{"id":33766,"date":"2022-09-10T21:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-the-job-goes-to\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:01:50","slug":"and-the-job-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-the-job-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Job Goes to"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The following, allegedly, are actual post-interview excerpts collected from middle managers who, needless to say, probably did not hire any of the people mentioned here:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Applicant stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application.&#8221;<br \/> 2. &#8220;She wore a Walkman and said she could listen to me and the music at the same time.&#8221;<br \/> 3. &#8220;A balding candidate abruptly excused himself. Returned to office a few minutes later, wearing a hairpiece.&#8221;<br \/> 4. &#8220;Applicant asked to see interviewer&#8217;s resume to see if the personnel executive was qualified to judge the candidate.&#8221;<br \/> 5. &#8220;Applicant announced she hadn&#8217;t had lunch and proceeded to eat a hamburger and French fries in the interviewer&#8217;s office, wiping the ketchup on her sleeve.&#8221;<br \/> 6. &#8220;Said, f he were hired, he would demonstrate his loyalty by having the corporate logo tattooed on his forearm.&#8221;<br \/> 7. &#8220;Interrupted to phone his therapist for advice on answering specific interview questions.&#8221;<br \/> 8. &#8220;When I asked him about his hobbies, he stood up and started tap dancing around my office.&#8221;<br \/> 9. &#8220;At the end of the interview, while I stood there dumbstruck, he went through my purse, took out a brush, brushed his hair, and left.&#8221;<br \/> 10. &#8220;Applicant pulled out a Polaroid camera and snapped a flash picture of me. Said he collected photos of everyone who interviewed him.&#8221;<br \/> 11. &#8220;Said he wasn&#8217;t interested because the position paid too much.&#8221;<br \/> 12. &#8220;During the interview, an alarm clock went off from the candidate&#8217;s briefcase. He took it out, shut it off, apologized and said he had to leave for another interview.&#8221;<br \/> 13. &#8220;A telephone call came in for the job applicant. It was from his wife. His side of the conversation went this way: &#8220;Which company? When do I start? What&#8217;s the salary?&#8221; I said, &#8220;I assume you&#8217;re not interested in conducting the interview any farther.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/and-the-job-goes-to\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following, allegedly, are actual post-interview excerpts collected from middle managers who, needless to say, probably did not hire any of the people mentioned here: 1. &#8220;Applicant stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application.&#8221; 2. &#8220;She wore a Walkman and said she could listen to me and the music at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-the-job-goes-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the Job Goes to&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}