Managers/H.R. People: What's the WORST applicant you ever came across?

[Accipiter22]

I can easily point to the worst applicant I've ever had apply to a place I was running:

I ran a Cold Stone Creamery for a while, and one night a girl that worked for me, Kristen, said she wanted her friend, Amber, to get a job there, and that the friend was coming in to apply. I said that she'd still have to fill out an application like anyone else.

So the girl comes in that night and starts filling out the application, and Kristen is helping her. They get to the part that asks what type of attitude they think employees should have towards customers. The applicant, Amber, and I had this exchange:

Amber: What should I put for the part on attitude towards customers?
Me: Well I put that you should appear happy, and be polite towards them.
Amber: Is that what you put?
Me: Yup
Amber: Then you're a ****** fagg0t.

At this point I heard a clattering behind me as another employee dropped an ice-cream scoop in shock. The kid I had mopping the eating area froze as well. No one said anything for like 20 seconds...I let the girl finish filling out the application, took it from her, then ripped it in half and threw it in the trash.

can anyone beat that? I mean seriously, Amber KNEW I was the manager, she really did want the job....and she definitely called me a '****** lovely human'

 

[her209]

Maybe she was probing your sexual interests in her?

 

[iRONic]

DVK916

 

[Gibson486]

man.....are people really getting that dumb?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: iRONic
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[SludgeFactory]

Amber sounds like she's going to be a real success in life.

This is pretty random, but I just got around to reading Freakonomics, which has a chapter about names. Guess what was #1 on the list of "most common low-end white girl names" of the 1990's?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Amber sounds like she's going to be a real success in life.

This is pretty random, but I just got around to reading Freakonomics, which has a chapter about names. Guess what was #1 on the list of "most common low-end white girl names" of the 1990's?

Sarah?

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Amber sounds like she's going to be a real success in life.

This is pretty random, but I just got around to reading Freakonomics, which has a chapter about names. Guess what was #1 on the list of "most common low-end white girl names" of the 1990's?

Britney/Brittany?

 

[bwatson283]

i would have taken it from her and riped it up in front of her without having her finish.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: bwatson283
i would have taken it from her and riped it up in front of her without having her finish.

I think it was more insulting to let her spend her time finishing the application first.

 

[Rage187]

you know what they say about girls named Amber.

 

[kranky]

Well, I've had a few oddballs, but nothing to match that story. I can only hope that Amber really DIDN'T want the job but for whatever reason went through the motions of applying.

 

[Phokus]

Accipter22: That's a pretty good (abeit awkward) story... what happened afterwards?

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Rage187
you know what they say about girls named Amber.

Ummm... they get abducted and then get an emergency alert system named after them?

 

[bctbct]

I received an application from a chick who listed stripper as a former job for a postion as a carpenters apprentice.

Although I never saw her I knew she would be a distraction on the jobsite.

Plus my wife would have killed me

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: mugs
Sarah?

heh, no #1 was Amber.

Sarah actually does appear at #6 on his "most common low-income white girl names" list, but also at #1 on "most common middle-income white girl names" list. So it's not nearly as exclusively "low-end" as Amber.

Brittany is #18 among high-end families and #5 among low-end. The author (Levitt) says Britney Spears is really a symptom, not the cause of all these Brittany/Britney/Brittani's running around out there, she was a part of the Brittany explosion.

This was actually the most interesting point of the chapter, he says that rich families go with certain names for a while (like Brittany), then everybody else catches on. Eventually the rich families ditch the name and go with something else. It gradually becomes more "low-end," and eventually falls out of favor. And the cycle repeats. Amber was actually one of the most popular overall names back in 1980, by the 90's it had become "low-end."

I'm not sure what all this proves, and sorry for the thread hijack.

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: iRONic
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[Jadow]

I'll just call him "Mullet Head" he came in all confident and then asked for 20k more than the position offered. The job was listed as "Help Desk" and he came in with his giant mullet and asked for 50k. LOL, got him outta there quick.

 

[michaels]

I saw a guy asking for an application at a parts store once and he was wearing a frickin Marlyn Manson shirt, had a big ass chain on his belt that looked like it could anchor down the Titanic and has piercings all over.

 

[will889]

Either she was a really stupid person - or you gave off a really bad vibe and she straight up didn't like you at all (probably a bit of both). Either way what she did was pretty dumb.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Accipter22: That's a pretty good (abeit awkward) story... what happened afterwards?

Her friend was pissed that I tore up Amber's application, but I didn't care. I was so pissed that I called up the regional manager...he was laughing his ass off. Before I even told him that I tore up the application he says "well you threw the application out as soon as she finished right?"

 

[flunky nassau]

Thanks OP. That story made me LOL at work.

I think it was the randomness of it & the fact that she nonchalantly went back to filling out the application while everyone stood there open-mouthed.

Halarious.

 

[Sphexi]

There was a guy who applied where I work, he seemed to have good references, but when the manager called him to give him a time for an interview, he started yelling and cursing on the phone: apparantly he had knocked over his "roach tray" into his toilet, which he was using while on the phone with his potential employer. She simply hung up on him and never called back.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: flunky nassau
Thanks OP. That story made me LOL at work.

I think it was the randomness of it & the fact that she nonchalantly went back to filling out the application while everyone stood there open-mouthed.

Halarious.

You could've heard a pin drop in the place..and the girl was COMPLETELY oblivious

 

[Sentrosi2121]

A vegan applying to work at KFC. Not as a front counter person, but a cook. How did I know? He put it on his application under hobbies/interests.