.............oh.....

[Mamadrae]

RDB stares at me for a few moments with those blank, vacant eyes: ......then why are you behind that desk?!
Me: I'm robbing the place...now bugger off
RDB: ........your not are you!?

I did that to an actual customer once who made the mistake of asking if I worked in a place. I'm standing behind the counter in a shirt with the restaurant logo on it.

C: Do you work here?
Me: Nope. I got a friend in back forcing the owner and his employee to stay quiet and open the safe.
C: ...Your kidding right?
Me: Nope. Now I have a gun back here pointing at you. Gimme your money.

By now the guy is starting to panic and the owner (who I was working with) yelled "MAMADRAE!" from the back which made me cackle.

The guy took it all in stride thankfully but knew better then to ask that question when he came in. Least not to me.

[Lady Legira]

Yorkshire? I'm in the Brighouse area. Anywhere close to you?

Rapscallion

I'm not that far away Raps. I'm in York.

[Leopardmadcat]

Me: Nope. Now I have a gun back here pointing at you. Gimme your money.

Wow... those could very well have been the last words uttered from you. Some people will shoot first and not bother with questions at all!

[blas]

I have to agree with STD, the guy must have read "Business Douche Weekly" and read their advice on how to get what you want. Or maybe he got bored on the toilet and read his wife's copy of Good Housekeeping.

[Titchyboy]

Yorkshire? I'm in the Brighouse area. Anywhere close to you?

I'm in Leeds

[One-Fang]

Make certain to call (or stop by) that law firm and inform them of the bozo's "real life skills" and "people skills".

Somehow I don't think that's really going to be necessary. He's pretty much a walking advert for himself anyway. Just not in the way he was hoping.

If anybody did that slow-talk-as-if-you-are-stupid thing to me on ostensibly coming in for an interview (especially if we weren't hiring at the time, but even if we were), I'd be responding "wellll youuuu didn'ttttt gettttt ittttt. Gettttttttt outttttt!"

[Rapscallion]

Leeds and York! My word - could have a Tykemeet at some point. I'm actually in Leeds tomorrow night for a farewell meal for a colleague. I've got Saturday off next week and the previously arranged event to attend has been cancelled, though I may have something for that instead... Hmmm.

There's the GTG forum further down. Anyone fancy starting a thread?

Rapscallion

[Titchyboy]

Ran into the receptionist from the law firm whilst haveing a smoke break this afternoon - Turns out the guy hadn't phoned up for an interview, he just turned up and she said the nearist he came to being qualified was that he was once in court.
People like that both confuse and worry me

[computeraide]

If it was a slow day I would have taken about 20 minutes to "interview" the guy, but I would have asked lots of nice fake questions. I would have asked if he had any experience with TPS reports and ISO 9000 auditing. At the very end, make him recite the opening monologue from each Law & Order series (original, SVU, CI, AND Trial by Jury).