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Agreed - Hiring is a two-part process: they need to want you, and you need to want them. If their behavior in the interview convinces you that you don't want to work there, excusing yourself saves your time and theirs. (Yes, most recruiters/interviewers tend to be very confused at this point, but that's their problem, not yours.) I've walked out on a couple interviews (generally variations on the group interview / everyone's hired shtick.)
And sadly, it's getting worse: a friend just started a temp job (basic admin ass't work). Turns out they've hired 12 temps, and are narrowing them down reality-show style (here's a project - compete against each other to see who can do it best/fastest). Keep in mind that the job he applied/was hired for was explicitly temporary - there was no indication of a possibility of full-time, so the whole thing is pretty amusing at his end (they're tracking and questioning everything in terms of "are you really dedicated to the company"?) Fortunately, he's taking it in good humor (he didn't want the job as full-time anyway, so he doesn't feel the pressure).
I wonder when "Admin Assistant Survivor" will air? (Outfile, out-staple, out-collate?)
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After the first button went I would've said "Are you coming on to me or is your shirt coming undone?.
I'm an unscrupulous bastard; accusing her outright is the way to go since it puts keeps the ball in your court.
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Is management a fan of season 4 of "House"? :)
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i used to be an assistant recruiter for a company handling tech positions and other high-end contractors, and after the candidates got hired i had to do their contractor orientation session... that blouse-popper story is exactly why i never wear button-down shirts in the office. even now, it's always pull-overs or cardigans with tank tops underneath.
then again, it didn't stop my then boyfriend (now husband) from ogling my chest and waggling his eyebrows at me during his orientation session. :)
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It always make me wonder if life imitates art or if art imitates life.
I don't really watch The Office but I did happen to catch the episode with the sensitivity training where everyone had to put name cards on their foreheads of different races, etc.
Shortly thereafter, my company required sensitivity training for all employees. Yep, you guessed it: name cards on the foreheads.
They swore that they thought of it before The Office did it. Either they are doing it and The Office is making fun of them or they saw The Office and decided it was a good idea. Neither option is a particularly good reflection on their intelligence and the training was just as stupid and useless as it was in the show.
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I used to work with a female programmer that was not only hot, but in the summer she wore a tight top that showed her bellybutton and very low cut pants. She also wore pink underware that was flashed every time she sat down or bent over.
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I'm not making this up. I swear.
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Why do do people interview for jobs at IBM, Microsoft, or Google? You should come to Pennsylvania and interview for jobs with the Amish. They never ask tough technical questions.
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Big deal... We had a hot accountant in my old old job (desktop support) who had her own porn site... Believe me, we fought over who got to help her with any trouble-tickets. One of the guys on my team slept with her, but I'm pretty sure he had to pay for it.
Unfortunately, something like that never stays secret, so she got fired a month or so after we discovered her web-page (Supposedly, she actually was a good accountant. They didn't really want to fire her; just told her she couldn't be an accountant there AND have a porn-site. She choose to keep the porn-site up and they let her go)
Captcha: eros (of course)
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...And then to punish everyone, they hired an ugly, overweight man who runs a porn site?
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This post is unbelievable without links
:D
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Hey, Get off my kool-aid... I'm the only one allowed to see photos or the real thing! :)
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While I could create the site, I am a much better photographer. So I'll take the photos and let someone else build the site for you.
Anyone whos name reminds me of Katt Von D has got to be good in my book, or at least in my book.
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Oy! go get yer own, and get off mine! hehehe :)
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The Producers FTW!
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That's nothing. At my previous job, Jessica Alba was our receptionist and she worked naked.
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Speaking of Toppers...
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(sorry for not quoting before)
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It would look like the interview went quite well indeed :-)
That actually could have happened at my last job, if I hadn't interviewed in March. Somebody at a director level clearly had a preference for a certain type of lady.
Anyway, while it isn't covered by standard etiquette, the only "professional" way to raise an alert is to stumble through an awkward sentence and sound apologetic for noticing (out of the corner of your eye, of course). Or adjust your tie a lot, see if you can provoke a mimic response, and let the situation resolve itself.
OR: you can proceed normally with the interview but allow your roguish charm to shine through. It might help you land the job, and if not, she already has your phone number...
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"Beg pardon, miss, but your wardrobe appears to be malfunctioning."
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Or you could reprise that scene from Dr. Zhivago where the main character has a stroke.
Cough ... cough ... choke ... gaaaaahhhh ... (falls down)
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It was probably her familiar.
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Hah! Only wanna-be Topper rappel!
Real Toppers use a Squirrel Suit!
Squirrel Suit
And if the meeting is only on the first floor, well that's why they're called Toppers.
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You could pretend to have Tourette's Syndrome.
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The High Road
Aaaahhhh, if only this ever happened to me.
Give us more of these erotic stories.
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In the early 90s I helped to install and admin the network at the Playboy Mansion, it was the best job ever.
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Some things are easier than others...
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The amish are hiring? How come they never post on monster?
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OOP, the addXXX-object
Hey come on! We're in 2008! You cannot write anymore:
ECHO Hello World
What do you think?
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...and The Architect tells the Software Engineer how he explained it all to management.
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After some 5.000 days of professional IT, I must say: I still like Google (google.com for those who don't know, and, my God, there are many of them). You may eventually be required to learn on-the-job. I recently had a Delphi job. No experience. But there was no Delphi programmer available. Anyway, with my VB experience (yes, I know, mea maxima culpa) I was productive after 1 week.
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Dunno. Only in 1 single case I applied at a company twice (and that was some 30 years back). Since then, I simply move on and go to the next one,
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This is somehow true. Since nearly 12 months I am working for financial institutions and before for governmental institutions. It's so boring. So fucking booooooooring. They don't ask you a lot. Just that you stay.
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Lawsuit, job, they're both the same really.
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Ahh, the ubiquitous positioning ... I found out just recently my junior coworker uses the "function":
posX = (img.getWidth()*7/10)-20;
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Centering image, centerning, not positioning, ahh dammnit.
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But... then she might think you've gone for a ham shank!
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What you should've done is excuse yourself from the room, go and find someone senior, explain that the interviewer is coming onto you by undressing, that you don't think it's appropriate, that you will not sleep with her to get the job, and that you are thinking of filing a lawsuit.
Cue the interviewer getting fired and you getting the job to keep you sweet.
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You make an excuse to go the toilet, as she watches the guy in his early twenties hurriedly leaving the room bound for the privacy of a cubicle she notices her gaping blouse, puts two and two together and makes four...knuckle shuffle.
(yes, I know traditionally it's a FIVE knuckle shuffle but then the pun wouldn't work, would it)
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That's nothing, we used to have Jenna Jameson as our office manager, Tera Patrick did accounts, and Veronica Zemanova handled interviews. Fridays was clothing-optional.
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Oh yeah? Well I did the same thing except I walked out twice!
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Lesson learned: Always bring a penny to an interview.