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Hello. Hi, sir. Thank you. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. You're welcome. Thank you, sir. Yeah.
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So, Miss Miriam, from your CV, you studied English and communication studies. Yes, I did. First class. Um, I believe communication is not just a tool, it's an art form. Interesting. But I'm curious, why are you applying for the position of an administrative officer? How does that relate with what you studied?
Relate to, excuse me, um, you just said relate with, which is a common grammatical error. Um, the right preposition to use is to. So you say, how does that relate to what you studied? So now to answer your question, well, you never know how well they are related, um, until you receive an email and the person starts with, "I hope this email meets you well." And what is wrong with that? Oh, a lot, sir. So it goes beyond what?
Listen, can we leave this alone and go straight to why we are here? Sure, sir. Thank you. So tell me, what would you say is your biggest strength? I would rather say most valuable asset instead of biggest strength. It sounds less like a wrestling competition and it's more professional. What do you think? What is your most valuable asset? I like that. My attention to detail. Um, I pay attention to detail, especially linguistic details. I don't just listen to what people say. I hear how they say it.
Wait, I don't understand. How is that necessary to your role as an administrative officer? You, my friend, will find out when you employ me, sir.
All right. Let's say that, um, you are given an assignment here. Okay. And your supervisor is not satisfied about the result. How would you handle that? That's an interesting question. Um, I would just like to point out that people are not satisfied about the result. They are not satisfied with the result. Now, to answer your question, I will reach out to my supervisor for feedback and improve or make corrections where necessary or required.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Miss Mirror, just hold on. Okay. Let's let's do this again. Okay. Um, because what I was saying was I was trying I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I would rather you say, "As I mentioned earlier," not "As I was saying what I was saying." It's more elegant. What do you think? What type of um? Thank you very much. Well acknowledged. Thank you. But please do not interrupt us again. Oh, I'm so sorry, sir. I'm honestly sorry. I will not do that again. You know, I'm having this feeling that if we employ you here, you have lots of issues with other people working in this company. Oh, why would you say that? Oh. Oh, you are asking me. Eh. Oh, okay. Fine. Fine. If you are to head a department in this company, I will be nice. Is this how you will be correcting their English instead of getting the work done? Sorry. I'm sorry. Quick one, sir. So, um, in conditional statements, you say "were." Okay. Yeah. So, not "are" or "was." So, "if you were giving a department" or "if you were to head a." But my s um, hope nothing I, I hope all is well. How can all be well? We just want to conduct an interview and you're here correcting our grammar, giving us headaches. Oh, I'm so sorry. What is wrong with you? Can you please let us conduct this interview section in peace? I wonder this is how one of your sisters in English correction like you have worked with us and he didn't I'm sorry again. I'm sorry. Um, you just made another subject-verb agreement error. Um, can two work together unless they agree? Yes, sisters is plural, but the main subject here is one, and the subject and verb have to agree. So, it should work with one, not sister. So, the right thing to say, h, let's have it. "One of your sisters has worked here before." And what do you mean, "sisters in English correction"? Like, who says that? What does that even mean? Like, that's an English correction. Miss Miriam. Sir, I appreciate your semantic sensitivity. Thank you, sir. Not just that, not just that pragmatic syntax, morphology. I am a language enthusiast through and through. I noticed. Um, um, Miss Miam, sir, please, can we try one question without you interfering? Please. Yeah. If only the grammar permits. God help me.
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What would you say is your biggest weakness?
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But I've corrected this thing before now. I mentioned it earlier. Biggest is subjective, but rather you say most impactful, but it's it's it's nice. Make sense. Miss Miriam, thank you for coming. Okay. Thank you for having me. May we say you are done? Oh, no, but we haven't even scratched the surface. Exactly. And and we are bleeding already. Thank you. Thank you for your contributions. Okay. You will hear from us. H, no, no, no. "You will hear from us" is corporate euphemism for rejection. I would rather you say, "We will appropriately." It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Thank you very much. Um, Miss Miriam, thank you for coming. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your teachings. Any day. And thank you for suffering us. And thank you for leaving. Oh, no, no, no. That's rude. I think you should say, "Thank you for your time." I said thank you for your time. From there, what's wrong with you? Just leave this place now. Just say thank you for my time, too. Get out of here. Why are you being aggressive? You said your time. Leave this place. You are correcting your helper. I hope you learn. What's wrong with this generation? We're not interviewing Gen Z's here again. What's, what's the meaning of this? And this is what you never see anything. You never see anything, just that after they will be saying it's their village people. Look at, look at the behavior of this girl. Exactly. And this is why she has not gotten a job for the past 5 years. Impassive, monotonous nonsense. Look at her wig.
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Hello. Please, please, please, please. Hope you didn't study English or anything related to grammar. No, not at all. I studied business management, sir. Because we don't want any further headaches today. May I? Please sit. Thank you very much. Don't know why it's going on. What is your name again? Thank you very much for asking. My name is Model. Model Adams. Stuff. All right. Model Adams. Sir, you are here for the position of a marketing manager. Correct. That's very much correct, sir. Marketing is all about message and meaning. And these two areas, oh, I'm very good at. So, imagine you get into the market to buy something and your customer, excuse me, my customer. I am the customer. Anybody who goes into a shop to buy something is the customer, not the other way around. Sir, it's not the issue. Please listen. But that is the issue. There's no way I can answer your question correctly if there's miscommunication. I need to understand what you're talking about, sir, with all due respect. Okay. Okay. So, if you go into the market to buy something, I'm so sorry. There is something fundamentally wrong with the construction of that sentence because I did not go to the market. Young lady, young lady, what is wrong with you now? What's wrong with everyone today? He's just trying to create an imaginary situation. Exactly my point. Thank you, sir. It's an imaginary situation, which means it does not exist. If you're going to be using the word "if," the verb that comes after has to be in its past form. "If you went to the market," sir, with due respect, please can you just shut up and let him ask you the question? Ready. "If you went to the market to buy something and you see..." I I just mentioned something few seconds ago. How do you run a company if you don't listen? Christ. "If you went to the market and saw..." both verbs must must be in their past forms. They have to match. Young lady, young lady, you know I warned you when you came. Please don't be unfortunate today. May I not be unfortunate. May you not be unfortunate. I rebuke it for you in the mighty name of Jesus. Jesus have. And you listen to me and listen very carefully. Yes, sir. If you continue with this silly attitude of yours, I will send you away and this interview is over for you. Did you hear me? Yes, sir. I'm so sorry. Sir, and not interrupt me again. Never. Are you sure you heard that? Yes, sir. Are you very sure? So just keep short and stop being a talkative. Me? No. You have me confused with somebody else. I am not shy talkative. I digress. Sorry. Okay. So the word talkative is an adjective, you know. Hey, who here knows what an adjective is? Do you? I'm sure you don't. It describes a noun or a pronoun. It can't just stand alone. You can't say, "You are a talkative." You can say, "You are talkative." And if you must follow it up with a noun, then you have to say, "You are a talkative person." What is going on in this country? What is going on in this country? Why? Why did you say that? Because of people like you. God damn it. How can you come here? You frustrate us correcting us. I, I don't, I don't get it. Imagine. I'm really trying to just, just like the former idiot that came here. You want to come here and mess us up? Are you crazy? You use your to I'm so sorry. Nobody is crazy here. Please keep quiet. Stop being a talkative person. Ah, somebody learned something. How do you feel about yourself? Is it good? Uh, I won today. Sorry, sir. If you as much as interrupt me again or say "innocent" here again, God will punish you. I am a religious person. The tongue is so powerful. You can't go around saying things like that. There could be an angel there lurking just waiting to say amen. May God not punish us. Please, sir. Sorry. Let's start from the scratch. Jesus help me. Jesus help me. Sir, you can't say that. What you just said is an idiomatic expression. Hey. All right. With no need for an article. You can't say "from the scratch." "From scratch." "Scratch." It's an entity on its own. This is not a child's play. Again, you do not need to just throw around articles. This is not child's play. Not a child's play. Is it your child we're talking about? Is it you? Do you have children, sir? Now, you listen to me and listen very good, young lady. One more word from you. I am going to wrestle you to the ground. You have frustrated me enough, and it's time for you to get out of this office this minute. From scratch. Why would you do that? I'm so sorry. Thank you so much for having me, sir. Yeah. I hope you have a great day ahead. You too, if God permits. Of course, he's going to permit. He might not permit for you to have a nice day, though. My god, I just lost a word for her. She's Gen Z, too. Um, she's, excuse me, sir. My first off, I am not Gen Z. I've got a younger brother about your age and at loss for words. So, you will conveniently add articles when there's no need for them, but you would omit when you're supposed to. "At a loss for words." Not "at loss for words." Get out of my office this minute or I will set you ablaze. Now, you will set me ablaze because I'm wearing blazers. I dare you to. You will never get somebody like me. I am well qualified for this job, and you're losing me. You're losing me. You're watching me walk away. I hope you sleep better at night if God permits. What is this? What is this madness? Look, I am I am fully convinced that the jobless ones in this country are the people who are bent on correcting other people, and that is why they can never get a job. Can you imagine? Goodness.