Does a spectacular failure in an oxford uni interview count?
Not strictly a job interview, but I’m sure it affected my employability. I was at the world-famous Oxford University, interviewing for a place on the Physics course, and I was the first to be interviewed by Dr Brooker. I’d been warned about Dr Brooker by the student looking after us – “do NOT attempt to bond with him!” she said. “He has NO sense of humour – don’t even try!”. Righto, I thought. Off I went to to an hour of abject torture – I’ve never felt so out-of-my-depth before or since. When I got back to the communal room, I opened the door, a broken man. “How was it?” someone asked. I immediately launched into a rant about the perverse evil of Dr Brooker, including an in-depth discussion of his satanic chicken-buggering tendencies, and a graphic description of the images in my head of him buggering a tesco’s frozen chicken behind his desk and dancing naked around vestal virgins on the hillside. I thought it was actually quite funny… No-one laughed. They just stared open-mouthed.
