Things We Hate

[Abertawe]

I find interviews a walk in the park tbh.

My routine (which has never failed) is dress up like a boss, get a haircut on the day of interview and go in with the mindset that the role is already yours.

Lead the conversation, answer the questions without actually answering their question. Make em smile. Forget about the role, your aim is to manipulate the interviewer so that they like you. Once they like you then you can start asking them questions and 'have a chat' with em.

Cannae fail.

 

[blade1889]

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Lead the conversation, answer the questions without actually answering their question. .

Which political office are you running for?

 

[Aber gas]

I find interviews a walk in the park tbh.

My routine (which has never failed) is dress up like a boss, get a haircut on the day of interview and go in with the mindset that the role is already yours.

Lead the conversation, answer the questions without actually answering their question. Make em smile. Forget about the role, your aim is to manipulate the interviewer so that they like you. Once they like you then you can start asking them questions and 'have a chat' with em.

Cannae fail.

Wish I had that confidence, would have made my life a bit easier. I try and do those things but by the time I get to the interview I'm so anxious that that I think everything I say is jibberish.

 

[Abertawe]

I'm not particularly confident in my day to day life. I just have an ability to psyche myself up for interviews and focus solely on getting the job, nothing else. You just gotta get your mindset right. You're the best and any other fucker applying is insignificant because they're not you. Nerves/anxiety isn't a bad thing either, it's fuel for your brilliance. It's always important to self-deprecate in an interview too, show humility & dat. Peeps like humility.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Wish I had that confidence, would have made my life a bit easier. I try and do those things but by the time I get to the interview I'm so anxious that that I think everything I say is jibberish.

I feel like that too. Had an interview this morning for a job that I know I'm well qualified for and I think I could do well, but I have no idea if I got that across. So frustrating.

 

[Aber gas]

I feel like that too. Had an interview this morning for a job that I know I'm well qualified for and I think I could do well, but I have no idea if I got that across. So frustrating.

Sometimes you come across better than you think. Part of being anxious is negativity towards yourself so you might have been fine and not realised it! I'm a right anxious weirdo and I'm still employed ( not suggesting you are a weirdo btw)
Best wishes and good luck.

 

[TomPNE94]

I'm not particularly confident in my day to day life. I just have an ability to psyche myself up for interviews and focus solely on getting the job, nothing else. You just gotta get your mindset right. You're the best and any other fucker applying is insignificant because they're not you. Nerves/anxiety isn't a bad thing either, it's fuel for your brilliance. It's always important to self-deprecate in an interview too, show humility & dat. Peeps like humility.

 

[Luke Imp]

Blokes at work who don't wipe the toilet seat having pissed all over it.

 

[mistermagic]

Interviews are a piece of piss with people you are actually going to work with. Interviews with HR are pointless exercises with women you have to convince to pay you as much as possible. HR are c***. Horrible, horrible bitches.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Interviews are a piece of piss with people you are actually going to work with. Interviews with HR are pointless exercises with women you have to convince to pay you as much as possible. HR are c***. Horrible, horrible bitches.

Cut down on the misogyny and you may be able to get a job.

 

[Pliny Harris]

Wish I had that confidence, would have made my life a bit easier. I try and do those things but by the time I get to the interview I'm so anxious that that I think everything I say is jibberish.

As a meek, non-imposing sciencey-type, self-doubt is my speciality. I'd advise anyone getting jitters before/during/after an interview to sew that anxiety into excited confidence. It sounds strange, but it's a method recommended by stage performers. Feel great because you've been given an interview. I've found them very hard to come by (unluckily), but whenever I've had one I've (luckily) been offered work.

You're invited into the interview because the interviewee and employer believe you're capable of doing the job. You're not being required to do heroics, most of getting there is reaffirming you're that person who came off good in the application, making sure you're scrubbed up, attentive and willing. Much of the rest is repartee and being able to spin probing questions into positives. You have no wooden legs, you look around the place and you feel at home whatever you see. Then when they hopefully ring you up and offer the job you can choose whether to accept it afterwards.


Anyway, things I hate. Plastic fans.

 

[Pliny Harris]

Plastic fans.

SEA.

http://www.onemk.co.uk/FA-Cup-fourt...8594043-detail/story.html#btt8zAXeAvTjlkFr.01

 

[Abertawe]

Johanna Konta. Not her personally but this media love-fest. She ain't even f'king British, fuck off.

 

[Camborne Gills]

She has obviously reverted back to being an Aussie now.

 

[Meadow]

Writing a eulogy for my Dad's funeral - how do you condense 83 years of a life well lived into a 2 minute speech?

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Writing a eulogy for my Dad's funeral - how do you condense 83 years of a life well lived into a 2 minute speech?

You don't, I suppose. Don't try to cover everything, just pick some key memories and concentrate on them.

Good luck.

 

[mowgli]

Writing a eulogy for my Dad's funeral - how do you condense 83 years of a life well lived into a 2 minute speech?

Try writing about the things he did that made you and others laugh,that sort of thing brings a smile on a very sad day,good luck Meadow i hope you do him proud.

 

[shane]

Philomena Cunk. Insultingly unfunny.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

Cut down on the misogyny and you may be able to get a job.

yeah instead of being a misogynistic twat he'd just be a twat. a hollow victory

 

[Meadow]

You don't, I suppose. Don't try to cover everything, just pick some key memories and concentrate on them.

Good luck.

Try writing about the things he did that made you and others laugh,that sort of thing brings a smile on a very sad day,good luck Meadow i hope you do him proud.

Thanks. All done and my son approved.

 

[slaphead]

Thanks. All done and my son approved.

That's exactly what I did, tell jokes about him, make people smile. My old man could never stand people being miserable and always loved a joke if it was at his expense, so that's what I did for old times sake. One more 'tip', when you stand up to talk, if you don't want to crack up half way through, pick one person you know well, focus on them and talk to just them. If you look around the congregation you are bound to see someone who is upset, concentrating on one person makes it so much easier. Good luck, celebrate a life well lived, don't mourn one lost.

 

[Meadow]

That's exactly what I did, tell jokes about him, make people smile. My old man could never stand people being miserable and always loved a joke if it was at his expense, so that's what I did for old times sake. One more 'tip', when you stand up to talk, if you don't want to crack up half way through, pick one person you know well, focus on them and talk to just them. If you look around the congregation you are bound to see someone who is upset, concentrating on one person makes it so much easier. Good luck, celebrate a life well lived, don't mourn one lost.

I coped doing the same for my mother, I think I can do the same for my dad. My husband is on standby to take over if necessary.

There are a few light-hearted moments, one of which you lot might appreciate.

My dad was a printer based near Elephant and Castle. One of his customers was a big hotel which a number of football teams chose for their post FA Cup final meal. My dad had the idea of printing two lots of menus, one saying FA Cup finalists and one saying FA Cup winners. That meant that the likes of Ipswich and West Ham and Arsenal sat down to their meal and saw WINNERS on their menu just a couple of hours after winning the cup. The hotel got the kudos, and my dad got more money for the job. Sadly Wimbledon didn't use that hotel so I didn't get any souvenirs.

 

[Pagnell]

The new guy in the office who sits at the desk opposite me eating everything with his mouth open. I deliberately position my monitors so I can't see him but the fucking noise. He literally sounds like a pig at a trough. It's revolting. I'm close to the point of saying bollocks to being polite and asking him if his mother ever taught him to eat properly.

 

[Stevencc]

Sorry, I'll try to eat a little quieter for you boss.

 

[Pagnell]

Can you put your hand over your mouth when you sneeze and cough too.

 

[Modernist]

People who don't care about their appearance.

Saw someone today, guy in his 20's/30's wearing a grey hoodie, red shorts, no socks and flip flops....baffling.

We're almost as badly dressed as the yanks or Aussies.

 

[spireite]

The new guy in the office who sits at the desk opposite me eating everything with his mouth open. I deliberately position my monitors so I can't see him but the fucking noise. He literally sounds like a pig at a trough. It's revolting. I'm close to the point of saying bollocks to being polite and asking him if his mother ever taught him to eat properly.

That is just the worst. I've got the same, but behind me. Apples and crisps.... my god

 

[Camborne Gills]

The BBC sport director hailing the deal for Olympics rights as brilliant. About as useful as Cameron's EU deal.

BBC sport is virtually non existent due to her and her PC colleagues

 

[The Paranoid Pineapple]

I appreciate that some people like to invoke the dreaded PC term at any given opportunity in ways that I often find baffling but, I gotta admit, this one's a particular puzzle...

 

[Camborne Gills]

I meant that the BBC is probably the most politically correct organisation in the country, and they spend so much time worrying about it, that they forget to give the licence payers what they actually want