Had a telephone interview today and decided to use the old " My main weakness is that I tend to get bogged down in details but i'm making a real effort at that" Worked an absolute treat, much appreciated Fry
The Restaurant Jupitus is talking about could be Wong Kei`s . when 3 of us went there they moved someone to another table and told someone else"You move up you take up too much room" great food and service so rude its funny.
I once wrote two answers to that question for an application to Toys R Us. One serious, one facetious. "It has been my life-long dream to bring joy to the hearts of small children" was how it started.
Thanks :P And I can say with some certainty, the key to getting a job you like is to be very clear what you want, and to pursue it until you get it. Don't let yourself settle into a routine with something you don't like. Do whatever you can to improve your odds of getting the job, in my case, I signed on as a volunteer with a team making a game. It looked fantastic on my CV and got me a lot of interviews, but didn't get me any money. You have to show your interest and skillset beyond just the CV
He's right. Googled Wong Kei; it has its own wiki entry, and a number of articles written about its rude staff. Also it looks absolutely HUGE, wikipedia says it seats 500. A testament to the British fondness for no-nonsense bluntness.
"Why do you think you are the best person for the job?" "Well... because I'm fat. With the measly wage you are going to put me on, I will be able to buy clothes, pay my housing, bills, etc. all the same as the thin person out there, BUT, I can economise myself to also afford the vast amounts of food I need to maintain this figure of mine. Therefore, I am moneywise, and I can apply that same quality to this company".
Yeah, can we end this? Because what I LOVE is getting email notifications whenever someone throws a petty insult. If you want to comment about this video, cool. Otherwise, let's keep the the religion war were it belongs, in the Middle East! ;D
Interviewer: "What is your weakness" Me: "Honesty" Interviewer: "I don't think that honesty is really a weakness." Me: "I don't give a fuck what you think"
I use to eat there often when I worked in Soho. I once asked for a beer whilst deciding what to order, but was abruptly told 'YOU CAN HAVE BEER WHEN YOU GET YOUR FOOD'
[cont] so take up extra stuff related to what you want to do. If you want to be an architect, make 3D models in Blender or out of card or somesuch, post up pics on a blog. If you want to be an artist....well, bad idea, it's a flooded market, but you'd have to REALLY stand out from the crowd. Pick something you like, specialise in it as much as possible. Make it so you're miles better than anyone else at that, then apply to jobs that want that skill. My speciality is 3D vectors and rotations...
I spent a long time in New York, and not once did a shop keeper say 'thank you' to me. On several occasions not even eye contact or words were exchanged. Even to tell me how much change I was getting back. Contrast to that though, in Nevada everyone was very polite. People would even come up to me in the street and talk to me because they heard my British accent and would like to know why I was in their town.
I remember in one of my med school interviews they asked me a question about big mac consumption in Australia. Similar sort of thing to the piano tuner question posed here where they just want to see your reasoning to work out an answer.
I pretty much did the same when in my part-time job at a pub, I made it quite clear I was there for the money, but I got on quite well with my co-workers and boss, so I was happy to say that if I hadn't gotten on with them, I'd probably have found work elsewhere... thing is though, if I had been surly and/or given minimum effort, they may well have just found someone more enthusiastic to do it. it's an employer's market at the moment. I didn't have to be enthusiastic, but it helped a lot.
Trouble is, a lot of people my age having grown up watching American TV shows have started to think that a tip is mandatory. I tip if I've really enjoyed myself and they have contributed to this by doing more than just their job.
David's comment on British Customer service is EXACTLY how I feel. I love it. I love it when I see Americans in this country horrified by the way they're treated in shops and restaurants. I think I would be disturbed by American service.
Yes, I used to go end of the 90s/early noughties. Fantastic food, reasonable prices, rudest waiting staff you've ever come across. I went again and again!
I agree with the whole thing about interpersonal skills. There is so much crap floating around about the best things to say in interviews, but the thing is, they actually work. Whereas, if I say "I'm quite smart and learn things quickly", which are two of the best qualities one can have when starting a new job, you get turned over. You can't be honest and act naturally in a job interview, because the employers believe all this shit about interpersonal skills.
You'd love this country then. It's considered a miracle if shop clerks even look up at you when you're in there. They've got nothing but contempt for you, and they don't even try to hide it.
As an American, It bothers me too. XD I also hate it from the other side. I hate having to pretend I REALLY care about your day and I SO want to help you. Please please please! Most of the time I'm counting the minutes until I can go home. It's a crappy job ad I shouldn't HAVE to pretend otherwise.
fortunately, I've now gotten a full-time job as a video-games developer :P so I no longer need to even remotely begin to pretend that I'm enjoying what I'm doing..because I am :P But I guess I'm one of the lucky ones (or alternately, one with the skill, intelligence and knowledge and minimum experience required to do the job I actually -want- to do)
If an interviewer falls asleep midway through then the best thing to do is wake them up by thanking them for the job offer and asking when they would like you to start :')
You're thinking of Terry Gilliam, an American who ate his meat in an American style and as Cleese recalls, Donald Sinclair wandered over, stared at him and then declared "We don't eat like that in this country!"
I have a feeling Phil is talking about Mr Wu's on Wardour Street. It is a brilliant experience . I advise going at around 4am after a night of clubbing because the staff really come into their own when they are confronted with customers who are absolutely trashed.
Generally, if you go into a restaurant or pub in Britain, you won't get service like that. My guess? Wong Kei realised people were coming to them for the hilarity and novelty of a waiter being rude and are now hamming it up.
Quite right,I could not recall his name(T Gilliam)at the time so I Thank you for the reminder and I did not know that John Cleese had named the Hotelier(or do you know this because you live in Torquay) at any time so I did not know this but I will try to remember it,I truly mean it when I say Thank you for the Info`...
When I went over to America for the only time in my life, I was disturbed at the friendliness of shop staff. 'Hi, how are you? Did you find everything OK?' You do genuinely want them to just shut up and take your money.
It must be Wong Kei...they through cutlery at my brother as he asked for it coz he couldn't use chopsticks....The food is excellent, and the place is like a comedy show..love it!!!!
Basically, to "play it safe", anything used to prepare pork with shouldn't be used to prepare Halal food with. You'll never know if there's still a bit left on it.
For your information, the restaurant in Wardour street has to be 'wonkeys' (or words to that effect. ED. Wong Kei). It really was that rude...and fantastic - we used to go regularly just for the crack...and the food, which was excellent.
I love Wong Kei. Whenever I go to England I have to visit there. True they are rude and I go there and I just enjoy seeing people get pissed off when they are treated rudely by the staff. A few tips- Dont ask for a menu, or whats good, or for eating utensils. If you go with your partner dont expect to sit with them at a romantic table for two. However the food is outstanding and cheap.
I've been to Wong Kei's so many times! Whenever i go back to the UK I always eat there with my friends! Oddly enough, we've never had anything that bad xD The worst we got was that our waiter just practically ignored us
Another good one if you really don't want the job is to show up with an eyepatch, sharpie beard and a stuffed parrot. Answer all questions simply with "yarr" and/or threatening to keelhaul them.
That`s a very short part of how the Python team were treated by the Manager/Owner of a small Hotel in Torquay when Python were filming there,The manager would complain about how they ate their meals amongst other things...
That is a very short part of the truth about the Hotelier (Manager/Owner) of the small Hotel that the Python crew used when they were in Torquay filming,He used to complain about the way guests ate amongst other things.....
I Have done it... I have found a youtube video with no dislikes.... come forth children, this is something on the Internet that not one troll has seen.
Indeed, and so does any other supermarket. If Morrisons was the only place out of all the major markets to sell cigarettes, I can re-assure you that they would get affiliated with use of nicotine.
in an interview for Ikea they ask "what is your favourite chair?" turns out there’s no right or wrong answer it's the speed with which you answer, supposedly to weedle out all the useless indecisive people.
I suppose re the sleeping interviewer you could loudly ask, "ARE YOU OKAY?" in the event it was a medical thing - heart attack, stroke, etc. and be perfectly justified, showing concern as well as embarrassing the living shit out of said interviewer
Oh my god! Is that the one they're talking about?! I've eaten there! My parents used to go when they were studying in London as well, back when it was a tiny, one-room seats-20 place.
"Do you have kids" I can understand, but it's really none of their business whether or not you plan to have kids in the future. That's a personal matter.
Given that the poster in question managed to post a comment at all would suggest he's in the western world (also that he converted, rather than being born into it). You may have noticed, but the traditionally negative sides of Islam don't really happen over here. Sure, there's some dipshits, but the vast majority are sensible people. My point here is that he converted to ISLAM, not the pseudoreligion used to control the middle east.
John Cleese once told a wonderful story about the man who was the inspiration for Bazil Fawlty. He said he had this exchange with him. Guest: Excuse me Manager: Oh what?! Guest: Could you call me a taxi? Manager: ... Call you a taxi? Guest: You know... call me a taxi... Manager: (Sighs) Oh fine.
I've been lucky so far in that I've got into a medical degree and haven't had to apply for a crap job but if the degree doesn't work out then I'm fucked. I just can't pretend that my life's ambition is to make customers happy through the neat arrangement of piles of jeans. I would desperately want to say "I want this job because the hours are ok, you seem alright to work for and you should give it to me because I can be polite and follow the rules", I mean what's wrong with that?
They don't want to associate themselves with smokers as this may lower their customer base that will automatically assign the image of Morrisons to someone excessively using nicotine based products. It seems logical to place such question in an application form.
Those "unsuitable questions" are exactly those employer NEEDS to have answered :-) - do you have or are you planning to have kids, are you foreigner, do you smoke ipso facto will you be ill often....
