Interviewers that don't understand contractors

[russell]

A non trolling post <rubs-eyes>

I may have got you all wrong sir.

I just have different opinions to a lot of the folks here.

[Churchill]

This kind of interview would make me run a mile. Questions like "Where do you see yourself in n years." are red flags.

You could always try the following...

Hopefully by then I will have completed your project and a couple of others and be either sunning myself on a beach somewhere or I'll be lying used and abused on a bed in an expensive hotel somewhere surrounded by white powder and high-class hookers.

[Old Greg]

Hopefully by then I will have completed your project and a couple of others and be either sunning myself on a beach somewhere or I'll be lying used and abused on a bed in an expensive hotel somewhere surrounded by white powder and high-class hookers.

Isn't Whores' Washer-Woman is a bit of an aspirational career choice for you?

[Churchill]

Isn't Whores' Washer-Woman is a bit of an aspirational career choice for you?

You're getting monotonous now.

[Old Greg]

You're getting monotonous now.

Oooh, I owe myself £10.

[suityou01]

Oooh, I owe myself £10.

You're cheap. Or was that just for a pot noodle.

[Old Greg]

You're cheap. Or was that just for a pot noodle.

No, I'm cheap.

[doodab]

They said "You hopefully have learnt a lot about us from our web site and done a bit of research"

I always have a look at the website of a company I interview with, I also like to do a bit of background reading and work out who their main competitors are and so on.

[suityou01]

I always have a look at the website of a company I interview with, I also like to do a bit of background reading and work out who their main competitors are and so on.

That's one thing, and I think we all do that, or we should. But they were expecting me to have memorised it, in granular detail. Studied it for hours.

[Pondlife]

I always have a look at the website of a company I interview with, I also like to do a bit of background reading and work out who their main competitors are and so on.

That's one thing, and I think we all do that, or we should. But they were expecting me to have memorised it, in granular detail. Studied it for hours.

The correct answer is "Well, it could do with some work I think."