News that makes you say WTF?!?!

Are these recommended to do or not to do?

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the camera is interesting. I understand wanting to make eye contact and see how a person reacts. or no one is feeding them responses.

But, many minorities find they do better if the interview is invisable

Many orchestras now require auditions to be behind a screen, so that the instrumentalist is judged purely on their sound and not their appearance (often women were discriminated against).

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I wonder how many of the no camera folks didn’t have a webcam.

To be clear, the WTF above for me was bringing a parent to an interview

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Sure, that is surely the most egregious.

I think there are several issues here . . .

If using a “home computer”:

  • I know that many POC’s internet access is via a public computer (e.g., at the local library). So is a web cam part of that set? Most likely not.
  • There is the issue of what is the background? While most video software has the ability to blur or place an alternate background, it doesn’t mean that the person knows how to enable it. And a blurred background may still not masked their environs sufficiently (like that you might be in a public place).

I wonder how many use their phones for an interview. In that case, the above bullets likely still apply..

Every country has scapegoats for its problems: Turkey’s Erdogan chooses the dogs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/opinion/turkey-stray-dogs.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k0.aSfS.DlPP37wS04Fx&smid=url-share

My Ukrainian is not up to par, care to translate?

The link contains a surveillance video of a lady walking around a room full of chess boards, looking suspicious as hell, before pulling something out of her bag and surreptitiously wiping it on one side of a board, then walking away, looking suspicious as hell.

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Here’s an English language version -

She should have to swap chairs with her opponent.

Wifom

Her opponent has probably built up an immunity to mercury poisoning.

(inspired by @vjvj)

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C’mon Cate, no way you got paid zero for Lord of the Rings. If you did, that is your fault for the contract you negotiated. Don’t be a whiner.

I fail to see, read, or hear in my head the whining part.

I do read:

“I wanted to work with the guy who made [1992 horror comedy film] ‘Braindead,’” she said. “I mean, I basically got free sandwiches. And I got to keep my ears.”

I’m also guessing that she has no idea how much she was paid.
Nor how much anyone else was paid.

Is “Braindead” any good, though? ♪It’s got Cate Blanchett’s guarantee…♪

Reported but not reported

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I once went to an interview, and dad went with me. I didn’t ask him to, but he was recently retired and separated from mom and just bored and wanted to go travel with me.

I think the extent of his intentional presence at the employer was making sure he knew where to come back to later once I was done with the interview and getting an idea of how long it would take. He drove around for a while exploring the area, went to lunch, drove around some more, then sat in the parking lot and waited on me. Someone in the office noticed him sitting in the vehicle reading; they went down, had him come inside and wait, and got him something to drink and he just sat quietly reading and kept to himself.

I then got dinged for “his father hung around in the office waiting for him.” On the other hand, I didn’t care because the lunch part of the interview was one person talking about their losing gambling habit while flipping through the sports section of the newspaper and asking which of these would you put money on? and the other person talking about their bedroom closet remodel and having to hide their toys from the kids, and at the end of lunch it was oh, sorry, hope you didn’t have any questions.

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