Interview FitDarcie
So I had an interview yesterday. It was with a recruiter. It went pretty well at first, then the interviewer brought in her boss to ask me more questions. I have a pretty professional FitDarcie…one who answers all those tough questions exactly how they should be asked and who comes off really smart and level-headed. This guy who came in though, totally threw me for a loop.
He asked me, in several different ways, how I deal with difficult people. I kept repeating the things I thought he wanted to hear. It wasn’t working, and I was beginning to panic. After the 5th time he asked, he threw in that this hypothetical difficult person was condescending to me and wouldn’t do what I asked. Then the real FitDarcie had some real trouble staying on the inside.
Condescending??? To ME???? No, that just doesn’t happen. People do what I tell them to do. That is one of my greatest strengths. No one feels superior to me. It’s a situation I cannot fathom.
While I tried really hard to push the real FitDarcie back inside instead of letting her loose on this unsuspecting recruiting manager, my face turned beat red, for the first time in about 15 interviews. And then she did it. FitDarcie said, with a smug and almost repulsed look on her face “Why would someone not listen to me?”
The interview didn’t last much longer than that. I’m not expecting a call back.
June 24th, 2009 at 9:11 am
It must be hard sometimes, not having a filter, FItDarcie. I know it must have been so hard to hold back at that interview. But that story….PRICELESS!! :o)
June 24th, 2009 at 9:56 am
I look good in a suit, it’s just being a suit person I suck at.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:14 am
If I may add my $0.02
I interview quite a bit of people, and my pet peeve is people “saying things they think I want to hear”. I want to hear the truth, even if it is brutally honest. To me canned responses don’t paint me an accurate picture of who this person is. I ask people what I feel their greatest weakness is, I inevitably get people saying “I work too hard”…and try to turn a negative into a positive. I rather hear “Generally Friday afternoons around 2:00 I spend the rest of my day planning my weekend and surfing internet porn”…At least its honest.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:16 am
You’re always so insightful
June 24th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I don’t have anything to say but just thought I’d let you know that I’m not dead. Holla!
June 24th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Thanks, I was concerned. You and Teenwolf both took off at the same time…Is it possible Teenwolf and Marty McFly are the same person?
June 24th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
We’re not. Although TW probably wishes he had my car, air-surfboard and sneaks. Oh and that his middle name was Seamus like me.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Do you watch Back to the Future every night?
June 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
no dear. my nights i spend stalking you. my days are spent watching B2F.
June 24th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Bite your tongue Darcie!
Me and Marty look nothing alike.
Marty looks like this:
http://pointlessbanter.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/marty-mcfly.jpg
I look like this:
http://www.filmclipsonline.com/images/Teen-Wolf-ep6.gif
This would make a much better argument if I could actually post pictures.