“IKEA Job Interview” is the title of a much-reprinted cartoon, cited in print since at least 2006. “Please have a seat.” the interviewer says. The interviewee sees the seat parts on the floor, ready to be assembled.
 
“Job Interview at #IKEA ‘Make a seat and sit down’ #lamejoke” was posted on Twitter by Malte Brill on October 21, 2009. “If you go for a job interview at IKEA, are you asked to come in and make a seat?” was posted on Twitter by Ash Warner on April 18, 2012. “#Ikea Job interview: Make a seat, then take a seat” was posted on Twitter by ChaiNotCoffee on October 17, 2013.
   
     
Wikipedia: IKEA
IKEA (/aɪˈkiːə/, Swedish: [ɪ²keːa]) is a Swedish-founded multinational group, that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories. It has been the world’s largest furniture retailer since at least 2008. It was founded in Sweden in 1943 by then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who was listed by Forbes in 2015 as one of the ten richest people in the world, worth more than $40 billion.
         
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Fw: IKEA Job Interview
Roland
2/2/06
(Cartoon is shown.—ed.)
 
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Jarno
@Jarno
:: Ikea Job Interview http://tinyurl.com/34wtbm
6:36 PM - 28 Nov 2007
     
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Mukul Kumar
@mukulneetika
Funny - IKEA Job Interview - http://bit.ly/IkeaInterview
2:20 PM - 15 Aug 2008
   
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Malte Brill
@derbrill
Job Interview at #IKEA “Make a seat and sit down” #lamejoke
4:27 AM - 21 Oct 2009
   
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Seumas Gallacher
@seumasgallacher
Job interview at IKEA, interviewer to candidate, ” hi, come in and make a seat”
12:12 PM - 13 Dec 2011
   
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Ash Warner
@AlsBoy
If you go for a job interview at IKEA, are you asked to come in and make a seat?
1:08 PM - 18 Apr 2012
   
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Tamar Rafferty
@BabyGaga86
*Man walks into job interview at Ikea”
Interviewer: Hi - make a seat and sit down
12:55 PM - 12 Jul 2012
   
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ChaiNotCoffee
@ChaiNotCoffee
#Ikea Job interview: Make a seat, then take a seat.
11:53 PM - 17 Oct 2013
   
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Bradley Uppercrust III
@BradleyMelville
Interviewer: please, make a seat.
Me: uh, don’t you mean “take” a seat?
Interviewer: This is IKEA.
*builds chair, gets job*
11:29 AM - 1 Dec 2016
 
Reddit—Jokes
My kid says he came up with this one: A guy goes to interview for IKEA…
submitted July 24, 2018 by ArthurDigbyZellers
The manager says “Welcome! Come in and make a seat.”
 
LaffGaff
By laffgaff July 29, 2018
IKEA Interview Joke

I went for a job interview at IKEA today.
When I got there, the interviewer said, “Welcome! Come in and make a seat.”