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Worst job interview story winner: The polka dot disaster
July 3, 2008

Each month in Off the Clock, our job seeker community section, we host a Share & Win! contest ripe with fabulous prizes and hilarious (and sometimes very embarrassing) stories. In June, we asked you to share your worst job interview stories. When we received your tales of opportunity flushed down the toilet (sometimes literally), we laughed, we cried, we cringed. We also had to take a cold shower and rent a priest afterward... (Read more - and comment!)

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