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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 207 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

so that person is both wasting people's time, and possibly making their current team feel unnerved and replacable. galaxy brain move truly

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Meh, they're just hiding the obvious - if they found a good candidate they'd hire them. It's a gentle rejection.

This appears to go over our linkedin mastermind over there though, and proceeds to write a self-help book about it...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 125 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they straight up admitted they wasted my time, I'd steal a printer or something on the way out.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

With how printers are nowadays, that printer would probably try to get a GPS lock, or failing that, scan all devices nearby to try to determine its whereabouts, then capture your ID, face and any sensitive information it could, and start extorting your for more yellow ink...

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Beautiful comment

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And demand you create an account to just turn it on.

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 points 2 months ago

Yellow ink used to draw those sweet invisible fingerprints on every printed page so you can be tracked easily

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My man writing corporate yaoi fanfiction on LinkedIn...

[–] Sequence5666@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] scrion@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Manga depicting explicit, male homosexuality.

[–] Sequence5666@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

As is tradition on 4chan, all greentexts stories are fake and gay. Jack is elegantly indicating this, by qualifying OP's post as being a fictional male homoerotic narrative.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Waste people's time and give them false hope. Great moral

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Wasting his own time and the companies too. Should be sacked. I hope he gets nothing but bogus interviews for the rest of his life.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do these people even hear themselves talk?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

You kidding?

It's their favorite thing.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 33 points 2 months ago

Congrats, Harjeet, on being a piece of shit. Doesn't even matter if it's fake and gay like greentexts, this kind of thought is a cancer

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You all don't get it. In the story, the interviewer is the bad guy, he's wasting his time and the time of the interviewee just to understand how valuable his team is.

The lesson to take from it is to be in touch with your team so that you don't need someone else to show you how they are.

Isn't that the entire point of being a people leader? I am, and my job description and yearly goals are all about team performance, not my individual performance.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised this is so low. The moral obviously implies this interviewer behavior is wrong.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I can’t wait to retire and fuck off into the sunset. This shit is so tiresome.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

If you need external validation that your team has value, you have no business being in a management position.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago

Vice President Human Resources at Reliance

Aaah, that explains it all.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

This man will not have a car within 6 months, he will have a flaming pile of scrap, or a canvas upon which scratches paint a vile picture.

And also will be receiving an invoice for my time.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A quick search reveals ol' Harjeet is somehow quite the bigwig in HR circles. He wrote a book entitled 'Employee Retention Mastermind'.

I wonder if this is an excerpt.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

HR not shaking the rep as a cargo cult any time soon

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did everybody just decide to not read the last part?

Be aware of your people's worth so the world doesn't have to remind you.

It's basically 'hey, remember how shitty hiring is? keep that in mind and try to keep people you have.' It's not an example of "this is a good thing to try doing."

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

No its saying what he learnt from doing the actions in a more summarized manner. "The world reminding you" is not the actions taken in the story, but rather the conceptual issue you'll be avoiding by following the "advice". It's not a negation