Life Lesson: Don't talk about sex in a job interview (particularly if you need a visa by Monday)

A new full-timer is being hired at work- which benefits me because one more member of the team will let me work on even bigger and better things in the next few months. Hip Hip for increased responsibility.

And new hiring means interviews- one of which I was lucky enough to listen in on. I had heard tales of bad interviews, heard that they do exist, but never seen one up close. Until Friday. And let me tell you, it was physically painful to watch this take place. I'll recount the particularly painful bits here for your reading pleasure:

Interviewer: "So, can you tell me about a time when someone said something against you and you had to defend yourself? Like perhaps when you worked on something and you thought you had done a great job but someone spoke against you and said that you didn't, and you had to defend yourself?"

Interviewee: "Well, this one time a guy said he had sex with me but he didn't, and I had to defend myself and tell everyone that he didn't have sex with me."

Interviewer: "OK, um, I guess I mean has something like that ever happened to you in a professional setting? In a job? If it did, what would you do to straighten things out?"

Interviewee: "Um, I would do dinner. Take them out to dinner so that they could see my face and we could talk to each other."

Interviewer: "Ok, so in this job you'll need to work with businesspeople and speakers visiting from big companies in Perth, have you ever worked with any businesspeople from companies before?"

Interviewee:" Um, yes I have, I just can't think of any names of those companies right now".

Interviewer: (Beginning to revert to easier small talk at this point) "So how long are you planning to stay in Perth?"

Interviewee: "Oh, I'm going back to Malaysia in three days- on Monday. My visa is expired so I can't stay any longer. So I was hoping you could give me a visa for this job so I can stay."

I'll stop there and simply say the interview was well over at this point. And I was doing my best not to crack up laughing. One candidate down, this should be interesting.