How not to act during a job interview
We've all been on job interviews at one point or another. We've all tried to impress the hiring manager with our temperament and abilities. A Des Moines woman just showed how you shouldn't act during an interview by not only arguing with the manager but also by allegedly assaulting her, according to Seattle Police.
And she was about to get the job.
On Friday, a 40-year-old Des Moines woman went to the Pacific Northwest Ballet office at Seattle Center in search of a job. The 51-year-old manager tells Seattle Police she was getting ready to hire the applicant when the woman said she wanted to take some of the application paperwork downtown to have a friend look at it.
This apparently spooked the hiring manager who expressed second thoughts. The two stepped outside the office where according to the police report the applicant became verbally abusive. Next, she started swinging her arms wildly at the manager, landing up to six blows to the victim's arm and torso. The victim managed to fight off the applicant, get back into her office and call police.
Officers arrived and arrested the suspect. She's been booked in the King County Jail for assault.
Comments from our readers
Hmmm. Was the lady there applying for a real job? Probably not, I'll bet she was applying for one of those minimum wage fund raising jobs that promise a lot more than they deliver. Maybe she smelled a rat in the wood pile. Why would the hiring manager care who looked at the application paperwork? It's certainly not ok to smack someone. That said, I sense this was a case of frustration by someone previously burned by an employer promising great pay but never delivering.
Posted by: jim | February 5, 2008 12:43 AM
She's sounds so desperate. The toll of job hunting probably took its toll on her and she cracked. Temporarily insane over job prosepcts...yeah, that's it....
Can we all see ourselves in this situation?---not to this degree, but so frustrated that we might go out to the parking lot, call someone, and vent for 10 minutes about it?
Posted by: The Eagles | February 5, 2008 8:21 AM
Maybe she is just a psychopath.
Posted by: Rick | February 5, 2008 9:46 AM
well, like jim said. i wonder what the job was about. and why would the paperwork create such a reaction?
Posted by: ben | February 6, 2008 6:38 PM