I recently had an “email interview” before I had to attend a 2nd in-person interview. No big deal. It was a list of 10 questions. I answered them. Double-checked my work. Submitted.

When I got to the in-person interview, the dude laughed at me and asked how I had such “attention to detail” when I’d only answered half of the questions. I just sat there stupefied until I asked him if the rest of my email was on the back of his paper.

It was. He had printed double-sided and not even checked.

But the hardest part of answering was my own stammering and trying not to call him out for his own mistake.