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I've been out of work for a while. I had been laid off a little over a year ago; I've been doing part time bits here and there, but a full-time position would be something that would make life a whole lot easier. So last week I got called out of the blue by a temp agency with whom I've done business before. (In the other direction: needed someone to cover me when I had to take a day off.) They had a possible full-time permanent position, and am I interested? 
Betcher ass I'm interested.
What are you, kidding?
So I sent them my current resume. (The one they had on file is several years out of date.) They said they'd call me back.
Fast forward to yesterday. A recruiter calls me back (not the one that called me last week: that one deals with candidates, this one deals with employers). She tells me about the prospective employer; the neighborhood his store is in, what kind of pharmacist he's looking for, etc. She asks me if I can do a phone interview tomorrow morning at 10:30 (i.e. today).
Sure, I can do that. Better in some ways than in-person, because if I get stumped I can look up stuff on the computer while I'm talking. (although I'd need a quieter keyboard, or he'd know I'm cribbing...) She sets up the appointment, and we sign off, me thanking her profusely.
This morning at 10:06, the guy calls. He says "We're scheduled for a conference call, but can we make it for 11:00 instead?" Fine with me.
I spend the interim boning up on what to say. I don't do too well with interviews: I tend to freeze up, and as shadowball pointed out, colleges really don't teach you how to do interviews. Also pulled up a copy of an application that I'd filled out for A & Poo Feed Stores (which I'd never heard anything back on) for examples of "Tell me about how you coped with a difficult situation" and similar.
And I wait.
11:30 the phone rings. It's him. Of course the first question is "Tell me a little bit about yourself." Of course it all goes right out of my head. After maybe three minutes of trying to answer this, I realise I'm talking into a dead phone.
I look up the number on the caller-ID and call him back (from my cell phone, just in case the problem was at my landline). It goes straight to voicemail.
Great, his phone battery must have run out. I leave him a detailed message, like it says. I try again in a few minutes, this time I get through to him. He says "Sorry, we must have gotten cut off. Can I call you back in 20 minutes?" OK, fine, whatever. That was 11:35.
Cue crickets chirping for three hours.
2:36 I finally get tired of waiting and call him back. He says, "Oh, [my real name]. Can I call you back in ten minutes?"
I tell him I have to go to work now, and maybe it would be better to reschedule this for tomorrow morning; he agrees to this.
So now I have all the anticipation to do all over again. I started to wonder about that dropped call, though... did he get tired of my fumphering and just hang up on me, pretending it was a disconnection?
I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning. Wish me luck, all.
Betcher ass I'm interested.
What are you, kidding?So I sent them my current resume. (The one they had on file is several years out of date.) They said they'd call me back.
Fast forward to yesterday. A recruiter calls me back (not the one that called me last week: that one deals with candidates, this one deals with employers). She tells me about the prospective employer; the neighborhood his store is in, what kind of pharmacist he's looking for, etc. She asks me if I can do a phone interview tomorrow morning at 10:30 (i.e. today).
Sure, I can do that. Better in some ways than in-person, because if I get stumped I can look up stuff on the computer while I'm talking. (although I'd need a quieter keyboard, or he'd know I'm cribbing...) She sets up the appointment, and we sign off, me thanking her profusely.
This morning at 10:06, the guy calls. He says "We're scheduled for a conference call, but can we make it for 11:00 instead?" Fine with me.
I spend the interim boning up on what to say. I don't do too well with interviews: I tend to freeze up, and as shadowball pointed out, colleges really don't teach you how to do interviews. Also pulled up a copy of an application that I'd filled out for A & Poo Feed Stores (which I'd never heard anything back on) for examples of "Tell me about how you coped with a difficult situation" and similar.
And I wait.
11:30 the phone rings. It's him. Of course the first question is "Tell me a little bit about yourself." Of course it all goes right out of my head. After maybe three minutes of trying to answer this, I realise I'm talking into a dead phone.
I look up the number on the caller-ID and call him back (from my cell phone, just in case the problem was at my landline). It goes straight to voicemail.
Great, his phone battery must have run out. I leave him a detailed message, like it says. I try again in a few minutes, this time I get through to him. He says "Sorry, we must have gotten cut off. Can I call you back in 20 minutes?" OK, fine, whatever. That was 11:35.
Cue crickets chirping for three hours.
2:36 I finally get tired of waiting and call him back. He says, "Oh, [my real name]. Can I call you back in ten minutes?"
I tell him I have to go to work now, and maybe it would be better to reschedule this for tomorrow morning; he agrees to this.
So now I have all the anticipation to do all over again. I started to wonder about that dropped call, though... did he get tired of my fumphering and just hang up on me, pretending it was a disconnection?
I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning. Wish me luck, all.
As this job is on the other side of the Hudson from me and not that easily accessible by public transport, this is a factor.) 
Probably not the greatest idea, to get snarky during an interview, but that's too good a line to pass up ...
Your potential boss obviously had no sense of humour.
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