I'm suprise some of you here really think the thread starter really should follow what the interviewer said.

1. Alot HR know nothing and only know how to shoot people with stupid questions such as "r u tahan mati", "Can u work 24 hours not stop for 2 weeks?". Any professional trained HR would know this is not a proper question, if you want to know how to properly asking interview question there are plenty of HR book and websites to refer. So basically there is no excuse don't know how to properly ask questions. I seriously suggest you don't take this company offer, a company that even don't know how to manage and hire HR people sure is not a good sign at all. And next time, you don't have to entertain stupid questions, if anyone ask you stupid questions, just answer back dumb answers, usually this will satisfy them pretty good cause they also don't know what is the actual answer.

2. During interview we should wear properly but should not over-emphasize on it. Wearing a tie does not make you a better employee, choose not to breast-feeding doesn't make you a bad mother, wearing Nike won't make you an excellent athlete, and put Armani on your body doesn't turn you into hunk. So stop materialize people! Wearing properly during work is consider a polite and good habbit but choose not to doesn't mean this person is evil and unprofessional.

Furthermore, what you wear also should ease for your work, I'm a programmer I can tell you I can't do my work if I'm wearing long sleeve, well if the company don't mind hiring me sit there to show off long sleeve and pay me salary, I really wouldn't mind. Do they know Microsoft and Google head office's staffs are wearing quite casual only (T-shirt and jean), but that doesn't make them a lousy company is it? Further more, do they know this is Malaysia, not US or Europe, why they force our nation wear something that is not belong to our climate? No wonder people always look down at us, to them we are nothing much of blind slaves who even willing to wear something not suit our climate at all in order to please those foreigners. When will people start realize the most important thing we go to work is to finish our job professionally instead become an eye candy to those dog of western culture?



3. Since young I already know wearing black leather shoe with black sock eventhough most of my classmates and friend never realize that and wear all sort of color especially white sock ... But I never go around them and say: "Wah ... you wear wrong sock, haiz ... what a poor creature, I think I can't continue be friend with you since you can't even properly presenting yourself!". jinyee80, I think your boss seriously need to take some EQ course and improve his IQ as well. If wearing a wrong sock won't make a person to be bad then wearing wrong salso won't make a presentation become bad either. Does he educated enough to know a proper and polite way is to approach that guy after the presentation and suggest him the proper dress code. Dress code is a personal habbit so why is someone dumb enough to relate it to prefessional work performance? I hope your boss next time won't pointing at the drinking machine and scolding this drink water doesn't meet the ISO:9000 standard and this will lower your company public image, or refuse to take a cab because the driver is a smoker, which your boss firmly believe a person who can't manage of his health will also not be able to manage driving a cab either.

Seriously, most of the important and busy persons wear very casual only, cause they have alot more important things to do. An example would be Bill Gates who only wearing plastic watch, I hope your boss won't scolding Mr Gates for having such a low standard and unprofossional dress code and refuse to cooperate with him because obviously Mr Gates can't even present himself properly for Micrososft.

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This post has been edited by ReWeR: Jul 15 2006, 07:00 PM

Any proper trained HR also won't ask people 'r u tahan mati?'. Obviously he/she is seriously asking people work 24/7 non-stop. Because this can show their superiority. Long time ago I heard in LYN someone go interview and the interviewer keep asking, if company give you very low salary will you quit? Why would a HR interesting in this kind of stupid question? They seem forgot HR responsibility is to hire the best candidate for the post instead go around asking "r u wearing red underwear? coz our boss dun like red undies!"

These people are absolute empty in their head, they got nothing better to do so they ask all sort of weird questions that they think is 'tough' and 'challenged', they feel happy if people unable to answer their stupid questions, this can prove to their boss they are screening people with a lot challenge. Guys (or gals) when you go working you'll understand that these kind of people are everywhere.

actually there are jobs that need to non-stop no sleep to work 2 weeks or few months, but those job's paid is around rm10k per day. If he able to give that price I'm sure many people are willing to work for him.

my lecturer always tell me someone who fail to plan is to plan to fail. A student or manager that fail to plan their schedule should not put all the blame on others! All my good result classmates never burn midnight oil during exam or rushing projects. Cause they all prepare long ago and never let themselves into those shitty situation where need to non-sleep 2 weeks. Only lousy students/managers will rush projects for whole month non-sleep one. Please learn that you have no obligation to bear other ppl mistake unless you are volunteer or the pay is ok for you.