Arrogance.
Chutzpah.
A Big Brass Pair.
The pre-interview: I called the recruiter, told him that I was *PERFECT* for the job - if he didn't interview me for the position, he'd be missing out on getting the contract.
The interview: I was five minutes late (unintentionally - had the blue angels fly in front of the I-90 tunnel on my way in, and that ALWAYS backs up traffic.) and so I had nothing to lose. I balls out told the guy, "This is an easy job for me, I love doing this, I love working with people, the last support service job I had at the E.P.A., I can tell you of 5-6 people PER FLOOR who would name their firstborn son after me. (Okay, not that, but I did relate the story of going back to visit a 10-story officespace, thinking to visit 3-4 people, and ending up visiting 3-4 people per floor) Also, the story about making a stripe set on a Compaq Deskpro XL6150 out of some extra 540mb hard drives, an 8-device SCSI cable, and some extra power splitters, incidentally a) totally voiding the warranty on the Deskpro, but at the same time saving something on the order of 400+ man hours during a new system rollout. (backup to computer before stripe set = 1+ hour. Backup after stripe set 10 minutes.)
Now I'm finding out that they never even heard from ANY of my references before they hired me.
Migawd.
Seriously, though, walk into the interview like Lester walked into his performance eval at his company in American Beauty. You are there for one reason - to convince the people that are hiring you You Are God, And God Will Not Be Pleased If You Do Not Hire Him.
Or something like that.
