The EPIC Turkey Day.. ZOMG & THE EPIC XMAS D.T BOOM ROASTED!

I have a potential new hire coming in today for an interview. He's got a good looking resume so that rocks.
I'd really like a perfectly legal way to ask him if he's a bleeding hatchet wound who can't handle taking directive, or if he needs his fanny patted every time he's tasked with something within his scope of responsibility. In addition, I REALLY need to know if he's okay taking directive from a female...
suggestions?

 

Ask his references?

*Shit... re-read that he's coming in today. Ask whatever you can about his previous responsibilities and taking orders and then call his references afterwards?

 

This is only an informal meeting. Nothing major, just kind of a pre-screening before he meets up with the bossman. And, alas, checking references hasn't netted great results in the past.

 

I'm sorry, I got confused when you mentioned something about a point.

So, naturally, I have now just Google image searched "Devils advocate naked" - that one works out pretty good, especially if you turn off safe search.

 

There's a scene in this season of Dexter where Deb was in a situation like this. Look into it.

 

This is an informative video of how to not be seen.

However, there is no means of making the bartender see you if you are not a female with large breasts and/or a nice ass.

I am bored and drunk, random and gross possibly included as part of the package deal.

G+ hangout, anyone? Who knows what I might say...

 

If a woman asked me that I would think she was a power tripping bitch. I would feel similarly if someone asked if I minded taking orders from someone younger than me or a minority. If I'm not comfortable with it I will just decline the offer. If he's desperate he'll just lie anyway, really dumb question to ask in an interview in my opinion.

 

Bingo.

Shimmy, do the interview naked. Ask him several math questions while bending over just close enough so he can get a whiff of you. "Oops dropped my pen!" If he answers them correctly in a respectable amount of time, he's a keeper.

Funny enough, I'm going to go eat sushi now.

BADDUMP TSSH!

 

This is what pisses me off. I have zero interest in power tripping, or anything similar, but I've had now two employees who didn't want to be "under" me because I'm a female. "I don't have issues with a guy telling me what to do because that's what men are supposed to do, and we're bros and stuff, and we work here, but I'm not letting HER tell me to do ANYTHING."

I don't give a damn about power or position, I just care that the goddamn job is done as it should be done when it's tasked out. Nothing fancy, just show up on time, in the right uniform, in the right place, and do what's asked. My gender shouldn't be an issue, but apparently, it is, for some. And, to be honest, I'm uninterested in having to deal with anyone who, after two months of my time training them, is going to flip a bitch because they have to deal with a female supervisor.

I understand it's a bad/dumb question to ask in an interview, and I certainly wouldn't ask it in seriousness, I was being facetious more than anything else when I posed the original question, though I DO wish there were a legal/appropriate way to scale the hurdle.

 

Is a bleeding hatchet wound a vagina?

 

Yes.
Just like a homosexual who revs his Harley and makes ungodly noise driving through the neighborhood is a gay fag.

 

You do realize that during the summer, it's pretty much bikini season up in here, with the booty shorts and sports bras and knee socks, right? May as well be naked.

 

There's a little bit of irony in your wanting to ask a guy if he's the sort of sexist vagina that has an issue with women in power, no?

 

I only said it because I know someone that asked the younger question (he's 30ish the interviewee was late forties) and was dumbfounded that someone could be that stupid.

As for the guys that have problems you make it clear you're the boss in the interview, right? If they still take the job knowing this they would lie anyway. I realize you probably know this and are just being rhetorical, but I feel like rambling because I'm on my second glass of wine and have nothing better to do.

 

I know, buddy. I know. Me too.

 

In my experience, interviews are bullshit. Sit down with him and chat, like a normal human being, and get a feel for him. Go with your gut instinct, and not with his resume. If you choose badly, fire his ass and learn from the mistake. It'll make you a much better manager over time.

 

I'm too tired to lift the beer bottle to my lips to drink. Thank god for straws.

I'd have a problem working with an attractive boss because I'm a weak man when it comes to attractive women in power and I'd over-do it. I'll be getting to work an hour early, leaving an hour later. Not be dicking around on this board, not gchatting half the day, not reading Grantland the other half. There are some attractive women in my office and most of them are enthralling when they start talking business. It's just so fucking hot.

Luckily my boss is the equivalent of Paul Bunyon so I don't have to worry about such, which is odd because advertising has a healthy helping of women. The woman I interviewed with was wearing a loose plaid button down where her very revealing bra kept showing through the peaks while she mad intense eye contact. That was fucking hard for me.

 

Name? Because I Google image searched "Philadelphia Channel Ten Weather Team" and I wasn't impressed.