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This is mind-numbing - interviews now seem more a rite of passage than a decision-making process. If I have to rent one more car and figure out how to turn on the overhead light in the middle of traffic while holding a map, I may implode. They can't just put the switch ON the light can they?? It's usually hidden under the defrost button or worse you have to speak some ancient incantation a la "open sesame" to get the damn thing to work. Starting to forget why I'm on these interview anyway - Starting to become more a game of how can I say the same thing exactly like yesterday without making myself yawn in the process. They say the interview is a chance to talk everyone's favorite subject - themselves. Turns out, I now hate myself... More coffee, please!

Ah, much better....

 

[plank]

I have noticed that as I get more and more numb to the process, I become much more candid during my interviews. At one prelim interview, I told the PD that his suggestion to list the positives/negatives about programs in an excel spreadsheet made me want to vomit. He laughed - probably because of the shocked face I made after saying it.

I have kept myself slightly more sane by volunteering to interview high school students applying to my undergraduate university. I haven't yet taken out any of my aggressions on them, but I like having that option available.

 

[EctopicFetus]

I have kept myself slightly more sane by volunteering to interview high school students applying to my undergraduate university. I haven't yet taken out any of my aggressions on them, but I like having that option available.

Im doing this as well, same reasons... 👍

 

[Espion]

If I have to rent one more car and figure out how to turn on the overhead light in the middle of traffic while holding a map, I may implode.

I ended up with a PT Cruiser (because that's all they had left) once. I found myself on a toll road and I barely had time to get $0.75 in my hand. I then commenced searching every square inch of the door for the window controls. I briefly toyed with the idea of cracking the door and tossing the change into the bucket, but I had pulled up too close to the station. I look around in exasperation and finally see that the controls to the windows are on the center panel above the radio.

Another time, I was lost in Worcester at midnight (even after pulling over and asking for directions three separate times*) and I kept hitting the button to open the sun-roof instead of the overhead light. Open. Close. Open. Close. Open. Close. I was about ready to run my rental car into an embankment. 🙄


*Guys, if you live in New England...take pity on us Texans. Speaka English, please. Telling me to "go to the next set of lights and pass that one, then you'll get to another set of lights, go around a corner and take a left, go up a hill and take a right before the next set of lights" is NOT English. 😛

 

[EctopicFetus]

Amen Girl!!!

 

[corpsmanUP]

I have seriously become the king of upgrades on my interviews. I have thrice now been upgraded to first or business class, and once even got a Chrysler 300 luxury series with leather, pimp daddy music, and 20 inch dubs! That makes up for all the times I was expecting a mid size vehicle and got basically the same thing as an economy car, add the lumbar support and power locks. No matter how you cut it up though, its still a freaking Hyundai.

 

[ErGirl]

I have seriously become the king of upgrades on my interviews. I have thrice now been upgraded to first or business class, and once even got a Chrysler 300 luxury series with leather, pimp daddy music, and 20 inch dubs! That makes up for all the times I was expecting a mid size vehicle and got basically the same thing as an economy car, add the lumbar support and power locks. No matter how you cut it up though, its still a freaking Hyundai.

How did you pull this???? (I wouldn't mind a few tips.) 🙂

 

[EctopicFetus]

Asking gets you so far.. in a polite semi-humorous way.. it usually works if you are nice.

I got upgraded this last fall to 1st class to Europe! It was AMAZING.. Sadly when we flew back from Spain I didnt speak the language so I couldnt work my magic!

 

[beary]

Starting to forget why I'm on these interview anyway - Starting to become more a game of how can I say the same thing exactly like yesterday without making myself yawn in the process. They say the interview is a chance to talk everyone's favorite subject - themselves. Turns out, I now hate myself... More coffee, please!

Ah, much better....

I literally nearly fell asleep during one of my interviews at a place that is one of my favorites. The interviewer asked me to take a break. 😳

I can just see their rank meeting. "Well, she fell asleep during her interview, so I don't think she's that interested."