What are some of the weirdest questions you were asked during job interviews?

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1. “Are you in a satanist cult?”

   It was a religious institution and they had an issue with that in the past, so the question was actually kind of appropriate? Still weird though.

2. “Are you in a relationship?”

   I was far too confused and nervous to confront them about it, but obviously I steered clear from that place.

3. Who is your hero?

   You mean batman or spiderman? Do I aspire to be Rosa Parks? Stormy Daniels?

   I am my own effing hero.

4. Them: Do you know how to use a computer?

   Me: Uh, yeah?

   Them: What’s the difference between hardware and software?

   Me: Hardware is physical components like the ram and motherboard, software programs, and applications installed on the computer.

   Them: Okay, name a few pieces of hardware and what they do.

   This went on for a long time, btw the interview was for a position that had literally Zero to do with computers

5. “Will you have more children?”

   “No, not right now anyway”

   “Really, are you sure? Your still quite young and married…”

   “Umm…what?”

   This was 13 years ago: I divorced a few years later and never had more kids worked my ass off at another job to improve their processes. Sexism at its finest brought to you by a female lawyer in her 30s no less. Someone who should have known better then to ask those kinds of questions.

6. Pizza Hut asked me “if you were an animal what would you be?”

7. ‘Do you always dress like that or do you have normal clothes as well?’

   I was wearing a over the knee flown black dress with sleeves, no cleavage, not form fitting and it was a fucking hot summer.

   I left right then and there.

8. If I ever cheated on someone and if I’m currently in a relationship..

9. For a project that provided educational programs to people that were incarcerated: “What would you do if a prisoner told you they were in love with you?”

10. Are you aware of laws on working hour limitations for this job? (You cannot legally do the job more than 16 hours straight- which happened frequently there)

    Do you have any other obligations or habits in your life currently that could prevent you from coming in to work on short notice? (Assuming they mean have kids or would get inebriated)

    Oh do you know —-? Ah, you had the same last name so I was curious haha. Related to —? I graduated with their sibling. (Essentially asking if I was related)

    All of these things I didn’t connect the dots of “asking without asking” legal tricks until much later.