Oh, interviews, right?

Boy, do we love an interview.

And I'm sure the HR professionals here, we have those tragic, intense, insane interview stories where we're interviewing other people, right? Of course, of course. But what about yourself? Interviewing yourself? No, no, no, not interviewing yourself. I mean, you know, I guess you could, right? But I don't know that's going to go anywhere. But when you yourself are the candidate. Yeah. Right? I mean, I've had probably hundreds. It sounds like I can't keep a job. Maybe I can't. I don't know that's true. But I've had hundreds of interviews, right? Because for whatever reason, for HR positions, you have to like 50,000 interviews. Okay. Can you read the resume? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Final step. Final step. Literally. Final step. my eyes. It was like eight months later. Make sure you're a cultural fit. Oh, exactly God. Oh, my God. Final step. Literally, final step. My, ah, so it's like eight months later.

Oh, exactly. Yeah. Cultural fin out. Okay. Yeah. All right. You're welcome. Oh, my God. But anyway, so it's not about, I know, so it's not about that. But one of my craziest, get this shit. All right. So I meet with the CEO and we hit it off.

Everything's fine.

And then he's like, okay, well, it's time for the next interview.

And I'm like, oh, okay.

So, you know, we stand up from his office and he escorts me to the boardroom, his boardroom.

And I think, oh, I'm probably meeting with the CFO, whatever.

Yeah.

I'm meeting with like two people, one other person.

He didn't tell me, and I didn't ask. Which seems like, well, it's interesting. Stop, we can be surprised. You know, so no formal agenda. So pro tip, you know, maybe let people know who they're going to be interviewing. And I had asked, I had asked, but okay, I didn't get that. They weren't prepared or whatever. No problem. No problem. Every place is different. You're mentally noting it as the candidate, right?

You're always accepting, right?'t get that. They weren't prepared or whatever. No problem. No problem. Every place is different. You're mentally noting it as the candidate, right? Right. This is fine.

This is all normal. Can't ask questions. Exactly. Because then as an HR professional, I always think, I'll fix this. Yep. Like, you know, so I'm always like, oh, I'll just fix this. So let me see the, Let me get the real, like, experience.

Yeah.

Who am I really interviewing with?

Yeah.

So then I can go and change it and make a better, duh.

So anyways, he's like, well, let's go to the next interview. I'm not even over exaggerating. And I know I do that a lot, but I'm not even over exaggerating when he opens the boardroom. And the boardroom was shaped like a you, right? So like big, like a big you shaped, you know, sort of not the long table,

but I walk in there. There's 30 people in that room. I am not kidding. I had a firing squad

interview. Oh, no. Literally. Oh, my God. No, there was an auditorium that was set up like a freaking dissertation to be interviewed for something that obviously didn't pay enough for that bullshit. You know what I mean? Like a firing squad interview. So I'm like, okay. Like, you know, like I'm okay. I can pretend to be an extrovert. You know, so it's like I walk in there and I have to do all the introductions.

I'm going around, acting all professional.

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