No, I am not looking for work. No, I am not hiring people.
A couple of good friends were recently on the job market and one updated his LinkedIn profile, causing a notification of same to come to me and I poked around on that site for a while this morning in between pager calls.
I saw a new-to-me feature on LinkedIn where you can ask or answer questions. One of the ones that I looked in had to do with the “toughest HR interview question you ever had”. This one stood out :
If I crumple up this sheet of paper in front of me and stuffed it into my empty coffee mug - Give me 2 ways off getting it out without using your hands.
The respondents answers were along the lines of chopsticks and knocking the cup onto the floor.
Hmm. What would I have said?
I think those of you that know me would agree that my approach would have been similar to the above : finesse then when that failed, use force.
Perhaps paperclips bent to form hooks, followed by dumping hot coffee in to make it heavy/wet and shaking the cup violently. If there was no coffee? Well if you insist … (unzip) (pee) (zip)
Teeth. And then… ask someone else to do it.
Lori Olson
April 3rd, 2008