What A Job Interviewer Says vs. What They Actually Mean

Interviews: It’s like your best friend throwing their kid a first birthday party. You pretty much have to go, but everyone in the room knows that it’s bulls**t. 

Well, it’s a new year and for a lot of ambitious people, that potentially means new jobs. But before you can start that new job, you first have to go through the interview process.

Fast Company has put together some of the more familiar things that interviewers say and matched it up with what those interviewers actually mean.

Things You Can Do At Work, That Aren’t Work, And Still Get Paid

Use the bathroom. Who are they to say you don’t have to go?

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Use the bathroom. Who are they to say you don’t have to go?

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Just stare off into space. And there’s an awful lot of space out there.

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Get some coffee. Sweet, delicious, infinitely-stirred coffee.

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Stare at someone who is staring off into space.

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Get up, stretch your legs! Socialize!

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Mess with people at their desks.

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Stare at someone who is staring at someone who is staring off into space.

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Whatever this is.

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