Job interviews are consequence-free zones.

[Virote_Considon]

I'm pretty sure I was on a jobs blacklist for a while...

 

[EnglishEdward]

If you have never had a paid job and have no formal qualifications that push you in a particular direction,
then it may be good sense to apply widely and gain useful experience of interview techniques, but you
should still take care to research the end job and the end employer. Lack of success does not mean that
you failed the interviewer, there may merely have been a better candidate for that post on that occasion.
Persistence pays off because even if you are not the best candidate, it is quite common for the better
candidate to have better offers, and being second or third place on the list may suffice to get you that job.

You may not be in the serious running for a job for which you are interviewed, or interested in it,
but you ought not to give too much of a metaphorical fingers up at the interviewer.

There is an entire industry devoted to weeding through applications, long listing, short listing, first interviewing
and occasionally head hunting candidates for jobs which closely laises with the darkside blacklist industry.

It is important that you do not annoy the end employer to the extent that the final interviewer completes his
assessment form for the recruitment agency with a comment like: "I don't know why you sent me that person
he/she was a complete jerk/utter timewaster and seems to have drug or mental health problem etc etc."
And then your name gets a red flag in a database and you are weeded out of consideration for all sorts of
jobs that you could do, might otherwise get and would have enjoyed; without even ever knowing why.

 

[rah]

I tried using a headhunter once and after I went in for their screening interview, they tried to recruit me as a head hunter.
That ended that experiment.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Even if the interview isn't going well, I think one would be well-served by using it as an opportunity to gather intelligence and collect contacts. Just theorizing here, though.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I just answered that I was more interested in sex and drugs at that time.

There's absoutely nothing outlandish about saying that, it's probably what he was thinking anyway. How many people drop out of school to start a business or take care of their dementia-struck grandmother? Exactly..

I love defying social norms as much as you do, sure, it can be a lot of fun to turn a situation on its head and throw people off guard.

But the person hiring probably wasn't all that shocked, if anything I'd imagine him being pissed because you clearly wasted his time.

 

[Traitorfish]

I take it that "consequence-free", here, means that it has not consequences to you personally, as opposed to the person whose time you've wasted on a practical joke with no punchline.

This is the first time I might actually believe that Valessa is under the age of thirty.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I take it that "consequence-free", here, means that it has not consequences to you personally, as opposed to the person whose time you've wasted on a practical joke with no punchline.

This is the first time I might actually believe that Valessa is under the age of thirty.

psst externalities are like, just your opinion man

 

[Ryika]

I take it that "consequence-free", here, means that it has not consequences to you personally, as opposed to the person whose time you've wasted on a practical joke with no punchline.

For me to care about that, you'd have to establish that these people exist in the real world first. I believe they are (you all are) just projections in my mind, that don't really exist, which is why the only thing keeping me from doing bad things to you imaginary people, that I would have to live with the consequences, as you fake people do not know or understand that you are not real.

In those rare circumstances when I can do what I feel like without consequences I must express myself fully so I don't become insane due to the chains that keep dragging me down.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Edge Factor: 9,000

 

[Ryika]

And then we doubled it.

 

[Traitorfish]

For me to care about that, you'd have to establish that these people exist in the real world first. I believe they are (you all are) just projections in my mind, that don't really exist, which is why the only thing keeping me from doing bad things to you imaginary people, that I would have to live with the consequences, as you fake people do not know or understand that you are not real.

In those rare circumstances when I can do what I feel like without consequences I must express myself fully so I don't become insane due to the chains that keep dragging me down.

See, now you're back to being thirty-four, because while every teenager who has ever lived thinks like this, they don't just declare it explicitly. You're trying to hard to play the role, you're not letting it come naturally.

 

[Ryika]

See, now you're back to being thirty-four, because while every teenager who has ever lived thinks like this, they don't just declare it explicitly. You're trying to hard to play the role, you're not letting it come naturally.

But I've said like... 50 times now that I'm not actually 15. Much closer to 15 than I am to 34 though, if that's any help! And I don't mean that in an edgy teenager kind-of-way, I mean it as in Solipsism. This simulation is good, almost believable, but then the simplifications that have been necessary to simulate group behavior for example, are just too large to be ignored, and that's where the world loses believability. Well, it's not that bad, but they really can't put you directly into situations where a heavily simplified simulation of group behavior is being used, and then expect you to still believe that the world around you is real, because when you see how apparently every single person around you goes mad, but you yourself manage to keep somewhat calm and rational, then you start questioning things.

 

[Traitorfish]

Solipsism is "an edgy teenager kind-of-way".

 

[Ryika]

I would say: "Well, that's just your opinion.", but if Solipsism is right, then you don't actually exist, so how could you have an opinion?

 

[Patine]

Some jobs and their qualifications are very different than others.

"What makes you qualified to be King?"
"My father was King, and now he's dead."

 

[Traitorfish]

I would say: "Well, that's just your opinion.", but if Solipsism is right, then you don't actually exist, so how could you have an opinion?

If I'm an invention of your imagination, then my opinions are your opinions. I am but your fractured subconscious trying to express itself.

 

[Ryika]

True, I would be arguing with myself at that point. Which basically means, it's self-reflection. That's great, I'm open to having my mind changed... by myself!

 

[Hygro]

Ok self mind, I'm not a goddamn projection.

 

[Ryika]

That's exactly what a goddamn projection would say!

 

[Manfred Belheim]

If I'm an invention of your imagination, then my opinions are your opinions. I am but your fractured subconscious trying to express itself.

I would hope that most people are able to at least imagine opinions that are not their own. Although maybe they actually aren't... it would explain a lot of what goes on around here...