'Interviewer can't handle the truth': Dude gets denied employment after being brutally honest in an interview

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 29, 2023 6:00 PM EDT

When you've been stuck in the interview process for too long, it starts to get exhausting. Slapping a new smile on everyday, answering the same 3 questions, and thinking of how to spin your greatest weaknesses into positive, work-related gibberish feels futile. Sorry Patricia, my greatest weakness is not my overly strong work ethic… my weakness is an entire box of Little Debbie Shortcake Rolls. After a while, it's irresistible to throw a little spice into an interview just to shake things up and see how it goes. In this case, one man had grown tired with the dull interviewing process and in order to satiate the ravenous appetite of a recruiter, he reluctantly agreed to do an interview with a company he didn't care for. 

Because of his blasé approach, OP found himself in a bit of a pickle, lackadaisically wandering into an employment trap and turning a simple question into lecture. Scroll for the full story of how one man showed his true colors to an interviewer after they asked him the driest, most boring question out there: "Why do you want this job?" …Cue the snarky, brutally honest response. After this, check out this story of a guy whose witty cleverness was actually rewarded when he used sarcasm to get out of an exorbitant hospital bill. 

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    Font - Posted by u/Decent-Photograph391 1 day ago S Interviewer can't handle the truth
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    Font - Years ago I was repeatedly pestered by this recruiter to take a phone interview. It wasn't my dream job, but I reluctantly agreed.
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    Font - The interview started pretty uneventfully. Then the guy asked me "why do you want this job?".
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    Font - I can't be too honest and say "I don't really, but the recruiter would not stop pestering me about doing this interview", so I straight up told him
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    Handwriting - why I would want any job: "so that I can pay my bills".
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    Font - That did not go over well. He ended the interview right then. My recruiter ghosted me as well.
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    Font - First of all, why do interviewers insist on asking these moronic, cliched questions that everyone has heard a thousand times, that
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    Font - only get the same moronic, cliched answers? Second, why is it so offensive to him that I
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    Font - was being totally honest with my answer? Does he really think most people go to a job to "find their passion in life" or some other BS like that?
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    Rectangle - Southern-Beautiful-3 1 day ago · I once answered, "To support myself in the manner in which I have become accustomed, living indoors and eating regularly." I got the job.
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    Font - Mediocre-War-2701 1 day ago That's a good one as it filters out thes t companies where all culture and soul has been stripped out and replaced with corporate drone. Being able to laugh at a dumb joke with management is essential!
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    Font - Southern-Beautiful-3 1 day ago · If they ask, "Describe your dream job," reply with "Bond villain." If they ask why, elaborate on the money, girls and not having to worry about retirement.
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    Font - EddyArchon 22 hr. ago ● It hasn't happened in my last few interviews, but two of my favorite questions always went as follows: "What are your strengths?" "I can deadlift 485lbs."
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    Font - "What are your weaknesses?" "Little Debbie Strawberry Shortcake rolls."
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    Font - woodflizza 19 hr. ago. edited 19 hr. ago ● One time when asked what my best strength was I said "The ability to keep a straight face when asked ridiculous questions" and proceeded to look him in
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    Font - the eye with a serious face. We both started laughing. Got the job, not sure how much that answer helped or worked against me
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    Font - Gliese667 22 hr. ago ● Or the classic "I don't dream about labor" 64 ↓ Reply Share Armored_Violets. 21 hr. ago That's the only answer that comes to my mind anytime I hear or read that question.
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    Font - avatar_of_prometheus. 22 hr. ago Mine is "Intergalactic emperor". I would be a benevolent overlord, I assure you, but I haven't gotten the gig yet.
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    Font - Askduds 1 day ago · Admittedly I already have the job but I have told my boss "I like this job marginally more than I like being homeless"
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    Font - wallyTHEgecko 21 hr. ago. edited 15 hr. ago Some form of "I like being paid and would prefer to earn such pay in a way that is enjoyable/interesting/etc" has always treated me well.
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    Font - kidtykat 22 hr. ago ● Close to what I tend to say and it always gets a laugh! " I rather enjoy food and electricity and having a place to live"
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    Font - sobo_art1 1 day ago · It has always been my lifelong dream to advance society and drive humanity forward into a new golden age by...checks notes... putting flavored sugar water into disposable containers.
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    Font - chineseoctopus · 20 hr. ago They were looking for their Dwight Schrute. Someone passionately motivated by their love for the paper industry.
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    Hand - "He ghosted me
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