The Madness Within
So...I don't have any holy water and I don't have any sage to burn...so I've been walking around the office spritzing everyone with Lysol in an attempt to choke the evil body jumping spirit away. Unfortunately it didn't seem to work.
The madness has since manifested itself in the form of a 5 page typed letter of grievances from the employee most currently inflicted with the posession. *Sigh* I don't have time for this. We need a priest. We're going to have to perform an exorcism on the fly.
For those of you unfamiliar with my office woes...please read my post "Who Do Voodoo?" Then you will understand.
I ran an Employment Ad over the weekend and was dismayed to find a HUMONGOUS stack of resumes on my desk yesterday. I know...you're thinking, "well, you DID run an ad so a lot of resumes should be a good thing right?" Hmmmm. You would think so. But my established readers know what I inevitabley have to face during every interview process...that's right. I have to weed out the crazies that made prison breaks from their last offices.
I think I failed to mention that during my last interviewing process I had one woman show up in her pajamas...and another showed up decked out from head to toe in the color fushia and she had a Hello Kitty backpack and matching earrings. *Sigh*
posted by Lindsey @ 1/04/2006 09:44:00 PM
27 Comments:
Grievances schmievances. Tell those cobags to eat it raw and hard.
Then hire the first person to show up in full gimp gear. If he mouths off at you then you can just zip up the mouth hole.
Word Ver: kyylrc
Now that's comedy!
*** during my last interviewing process I had one woman show up in her pajamas
LOL I cant imagine ppl like that!
Keshi.
seriously? pajamas? i mean.... seriously? HELLO KITTY? wow. wow. how i'm not hired at every interview i've ever been on is now officially a mystery to me.
you could temp... but that can get expensive
Thanks for making me laugh. The pajama story was just too much. So funny. Hang in there - and if things don't get better, consider immigrating to New Zealand. :)
LOL!
Know that stinks for you but man is that funny. Makes me wonder if I can get away with more dumb crap in interviews.
Good luck, Linny. Many people don't seem to have the same sense of pride in interview appearances as before.. I've noticed it a lot lately, too.
Thankfully, knowing you has prepared me for my upcoming interviews. I now know what mistakes NOT to make at those interviews... for example, don't show up to an interview wearing fushia Hello Kitty pajamas, with matching earrings and a Hello Kitty backpack.
Shall I get a pair of Hello Kitty slippers to match?
:-)
All I can do is wish you luck in abundance lol
give me the job!!!
i can do it and as for the office "problem" fear not, the evil will come to me and i will make it my bitch!
Linny, Happy New Year!!
Wish I could help you to weed out those who have totally no idea what to wear to interviews!
Pyjamas! are way toooooo creative as corporate wear....
At least the Hello Kitty lady had a sense of humour.....Hello Kitty is rather fun :)innapropriate for an interview but fun nonetheless.
Well at least they weren't closet crazies :) Those are the bad ones - you're going along thinking they're absolutely normal several months after hiring them, and then BAM - like a smack in the face!!! Better to know right up front...
I hate having to go find new employees to work for us. I swear it's like finding a needle in a haystack. They say that they know everything that they put on that piece of paper and that they have been doing it a long time but when you hire them, they don't know a damm thing and cost you money. At least in your job, you can call the references and get a better look at what you are getting. In construction for what we do, there is no such thing as a resume. Noone gives their old employers. Probably b/c they pissed them off and so it's alot harder to find the right person. Good luck with the excersism.
Going through resumes is a huge task so I don't blame you. Hello Kitty huh? Professional.
HOW FUNNY, I WOULD MAKE THE INTERVIEW A TEST. YOU SHOULD ASK LEGAL QUESTIONS OR WORD THEM WHERE IT WOULD NOT GET YOU INTO TROUBLE AND THE ANSWERS HOPEFULLY POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
JUST A THOUGHT ;)
You might try your local insane assylum next time. Sounds like you might have better odds at finding someone who can do the job.
There's nothing more annoying than office politics. Some people have birth certificates that say they are adults, but they never seem to grow up.
hey ... don't hate on the Hello Kitty! LOL
Hello Kitty, that must have been one interesting interview and pjs? I love pjs too but not so much that I would wearm them to an interview
Good luck with that.
Hello Kitty?
Really?
lol
Interviews can be fun - but I've never had the guts to give the real answers
I love the whole
"where do you see yourself in five years?" question -
I would love to give the real answer "Well you've got my resume - I was at my last job for 4 years, the one before that was another 4 year stint - so I will most likely be in someone elses office answering the same stupid question applying for a different job"
Also the "how would your co workers descibe you" Please.. what do you I'm going to say "my coworkers don't like me and I can't stand them - the only ones I liked are listed on resume with hoity titles and will only say nice things about me"
And "do you have any other questions" hell ya I've got tons of questions..who get's to decide what the new black is, How long dos it really take to get to the center of a tootsie pop, Why would I bother to drive my chevy to a levy and would it matter if the levy was dry, If I get really tanked on a thursday night are you to give me a ration of crap on friday morning"
But I guess those answer wouldn't get me hired
you should go the an asian market, get a chicken head. Then go to a latin market and get one of those candles with Jesus on it. Then go to the Liquor store and get a small bottle of rum. Then to Home Depot for a small pot (6 inch) of mulch. Go to the Costume store and get a black cape.
Take this items and put them in a drawn in your office.
When the lunacy begins to insue, pause for a moment.
"Excuse me for just a moment"
take out the pot of mulch
plant the chicken head in the center (neck down)
Take out the candle and light it
Pour jsut a little rum on to the mulch
Drape the cape over your shoulders
Mumble something that might sound like Latin.
Then make like you have the shivers for a second
Turn back to the Insuer of Insanity and say "Ok, sorry, what were you saying?"
That will hit the grape vine in seconds and calm things down.
Just an idea
M
Okay. That's it. Webcam.
I think hello kitty is funny....I'm looking forward to reading about this round of interviews...LOL!
Pajamas?!! You've got to be kidding me!!!!
I hope you hired her. Not the pajama girl, but the other one... lol
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