Inappropriate Interview Questions?

[mushroom25]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teen-storms-out-tgi-fridays-9842574
out of order? or a bit of fun which the interviewees need to get over?

[Tilly2]

Very much out of order, in my opinion.

[elliemay1]

I don't think it's funny

[Mamyalynne]

A step too far as evidenced by the companies response.

[jackthehat]

Not funny; not challenging; not designed to give the interviewer any insight into the interviewee.......no place in an interview situation.

[Baldric]

Surprised you even need to ask tbh.

[Strawberry5]

I don't know why anyone would ask questions like that. Flipping heck.

[NoMercy]

A "differential diagnosis" would be...

If you work in a place like that, you could be subjected to offensive, moronic and shocking comments from drunken clientele. How would you handle that kind of situation?

[Jackdaw33]

I would not have walked out. What a glorious opportunity to turn the tables. I would have had a field day, but would not necessarily get the job.

[OldBather]

Bizarre and creepy,Maybe the interviewer was getting off by thinking of the young guy and his parents in bed together.
There are some very weird people about.

[NoMercy]

The difference is, Divebuddy, that would be a criminal offence.

Putting someone on the spot with an audacious line of questions isn't, at least last time I looked. ;)

[Jackdaw33]

We're talking a grubby takeaway here, not the bleeind' RMs !

[DTCwordfan]

Out of order but then these sort of weirdo questions have always been asked, along with idiotic stress situations that do zilch for either party.

Having said that, I have seen one or two right numpties on the other side of the desk when interviewing candidates and you wondered what the hell they were thinking....

[Buenchico]

Not appropriate questions but probably no more useless than some of the things I've been asked (or, occasionally, not asked) in job interviews.

I once went for an interview with a firm that had a Government contract to assist the long-term unemployed back into work. As, at that time, I was one of the long-term unemployed myself (and also had a cv which matched up very well with the job requirements) I thought that I might stand a reasonable chance of become one of their counsellors.

I was there for nearly two hours but the guy who was 'interviewing' me didn't really ask me anything. All he keep doing, over and over again, was going on about how (if I got the job) my task would include ensuring that the people we were trying to help got 'prompt and meaningful feedback' from any interviews which they attended. After he'd told me that over a dozen times, I started to keep count of how many times he said it again and the count got to well over 50.

When I left I wasn't sure of whether I'd got the job or not but (after being told over 60 times how important 'prompt and meaningful feedback' was to the company) I expected a swift and useful reply.

What I actually got was a one-sentence letter, telling me that I hadn't got the job, which was hardly 'meaningful feedback'. It wasn't particularly prompt either, as they sent it to me ten months after my interview!

[Jackdaw33]

//The difference is, Divebuddy, that would be a criminal offence.

Putting someone on the spot with an audacious line of questions isn't.\\

Think our ***/gay sympathisers might beg to differ.

[DTCwordfan]

Mine was being asked where I would like to fight in World War 3....to the chairman of Delta Metals, the S.African MD and the ex Brit Ambassador to S. Africa. Answer was Sri Lanka and when asked why, 'if we are going to have a sequence of dumb questions such as this, then I am out of here.' It got far worse with other interviewees, a comment from the S. African MD to a response about having been to SA or knowing anybody who had, the response being that m mate's closest friend, a medic in training, had done a year in VS work in the black townships. The comment, "Not a very good idea in interfering with God's nature." The reaction of the ex-Ambass was "Steady on, old chap, bit strong - wot."

[Jackdaw33]

I am so glad that I am now past working age and no longer have to apply for a job. CV's? They are for company directors, not chip fryers in a takeaway.

[Buenchico]

When I applied for my teaching post I initially had an informal chat with the Head of Department and a look around the school. However the Headteacher wasn't in that day, so I had to return for a formal interview.

After a 170 mile train journey, plus a bus ride to get there, the Headteacher kept me waiting for a while (because he'd forgotten that I was coming), then simply asked me which football team I supported before telling me that I'd got the job!