Poodle, only you could ever recount such stories in this way. Well done for making the panel feel massive uneasy.
I was on such a panel one day. My boss (area manager) the GM and myself. My boss drops the c bomb in front of the GM, myself and the prospective new hire. I had no words, and anticipated the GM going bananas like he has found his favourite power tool in the wet grass overnight after it’s rained, for the 5th time that week. He was amazingly calm and used that as an example when mentoring me years later about not losing it over one of my staff slacking off and blatantly using tinder on work time. “No we cannot throw staff phones at walls, even if it is company property. I wanted to throw a chair that day”
C bomb boss wasn’t with the group much longer after that disastrous interview. The head of legal found him to be a corporate psychopath and gave him 45 seconds to leave the property. The interviews were out of this world in the lead up, the head of legal sits me down “this is a privileged conversation between you, myself and the board”. I had been giving him multiple examples of all 10 criteria work safe deemed attributes of corporate psychopath behaviour when he just asked for my list with a smile.
The shit hit the fan again a month or so later when a customer filed a bullying report with the ACCC about the now gone ex boss after he had already been booted. The accc’s communication was something like “Err we don’t think there is much we can do here but advise you of the matter and let you deal with it internally”. Was my job to take the customer to dinner nightly and give him two weeks of free labour. Had a ball.
LTIH. Spilt GL-5 differential oil. God I hate the smell. Hideous stuff.