It's ****ing nuts nowadays I went for an interview and they gave me ,an egg,a box ,some brillo pads, some straws and some paper ! They said you've got to drop the egg 3 foot without breaking it . ****ed around for a few minutes with another guy packing the box with the stuff then dropped the egg the required 3 foot and it didn't break . Nope that wasn't correct !!you had to ( apparently) put the egg in the box and pack around it then drop the box !! ****ing idiots
Best story I've ever heard, and the guy is in a high up position now, was a technique at interview (some city job in London) where a bloke would throw you a tennis ball and say "that's an orange, eat it" Most just looked bemused/stumped. This one lad threw it back and said "peel it for me"
So, you had to make the egg fall 3 feet, rather than drop the egg 3 feet, I hope you pointed this out.