Just so you know, stupid white boys have been say aks for ask for, oh, at least 600 years ("I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?" -- Chaucer, 1386) and probably back well into Old English (as "acsian") for over 1,000 years. It was considered good literary English as late as 1535 ("Axe & it shall be given you." -- Matthew 7:7 in the Cloverdale Bible). I'm sorry but I'm with the "liberal linguists" on this one. Languages change over time. The question is how much voice recordings will act to push back that change.
Go into your job interview with that one.
I'll stay right here and wait for you when you're out, just to see how you did.
Yeah...YOU wouldn't say "axe." Let the OTHER guy say it and relegate himself to an underclass.
I am completely aware of how Shakespeare used slang, etc. Do NOT misunderstand that speech and diction are a progenitor of achievement.
The question is not whether saying "aks" at a job interview will get me a job or not today but whether "aks" will be the way just about everyone says it in another 50 to 100 years. One can get away with saying plenty of things (including plenty of things people are complaining about in this thread) in job interviews, especially if the person interviewing you is under 40 or 50, that you wouldn't have gotten away with decades ago. Like I said, language changes.
And let's not forget that we have a man who was elected president, twice, who can't seem to pronounce "nuclear" properly.