The Job Interview
I was being interviewed for a job as chef’s assistant, and I could sense that it was going badly.It had started off well, the usual small talk about getting there, the weather, etc, the history of the restaurant, what it was like to work there, and a couple of minutes chatting about my hobby of building model boats. Then, after going over my previous work experience (which at that time amounted to a paper round and the occasional saturday in the local supermarket) he asked me what I knew about chicken.
“Excuse me?”
“Chicken. What do you know about cooking it?”
“Um, nothing really.”
He frowned, and wrote something on his clipboard. “I see. What about beef. What do you know about beef?”
“Nothing,” I muttered.
As he made another mark on his clipboard a realisation came to me- If I wanted to have any chance at all of getting this job, it was time to start lying.
“What about fish? What do you know about fish?”
“Fish? I know everything there is to know about fish! Cooking it, cleaning, cod haddock, sea bass, you name it.” I’m being too enthusiastic, thought as I said it. He’s never going to believe me.
But he did. Two days later I was working in his restaurant.
Of course, two weeks after that it closed down. But that’s another story altogether.
Rivka Jacobs
Pleasant reading, funny in an ironic sort of way, because isn’t that the way it always happens, it seems? How do some people get the jobs they get … by lying of course.
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