Good question to be prepared for.  I think I was asked a form of that question from 6 out of 7 firms....

Luckily, in my grad program we had the dreaded group project in nearly every class that gave me plenty of stories to pull from...

soc09 wrote: [QUOTE=Dahlia1] By the way, it was a bad answer, what were you thinking? Could you have just said that you communicated with the girl, identified what  the reasons were and in the end succeeded in getting her to do her part? Who cares if it was true or not? They will not fact check your interview, I guarantee you that

So what if she actually experienced a scenario like the one that was asked in the interview and she handled it totally different than what she answered in the interview? Are the managers not going to wonder what else she lied about during her interview? I've heard of situations where people BS'ed their way through the interview just to start the job and prove that they lied in the interview and on their resume.