A jane with knuckle tattoos said my hair and sideburns make me look unprofessional

[user113]

Corporate people are such douchebags. They think virtue signalling and having the personality of a robot are the sine qua non of professionalism. They never realize that if I judged them by their own standards, I'd totally annihilate their inflated egos.

[Mister Obvious]

Bro, this kinda talk turns me on.

[user113]

The same little twits think yoga pants are professional work attire too. Yeah, making all the guys in the office want to bend you over the desk and fuck the shit out of you is really professional.

[Mister Obvious]

Dat.

Ass.

[user113]

I know, right? And they profess to be utterly clueless as to why sexual harassment is a thing.

[user113]

Corporate drones are so easy to troll. The funny part of it is, I seldom say things to be deliberately hurtful. I just call them how I see them. It's their own fault that they can't see the humor in a situation, and get butthurt over someone being honest about how they perceive things.

Case in point: I exchanged a few e-mails with the knuckle-tattooed jane today. She said something about treating an interview as a conversation rather than an interrogation. I said, "Funny you said 'interrogation.' The interview room at your office reminded me of the interrogation rooms in police movies." She indicated very politely that she didn't want to talk to me anymore after that.

Well, I figured I'd burn that bridge eventually if I kept amusing myself at her expense. It was no real loss though, as they had already indicated I wasn't their kind of people and shouldn't expect any results from them. I'm not going to lose my sense of humor just because other people don't have one. It's simply not going to happen.

[Mister Obvious]

I wonder why the fuck she got the impression that you're the type she can just talk shit to??

Sounds abusive to me.

[user113]

I wonder why the fuck she got the impression that you're the type she can just talk shit to??

Sounds abusive to me.

She wasn't abusive. I asked for her advice, and she gave it. I don't take offense when someone gives their honest opinion.

She claims she never said anything about my haircut. Maybe I misinterpreted her saying her clients prefer "clean cut" and "professional looking" candidates as a passive-aggressive jab at my haircut. I mean when people say things, I always assume there's a specific reason for what they said.

Anyway, my next interview with a recruiter will be over lunch at one of my favorite restaurants. Definitely more conversational and less interrogation-roomish.

[Mister Obvious]

Yeah... sounds like you just had a bad experience re: setting and someone it sounds like you don't have much in common with. Really crap situation to be in.

[user113]

I forgot to mention that her bringing a muscle-bound guy in a T-shirt in for the interview (the other recruiter) heightened the sense of being interrogated. She said it was because she was new at recruiting and he was there in case she missed anything. I wondered briefly if they were going to pull the good cop / bad cop schtick.

[user113]

Yeah... sounds like you just had a bad experience re: setting and someone it sounds like you don't have much in common with. Really crap situation to be in.

People in STEM have always had little in common with more social-oriented people. That's why the former are universally disparaged by the latter as social misfits and nerds. Unfortunately, the onus is always on the nerds to conform to the expectations of the social butterflies. Is it any wonder we wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire?

[Mister Obvious]

It sounds like you were dealing with some kinda freaked out chick who likes to dominate dudes.

That's my totally honest opinion.

[user113]

It sounds like you were dealing with some kinda freaked out chick who likes to dominate dudes.

That's my totally honest opinion.

I concur. She struck me as just another talentless HR hack who was envious of my obvious accomplishments and wanted to assert her superiority over me.

In my perverted fantasy version of the episode, I imagine she brought in Lou Ferigno to chaperone because she was afraid I'd shove her face into the plate glass wall and mercilessly fuck her scrawny ass from behind.

[Mister Obvious]

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

[Crille]

The same little twits think yoga pants are professional work attire too. Yeah, making all the guys in the office want to bend you over the desk and fuck the shit out of you is really professional.

Yeah that´s really unprofessional. I hope they keep wearing them though   ... 

[user113]

Do you like licking plate glass walls, sugar?

[user113]

The same little twits think yoga pants are professional work attire too. Yeah, making all the guys in the office want to bend you over the desk and fuck the shit out of you is really professional.

Yeah that´s really unprofessional. I hope they keep wearing them though   ... 

Right? We may as well get something out of the deal, since pinching girls' asses is no longer allowed.

[Guest]

Reading this discussion makes me want to marry my dog and live free wandering the earth collecting bottles for change perhaps wandering into the forest then emerging to my new life as a vegabond just in time for the greatest meltdown society has ever experienced

[user113]

Reading this discussion makes me want to marry my dog and live free wandering the earth collecting bottles for change perhaps wandering into the forest then emerging to my new life as a vegabond just in time for the greatest meltdown society has ever experienced

I think if I had George Soros' money, my revenge on modern civilization would be a hundredfold more terrible than his.

[user113]

I wonder why the fuck she got the impression that you're the type she can just talk shit to??

Sounds abusive to me.

She wasn't abusive. I asked for her advice, and she gave it. I don't take offense when someone gives their honest opinion.

She claims she never said anything about my haircut. Maybe I misinterpreted her saying her clients prefer "clean cut" and "professional looking" candidates as a passive-aggressive jab at my haircut. I mean when people say things, I always assume there's a specific reason for what they said.

Anyway, my next interview with a recruiter will be over lunch at one of my favorite restaurants. Definitely more conversational and less interrogation-roomish.

Just got home from my interview with the second recruiter. I told him about the interview with Tattoo Knuckled Jane. He agreed that the bitch done me wrong.

He said there is plenty of demand for people with my skills and experience, and most companies aren't too picky about how their programmers look. I already knew that though. I may have to shave my sideburns for one of the companies, but he said don't bother unless I get an interview with them.

Overall, the interview went swimmingly. Location, location, location. If you want to have a conversation with me, do it in a conversational setting. If you put me in a goddamned interrogation room, I'll assume you're going to interrogate me.