Alcohol, profanity and cell phones.

Where can you find all three? The job interview, of course.

Job candidates' manners are on a downward spiral. According to a new survey released by Vault, 59 percent of hiring managers say job seekers' behavior is deteriorating.

At this critical time when workers should be on their absolute best grandma-approved behavior, they are letting it slip big time.

How?

• Forty-three percent of hiring managers in the survey say they have listened to a job seeker curse during the interview.

• Twenty-six percent say they sat in shock as a candidate picked up a cell call during the meeting - and talked.

• Nineteen percent had to conduct the interview with annoying kids accompanying the job candidate. Other behaviors: taking lunch and eating it during the interview, picking noses and showing up drunk.

Are you kidding? Sounds more like an episode from "The Office" or "The Simpsons" or some MTV spoof than corporate America.

Who in his right mind swings by Subway for a sandwich and chips on the way to an interview, then eats during the meeting?

We turned to Vault Chief Executive Officer Erik Sorenson to see what he thought about the findings and whether they surprised him.

"The use of profanity by candidates during interviews? Where do these people think they are? In their living rooms? At a sporting event?" he says. "It's crazy."

Crazy might be an understatement. With all the focus on interview etiquette in the past decade, it's hard to know what people are thinking.

Sorenson says it's natural that things are changing and becoming a bit more casual or informal.

"It goes with a larger cultural shift and Gen Y entering the work force," he says. "However, informality does not mean bad manners. Some candidates are obviously taking the new, more relaxed interview atmosphere a bit too far."