Was that a Job Interview, Or a Drive-by Shooting?

I’d traveled over an hour from northeast Queens to get to Manhattan that morning, had taken twenty minutes to fill out the agency’s ten-page application, and had sat waiting another ten minutes or so for the unfriendly recruiter who was now lecturing me about not having the “right” background. What do you say when an interview turns out to be nothing like you expected? No matter how much you...