Don't let what happened to me happen to you on interview day

[SugarNaCl]

---

Members do not see this ad.

OK... Here is the story. I tried on my suit for my husband when I first got it but I was in a rush. I asked him how it looked and he liked it. I bagged it up and it sat there until Oct 22 when I put it in my car and drove to Richmond for my interview. At 11PM, I just decided out of nowhere to try it on again (why I don't know bc I had already tried it on.) I turned around in the mirror to have a look and there was the 3 inch diameter ink security tag still fastened about 7 inches from the skirt bottom. I flipped! Here I am, 11PM on a Sunday, 10 hours from my apartment in NY state and the cashier never took off the tag. Interview started at 7:30. There was no time to get it taken off or replace it. I had to physically take a swiss army knife and cut up the entire seam of the skirt 10 inches. Still attached, I had to cut around the tag leaving a 1 inch diameter hole in the fabric of my skirt. I spent until 1:30am stitching it back up and it still didn't look good. Luckily it was in the back, but please inspect your clothes VERY carefully BEFORE leaving for your interview. Don't let what happened to me happen to you. All is well though. Thank God. 🙂

 

[DAS]

Waw! sorry to hear that. hopefully, everything else was fine.
I will definately check my suit before I leave to TN some 12 hours from home.
Is driving the best way to go from NY to richmond?

 

[SugarNaCl]

I didnt want to spend the $$ to fly and Buf - Ric has no direct flights so with layovers, it only cuts maybe 2 hours off of the journey. I just take Rt 15 almost all the way. GL with your interview in TN

 

[BirkChick]

That stinks!! What a hassle!

Also, if you fly to your interview, carry-on your suit. For one of my interviews, the airlines lost my luggage and I had to interview in jeans and a t-shirt! My luggage was finally returned to me 5 days later. 🙁

 

[in her drawer]

That stinks!! What a hassle!

Also, if you fly to your interview, carry-on your suit. For one of my interviews, the airlines lost my luggage and I had to interview in jeans and a t-shirt! My luggage was finally returned to me 5 days later. 🙁

That wouldn't happen to have been Colorado, was it?

 

[BirkChick]

That wouldn't happen to have been Colorado, was it?

Haha! Why yes, yes it was. What a nightmare that was...

 

[SugarNaCl]

awww. Wait inherdrawer..how did you know it was CO?

 

[BirkChick]

awww. Wait inherdrawer..how did you know it was CO?

He interviewed on the same day that I did.

 

[afrosheen]

birkchick, that is some funny stuff. what did your interviewer say

 

[shane.]

Typical.

Wife asks husband how her outfit looks.

Husband tells the wife what she wants to hear.... without actually looking..

 

[pmantz]

I know it isn't as tramatic but I discovered as I was leaving the hotel for my interview that I brought two right shoes, one brown and one black.(My closet has no light and I was running late when I was packing). I didn't have time to get new ones without being late. I had to where my suit with tennis shoes. The worst part was I was so nervous during my interview I forgot to mention why I was wearing tennis shoes.

 

[BirkChick]

birkchick, that is some funny stuff. what did your interviewer say

Yeah, I can laugh about it now!

The interviewers were all very understanding! I ended up leaving them multiple messages as my ordeal was unfolding.

I was due to fly out to Colorado on Friday night for an interview at 8 am Saturday morning, but my flight in Cleveland was delayed by about 2.5 hours, which caused me to miss my connection in Cincinnati to Denver. The Delta guy in Cleveland tried to get me on a Midwest Airlines Friday night flight to Las Vegas then onto Colorado Springs -- but when I got to the Midwest gate, this RUDE lady told me "we have empty seats, but we're NOT taking any DELTA passengers. GO BACK TO DELTA!" By the time I booked it back to the Delta gate, my bag was already on its way to Las Vegas.

So, I got to spend a lovely evening in a Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky "Country Inn" without a change of clothes, and with no toilettries. Saturday morning, I woke up at 6am, took a shower, put on the same clothes I had worn all day Friday and went to the airport to catch an early Denver flight. This flight ALSO was delayed -- luckily by only 30 minutes. By the time I landed in Denver, it was 10:45am -- 2.75 hours past my interview time! It took about half an hour to get my rental car (a rockin' Dodge Caravan -- why are rental car companies ALWAYS out of economy cars??) and I finally arrived at the school at 12:00pm.

The people at Colorado were incredibly understanding and very nice! I did get a lot of funny comments though. For example, during my interview when I asked what they looked for in out-of-state candidates they said (very seriously at first) "someone that wears jeans and a t-shirt to their interview." They also asked how I dealt with the stress experienced during my travel nightmare.

I guess, overall, the experience went as well as could be expected given the circumstances. Hey -- at least they'll remember me! (However they will remember me as "the girl wearing jeans and a wrinkled t-shirt, no make-up and man's deoderant who showed up 4 hours late for her interview." )

 

[in her drawer]

I know it isn't as tramatic but I discovered as I was leaving the hotel for my interview that I brought two right shoes, one brown and one black.(My closet has no light and I was running late when I was packing). I didn't have time to get new ones without being late. I had to where my suit with tennis shoes. The worst part was I was so nervous during my interview I forgot to mention why I was wearing tennis shoes.

lol I was there for that, too. Maybe I am bad luck for other people's wardrobes?

 

[Cher*]

OK... Here is the story. I tried on my suit for my husband when I first got it but I was in a rush. I asked him how it looked and he liked it. I bagged it up and it sat there until Oct 22 when I put it in my car and drove to Richmond for my interview. At 11PM, I just decided out of nowhere to try it on again (why I don't know bc I had already tried it on.) I turned around in the mirror to have a look and there was the 3 inch diameter ink security tag still fastened about 7 inches from the skirt bottom. I flipped! Here I am, 11PM on a Sunday, 10 hours from my apartment in NY state and the cashier never took off the tag. Interview started at 7:30. There was no time to get it taken off or replace it. I had to physically take a swiss army knife and cut up the entire seam of the skirt 10 inches. Still attached, I had to cut around the tag leaving a 1 inch diameter hole in the fabric of my skirt. I spent until 1:30am stitching it back up and it still didn't look good. Luckily it was in the back, but please inspect your clothes VERY carefully BEFORE leaving for your interview. Don't let what happened to me happen to you. All is well though. Thank God. 🙂

akh.......such a hassel....I can definitely relate to that!
well mine didn't happen on an interview (yet!!) thankfully, but the same thing happened to this dress I'd bought two days before (after looking for hours!!) for my friend's wedding which was in las vegas. so my friends and I drive to vegas on day of the wedding and we start getting ready an hour before the wedding starts. it was then that i found out that the seurity tag is still attached to my dress! well, the store I bought the dress from didn't even exist in vegas! so one of my friends said we should be able to take the tag out ourselves...hmmm..yeah not a good idea!.... the ink came out, spread and ruined the whole skirt & yeah the tag was still attached 😀 (only it wasn't funny then). long story short, I had to pay a LOT of money to buy an ugly dress from the shopping center at the hotel & by that time it was so late that we almost didn't make it to the wedding....but thankfully the wedding was fun so I forgot all about my dress later on!
I'm glad at least ur interview went well
gl 😉

 

[armorshell]

On my way to New York for my Columbia interview, I was told at the ticket check-in counter that they weren't going to be able to transfer any luggage to my connecting flight, so I wasn't able to check any bags (My suit-bag was a hard case that goes under the plane)

Luckily, after a few minutes of freaking out I remembered you can wear suits for more then just interviews 🙂

I changed into it in the bathroom, and just threw my bag into a way-too-small garbage can

 

[darius99]

to remove the tag, maybe in the future you could just go to some retail clothing store and ask the cashier to remove it for you. i dunno, i never tried this but in a pinch maybe you would find a sympathetic cashier 😀

 

[hsama]

OK, in my first interview, I thought it went pretty darn well. Later when I got back to my hotel and looked in the mirror, I saw....😱 a you know what-ie just on the verge of peeking out of my left nostril!!! 😳 Luckily I'm pretty short and that means that probably nobody was looking right up in there. But DANG! Way to make a first impression! Someday we'll look back and laugh. OK, I'm laughing already.

 

[DDSMAN2006]

Typical.

Wife asks husband how her outfit looks.

Husband tells the wife what she wants to hear.... without actually looking..

Typical.

Female is painfully unobservant and oblivious to the most obvious, does a bonehead move, yet still somehow tries to blame the male.

 

[Yellow Snow]

When I went to my NOVA interview I needed to bring along some lotion because I get dry skin. I had just bought a big bottle and it came with a travel size container shrink wrapped to it. I just brought the small one to save space and I used it after showering before my interview, including on my face. I am sitting in my interview and I notice a brown streak on the back of my hand. I had no idea what it was and it wouldn't wash off in the bathroom. The reason? The small bottle was artificial tanning lotion!!! I realized this and bolted to the bathroom searching for really bad streaks or darkened creases. I couldn't see anything and no one else said anything so I think I was ok.

Worst thing was that it was in Florida! It was like I thought being tan was a prereq for acceptance or something.