I was leading enterprise agility and needed to get some contract agile coaches to help my team “boot up” several new domains. A candidate was so anxious and nervous he almost started to cry and froze. I stopped the interview. Told everyone to turn off their cameras. Took everyone through a mindfulness exercise and then we started over cameras off and conversational. ☺️ He didn’t get the role but I was proud of how well my team handled it. 👏🏽

Had a guy chase me down the street to a job interview at a dock bar. He was mad I passed him going 20 mph. Chased me down the dock, into the restaurant and announced to everyone in there that “you should not hire this girl because she drives like a maniac”
…….. bruh

I’m Puerto Rican but have been told I sound Caucasian over the phone. In 2000, I was relocating from NY to DC/MD area. I answered an ad & had a great 1-hr long phone interview with the owner of the company. She really liked me & thought I’d be a great fit. She will fly out from home office in TX to meet me in DC to finalize everything.

The look on this woman’s face when I introduced myself was priceless! Shock, anger, horror. She rescinded the offer and couldn’t get me out fast enough!

I interviewed a guy for a government job. He wore a hoodie and a baseball cap. There was a lengthy pause between questions (we have to take a lot of notes)... The man started SINGING.

I once went to an interview at a bail bond place. A friend of mine set it up. It was like 90 minutes of me sitting in his manager’s office as this guy went on a c*ked-out rant. I think he asked me maybe 2 questions, I barely had to talk because he did all the talking for me. Honestly kind of expected him to pull a g*n out at some point.

Turns out the guy really liked me and wanted to bring me on. The feeling was not mutual.

Once watched an old guy dry off his car that he just washed with an electric leaf blower.

Cutting pizza with scissors instead of a pizza slicer.

I used to use a small, flexible bucket to plunge a clogged drain at a kitchen job by putting it upside down over the drain, holding it in place with my thumbs, and squeezing the sides until it started draining. The sink would clog nightly and either there was never a plunger in the first place or it was missing the entire time I worked there. One of the supervisors caught me and was mildly impressed.

“I can smoke all I want, just not the first one” helped me quit.

The pythagorean theorem. It’s just stupid math, but somehow it works

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

it’s like something a five year old would come up with.

Singing a nursery rhyme-type tune to remember the alphabet.

Me not knowing my times tables past 6x6

“6x6 is 36, plus 6”

“6 is made up of a 4 and a 2”

“6 plus 4 is 10, so now the total is 40, plus that 2 is 42”

I’ve been doing this for so long that you’d think I’d know by now that 6x7 is 42. But no.

I can literally do some Algebra II equations in my head- no problem, but still don’t know my times tables.

Restarting something to get it to work.

I once used one of those drinking bird toys to keep a motion detector from turning the office lights off.

Fake security cameras for a fraction of the cost of real security cameras but with a huge decrease in theft or vandalism.