I had an interview today for a new job, Intensive Care Staff Nurse.  It has been a bad day.......

I had a haircut for it three days ago, it went wrong.  I look like a neo-nazi it's so short.

My only white shirt had to be bleached and even after washing it three times it still smells.

I overslept this morning and woke up half an hour before the interview, I had to cycle in with my suit stuffed into a back pack and get changed at work.  The humidity in east anglia today (thunderstorm imminant) meant that when I arrived for the interview five minutes late in a pinstripe wool suit I was perspiring heavily and giving off the faint odour of bleach.

I then lost it completely in the interview and came across as a TOTAL dick head.

They will let me know that I failed to get the job on Friday.

The moral of the sorry tale.  Don't EVER oversleep for an interview.

Will

THere are two ways of looking at it -

You got dealt today a case of lemons - Murphy's Law overrode all other considerations  ...  Sit back, make a tall, cool glass of lemonade ...

You never really know how employers are going to view you ... More important - are you capable in your skills and abilities to do the job?  You did come in presentable, which means you made an effort.

On the other hand, I hope that sometime in the future you can sit back (with that glass of lemonade - or equivalent refreshment) and have a chuckle at the day's events. 

Just reading your description had me laughing as I imagined a harried bald headed youngster pedalling furiously with a bag flopping behind in the wind while beads of sweat plop off ... and to complete the cartoon moment, a bird gagging as you go by and the stench of bleach and sweat hits it....

Of course, I do have a somewhat offbeat sense of humor.....

i hope it all works out for you will..
i have been there with the referance without boss knowing, i was looking into a job and a day after putting my application in at this other job, my boss comes upto me and says you know it would be nice to be told by you your leaving before your new job tells me, i was like oh s**t (i was going to tell him that lunch time)
that was a long day thats for sure.
anyway i am sure it'll work out all for the best.
and how can someone whos dying be violent? i would like to see that must make for some interesting albeit disturbing viewing

ouch, now i see, must take a lot of patience to stay in that job

no probs:) i think i worded my post wrong really. and i am sorry, i actually have alot of respect for you and that job as i cant imagine the pressure it must put on you.

That's another way of putting a good "spin" on it ...  Now it begs the question - what if Smoke2much is "overqualified" ????

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Hey up Will, have a pint and chill. Look at it this way if you were meant to get the job then you will! If not then there is something better around the corner.
As you know my mum was a nurse, so I sympathise with the more demented aspects of working with terminally ill geriatrics, mind you her description of Roald Dahl in a nightgown and wee Willy Winky cap still crack me up (oh and he was so unpleasant to her that she won't allow any of his books in the house!).
Hang in there mate. We've all goofed from time-to-time. I've been hauled up on a number of occassions for being a complete and utter wally! Look on the brightside, at least you had your fly done up during the interview, I can name someone who didn't and was wearing boxer shorts with Snow White and the 7 dwarfs getting it on! And that idiot still managed to get the job. Oh and I still have the boxers

Mark