Bad Interviews 101

Although I've mentioned about not wanting to talk about my job hunting stories here, I simply had to blog this down - my very first interview this time round. This morning - actually since yesterday - started with a major "aiyah not keen" feeling towards the job. In fact I spent the entire day in the office, struggling with a bad stomach ache - coz I was nervous for an interview I wasn't even keen on - over scrabble. My appointment with the guy was 6.40pm and I as there sharp as an arrow. He came out of his office with a sian look on his face, didn't even bother to introduce himself, as if I would know the short, thin guy in pink shirt is him.

Pink guy: Aiyah, there's another guy coming at the same time as you. Aiyah. I think he's coming up now. Me: ...

He was holding this 2 resumes, one of them mine with the words 14/7 and 6.40pm written clearly on it while the other was void of any scribbles. He stood there not moving for some long whiles then asked if I saw a guy at the lift lobby. NO! A guy suddenly popped out of nowhere. I thought he was the colleague, apparently not. The pink guy repeated about the "aiyah 2 person same time thing". I wanted to ask him "so how now? how now?" but I bit my tongue. This is afterall an interview. He thought for some moments bade us to follow him into his office where he stood for awhile, stared at us and said to me.

Idiotic MCP in pink: Miss Ang, can you sit here and wait while I finish up with him?

Wait a minute! I was here first. If he's supposed to be earlier but came later, he should sit and wait. If he's supposed to be later than me then all the more he should be the one waiting right? Already I'm disliking the place. I turned to the armchair and sat down fuming mad with 3/4 a mind wanting to simply storm off. Then I thought of the $12.20 cab fare, felt a pinch and decided to stay. The interview he had with the other guy didn't take too long, only about 15 minutes which I suspect - and was correct - mine would be around the same. I approached the interview with a certain enmity since I already wasn't too happy nor keen. I made disgusted faces etc and simply left out my normal "interview" face. At the end of it all, I found out that it was just another one of those fire fighting jobs and I made it confirmed in my mind that even if they were crazy enough to shortlist me, I'm not gonna accept the shortlisting. I supposed we were both releasing out bad vibes coz he didn't bother to shake my hand and I didn't bother to thank him either - no thanks for all that and wasting my money, Sir!

Annoying MCP in Pink: You know what, you're actually better than the other guy. I think it's coz you can speak better English. Me: Oh is it? I thought he was better. Annoying MCP in Pink: He said he knew things but he couldn't answer the questions. Me: Ok... so what? you're gonna shortlist me coz my English teachers were better?

This ranked the number one seat in the lousy interviews I've attended. The second lousiest was some 2 years ago in a shipping company at Tuas. I was caught in heavy rain, drenched to the skin then left alone shivering in a meeting room far from any living organisms AND they forgot all about me till almost 2 hours later - they said so themselves. During the interview, I got so pissed off by them, I almost told them off coz they said something like "from your experiences, you seemed more like a technical person, we're not looking for someone like you. blah blah blah" Hallo? Clearly some people did not read my resume properly before calling me up - bitches. The third lousiest one wasn't all that bad except for the memorable cab ride there.

Cab uncle: Where are you going, Miss? Me: Erm...Gelyang. ER....this address, this one. Cab uncle: What you doing there? Me: Oh, I'm going for an interview. Cab uncle: ......................................................

It was an IT trainer job.