Snowflakes & Job Interviews

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I’m having breakfast at the hotel lounge and picked up a USA Today

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Caption says “Bringing a parent to a job interview CAN BE counterproductive. “

CAN BE?!?!!

Is this actually a thing?
 
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Direct language is micro-aggression.

or maybe a paper dumb enough to print that story just doesn't have the best editors.
 
I can't exactly find printable words either.
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I mean, if I had a candidate walk in WITH ANOTHER PERSON - mother, father, friend, whatever - at that point, the interview is not going forward. DONE.

Teamwork is important, and people need to be able to ask for help when they get in over their heads, BUT they have to be able to get the job ON THEIR OWN. This is not a day care.
 
I'd be concerned if they couldn't show up to the building alone, much less someone walked in the interview room with them.

True story.....

I work in behavioral healthcare. You have to have proper degrees and credentials to come work for me, but over the years I've learned that sometimes you can get those without really understanding what it is we do. So.... there's a test involved.

Before I even sit down to interview you for the job you get a set of written questions. They aren't multiple choice and they aren't easy. They're pretty detailed and require a knowledge of relevant state law and policy.

One interviewee walked in, sat down with the page for about 5 minutes, and per the admin assistant asked her which way was out and did he need be buzzed out of our floor (had to be buzzed in). She said he looked terrified and sweaty.

Oh well.
 
I may regret saying this but... I WISH someone would try to bring a helper of any type, other than a service animal, to their interview!

However, I might be so shocked that I wouldn’t even know what to do/say while trying to contain my laughter.

I do a fair amount of interviews in my corporate America job, and this would be incredibly entertaining. We’d have something to joke about for a very long time. But first I’d be all over the recruiter for letting this get through their screening and in the front door.

I’m still sitting here at lunch wondering how an interview like this would even work... I ask a question, mom answers while kid sits there thinking he might actually have a chance???...

I guess I just have to remember that statistically 50% of Americans are of below average intelligence. :D
 
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Unless you are 15/16 and your mom is dropping you off for your interview at the grocerystore/mcdonalds...then...just no...
 
ONE of the worst things to happen where I work [been there for 54 years], was the introduction of the HR position.

NOT talking about where you work..your business might need it. It is useless in our business. The best I can tell it was brought on and staffed by folks who have Nothing to do with what we Produce. It kind of "finished" the upper management coalition group.

I am perplexed by people who produce no product, surround themselves with people who produce no product and then spend their day congratulating each other on their illusion of occupation.....Jeff Cooper

I guarantee that if This same thing happened at my workplace...they would get the interview. At least HR would have done Something that day.
 
Spouses and parents in job interviews, no no nope!!

I was at one of the local drywall distributors here in Winston Salem, standing in the lobby talking to my salesrep when a lady brought her husband in to apply for the open CDL driver Delivery opening.

You could tell she was large and in charge of that marriage, guy had his eyes glued to the floor, she talked to the manager at length about her husband‘s qualifications filled out his application and left a resume and they left. And that application and resume went right in the trash can.
 
I was downstairs at my work today and this guy was getting heated at the front desk lady. I stopped to intervene...confusion was him asking for the wrong business name but had the right address. He kept saying “this is what my daughter told me”

Turns out she had an interview upstairs, he was trying to confirm place and time for her while she waited in the car.

She had confused the addresses and names of the two job interviews that she had.

Useless
 
Tim said:
I’m having breakfast at the hotel lounge and picked up a USA Today

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Caption says “Bringing a parent to a job interview CAN BE counterproductive. “

CAN BE?!?!!

Is this actually a thing?
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Yes it is, seen it first hand. The guy was let go for telling one to many job related lies, so his dad calle up and asked for his job back.
 
If the first test of a job interview consists of showing up for the appointment on time and prepared, anything else concerning that session outside job needs is baggage and tainted baggage at that. I'm hiring YOU, not your mamma, pappa, aunt, etc.

Of course there are legit instances where a person may need a "intermediary" to assist with details and relate ability to job needs, but the rest of the able bodied workforce ought to be able to talk turkey without parents or anyone else present. Consult them after -if you want - for advice, but the employer isn't hiring them, they are hiring YOU and want to deal through YOU.
 
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His wife showed up and hour or so later and told us he would not be returning to work.....
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I had a worker tell me....My wife says I have to have a raise....I said....I'll ask my wife if you can have one.

Two weeks later he said...What did you decide about my raise.... I said Well, I asked my wife and she said to let you go.
He said...You're firing me???? I said...That's what my wife said BUT if we could keep our wives out of this maybe you and I could work something out.

I gave him a raise and he worked for me for several more years and Never mentioned his wife again. TRUE STORY
 
Has happened at my wife's job several times, and everytime it was a younger person with a disability or somebody somewhere on the autistic spectrum. I sincerely doubt it is the norm.
 
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I am perplexed by people who produce no product, surround themselves with people who produce no product and then spend their day congratulating each other on their illusion of occupation.....Jeff Cooper
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This my world.
I am a machinist surrounded by generation of snowflakes.:(
 
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Has happened at my wife's job several times, and everytime it was a younger person with a disability or somebody somewhere on the autistic spectrum. I sincerely doubt it is the norm.
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Several times??? If you don’t mind me asking, what field is she in?
To say someone is on the autism spectrum these days could mean anything. My wife works in special ed, I hear about the whole gamut.
 
From what I read, it's happening more often. And it's not people with disabilities. They really can't function on their own.
 
Jerzsubbie said:
Several times??? If you don’t mind me asking, what field is she in?
To say someone is on the autism spectrum these days could mean anything. My wife works in special ed, I hear about the whole gamut.
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Retail Management. Mostly autistic young folks and mildly retarded people that are trying out for stockroom jobs and such.

I've been on interview teams, and I'll take a snowflake that brought mom in over Miss Ghetto, 20 minutes late to the interview telling me she is going to need at least 6 weeks off per year for dealing with "family issues".
 
If you don’t go in an interview and talk to them like you’ve known them for 20 years, mommy isn’t gonna save your ass
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
ONE of the worst things to happen where I work [been there for 54 years], was the introduction of the HR position.

NOT talking about where you work..your business might need it. It is useless in our business. The best I can tell it was brought on and staffed by folks who have Nothing to do with what we Produce. It kind of "finished" the upper management coalition group.

I am perplexed by people who produce no product, surround themselves with people who produce no product and then spend their day congratulating each other on their illusion of occupation.....Jeff Cooper

I guarantee that if This same thing happened at my workplace...they would get the interview. At least HR would have done Something that day.
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IMO the HR Dept in Corporate America causes about 99% of the unproductive activity in a company. They are all useless oxygen thieves.

Apologies to any HR people here. :p
 
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