When an applicant is asked "Have you ever been terminated at anytime in your life?" How does the interviewer tell whether the applicant is lying when they say they haven't? Do interviewers simply assume that EVERYONE has been terminated at some point?
How do they tell the liars apart from the truthers?
Last time I was asked this question was 2015 in a Syndeo temp agency interview for a position at the Norcraft cabinet factory, so I was young and inexperienced. I said I wasn't, and that the temp job that ended in July 2009 was a youth summer opportunity with a preset contract end date, so that may or may not be considered a termination depending on who interprets that reason for leaving.
She just stood up, looked sullen, and gave a very soft handshake without much grip. She didn't even ask the question that ALL other interviewers normally ask: "Do you have any questions?"
And then there was no follow-up. It was probably for the better because I have anxiety around table saws. I don't like to get an appendage cut off by any of them. I feel safer as a delivery driver anyway.
How did she likely tell apart a liar from a truthteller? I didn't want to disclose the time I temped at Footlocker Distribution Center for Manpower for only one day due to "not getting the full grasp" of the position. I hated the repetition of unloading boxes from a truck trailer all day and evening without the ability to listen to music or audiobooks.
I didn't like various types of factory jobs anyway, and any other job with extreme repetition. The more I like a job, the better I'll do in it.
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