Being in a professional environment requires a certain kind of conduct. You can’t be too familiar with people and talk to them like they’re your besties. You can’t ask too many personal questions, likehow much they earn, who they voted for in the recent elections, or what they did with their wife last night.Religion, politics, and intimate relationships should automatically be topics people should never breach at work, whether in a job interview or just a casual conversation at lunch. Yet some people still do it. So whena person asked, “What is the most awkward question you’ve been asked in a professional setting?” people hadall sorts of stories.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Being in a professional environment requires a certain kind of conduct. You can’t be too familiar with people and talk to them like they’re your besties. You can’t ask too many personal questions, likehow much they earn, who they voted for in the recent elections, or what they did with their wife last night.
Religion, politics, and intimate relationships should automatically be topics people should never breach at work, whether in a job interview or just a casual conversation at lunch. Yet some people still do it. So whena person asked, “What is the most awkward question you’ve been asked in a professional setting?” people hadall sorts of stories.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
During my interview. I am female. Interviewer was female.“Are you a breeder or non-breeder? Cuz we just hired a non-breeder and I like to keep the department balanced”.
“Does your wife ever bring other women into the bedroom?“Needless to say, it wasn’t a healthy professional environment and I don’t work there anymore.
Less than five minutes into a job interview they aggressively started asking if I was gay or not.
“You and your wife aren’t planning on having kids soon are you? Because the goals we have here … I’m not really sure that would work.“I was younger then, I now know how illegal that question is lol.Was offered a job but turned it down. The place later went on to have many scandals and controversies and is regarded as a complete sh_t place to work.
Old guy 30 years ago: “Do you think the owner is gay? “Me: “No. Why, are you looking for a date? “Old guy: “What? No! “.
Ive lost count how many times random ppl have asked me about my breast implants.(I dont have breast implants).
“Was it planned or an accident?”About my pregnancy. I’m in my 30’s and married. I don’t know why people think this is an appropriate question.
“We want to send you to help with our booth at the Indy 500. Is that something you’d be able to do?…You’ll need to wear a bikini.”I was the director of market research for a nationwide tire trade publication.
In previous role managing hospital unit, was asked the following:Did this employee ask the other employee something about their “bun hole”?Why yes, Employee A did ask Employee B something about their bun hole.I had to give a verbatim description to a chief nursing officer that an ER tech put his finger in a female nurses hair bun, and then employee said that “he couldn’t NOT put his finger in that tiny little hole”It was a low point in people leadership.
Movie sets in the 90’s and early 2000’s were completely different. Everybody said and did whatever popped into their head. Ones I remember: “anybody wanna fk after we’re done?” “dude, is that actress playing the daughter legal?” “can you write a sex scene for me and that blonde girl?” “does anybody have any c*ke?” “you wanna feel my new bbs?”.
“Do you know any gay candidates we can hire and fast?”.
My husband and I used to work in the same department at a hospital. My old charge nurse over headed for me to come to the front office then proceeded to ask me how well endowed my husband is. Mind you, she asked me that in front of my husband and about 7 other employees.
Do you plan to start a relationship with any coworkers and would you use a secret of your boss to blackmail them.
“Why does this chat log just consist of the two of you saying balls to each other for the past two weeks?” I don’t work there anymore. .
“Have you been r*ped or something?” -a girl i was in college with in the medical field and didn’t want her giving me a breast exam.
“I bet you’re one of those quiet guys that f***s like an animal.” On an email on our company server which could be looked at any time, and I’d be surprised if certain words don’t get flagged for HR. Technically a statement but the question was implied. Think she was still married at the time to a guy like 16 years older than her and her at least half that older than me and then later remarried a woman, so while she’s still a friend, I think it’s fair to say I like things less complicated so I politely declined.(Obligatory manly bravado)…of course she was right.Yeah, I can’t pull off manly bravado.
“What would you do if you got to heaven and found out that God is a woman? “–The new HR Manager as I was just trying to fix her printerShe wasn’t around that place very long.
I had a business owner ask me if I was a Christian as the first question of the phone interview.Had I been recording and a horrible human being I would have blackmailed him for the job.
“How would you feed yourself if you lost your job?”I ended up being laid off as well as my whole division.
“Does your husband mind that you make so much more money than him?”.
I was asked - repeatedly - about my sexlife from a co-worker (amongst other things) at work. Went to my boss and she shrugged it off as “you should be flattered…”.
A coworker asked me if I liked having my a*****e licked.
Why do you celebrate Christmas when you are an atheist? Random question from an admin when I mentioned that I was not religious.
Oh, you were in Iraq… did you k*ll anyone?
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I had to explain to my boss, a fully tenured professor, what a furry was after she showed our research group a pic of her cousin who goes to “conferences” in costume.
I use to work in one of the national chain pet stores way back in my very early twenties. Most of the staff of was about the same age as me. Anyways I hear over the intercom that a customer has a question over the phone for reptiles.I pick up the phone and they asked if we had any one eyed snakes. I said we do not, but they said to really check. I said no we don’t try another store. Then they say what about the one in your pants. And that’s when it hit me. My manager was cracking up. It was funny but unprofessional. .
I was working a construction job in a residential area of West Hollywood and a guy(neighbor) came out of home apartment and asked if I was gay, I politely said no, and he asked if I had ever tried it. Again I politely said no, he smiled and said if you ever want to try, I live over there and pointed to his door.
A girl and her mother asked me to join an orgy they were organizing. I was working at Spencer gifts at the time, so I’m stretching the definition of ‘professional setting’ a bit.
When applying for certain clearances you will be asked in great detail about your p**n habits. They try and get you to admit to viewing something illegal or that can be used as blackmail. There’s a classic line of questioning that basically concludes with “how do you know she was over 18? Did you check her ID before you watched the video?” It’s designed to get you flustered and panicked.
Did you learn that in the “streets”.
In an open office my HR director asked me if I’d like to “enter her back passage.“She was referring to the fire escape staircase next to her office, instead of walking up the main stairs.She thought it was hysterical.
You need to lie to our biggest customer, the number one software company in the world, and tell them that the team is twice as big as it really is, and those other developers - good ones - are hard at work in another state. And if the company loses this contract, it’s the only one currently paying, and a hundred people lose their job.And then I sat down with our customer as a 24 year old developer, not manager, just a code monkey. And the program manager took me aside in a disused office, closed the door, sat me down, and asked flat out how many developers were really on the project.So yeah, answering that question, with a hundred jobs - including my own - all alone, a thousand miles from home, strung out from weeks of hundred plus hour work weeks, that’s my vote for hardest.
Do you self pleasure? After I revealed I was asexual.
Can I give you a foot massage? The deputy director of the company told me at an office meeting and my colleagues heard it.
A married woman who works for the same company I work for suggested we should go have a beer and talk about what might “come up” I was so shocked, didn’t say a word.I’m a happily married man who will celebrate 33 years with my wife this year, so needless to say, I was floored. Thankfully, we were on the phone instead of in person. I didn’t tell anyone, but I also have the date and time that occurred.I also made a mental note to call it out if she does it again. It was very inappropriate, I was embarrassed and she shouldn’t have said that.
I applied to a tech company where the application asked who my Waifu was. And the question was required. That was pretty deeply uncomfortable.
“I’m sure my son has no problems listening to you, huh? 😉”By a dad at a parent teacher conference with his wife right there. I was fresh out of college teaching high school.
My subordinate, a young girl a few years out of high school, was working at the front desk and checked in a young mother, carrying her child. This woman was young, maybe a year younger than my employee. And after that, patient was called back to the clinic, she asked me if I believed in abortion. Being a fairly new manager and caught off guard, I said something like I think every woman has the right to choose what happens to her body. And then she asked me my religious beliefs, and that’s when I shut it down.
The manager at my first job asked to borrow my car to go pick up some weed. He offered some as compensation. It was some pretty s****y weed tbh.
My first boss in my field, “why do you want kids if you can’t even take care of yourselves?”Luckily I was on the phone and didn’t hear that or I would have been arrested.
Was being seen for a rash on the hands- probably poison sumac- but after looking she wants me to spread my fingers, but says,” let me see between you legs”Freudian slip? Who know but embarrassing for us both, especially as it was not a private setting with several people hearing this.
I once had to explain my polyamorous relationship in a job interview for a senior dev position. It was probably my fault that it came up, but going into detail was the right move and I got the job.
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