Actually, you would be surprised what happens in a job interview. Here are some of the lunatic things that HAVE ACTUALLY happened to me:-
ONE - In the 1980's, I went for an interview with Liberty of London, a department tore - it was in the manager's office by a busy street. he had the window open. The interview was oing fine and the n a truck went by and I did not hear something that he said.
I replied, "Er, what?"
And he picked up the phone and replied, "Didn't you hear what I said? I said either you get out of here now or I'm phoning the Police right now!"
I still have no clue what that was all about.
TWO - Also in the 1980's, I went for an interview with Fortnum & Mason, another department store in London. They insisted that I must write every qualification down on their form and leave none off. Well, I have a lot of certificates so I carefully squeezed them in. At the end of filling in the form, the managerdidn't even glance at it, he just screwed it up and threw it in the trash bin and commented, "Look, we've never set a time limit, but whatever it was, you must have exceeded it by now, GET OUT!:
THREE - I went for an interview with an engineering company and I was told to go into an office and sit downa dn wait for the manager. There were two identical chairs, so I sat inone of them. Seconds later the manager appeared and told me, "Nope, sorry, you've sat in the wrong chair - Failed interview! Get out."
FOUR - I was sent to and interview by a job agency. I was running very close on time, so I raced into the building, up the stairs and raced into the appropriate door... only to find LITERALLY NOTHING THEREBetween being booked and the interview, not only had the company moved which the agency had forgotten to tell me, but the entire building was being demolished! EVERYTHING EVEN THE FLOORS AND WALLS BEYOND THE DOOR HAD GONE. - I was hanging from the door handle with a vertical FOUR STOREY DROP BELOW ME! Christ knows how I managed to scramble back from near death. I kid you not, I was literally hanging there FOUR STOREYS about rubble, twisted metal and debris.
FIVE - I was one of two people who had gone for an interview as systems manager at a company running poperies and was interviewed by the Company Secretary. I explained how I kew all the software, back to front and had even acted as an unoffical advisor t the company who were supposed to be actin g as support engineers to our company. A the end of it, he said that was a problem, I just knew too damn much and so he instead hired the other guy, a totla novice to the world of computing. I kid you now... 3 months later, I read in the newspaper of mass redundancies at that company who had filed for bankruptcy. Guess why? Yes, they had had a collossal systems failure that had resulted in the loss of their entire acounting suytems and all accounting records 60 days earlier. In short, the new, total novie guy had f**ked up so badly, it had bankrupted them. So much for choosing the idiot over the knowledgeable,and talented professional.