#10: Drinking Water is Cool
This has to be one of the weirdest interview stories we’ve heard in recent memory. This person was chastised for bringing their own reusable water bottle to an interview. To top it all off, they said they were telling them this because they wanted to be “helpful” and they “liked them” so much.
The interviewer didn’t like them enough to hire them, evidently, but wanted to be congratulated for the oh-so-helpful feedback. Bringing a reusable water bottle seems like such a non-issue, and this storyteller felt the same way. After that ridiculous incident, they started bringing their water bottle to every single interview as a sort of litmus test. Who would want to work at a place that knit-picks like that?