisible.” “What about a lake? It aint got no salt in it but it is still blue.” “Bruthu, a lake is not blue, a lake is blueish-green.”

As a manager for a large retail tire and lube I once had a female employee on her lunch break walk into the shop and ask the male technicians what she thought of the bikini she had just bought. This may not have been too bad if she had left it on the hanger. However, she actually but it on and modeled it around the shop. Prior to her termination I had to consult the legal department and interview witnesses in an effort to prevent any possible sexual harassment lawsuit from them.

I gave our secretary a file with a mailing list and asked her to print it to mailing labels. When I checked the labels, I was shocked to find an ever-increasing number of typos in the street and city names. I mean horrible errors like "Eest Forth St, Sinsinaty, OH". I thought I had gotten a really bad list or it was a cruel joke, but the backup copy was just fine.

She cheerfully told me she had been correcting errors as she went along using her spell checker. I looked at her spell checker dictionary and she had entered her own unique spellings for much of the English language.

Nice kid, but a product of a local public high school known for turning out semi-literates who measured success by how cute their baby was.

Just yesterday, we received an application listing "Obama Campaign Worker" as the most recent job experience. As one of those evil companies making over 250K, that application was immediately deleted.

I hired a temporary secretary to help with some sundry duties in the office. The lady they sent was a very large woman, who was a bit over bearing in her demeanor. She was not getting along with the other office staff and she began to sense that things were soon coming to an end with her employment with us. This made it worse, in a way, as she began trying too hard to please. Our managers often spoke about how she was trying too hard and becoming annoying in her efforts. One day, I came into my office and found that I my sunglasses had come apart and the temple bar had separated from the glasses. She was passing in the hall at the front of my desk when I mentioned that the keeper screw had obviously come out of the sunglasses. This large woman, quickly got on her knees and elbows and began searching the carpet for the screw with her bottom sticking out from my office into the hallway .... when .... our office manager came by and said, "what's going on here?", to which she supplied ... "I'm in the office looking for a screw". The look was priceless, and she was gone the next day.

I love the "draw a 6 inch line" requirement. But, I think if I was asked that, I would draw the line, and then ask the interviewee to draw a 6 inch isosceles triangle triangle with the same equipment. If he couldn't, I would say, sorry, but I can't work for you. :)

One night when I was managing a Chick-fil-A in a mall (it was sometime during the month of December) one of my cashiers walked up to me and asked what "half of five was." She wasn't taking an order from a customer at the time.
Naturally, I panicked that a 17-year-old would seriously ask me that question, so I told her it was 2.5 then immediately removed her from her register and sent her into the back to wash dishes. I counted down her drawer twice that night just to make sure...

I work for a rental car company. As someone was returning a car (a newer ford fusion), I asked my employee to grab the mileage and fuel level. She proceeded to the parking lot and entered a customers car (an older BMW) grabbing all their belongings in the car as she tried to check the milaege. The customer and I watched in amazement for a couple minutes while she could not figure out why the key would not work in the car. The car owner started freaking out in my office and stormed out yelling at the employee.

I worked at a pizza restaurant as a younger man during my college years. We would sometimes get bored during slow times and would trick the new employees. While stretching dough for a pizza one day, I made a hole in the pizza dough. I asked the 16 year old new hire to go to the back room cooler and get me the dough repair kit. He must have spent 10 minutes back there looking for it. When he came back we were dying laughing at his confused look as to why he could not find the dough repair kit. We also got him later when we asked him to go get the left handed broom to sweep the floor. He caught on a little quicker to that one, but he still went to look for it.

We asked a job candidate how he handles stress on the job. His reply, "My last job was so stressful, that by the end of the day when I got home, all I could do was fix myself a bowl of Wheaties, pour Jack Daniels over it and watch the Cartoon Network."

I was at the counter in a Winn Dixie and asked for three quarters of a pound of shrimp. The young lady behind the counter asked me if that was more or less than half a pound.

ok this guy was about a year out of engineering school (Fla A&M)graduated, not an intern. He was trouble from the get go. so it comes time to let me be his mentor, after two others guys were like sorry i tried but no thanks. i was up for a good challege. about a week into being his boss i ask him to figure up the area of a parking lot in square yards. We had computers that gave us area in square feet, the guy tried three time before he finally admitted to me he didn't understand how to convert square feet to square yards. Keep in mind sports fans that this kid was granted an ENGINEERING DEGREE from Florida A&M - talk about bad public schools.

here is the kicker in his reveiw that happened shortly after the great square feet to square yards issue, he said i was a bad boss and was not teaching him what he needed to know to progress in his career. my boss pulled me aside and said maybe there was a communication problem - I said you are correct, I can't communicate with an engineer who can't convert square feet to square yards. I left shortly there after, went back to grad school and never looked back - scary more than anything!!

I used to manage a retail store in the hot new shopping center in town. During the grand opening of the center, a young man was going store to store collecting job applications. This fine specimen of humanity was looking for work wearing a t-shirt that read, "I flunked my I.Q. test."

I saw someone standing in line at McDonalds this morning with cut copper wires hanging out of all of his pockets. He had to see me laughing at him. gee, wonder where those came from?

About ten years ago we went from paper to computers. We just finished installing them when the computer guy asked if everyones computer was working. The sales girl in the front said no. As we turned to see what was wrong see was holding here mouse like a remote control, pointing it at the computer and clicking it saying "mines not working". See didn't last long.

This happened at the Signal Basic Officer Leader Ship Course (BOLC). It was June and we were stationed at Fort Gordon (Augusta, GA) and it was blazing hot outside. I was not in charge of the platoon but I was a squad leader and we came under an "attack." The platoon leader ordered my squad to reinforce the other squad taking the brunt of the assault. So he yells at me and then takes off at a sprint to the attack site. When we finally catch up to him he has passed out and they have stopped the training exercise to provide him medical care. The dummy had been drinking Dr. Pepper from his Camelbac (water bladder inside a back pack) instead of water. So the next day, there I was standing in front of the battalion commander (Lieutenant Colonel) trying to explain why nobody checked up on this guy to make sure he was drinking enough water and why he had brought Dr. Pepper to the field. Not a fun time.

As I interviewed a young man for a postion I need filled. During the interview I let him know that we do conduct background checks and drug screens. He then at this point said it may be a problem. Upon further questioning we told me he had an addiction. I asked, "you may need to seek out help for an addiction as it most likely will cause you to not pass a drug screen anywhere" He said " no you don't understand, I'm addicted to P***y,( slang for a female body part). At this point I didn't know what to say. I finished the interview, needless to say I didn't hire him.

I had a systems admin disappear for a week. No calls, no email, nothing. One guy saw him sneak in during lunch that week to grab something out of his desk.

The following week, I get a call from him saying he's on his way in (about 11am) and wanted to know if I had anything pending up for him. Well, I did. His termination papers.

Even though this was not the first incident with him, he was surprised that I was firing him. I walked him out of the building once HR finished. In parting he asked if I'd mind being a reference for him.

I just fired him and he's asking for me to be a reference! Unbelievable!

I showed great restraint by not laughing until I got back into the building.

Just as I walked in for an interview I felt a draft and realized my fly was open. Instead of sitting behind the desk the interviewer had me sit across from them in an intimate "chair-facing-chair" setting. What to do? I calmly sat down and folded my hands in my lap. It was a tough interview because I talk with my hands. But I did it. I am sure the interviewer thought I was strange because my hands never moved, but got hired anyway!.

I work with a guy who is in his mid-20's and started at my company through a temp agency. When another person left, he was offered that position and hired in as an employee about 6 months later. After his first few weeks, he was very upset that he was losing paid time off. As it turns out he was not working 40 hours, so payroll used his PTO to make up the deficit. According to this guy, "Nobody ever told me 40 hours was full time."

This is the same guy who took our supervisor's daughter's school calendar off the printer and posted it in his cube. He did not come in to work on MLK Day because the calendar said the offices were closed. Funny how he saw that but didn't notice all of the parent-teacher conferences, teacher in-service days, etc.

He is also a serial 'Reply All' offender.

I owned a delivery restaurant back in the 90's and had this one particular driver that was habitually answering pages from his beeper. I had forbid him from returning calls while working. Another driver came in from a delivery and informed me on a very busy Friday night that driver A was pulling into the pay phone on the corner making calls every time he went out. I paged this driver with the backline number that he was not familiar with. Sure enough,on the next delivery I watched him pull into the pay phone. He returned my call and was very surprised to hear me answer. I told him make the delivery now! I fired him when he returned.

We had a guy filling out an application. It asked if he had ever been arrested or so forth and he wrote down "Not in the last five years."

on my first job as a pipe fitter at a refinery, the union thugs would initiate the newbies by ordering them to get a bucket of steam. the steam was to be used for some mysterious purpose and was needed STAT.

there were pipes all over the place releasing steam into the air. most of the newbies would inevitably run off to find a pail, scamper to a valve and try to grab steam with the bucket.

the union thugs would sort the newbies by how long it took them to realize you couldn't hold the steam in a pail. it was hilarious to see these idiots run back with a pail of steam asking where to pour it.

I have seen this on more then a few occasions. A kid gets hired out of High School for his first entry level job, and on thursday evening before his very first payday, he is counting up the hours he had worked, the over time he had put in, trying to get a handle on how much money will be in that very first pay envelope of his working life on friday!

I love the look in their eyes when they look at the sum of their figures and the total on the check, and the Questions about Federal Tax, State Tax, Social Security Tax, Insurance, Ect.

Another classic was on an application under the question "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" The response was "My wife pointed a gun at my son, I didn't kill her, but she walks funny now."

I could come up with 100, but I'll narrow it to two.

An employee took a skills test. One of the questions required the applicant to look at a drawing of a ruler and write down the measurements of marks on the ruler. One gentleman, who left that section blank commented, "I can't read a ruler, but I can read a tape measurer real good!"

The second occurred in the middle of a Kansas winter. The weatherman had predicted snow the previous evening. The storm front passed well to the north and we actually had very nice weather, well into the 50s. About 7:30 I received a call from an employee stating she would not make it to work as she was completely snowed in. I asked her if she had looked out the window yet that morning. After some noises that sounded like someone getting out of bed, she responded "Well, what I meant was, I don't have a car today 'cause...blah blah blah".

I have more, like the woman that claimed she couldn't get a doctor's note because the ER was closed for the Memorial Day holiday, but I've gone on too long already.

While working for a small FM station in Baltimore spinning classical music at night, the transmitter went out. I called the engineer at home to tell him so he could come in and get us back on the air. While waiting, the phone rang. I answered and a lady said that she was trying to listen to us but could not hear anything. I told her that the transmitter was down and we were trying to fix it. She said, "Why don't you make an announcement?" I thanked her and said I would.

I used to be a bartender and trainer at O'Charley's, and as a trainer I had a hand in hiring applicants.

For those applicants who couldn't even come prepared with a pen - knowing full well they needed to fill out an application - we would give them a crayon which we kept in the restaurant for kids. This helped us weed out some of the applicants.

On one of these crayon applications, one guy was really on top of his answers. After the line asking for the address, the next line asked "How Long?", as in how long have you lived at this address. One particular genius wrote "About 15 minutes", as in 15 minutes away. Needless to say he wasn't hired.

We had our way of narrowing down the applicant pool!!

A woman in her late 40's worked for me in an Int'l shipping operation. One day we were looking at a map of the US and she commented that she couldn't believe how it could get so cold in Alaska and stay warm in Hawaii. I asked what she meant and she pointed to the map,and said that they were "so close " to each other. She was looking at them as insets on the map. This is Gov't schooling at its finest.

Last year, we had a 19 year old college student. he had not done a lick of work all day during his 6 hour shift and at the end of the day, I was ordered to bring him to the boss and witness the meeting with him. He had a bag of microwave popcorn in his hands and while the boss was ripping him to pieces about not doing this or that, he just stood there eating his popcorn like he was watching a movie. This went on for at least 15 minutes and the boss was getting madder and madder. Finally, the kid wadded up the popcorn bag and threw it in the boss's nice clean wastepaper basket and rubbed his hands togather, knocking all the popcorn residue from his hands down to the carpet that had just been freshly vaccumed. He announced it was 5:30 and now the boss was on his time and they would discuss it again on his next scheduled work day. Yes he is still working for us.

We actually had a girl interview for a medical receptionist position. Besides the tattoos and the rings; she had a tongue stud. Well, went just went through the motions and never gave her a second thought afterwards. How do they think we will want them to represent our practice looking like that!??

I was working in a factory just out of college while in search of my dream job. We were in clean up mode near the end of the day and I asked a new employee to find me a box so that I could put some trash in it. He dissapeared on his venture to find my box and returned about ten minutes later empty handed. I asked him where my box was and he said that he couldn't find one. We worked in a corrugated box manufacturing facility....

A friend of mine who was interviewing candidates along with some other managers (men and women) asked one to describe a time he had to deal with a difficult situation. He used the time he caught his roommate masterbating. He didn't get the job.

About 14 years ago, I worked with a girl who was fresh out of high school. She was trying to fill out her time sheet, and asked me how long a "quarter hour" was!

Another fine product of our public schooling...

Back in the 1990s, when the internet was still young and content filtering software was unavailable, I was managing the master control staff of a 24-hour TV station.

Our outfit was a start-up, and we only had one color printer; this was in the office manager's office, and this room was always locked at night.

One night one of the board ops got bored decided to download and print off a bunch of pretty explicit porn from the master control room computer. What he forgot was that these pictures were printed on a printer in a locked room. The office manager found them the next morning, after this fellow had left for the day....

Needless to say, that was the last shift he worked at this station.

I would have given a year's salary to see the expression on his face when he tried to open that door and realized it was locked, watching as these pictures spilled from the printer onto the floor.

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