Althouse: "We recently had a job candidate come in to give a presentation as part of the interview process and bring family members with them

15 జూన్, 2025

"We recently had a job candidate come in to give a presentation as part of the interview process and bring family members with them — their spouse and several children."

"This included a 1-year-old who the candidate carried around and interacted with, repeatedly interrupting their own presentation. The candidate also kicked off their shoes and walked around barefoot during the presentation...."

From "Wait, People Are Bringing Their Whole Family to Job Interviews? And kicking off their shoes?" (NYT).

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Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: No pets?; 15-06-25 8:57 AM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: Makes it easy, doesn' t it?; 15-06-25 9:04 AM
FormerLawClerk చెప్పారు...: "People"; 15-06-25 9:19 AM
FormerLawClerk చెప్పారు...: "Anonymous" ... yeah, right.

Wal-Mart definitely hired this person.; 15-06-25 9:22 AM
Yancey Ward చెప్పారు...: Not saying it has never happened but I doubt it happens more than once a month or two in the U.S.; 15-06-25 9:23 AM
baghdadbob చెప్పారు...: Sounds like a clever way to fulfill your job-seeking requirement to remain on the public dole. "I tried, but they just aren't hiring me."; 15-06-25 9:24 AM
FredSays చెప్పారు...: Not sure how this family-present requirement for the interview/presentation is job relevant.; 15-06-25 9:53 AM
Karen of Texas చెప్పారు...: What baghdadbob said; but also, what do you expect with all the helicopter - and snowplow - parenting that has emerged over the past many years? It has become a thing for college admission interviews apparently, so why not level up?; 15-06-25 9:55 AM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...: Hey kid, tell your dad he didn't get the job, and it was your fault.; 15-06-25 10:01 AM
JZ చెప్పారు...: The plural pronoun (they) triggers me.; 15-06-25 10:04 AM
Narr చెప్పారు...: Emotional Support Family.; 15-06-25 10:10 AM
mccullough చెప్పారు...: Their shoes?; 15-06-25 10:37 AM
Randomizer చెప్పారు...: I like it. It's difficult to get all of the relevant information about a candidate from a job interview. This candidate makes it easy.

If the company decides to hire this candidate, they know they are getting a wacko who has no understanding of professional boundaries.; 15-06-25 10:57 AM
BG చెప్పారు...: I'm with baghdadbob.; 15-06-25 11:08 AM
gspencer చెప్పారు...: "Yes, you've got the job. You'll be great in your new role as Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Spingfield Nuclear Power Plant."; 15-06-25 11:09 AM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: "You've got the job, but only if you bring your family to work, and the kids will have to pick cotton, too."; 15-06-25 11:21 AM
JAORE చెప్పారు...: It can be difficult to determine a best fit candidate. This person made it a weeeee bit easier.; 15-06-25 11:21 AM
gilbar చెప్పారు...: i remember about 15 years ago, when the girl i was dating was at her first professorship;and she called me, pretty hysterical, to tell me that one of her student's Mom had called her to complain about the grade they'd received. (it was a B).
It was about That time, that i realized that our culture was f*cked; 15-06-25 11:40 AM
pacwest చెప్పారు...: My sister worked for the state of AK. One of the main orientation classes for new hires was "how to show up for work on time".; 15-06-25 11:53 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent చెప్పారు...: “Wal-Mart definitely hired this person.”

Sounds more like something that would happen at a college-town co-op.

God knows there’s a million reasons to dump on Wal-Mart, but I’ve been consistently impressed at their willingness to hire people no one else would hire. And I don’t mean that in a snarky middle-class way. The deaf guys, the face tattoo lady, the cadaverous, 75 year-old, disabled veteran, the morbidly obese lesbian, the retarded girl in the wheelchair. All people that even the most proggy HR lady would deftly find a way to ghost, yet Wal-Mart somehow finds a place for them. It’s pretty impressive.; 15-06-25 12:11 PM
Dunham చెప్పారు...: It reminds me of when Elon brought his son with him to the oval office presser or when Pete Hegseth brought his wife to meetings where sensitive/ classified material was being discussed.; 15-06-25 12:18 PM
Lazarus చెప్పారు...: Was this because employers let job seekers bring their parents to interviews or because the employers didn't let them?; 15-06-25 12:33 PM
n.n చెప్పారు...: A social gathering, a political meeting, a court of public opinion?; 15-06-25 1:16 PM
TaeJohnDo చెప్పారు...: The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...
“Wal-Mart definitely hired this person.”

God knows there’s a million reasons to dump on Wal-Mart, but I’ve been consistently impressed at their willingness to hire people no one else would hire.

We were in the checkout line at the Local Walmart, and the older lady trying to pay her bill was having a lot of difficulty. The cashier, a young Hispanic or Native kid was incredibly patient and helpful, far more than I would have been able to be. This store has a ton of interesting help - exactly as you described. They have their moments, but overall, the customer service there is very good.; 15-06-25 1:32 PM
Old and slow చెప్పారు...: My local Walmart has a shelf stocker on the night shift who has Tourettes. It can be a bit unnerving, but also very funny.; 15-06-25 2:30 PM
Skeptical Voter చెప్పారు...: Well at least he didn't bring his pet snake.; 15-06-25 2:49 PM
Krumhorn చెప్పారు...: Next!

- Krumhorn; 15-06-25 3:02 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: .."My local Walmart has a shelf stocker..."

Kroger is the same way. They have a few mentally-disabled people working as sackers, and I suspect a few autistic types working stocking shelves. I always try to engage them in some way - employing them seems to be handled with a fairly deft touch, good for them.; 15-06-25 3:11 PM
tim maguire చెప్పారు...: JZ said...The plural pronoun (they) triggers me.

Me too. It’s fine when you’re talking about a generic person who could be either sex, but if it’s a particular person, then you know their sex and she use the proper pronoun.

This isn’t even a case of transphilia; they just didn’t want to say.; 15-06-25 5:11 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...: It reminds me of when Elon brought his son with him to the oval office presser or when Pete Hegseth brought his wife to meetings where sensitive/ classified material was being discussed.

Your first scenario isn't even remotely comparable, and Hegseth's wife left the meeting before anything sensitive and/or classified was discussed.

Maybe you could share your opinion on Hunter running cabinet meetings, or Dr. Jill prepping for the G7 meeting.

Must everything be about Trump with people like you?; 15-06-25 5:55 PM
Mason G చెప్పారు...: .."My local Walmart has a shelf stocker..."

Kroger is the same way. They have a few mentally-disabled people working as sackers, and I suspect a few autistic types working stocking shelves.

That sounds like the kind of thing the Karens who shop at Whole Foods would get behind. For Walmart and Kroger, of course- not for Whole Foods.; 15-06-25 6:10 PM
Lucien చెప్పారు...: I never brought mom to any of my interviews, but if I had, the results couldn’t have been worse.; 15-06-25 6:20 PM
AZ Bob చెప్పారు...: "The plural pronoun (they) triggers me."

The NYT writer and editor want to normalize this behavior and are all in with "their" shoes.; 15-06-25 7:27 PM
Bunkypotatohead చెప్పారు...: No male at a job interview would kick off his shoes and be barefoot.
It was a woman.; 15-06-25 8:54 PM
Bunkypotatohead చెప్పారు...: No male at a job interview would kick off his shoes and be barefoot.
It was a woman.; 15-06-25 8:54 PM
Grundoon చెప్పారు...: I once did an energy audit at a factory in a small town. Finding labor savings counted, too, as one of our services.
At one work station one of my colleagues observed a man doing a job that could have clearly been automated. At our exit meeting my colleague mentioned this. We had a little tape recorder for note-taking. We had it running. The plant manager asked us to turn off the recorder.
Then he explained that the worker we were discussing was the town drunk. It was a very small town. The factory was helping him and everyone in his life by giving him something to do other than drink. We all said we understood, dropped the idea of automating his work station, turned the recorder back on and finished our meeting.; 16-06-25 12:37 AM
Grundoon చెప్పారు...: My local Kroger has a couple of special sackers. One is a woman who looks like she is 75 years old or more. She carries on a conversation with me or the cashier in kind of a monotone voice the whole time she is sacking my groceries. They always pair her with certain experienced cashiers, never the young ones. It works well.; 16-06-25 12:52 AM
gadfly చెప్పారు...: If I was doing the interview and hiring, I would not permit HR to be present and I would have ended this interview before it began. Job interviews are fair for all when the interview is scheduled with predetermined rules and rule number one is "no shirt , no shoes, no service"; rule number two is "we don't provide baby-sitter service" and condition number three is "this is our office not your home."; 16-06-25 1:29 AM
gadfly చెప్పారు...: My sister worked for the state of AK. One of the main orientation classes for new hires was "how to show up for work on time".

Please. Bill Clinton was never on time and likely spent office time away fooling around with Juanita Broaddrick, Gennifer Flowers, Dolly Kyle-Browning, Paula Jones, Sally Perdue-Miller, and Elizabeth Ward-Gracen in Little Rock.; 16-06-25 2:00 AM
Tina Trent చెప్పారు...: Michelle Obama brought a baby to a job interview and made it clear to the underlings assigned to "evaluate" her "work ethic" that she would need special absentee privileges to go along with her special invented no-show job doing nonexistent "community relations" using public hospital tax dollars intended for actually sick, actually poor people, at 300k plus bennies a year. When her husband became a State Senator. Of course she did no real work, and the "job" was eliminated as soon as Obama was elected to higher office.

Imagine having the immorality to steal money from taxpayers and poor sick people because you can. She's a bitter, nasty sociopathical liar. Likely a disappointment to her parents.

I notice the Times is very careful to avoid actually reporting on this barefoot nutbag. But they replaced reporting with advice columns a long time ago. Dumbing down all the news that might otherwise be fit to print.; 16-06-25 6:44 AM
BG చెప్పారు...: Quite a few years ago we went to our local Walmart to have passport photos taken. The first guy, good looking and seemingly intelligent, screwed them up. (We found out when we went to the courthouse.) Went back and the guy working there was, to be honest, homely as heck and talked like he may not be the brightest bulb in the pack. He did an EXCELLENT job. As they say, don't judge a book by its cover.; 16-06-25 1:20 PM

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