<br>Idiots At Work - Chronicles Of Workplace StupidityFollow

Just let me ask you a few questions first

Businesses are only as good as the people they hire. We've all come across people in stores, on the phone or in offices and wondered to ourselves "How did they get hired?" Well, sometimes there's not a lot out there to choose from. A questionnaire was sent out to Vice Presidents and personnel directors of the one hundred largest corporations asking them to describe their most unusual experience interviewing prospective employees. Here are some of their responses:

* A job applicant challenged the interviewer to an arm wrestle.

* Interviewee wore a Walkman, explaining that she could listen to the interviewer and the music at the same time.

* Candidate announced she hadn't had lunch and proceeded to eat a hamburger and French fries in the interviewers office.

* Candidate said he never finished high school because he was kidnapped and kept in a closet in Mexico.

* Applicant interrupted interview to phone her therapist for advice on how to answer specific interview questions.
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Resume or Resume not

In keeping with the "How did they get hired" question posed earlier, Fortune Magazine (July 21, 1997) put out an article which listed items from real resumes and cover letters. Here are some highlights:

* "I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreasheet progroms. "

* "Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions."

* "It's best for employers that I not work with people."

* "Let's meet, so you can 'ooh' and 'aah' over my experience."

* "I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse. "

* "My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I possess no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage. "

* "The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers. "

* "References: none. I've left a path of destruction behind me. "
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Let's see what develops

A female employee of Eastman Kodak is suing the company under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The woman claims she suffers from "seasonal affective disorder," a form of depression, and wants Kodak to provide more light where she works - in a photographic darkroom.
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Questions, Questions, Questions

We've all heard the expression "there's no such thing as a stupid question" right? Well, see for yourself. Here are some of the answers from a questionnaire sent out to a number of employers asking, "What's the strangest question they've been asked during an interview? "

Among the responses were:

* "What is it that you people do at this company?"

* "Why aren't you in a more interesting business?"

* "Will the company move my rock collection from California to Maryland? "

* "Does your company have a policy regarding concealed weapons?"

This is everything. Source is here.

My personal favorite was the Kodak part.

Yeah, it is very funny. I would like to find part 1 of this sequence. However, I am a little lazy to go searching right now.