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- jamble0
they looked at me with genuine suprise when I asked if they'd actually looked at my portfolio online (which was linked from my cv) as well.
- madirish0
had same happen, jamble.
they looked at me like i was an idiot. i then asked them if they read the email i sent to set up the meeting we were both sitting in on currently.
i declined the offer the next day.
- flavorful0
hahaaha, tHEbLUEoNE that is ridiculous!!
I would have been like, "I would cop about 100 in black tar heroin, 50 in crack, and 50 on a hotel room for 3 hours and bring some crack whores up there for a fucking good time."
Then I would try and keep a straight face for as long as I could ... until finally I would laugh and go, "Haha, I am just kidding I would spend it all immediately on crack."
- Jaline0
Llyod, almost the exact same thing happened to me, but without those answers ;)
It was morning after prom, and...well...let's just say I don't remember most of those few days.
- flavorful0
Jaline's brain left her faster than a Prom Dress after the dance!
- Jaline0
hah, not quite.
- Jaline0
also, I don't dance. at least not in front of lots of people.
- flavorful0
I love dancing!
You would dance if we were out, I look like such a goof everyone around me feels okay with how they dance, or how they don't dance rather, haha.
- Jaline0
hahah, I believe you.
- lvl_130
i love to dance.
http://www.ltd-design.com/itown-…no really, i do.
- k0na_an0k0
some of these have me laughing my ass off.
i too have had the 'so.... lets see some of your work' and there wasn't even a computer in the room and he's looking around for my book.
i said 'i DID apply for a web designer position right?!?'
unreal.
- Mimio0
ohh...that's so true Kona. Or they don't have internet access in the conference room.
- k0na_an0k0
haha! right on mimio!
i just had an interview a week or so ago at a place like that. no internet or computer in the conference room, but... to their benefit they had already gone over my work and had printed it out for reference.
but still.... COMON!
- Jaline0
it's especially bad when their printer sucks ass, and you can tell that during the interview is actually the first time they are taking a good look at your portfolio - and since the printer is black and white and sucks, you know your work isn't going to look as good, and that's what those weird stares at your portfolio are all about.
- lvl_130
i'm going to start bringing in a printed version of my portfolio that comes straight off of one of those old dot-matrix printers. you know the kind with tear off edges. sick.
vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
- flavorful0
I just smile and talk about myself considering that is the only thing that I am good at it.
- Jaline0
heh, i love those printers.
- k0na_an0k0
lol lvl_13! what a great idea! hahaha!
flavorful... hahahahha!
i personally like the interviews where about a quarter way through the interviewer realizes you are way too good for this shitty job and starts to really oversell the place and make it sound much better than it is. an hour long interview ends up with you only talking for 15 minutes, and them selling the place for the remaining 45.
- TheBlueOne0
What about printing up tshirts with screenshots of our designs on them and hand them out at interviews? You know, "Gee thanks for the opportunity to interview for your fine company, and here's a complimentary tshirt featuring some of my work."
I think that might just work.
- Llyod0
from now on I'll just smile and talk about flavorful.