The candidate I had to interview for this week was my high school bully.

I work for a relatively large company in the tech industry. I've worked there for about 5 years now and I have a fairly high up role in management. <br>Over the last few weeks, our manager has been breathing down my neck about meeting our annual hiring quota. So now, I am operating as a interviewer for two positions. This means I get to do two sets of interviews this week. <br><br>Yesterday, I had all my video interviews in the morning, and was under the assumption that I only had the in person interviews in the afternoon. But when 8:30 AM rolled around, I realized that I had an in person interview after all. <br><br>And it was for one of the positions that I am responsible for interviewing for. The candidate showed up to my office, wearing a name tag that said "John". I tried to make him feel comfortable when he sat down, and we started asking him questions. <br><br>This dude looked exactly like my high school bully, "Jon". Like they were father and son. Same face, same hair do, same style of clothes. I had the most bizarre feeling, but I didn't say anything at all. I tried so keep my composure. <br><br>Anyway, he is not qualified for the job. And he literally answered every question with, "It's all pretty common sense". And he gave me the most patronizing nod when he said it. Like "how dare you ask that question, don't you go school". And he was righteously angry when I followed up with another question. Like "why are you stewping me with basic questions?"<br><br>I picked him last on the baseball team in high school. And he worked together with me to make me look like a idiot in front of the whole team. He made fun of the way I'd swing a baseball bat. And he told the rest of the team that my father was a toilet cleaner at his real job. It was painful to see him now, almost twenty years later. And now, he's trying to interview me, saying that only low class people have to go through job interviews. He was the star athlete in high school who never studied and got a janitoral job at Disney. Now, he's a software engineer at a big name company. The world is so weird sometimes.