Oh, man, I do not know. The first one sounds like a nightmare, but worded discreetly so you're not overtly doing down Evil HR Manager, could possibly be the better, because it relates to project work, shows a really complicated situation and shows how you put YOUR organisation and YOUR boss and YOUR job first, while carefully negotiating this other situation.
The second one seems to sound a bit more like "I was a MEEN BITCH and someone complained about me *not good* and so I said sorry and used the phone next time". But it is possibly good backup, if you're asked in the interview and it's going well, because you can say that the reason you learned about using the phone and not email in HR Boss's case was this comparatively less serious situation back home. Which I imagine is probably true.
I think so long as you're really careful to present the HR woman as a perfectly competent individual, just lacking in the specific knowledge for THIS project, it could work.
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Date: 2010-10-23 09:08 am (UTC)The second one seems to sound a bit more like "I was a MEEN BITCH and someone complained about me *not good* and so I said sorry and used the phone next time". But it is possibly good backup, if you're asked in the interview and it's going well, because you can say that the reason you learned about using the phone and not email in HR Boss's case was this comparatively less serious situation back home. Which I imagine is probably true.
I think so long as you're really careful to present the HR woman as a perfectly competent individual, just lacking in the specific knowledge for THIS project, it could work.