5 Signs To Know The Job Will Suck!

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I think that you have the wrong kind of "strange questions" in mind. The ones referred to by the article are not the problem solving or situation handling non-standard questions, but rather questions that subtly imply unusual or uncomfortable working situation.

Such as:
Questions about swearing - The article has a story of someone who was asked a question about his attitudes about swearing (he said, he didn't see anything inherently wrong with it, and swore himself on occasion). prior to a hire. When he got the job, there was swearing everywhere, from official emails to company source code (he was a developer), and to the point where even he found it to be offensive.

Other questions may imply unfavorable working conditions such as extremely long (70+ hour) standard work weeks, excess noise (a killer for aspies), a lot of prying about health information (I had an employer do this. Yuck.), or an excess of company dogma.

I made it far into the interview process where I got a lot of those "strange questions". I was disappointed when I didn't get the job (as unemployment is pretty awful), but looking back, I'm glad I didn't.


I'm now recently and happily employed at a *normal* company that didn't play any games like that.

If the company has too many employee rituals like staff away days or team building exercises etc it usually serves as a distraction from how bad it is to work there.

A friend of mine had to take a urine test on a job right at the interview. The urine tester stood there and watched him pee in the cup(They had a screen there but they could see his head and shoulders). When he finished he went to hand her the cup then "dropped" it on her leg then walked away. Whoopsie. He would have failed the test anyway.

I had to do a job interview when I was 20 for this one store and the interviewer was someone I went to high school with. He was in my gym class my senior year he got beat up by half the gym class when he was caught masterbating in the locker room's bathroom stall. I never hit him but I certainly was laughing and shouting insults with everyone else. He was nervous thru the entire interview and like all other interviews I failed. I could only imagine what that job would have been like if he hired me to get his revenge.

I've actually succeeded in "self-training" that a lot of companies expect (especially small companies who lack the time/resources to fully train an employee). However, I've also fallen flat on my face.

Reason being, it is indeed hard for a person w/ AS to do it. Often times they find themselves trying to pick up a massive weakness in their skill set on the fly, and often times can't figure out the questions to ask to get the assistance they need. Unless you think you have the job skills, or can acquire all of them relatively easy, I'd recommend steering clear of any company that expects mostly self-teaching.

The benefits of a big company is that most of them will provide resources for training. The best thing for career prospects is thriving in a high-visibility position, but if one can't do that w/ a current role, the next best thing is blending and doing well enough to deflect negativity while they search for new work.

You get your name written on a big white board for NOT smiling and that is why you get no raise b/c you didn't do well on your job evaluation. Yeah.....I should have quit

Forget about everything adults told you about lying when you were a child. You're suppose to be fake and pretend you're happy to see those customers. I've experienced the same thing myself and it sucks.

the only thing that was missing was some jerk insisting that I wear "flare"

Here are some more just from personal experience.

6. If your boss tells you “ It is what it is”.

7. When you are handed a roll of tape and told to fix a machine that you shouldn‘t be working on.

8. When you ask your boss a question and his reply is “F**K You!”

9. When OSHA shows up and you are instructed on what you can and can not say.

10. When the company pay’s you not to take the health insurance.

11. When you finally get every thing all fixed up and back online the owner of the company shows up in his brand new Corvette and lay’s you off because the company isn’t making enough money.

Sorry I might of gone off the subject a little.

Here is one I hear a lot being a white guy on a Indian Reservation.


We are a Native American hiring preference employer, but we do hire non-native applicants as necessary to meet manpower needs.

Translation : “ F YOU!” wh***y

Those are great, thanks.

When you get hired right in the middle of the interview.

Or when you get called 3 hours after you get interviewed, and get officially hired, even though that gives no time for a background check.

Happened to me twice. And both jobs sucked.

This happened to me once and yes the job did suck. I didn't stay long.