My mind drifts to "TPS Reports." /s
Posted on 08/07/2023 7:26:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Job interviews can be nerve-racking as many interviewees stress over how to best answer questions the employer throws at you.
But, not every company asks tough questions. One boss revealed the “coffee cup” test he uses in job interviews to determine whether an applicant is right for the role.
Former managing director for Xero Australia Trent Innes explained how he refuses to hire anyone if they fail to return an empty cup to the kitchen at the end of an interview.
“I will always take you for a walk down to one of our kitchens and somehow you always end up walking away with a drink,” Innes said in a resurfaced 2019 interview with the podcast “The Ventures”.
“Then we take the drink back, have our interview, and one of the things I’m always looking for at the end of the interview is, does the person doing the interview want to take that empty cup back to the kitchen?
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Never eat or drink during an interview. It can’t do anything positive for your chances to get the job.
Q: Tell me what your biggest weakness is.
A: My honesty.
Q: I don’t see how honesty can be a weakness.
A: I don’t give a F what you think.
You did good. Had your head on a swivel, so to speak.
I should probably confess that I was a carpenter and the chances of being offered a drink in a job site interview was close to zero.
Of course once hired on I might be offered a beer, and would have gladly accepted it, but the chances of that would have been only slightly higher than zero.
More likely I’d have been sent to the store to get beer and find that I’d been given less money than it cost. :)
Yep, critical business decisions for sure! lol
“I once went through an interview that was sort of a “good cop/bad cop” routine.”
I once had the same experience when interviewing for a driving job with a trucking company.
They would have a three day orientation class upwards of twenty people. We would shed a few people on day one, a few more on day two and on day three the driving test and a two on one interview would shed a few more. The interview was two people firing questions at you like a machine gun. The object was to keep your head while answering the questions as best you could.
They used to weed out approximately 50% of every orientation class. It could be stressful.
I would get the job asking where the Scotch is....
My mind drifts to "TPS Reports." /s
“But they might feel a little presumptuous to head back to a kitchen uninvited to return a cup. One doesn’t always know what is expected.”
I think it is the offer to do so that makes the difference. I always asked “Where can I rinse out and leave my coffee cup?” The response was usually “Thank you, if you will just leave it on the counter, someone will take care of it later”.
I was wondering what I would do. Mine is a variation on that... I think I would probably ask, “What shall I do with this? Would you like me to take it back?” Unless I’m passing the kitchen on the way out, I’m not sure I would make a special trip unescorted through someone’s offices.
The only times I’ve been offered coffee in someone else’s office it was in Styrofoam. I know how to deal with that...
If you are on a job interview and you are caught taking a nip from your flask, the polite thing to do is to offer the interviewer a pull.
W C Fields
Check
You can narrow it down even more without having to write an essay. Have them reply to a single question: “What are your pronouns ?” If they reply to it with an answer other than “This is bull$hit”, you don’t hire them.
I’m with you, but for a different reason. The act of drinking or eating is not an inherently inspiring activity. And some people can be really disgusting at both. That is not something that I wish to be remembered for.
As for the psycho-Boss, it would be just as rational to base my hiring decisions on whether I made my bed in the morning. I think that lots of Bosses don’t realize that the interview process is a two-way conversation. You may be looking for someone to hire, but your interviewee is looking for a comfortable place to spend the next few months or years. Not a psycho-farm.
There are numerous stories about types of people that leave grocery carts in parking spaces vs. those that take them back to the cart corral. Has the same feel.
Told my kids, the bigger the gauge, the lower the wage.
I’ve always declined the coffee.
No one cared what I did with a coffee cup. I could pee in it. I was hired for technical skills and technical skills only. Also skipped all woke seminars and retreats.
My point is that it’s more important to me that staff can communicate effectively than petty, egotistical manipulations of people being interviewed.
Yeah, we’ve had staff that don’t refill the TP holder, put chairs back, wash their freaking dishes, etc. But I don’t want robots to please my ocd; I want a job done right the first time.
Too many businesses confuse egotistical managers as being effective managers. If an owner wants his/her feet kissed, they’ll find staff regardless. This post is about the latter.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.