Interview Dilemma

Hello everyone,

I have a huge problem coming up this Friday. Last Sunday I did something pretty stupid and ended up in the hospital for a couple days and have been on crutches since and was scheduled to have my stitches out this Friday and hopefully come off the crutches.

Now here's the problem, I had an interview for a credit analyst position that I am very excited about on Wednesday via phone through which I earned an in office interview. I have finals this week and my appt with the doc is about 10am on Friday morning. I told HR of my schedule, and yet I just got an email asking me to confirm a 11:30am interview in NYC with three people from the credit team.

Not only does this severely conflict with my doc appt (which is in Westchester), but I will still be on crutches!

If I cannot reschedule my interview, how should I cope with this interview while on crutches (and also not revealing the true nature of my accident)?

Thanks

 

Helps if you just tell us what the "true nature" was... would also add to the story

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 

See if you can just move the dr appt to Thursday, or if not ask if they can move the interview to Monday.

I wouldn't worry about revealing how you got hurt. If one of the interviewers asked what happened just say you tripped and fell or something.

 

Just reschedule, big deal.

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Haha, the nature of my accident is mainly dependent on alcohol. So definitely not interview suitable answer. But, I fell from about 15 feet onto pavement, tore half of my left heel off and severely bruised both heels which makes even crutches hard to use, and got some staples in my head.

Was in the hospital for two days and am in finals week so am shitting my pants trying to catch up on papers and studying. Fortunately, the dean of students visited me and emailed all my professors and I've done well this far in the semester so they don't mind. Still a bitch trying to get all of this stuff done when half of last week I was on pain killers that didn't exactly help keep me sharp or very coherent.

The most awkward part about this is that, even on crutches, I have a very hard time moving around. I am hoping that by friday I will be able to wear a dress shoe on at least one foot.

I can't really move my dr appt up because it is to remove stitches (which I don't think that they can do "early", unless I want to bleed out my shoe at the interview).

I have rescheduled the interview for later Friday afternoon (2.30pm) and my stitches come out at 10am. Hopefully won't have to use crutches, but might have to wear a tennis shoe on one foot due to swelling, etc.

Anyways, I hope you all thoroughly satisfy this shit show story and can at least give me some advice.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
 
streetwannabe:

Anyways, I hope you all thoroughly satisfy this shit show story and can at least give me some advice.

Have you thought of just calling the interviewer and telling them you were in an accident and are getting a bunch of work done by the doctor and see if you can push the meeting to next week?
''You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on.'' — President George W. Bush 0.5 bb
 

I actually notified the HR rep about my current appointment (since the original interview time conflicted), and so she pushed it back to 2.30pm. I said it may be better to do it next Monday, but I guess they want to get them done this week.

Whatever, I'm sure I'm just paranoid. Being on crutches shouldn't dictate whether or not they like me for the job. Hopefully..

Then again maybe hobbling in on crutches would be some sort of testament of my character? Idk, we'll just have to see at this point I guess.

Thanks for all the advice everyone

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
 

I will, and thankfully my dr appt has been moved up till Thursday, so hopefully I'll be able to hobble or at least just use a cane at my interview.

And it was a stupid story; my friends live on the first floor of a dorm and their is a very large window well running along the building for the ground level windows. I got up on the railing (to keep people from falling in presumably) and tried to make a bridge with my body between the railing and the building. Unfortunately, the rail was like 6ft away from the building, so I held for like a second and then realized my back was dipping in, and fell.

And it was just one heel! The other is fine, just badly bruised.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
 
streetwannabe:

Update; Just received an offer. Maybe the crutches actually helped?

I'm going to roll into my next interview in a wheelchair.

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