When i was interviewing for my last permmie job I was told one of the other candidates walked plum into the glass door and knocked himself out cold, to this day they still wish they chose him rather than me!
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Bazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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1) Wearing my shirt inside out on the first day of a contract in a "right on" graphics agency.
2) In the same co. as 1) I starterd taliking to a woman I thought was talking to me about how I got to work in the morning. She wasn't talking to me at all but someone behind & wasn't listening to a word I was saying (also on day 1).
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3) On day 2 of above contract I went to make a cup of cofee. They had a machine that ground the beans for you & the beans were contained in a giant hopper (I'm talking industrial size) on top of the machine. When I pressed the button to grind, nothing came out so I gave the hopper a little twist & the whole thing came off sending coffee beans everywhere. Then the 2 grils in chagre of marketing came in and I stood ankle deep in coffee beans.Comment
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2 separate client demos - and neither was my mistake, or my error, but I had to watch the developer explain the situation.
1) In the middle of walking through the process, a warning message pops up on screen saying "F*** Off" followed by one a bit later that said "F*** You!". Seems my (permie) colleague decided that he needed a debug message to show when the code hit that point - and forgot to either put a meaningful / non-offensive message in or to remove them before shipping the product.
2) Again, walking through the process (different client) - trawling through the test data that had been created. One client called "D1ckhead Gascoigne" and another called "****** Ince".Comment
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Fell asleep and woke myself up snoring during a presentation at a Client's place in Dublin, to a roomfull of giggling faces.
All this shortly after I had blagged a presentation about Company Forward Strategy. I had only been with the Company about 3 weeks as a System Engineer, but they thought as I had experience of giving presentations that I was best placed to give this spiel. No wonder I fell asleep straight afterwards!!“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Nooo.Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
I wish I had been there
Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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When I interviewed for my last ever permie job they sat me in a small office to wait for the interviewer. Keen to make a good first impression, when a man entered the room I sprung up to offer an enthusiastic hello and show off my firm handshake. I was so over-eager that he was confusedly shaking my hand before he could tell me he was just coming in to get some milk from the fridge in the corner.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsOriginally posted by vetranComment
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Speaking of meetings, it's reminded me of an incident a few years ago. I worked with a lovely lady, who had dwarfism. Let's call her Tina. That was her name.
During a meeting with quite a lot of people, another (stupid, annoying) lady dropped her pen under the meeting table and it rolled near to the middle of the table. Before the other lady could consider how to retrieve it, Tina slipped off her chair and under the table to get it back.
Instead of perhaps just mouthing "thanks!" to Tina when given her pen, the stupid lady interrupted the meeting flow with a loud "Wow! That's SO clever what you just did. I wish I could do that!"Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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