re: Craziest Thing You've Ever Said in a Job Interview

I was called out of the blue by a recruiter for Edward D Jones and asked if I would talk with him about a job.

Told him sure what do you have? He was telling me that there was an opening position in the town that I grew up in (a position that was opened when a guy that I knew well growing up quit). He was giving me the hard sell and I shut him down and told him if I were to have interest we would need to talk money and where would I start (with me having ~12 years experience in the business). He gave me a number and I literally laughed out loud into the phone and asked him why he thought I would take a cut of 3 times my last years pay to move back to the town I grew up in. He didn't know what to say. And finally asked if I would have any interest. I replied, "what do you think?" and hung up.