Interview
Many moons ago, I went for an interview for a teaching job. the interviews lasted pretty much the whole day and one of the interviews was a "stress interview" where the interviewers were trying to deliberately unsettle you and knock you confidence to see how you reacted. Now the golden rule of any interview situation is to switch the mobile off before you go into the interview and inevitabley, I forgot to do so. The mobile I had at the time let out a high volume piercing "beeeeeeeeeeeeeep!" noise when a text message arrived.

So picture the scene:

phone: "beeeeeeeeeeeeep!"

me: *smiles politely tries to pretend nothing has happened*
interviewer1: *looks around sarcastically as if trying to place where the noise has come from*
Interviwer2: *looks incredoulous*

phone: "beeeeeeeeeeeeep!"

me: "er I'll turn it off."

When I finished the interview, I went out side to check my messages.

Text 1 from my mate Darren "Good Luck with the interview mate!"

Text 2 from my mate Dan "How did you get on with the interview? Did you get the job?"

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

Needless to say I wasn't successful.
(Nitrous Nitrous, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 16:53, Reply)