Oh man, that's awkward. Few things are more painful than starting to interview someone, then you realize something is not right about the person, but still you have to be professional and continue with the interview.

Had a guy show up for an interview. So he comes in, we're asking the same lame questions you always ask, about getting to the interview, the weather, does he want a cup of coffee etc. Breaking the ice and setting up the mood, you know what. He looks intensely at the person who is asking him for the cup of coffee and replies: Uaahhee! Mmmpppff yu moooch!!

So we're looking at each other, wondering wtf is up, and one of us asks if he, perhaps, might be somewhat hard of hearing? Uueeehhss! Nouffhh mmaafffttchh thaahh!

jesus fuck, how do we end an interview with a deaf and mute guy, without coming across as some sort of pricks. He'll probably be offended if we bring in pen and paper, and no one in their right minds wants to offend a disabled person at a job interview. So we asked him the same questions as we asked everyone else, more or less, without really understand a word that came out of his mouth.

You might think that surely no deaf and mute person would apply to working at a store where he would be interacting with customers all day long, not without putting it somewhere in his application, but no. He was stone deaf and only partially able to speak. Oral school wasn't as effective as he thought I guess, and while the idea that you should never let your handicap stop you from doing what you want, and you should overcome it, is commendable, this was clearly not the right job for him.

Good on him for not thinking it was something he could totally overcome in every way, but still. We needed people to work at the warehouse, but he was not at all interested in that. Nope. Only the positions which would require him to interact with customers.