#Bad Advice

[thatbadadvice]

Help! I'm a Perfect Genius, but This Potential Employer Asked Me a Boring Interview Question!

Ask A Manager, 13 Feb 2024:

I was rejected from a role for not answering an interview question. I had all the skills they asked for, and the recruiter and hiring manager loved me. I had a final round of interviews — a peer on the hiring team, a peer from another team that I would work closely with, the director of both teams (so my would-be grandboss, which I thought was weird), and then finally a technical test with the hiring manager I had already spoken to. (I don’t know if it matters but I’m male and everyone I interviewed with was female.) The interviews went great, except the grandboss. I asked why she was interviewing me since it was a technical position and she was clearly some kind of middle manager. She told me she had a technical background (although she had been in management 10 years so it’s not like her experience was even relevant), but that she was interviewing for things like communication, ability to prioritize, and soft skills. I still thought it was weird to interview with my boss’s boss. She asked pretty standard (and boring) questions, which I aced. But then she asked me to tell her about the biggest mistake I’ve made in my career and how I handled it. I told her I’m a professional and I don’t make mistakes, and she argued with me! She said everyone makes mistakes, but what matters is how you handle them and prevent the same mistake from happening in the future. I told her maybe she made mistakes as a developer but since I actually went to school for it, I didn’t have that problem. She seemed fine with it and we moved on with the interview. A couple days later, the recruiter emailed me to say they had decided to go with someone else. I asked for feedback on why I wasn’t chosen and she said there were other candidates who were stronger. I wrote back and asked if the grandboss had been the reason I didn’t get the job, and she just told me again that the hiring panel made the decision to hire someone else. I looked the grandboss up on LinkedIn after the rejection and she was a developer at two industry leaders and then an executive at a third. She was also connected to a number of well-known C-level people in our city and industry. I’m thinking of mailing her on LinkedIn to explain why her question was wrong and asking if she’ll consider me for future positions at her company but my wife says it’s a bad idea. What do you think about me mailing her to try to explain?

Sir,

You have been wronged in the most grievous of ways by a coven of retaliatory, self-aggrandizing women who have failed in the extreme to recognize your brilliance, your talent, and above all, your general superiority.

Of course you should mail this mediocre "grandboss" on LinkedIn to inform her of the deep offense she caused you by interviewing you in the first place, let alone doing so using a boring question — indeed, you have a moral and professional obligation to do so in order to preserve your honor and the honor of scores of men like you who have never done a single solitary thing wrong in their lives, ever.

But I beg you to consider doing more. A single, private message to one incompetent bitch may not convey to the necessary parties the depth and breadth of the situation. Many, many people have important lessons to learn from your experience, and I encourage you to share it widely. Consider making a public LinkedIn post, and ensure that it is shareable across platforms. Depending on your financial resources, a billboard with your name, professional headshot, and contact information could go a long way toward ensuring that everyone in your industry who needs to know just how you handled the way these women treated you, does know about it. I hope that in your continuing job search, you are able to connect with potential employers who have a much better grasp of all you bring to the table.

#advice #bad advice #ask a manager #workplace #workplace advice #linkedin #bosses #working #developers #coding #fedoras #men #misogyny #workplace misogyny #hiring #job searching #employment

[ky-landfill]

#under his wing #bad advice #jason todd #tim drake #batman

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#bad advice #other stuff

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The worst advice I’ve been given as a neurodivergent…

Mollys ADHD Mayhem

#autism #actually autistic #adhd #adhd post #neurodivergence #bad advice #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #feel free to share/reblog #Mollys ADHD Mayhem (facebook)

[incorrectbatfam]

Should I continue writing fan fictions?

Sure, worst case scenario it sucks and you learn from it

#dc fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic #writing #writing advice #personal #bad advice

[vintage-tech]

Things NOT to do.

Popular Science, November 1951

#1951 #vintage #bad advice #technology #battery go boom

[pratchettquotes]

Ridcully flailed at a passing shark. "They won't attack you if you make a lot of noise and splash around," he said.

"I thought that's when they will attack you, sir," Ponder called out.

"Ah, an interesting practical experiment," said the Dean, craning to watch.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

#mustrum ridcully #ponder stibbons #the dean #the last continent #discworld #terry pratchett #wizards #academics #sharks #scientific method #experimentation #bad advice #contradictions #interesting #shark attack

[darkpunkrocker]

📖 hi is this the advice store. How do I pick up twinks

Gently of course.

#answered asks #pkmn rp #pkmn irl #bad advice #//does this count as bad advice? #sidney rp

[quinnyyyleft]

DM Tip - The constraints of D&D skill checks are not limited to 5e. Have them make a "Clumsy" check, or a "Clown" check or even a "Chaos" check. The only limits are the ones you put on yourself.

#dungeons and dragons #lol #being a dm #cant make this shit up #out of context stuff #critical role #brennan lee mulligan #DM tips #DM ideas #Funny #Bad advice

[dnschmidt]

The perfect first sentence...

#funny stuff #jokes #humor #tweet #twitter #funny twitter #creative writing #bad advice

[thatbadadvice]

Help! Am I responsible for teaching my children how to act in public??????

Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 April 2024:

Dear Carolyn: On a recent vacation, our family (including two teenagers) was at a restaurant for lunch. We had not had any food yet when I noticed dried food on my water glass. After the server brought our ordered drinks, I calmly noted the food on my glass and asked for a clean one. No drama, and the server was a pro — no hesitation, brought a new glass and comped us a bottle of water. The hiccup? My teenagers were appalled and embarrassed, basically implying I’m a Karen for first failing to just live with the dirty glass and second not apologizing profusely before asking for a clean one. I tried to explain that part of being served includes clean everything, but they were unpersuaded. Did I miss something? Is this a generational thing? Literally made no fuss at all and did not suggest anything be comped. But I’m feeling defensive. How to communicate that it’s okay to politely ask for corrections when things are amiss? — Anonymous

Dear Anonymous —

This is a generational thing and there's nothing you as a parent can do to improve your children's behavior now, nor was there anything you ever could have done to shape the way they act in the world, their understanding of social norms, their expectations, or how they treat other people.

Kids turn out the way they are because of the generation they were born into, which doesn't have anything to do with the people who raised them or who created the society they live in.

Take heart: you're one of many millions of parents of Gen Z-ers whose offspring are just really into drinking out of dirty glasses. We'll never know why. It's one of the great mysteries of our time, but the good news is that this isn't your problem. There's absolutely no way to teach this particular generation of young people how to order food at restaurants, and even if there were, it wouldn't be on you as their parent to do it. Kids these days just love filthy dishware.

#parenting #advice #bad advice #teens #mortified #carolyn hax #dining #dining etiquette #manners #restaurants

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

my mom can barely accept the fact that I want a tattoo how is she ever gonna accept that I’ve figured out my identity enough to know I fall under the aroace spectrum

Get a tattoo about being aroace, double acceptance needed

#BAD ADVICE #DONT DO THIS PLEASE #asks #ask #aromantic #aroace #asexual

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#bad advice #other stuff

[badadvicebyari]

Have you ever found yourself in need of some advice but don't know who to turn to? Do you find yourself thinking "I need someone to tell me what NOT to do"? Are you bad at making decisions and want someone to weigh in on the final choice?

If you answered yes to any of the above, allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Ari. I'm very good at giving advice. In fact, I have a 100% success rate* with advice giving.

Now that my reputation precedes me, please. Send in some asks. I'd love to advise you!

*every time I've been asked for advice, advice was given. Satisfaction rates may vary.

#tumblr #gimmick blog #advice #bad advice #shitpost

[incorrectbatfam]

i'm writing a bat family wing fic (of sorts) and can't decide what wings to give Duke. he can have either some kind of bird wings, bat wings, OR insect wings.

(the way the wings work is that they kinda magically get them when they become vigilantes/"guardians of gotham" bc theyre already so much magic bullshit around Gotham that i figured why not. so they'res not genes or metahuman stuff really involved which why all of them, and just them, have wings)

birds wings like the other Robins, but Duke was never technically/officially a Robin.

bat wings as part of the bat family but again, never officially a Robin + obviously he wears a bat emblem as Signal.

finally insect wings -> i thought it'd be cool if he had smth that reflected light bc of his powers (maybe dragonfly wings??)

idk. i'm curious to hear other people's thoughts abt it

(in case you're wondering, Bruce, Babs, and Cass, (and eventually Terry but like he's not even born at this point) will have bat wings. Dick, Jason, Tim, and Steph will have bird wings (Steph gets bird wings and not bat wings because she was Robin before she was Batgirl, although i think ill have her get her wings before she joins the batfam when she starts out as Spoiler). i haven't decided on Damien and i'm not including anyone else bc that would be. So Many People.)

Give him pterodactyl wings for no reason other than it'd be hilarous

Imagine Bruce Wayne, veteran dinosaur lover, getting regular bat wings while the new kid gets a fucking PREHISTORIC CREATURE

Also Damian should have those things flying squirrels have

#duke thomas #signal #damian wayne #robin #batman #batfamily #batfam #batboys #batbros #batgirls #batkids #batsiblings #batman family #dc comics #dc fanfic #alternate universe #fanfic ideas #writing tips #advice #bad advice #tw swearing

[cookiefate]

Cookiefate for April 19th: "One cannot know the best that is in him."

Accept all your shitty faults and run with it today.

#cookiefate #astrology #fortune cookie #horoscope #today's horoscope #astro notes #astro observations #bad advice #dailyhoroscope #astro community #cat #field notes #calendar #of the day