'Show up underdressed': 26 Ways to completely fumble an interview

Interviewing can be challenging, but with bills to pay and mouths to feed (ie: Me and my dog), you've gotta do your best to make a great first impression to score any job worthwhile. We've learned all about the 'tips for a successful job application', but what about the things to avoid? We've learned how to crush an interview, but how can we completely and utterly blow it? 

Reddit came through with some answers for us on the worst ways to throw an interview in the trash. The reason we're even asking ourselves this wasn't because we wanted to waste an interviewer's time or because someone was uninterested in a job and too socially awkward to decline via email. Folks online wanted to know the best ways to bomb an interview simply because it's hilarious. For some, it seemed like a great way to scam unemployment benefits; for others, this forum became the proving ground for the best ways to make a terrible first impression. 

Scroll onward to enjoy the cringiest, most uncomfortably awkward ways that people could ruin their chances in an interview, making all of us curious if this would actually work or if you could accidentally end up with a corner office for acting like a 'straight shooter'. For more terrible first impressions, read on about a guy who gives an atrocious tenant a raving referral after being disrespected by their new landlord over the phone.