"We're like a family here at [insert small business]"

You hear that you run.

I was on a panel with a younger hiring supervisor who seems to place crazy high significance on interviewing skills and those specific characteristics.

myself and other, slightly older (and more chill interviewers) tried a few times to gently nudge them that doing "great" on an interview does not guarantee a good employee. personally, I didn't finish college at a time when schools were quite so up-the-ass as to provide interview coaches that trained people in how to seem perfect.

anyway, it didn't seem to sink in.

personally I would take a dozen awkward weirdos in ill fitting clothes with curiosity, initiative, and interest than some trained seal who can balance a ball on their nose for 30 minutes.

I worked around the seals. they showboat good in meetings and with bosses, but don't always generate good work product.

I also find interviewing to be such a fraught experience, the humans charged with doing it should be much gentler and more respectful to the human in the hot seat.... who is NOT being paid to be there.

Man, I can just microwave my potatoes at home like a normal person

SIR! THIS... IS... A... WENDYYYYYYYYYY'S

This Aggressive Retsuko fan comic goes hard.