It says a lot about Kathy Griffin when my first thought at reading the headline was a literal interpretation.

Damn, I didn’t see this till now, but this job interview was without a doubt one of the most bizarre days of my life. I’m mostly a lurker who stars things so hopefully this post will get out of the greys. To set the stage, I was 21, relatively fresh out of college, jobless, and had a long distance girlfriend who lived…

Oh man, I work in HR and have interviewed my fair share of people. We had one guy come in for an interview - which was odd, because we hadn’t called him in for one. But he showed up, my boss decided “why not?” and the horror show began. This guy first begins telling us he used to be a Marine, but all the other Marines…

I worked in a call center, in the billing department for AT&T’s ConnecTech service, which was basically their optional service for computer support. Customers who passed a line test (meaning their computer was the reason that couldn’t access the internet, and not their signal from ATT) were just transferred to us,…

Years ago I had a customer service rep call me to say that she “hated to be the barrel of bad news but....”

Was conducting an interview for an Operations Coordinator for a major mobile phone company. The girl we were interviewing was internal so we all knew she was a little on the wild side but over all was a good person.

Missed the cattle call, but here’s mine-

My god... no sarcasm here, but it must feel so, so good to be a man. To have that kind of bargaining power, not to be shamed or punished for "overconfidence", to have an interviewer come crawling back with a (crappy) pay raise! It almost makes me want a sex change.

Ah, the Fuck You Chin Lift™. Also known as Imma Start A Fight Over Christmas Dinner Gauntlet Toss™ and the Who Cares If It’s Your Birthday, Let’s Roll Challenge™.

From the employer side I’ve interviewed a guy that reminded me of David Lee Roth for an HVAC Supervisor position. He either had really bad allergies or as i suspect a bit of a cocaine problem. The man was very unprofessional but the bleached hair and fake tan were my favorite parts.

What is up with the people who argue that you do in fact carry something that you don’t? How do they see this ending? “Oh! I give up! We have a whole stack of Polident here under the counter. We just hate to sell them to customers. The owner treasures them like they were his children.”

You worked at luringinnocentchildren.com, I presume.

The ice water one made me think of Starbucks. I was once behind a lady who used the afternoon rush hour to argue with the baristas because she thought they changed their ice recipe.

When widespread Internet usage was fairly new, like 1998 or something, my mother used to read horror stories in her local paper (Pulitzer prizes won: none) of children lured into depraved acts because they met an imposter online. She would tell me “Stay off of that Internet.” I worked on my company’s website.

About 4 years ago, my 86-yo dad sent my husband to the grocery store for Feen-a-mint. The pharmacist laughed at him and said “That’s some old-timey thing - they don’t even make that anymore.” When he reported this back, my dear old dad repled “What do you mean they don’t have Feen-a-mint! That’s like not having…

Related to douchebags and liquor:

I had an old person try to argue that we sold Polident for dentures. I worked in a bookstore.

Not an allergy request but a ridiculous coffee request. At one cafe where I used to work, we kept the milk and cream behind the counter and would pour it in for the customer ourselves unless they asked to do it. One woman asked for me to make her coffee “about your color.” Because I’m neither coffee nor milk, I have…

This is why you don’t go chasing waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.