EITM: You Had One Job...Interview 6/14/24

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Episode Transcript

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Is profanity during an interview frowned upon? It seems a little too familiar for
me. Yes, yeah, yes, and again I take radio out of
it because this is not a normaljob. It's true. It's better to
be safe than sorry. Yeah,if you're wondering, hey, right now,
I can modify this sentence with agood old effort. That's what this

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person did. My interview was goingpretty well until I inadvertently dropped an F
bomb. Oh, and that likecompletely turned it. Didn't get the job.
I understand that, but especially ifyou're gonna you were not high,
okay, but people aren't like thatin front of clients, then don't be
like that in front of me,especially for the interview. So is that

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still frowned on? I would sayyes, but if you're going to lean
one way, let's keep it cleaning. Yeah. Oh, you know that
person's heart just sig. Oh.Well, that's the part I love about
all this is that, you know, it's that moment where it's like,
uh oh, So these people realizedthat mid chat the no, not not

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all of them, but they wereable to figure out why they didn't get
the job. For example, toillustrate my excellent attention to detail. I
mentioned to the interviewer I had noticedthe spelling error in their job ad that
one you think you're coming in andyou're going to really impress them. That's

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going to piss somebody off. TheYeah, but if it's not the person
who did it, that's an icebreaker. That's an icebreaker. Now you're questioning
the operations there again, I'd hiresomebody, but it also listen, it's
legitimate. I then if I'm theperson interviewing, or you got a whistleblower

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on your hands, well then Iafter the interview, I run over to
whoever wrote that, and I'm furious. So the person did me a side.
Yeah, but I also I needyou to stay in line. Kristin.
Will you do me a favor?Will you find me some people who
botch some good interviews please? Eightsix six to Elliott eight six six two

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three five five four six eight.And I do think it is that moment
of like, listen, it's nervewracking going on job interviews. It could
be stressful. And I guess nervousis the right word for sure, or
at least you have nerves like Idon't know that i'd been nervous about That's
not true. I definitely but no, no, no, like like when

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I interviewed here, I wasn't nervousreally no, I wasn't nervous about it.
I had nerves, member, Butlike I know that I interviewed for
sub jobs where I was definitely nervousand didn't get the jobs, but didn't
botch them. Oh, I botchedone really badly during my career. Bat
I told you that. Yeah,but not so there's only this one case.

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Yeah, but it was long.I learned a lot from that.
I learned a lot. So thatmeans it wasn't a failure because he learned
something. Well, though it wasa failure because I didn't get least take
job right. No, but Idid learn from it anyway. Yeah,
eight six six to Elliott eight sixsix two three five five four six,
say, I got too familiar andI told a story about one of their
employees who I knew and had sexin one of the station vehicles. And

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I did not know this woman andshe was not happy about it. Yeah,
and I pointed out a spelling airbut you see it, Elicits the
same response from that manager, thathiring manager. I interviewed at a bank.
It was going perfectly, despite hownervous I was. I felt like
I really had a great chance.Then as a final question, the panel

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asked me why should we hire you? And I word vomited. I went
with quote, I probably won't stealyour money. God probably, But you
know what, that's unfair, Likethat's unfair. Now, like I'm trying

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to know everything's good. You caughtme on a on a gotcha question at
the end, why should we hireyou? That's yeah, we asked in
all interviews. Yeah, but Iwasn't. I was trying to like,
you know, finish with a youknow, like a light. I'm finishing
light. I remember we learned allabout those panel interviews. Oh that's the

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worst. That's the worst. Ohthere's one in here. Somebody did a
panel interview hold on and they don'tget people on hold Oh I can't find
it. It was somebody who wasdoing a panel interview and they they were
asked about the company, like atthe end they were like, well,
listen, this has gone pretty well. Tell us what you know about the

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company. And the person had doneabout like all kinds of research on the
company. Yeah, yeah, no, Well they did a good job on
research about the company, but theygot the company name wrong, and so
they actually did a bunch of researchon a similar company but not the right
one, and they like started spoutingall this info and the panel interrupted him

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and said, you know that's notus. But they thought it was going
great. Wait was it a similarlynamed yes company, so not even a
similar product correct, Oh my god. Yeah, but they were just going
form like a job where like itlike that. It wouldn't have mattered until
you got to the end and theywere like, oh damn, They're like,
you know that's not us. Whoops. Oh, now that in front

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of a panel a moment where youjust want to crawl into a hoh you're
done at that point and never reappear. You're done at that point. Where
am I going Kristen line one,Hi, Yelly in the morning? Yeah,
I got you. Who's this?Okay, It's I'm out there.
I'm gonna Dumbia Company. World ofthe Ganads back in the eighties and I

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was working at the warehouse and theywanted to move into the office and like
sales and stuff. So I gotman put on my shoot my shirt and
Tim and I'm gonna have an interviewand I'm like, well, how are
you like working out in the house, kid, It's amazing. We got
every day and you know we gotyears at lunyar Rail, like twenty one

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years old. Yet for lunch youget a couple of beers and I did.
I appreciate it. Thank you,my friend. Yes, Tyler from
hung justin this is a neat littletwist, well it needs the wrong word,
but a surprising little twist. Didn'tget a job once because I wore

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a suit to the interview and theytook it to mean that I was not
going to do any physical work.They were offended by him dressing dressing up.
That's weird. So remember we justtalk to him, the repper maide
guy. Remember he was asking whathe should wear. That's right, that's
right. Make sure next time someoneasks for advice on that we know exactly

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what the position is, because I'venever heard that where you are offending the
hiring manager because you come off astoo good for maybe the role they really
want you in. Oh, Igot I have a wardrobe one here.
I was doing a fantastic job atthe interview. It was for an admin
sales job. And at the endof the interview, I noticed my top

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few shirt buttons were undone, andI was showing the panel of interviewers my
entire boobs and nipple. I meanthey saw everything. She didn't get the
job, Oh no, because youknow what they thought she was trying to
like sex it up. If Ishow some titty, I'll get this job.

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So they were offended the Yeah,I'd have hired her on the spot.
Maybe they noticed tongue Justin's bowls tech. He didn't need separate tech line.
Why hi, Elliott in the morning. Hey haven't go on everybody?
Hey good, what's going on dude? So one time I went through an
interview. It was about forty fiveminutes long. I get real nervous in

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interviews, and it was great,nailed it. Went to go stand up.
As I went to go stand up, I was sitting crossfliated, put
my foot down, stood up,reached over to grab my hand, and
I farted. Yeah. Let's justsay I got the email about two days
later that they had moved on tosomebody else. Come on, come on

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until that point, but wait,was that did they think you did it
on purpose? Like that's my exclamationpoint. Come on, that's a nervous
yeah, because it wasn't a littleit was a It was a decent little
fart. But at the same timeyou can see on my face just how
mortified I was, and they werelike, Okay, we this may not
be what we want. That's agreat one though. That's a great one.

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Hey. By the way, ininterviews, since then, are you
real cautious about making sure you don'tfart. I've had one interview since then,
and I got the job, andI've been there ever since. Because
I'm mortified to do another one again. I'm afraid to stink that one up.
Thank you, my friend. Herewe go. My first job out
of high school. It was foran er tech, essentially a nurse's aide

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in an emergency room. The interviewwas a group interview between myself, HR,
and the director of emergency services.He introduced himself to me as doctor
Chars. Through the entire interview,I, without realizing it, kept calling
him doctor Schartz. Jesus, We'llmove on to the next candidate. Please

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wait, hold on, Yes,Tyler from Matthew on Facebook. Interviewer asked
me why I left my last job. I told them my last boss was
a meth head. Never heard fromthem, by the way that gets brought
up in the thing. I wasreading a couple of times where I guess
companies still don't like if you badmouth your previous employee. Yeah, or

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employer, I should say, whyis that such a no? No,
well, you're right because you cansee it as I'm leaving this company because
but you can also understand that theremay be worries about you and your loose
lips. Okay, but still like, hey, why are you leaving?

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Well? Do they ask, like, can they legally? Can they ask
why you're leaving your job? Yeah? Oh, I don't think that's overstepping.
What would be so bad about sayinglisten, I don't I don't like
my employer would just say, I'mI'm I'm feeling a little stagnant. I
need a new opportunity. Oh,so you get bored and now every time
you get bored at work, you'regonna leave. I wouldn't say bored.
Well, what would you say?I just I want to be more challenged,

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So you're bored? No, Iwouldn't say bored. What would you
say, why are you getting socombato? I'm out of here. It
doesn't work well with meth heads.I interviewed to be a flight attendant.
They asked me something about what Ithought would be the downside to the job.
I just blurted out another nine toeleven. Oh my god, My

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god, Jesus, I knew immediately. I fed up by the way fair
answer. In a similar fashion,Jackie was once asked what makes her unique
during an interview. She blanked andsaid, I'm left handed. That may

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be the best one ever. Linesix, Hi, Elliott the morning.
Hi, this is me, Yeah, Hi, who's this? Hey?
This is Matt. Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
So? I'm a nurse and Iwas probably I don't know, four to

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six years into my job at myhospital. I applied for a promotion.
I had maybe missed one day workever, had never been late. That
morning, I woke up five hourslate for work and missed the interview.
Oh my god, what happened?I to this day have no idea what
happened, Jesus, I basically missedmy entire day of work. That's eth.

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That's a great one, all right, dude, I appreciate it.
Thank you, my friend. Yestime from Danielle on X. When I
was younger, I had a jobinterview at an animal shelter. They asked
me about euthanasia. I didn't knowwhat that word meant. Oh no,
oh no, quickly learned after theinterview was done. By the way,

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is just like like the the Ican't remember who you said the person who
was like their unique quality left handedjackie. But is that is because people
get nervous and it can't be astressful job interview. Is it Is it
common to just go blank and theyjust have to vomit something out? I
would think so, because I wasreading about one where they asked him he
couldn't remember his address. Oh wow, that's found. They asked like where

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do you live? And he waslike, ah, here's one that would
kill you. Elliott. Yes,Matt had an interview over lunch and did
not get it because I put salton my food before tasting it. They
said I was to habit forming asI was unwilling to try things and just

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made a sh my god, here'sa habit. Go to hell? Are
you serious? And you salt everythingbefore you take it? By the way,
what's stick in the ass? Hiringmanager is that I'd fire a hiring
manager. What the hell do youcare? So when I salt my food,
we were getting along really well,and then he salted as salad.

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I can't he's not willing to trynew things. Why don't you try getting
a new job? What a dick? That sounds like someone who's read a
lot of books. Not like asummer reader, but a lot of books
about like the Keys to Leadership.Oh you know who moved my cheese?
The goose with the gold? Ohmy god, oh my god. By

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the way, you know yesterday wetalked about that woman. Now that was
a disgruntled employee. I would goto that company and I would throw feces
in their coy pond. I'd beso furious with them, Like I watched
an interview. At least I gotit. You're telling me I botched an
interview over salt. Hi Elliott inthe morning, or I'm left handed?
Yes? Hi? Who is this? Hello? Yeah? Hi? Oh

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Hi? So what is it?I went on an interview for a general
manager position for a restaurant, superexcited. I was sweating a whole bunch
and I was like, dang,I'm sweating so much like my legs were
even sweating. I stood up andI found out that I was actually started
my period, and I led throughmy pants completely and threw onto the chair

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so the entire chair was read.I never got a call back. Oh
god, how embarrassing. And alsoI've never been back to that restaurant ever

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again. Oh that's horrible. Bythe way, I feel for you,
but I can't help but laugh.All right, very good, very good.
By the way, every job interviewI would go on after that,
I would I would double or tripletamp like I would not I would tamp,

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cup and pad absolutely. Nowh feelsso much better, because first the
job interview ever was going so poorly, and I was sweating so much it
looked like I had peed my pantsonto the leather seat. But that's bird
and blood. But you shouldn't getthat nervous, Elliott. Nobody it is.

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It's very nervous. It can be, it can't be very nerve wracking,
Hi, Elliott, but you alsowant to exude some confidence. Hi.
Who is this? Yeah? Hi, who are you? Hi?
I'm Jessica in Baltimore. Yes,real quickly, what can I do for
you? Sure? I'm in medicaldevice sales, so it's super competitive.

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You can have like seven to teninterviews. I was offered the position and
the person told me to go havea drink that night to celebrate. I
decided to show them what a greatdecision they made. I'm super healthy.
I said, I don't drink.I'm just gonna have a gummy. And
we have company cars. That's againstpolicy, so they decided to see I

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got a letter later. They changetheir minds. Lesson Learn