It’s one of the many questions meant to ensure you’re capable of basic human interaction and aware of basic social conventions. You aren’t rambling about your BDSM sex dungeon or how much you love setting Teslas on fire in a mock work setting, you have the tact to choose something work appropriate.
It’s also because you might be spending 40 fucking hours a week with the person interviewing you, and it can be nice for them to have some small chat topics going in. No workplace is 100% “keep your head down and just work”. Human connection is extraneous to the job at hand, but it sure can make those 40 hours far less of a death march every week.
And now it serves yet another minor purpose: it’s another flag that might point to the interviewer using ChatGPT to bullshit things.
It’s concerning to me that so many people can’t come up with even a few useful reasons for a bullshit interview question like that.
[Copy paste from my other answer] It was a rhetorical question, sorry that wasn’t clear. I know that knowing details about my private life can be useful for an employer to estimate how exploitable I’m going to be. What it meant is more or less ‘Not their fucking business’, asking personal questions in an interview is a big red flag for me, how about ‘are you thinking on getting pregnant any time soon?’? I’m sure most companies would like to have that information too…
And now it serves yet another minor purpose: it’s another flag that might point to the interviewer using ChatGPT to bullshit things.
No, it only does for the unprepared: ‘Hey, chat gpt, give me a list of hobbies that would make a good impression in a job interview’, or just bullshit through it: ‘I volunteer, I play some [team sport], I like hiking, hitting the gym, reading, playing the guitar even though I’m not very good…’.
It must be great living with no anxiety or mental issues that would make such interactions not immediately comfortable for the interviewee… If you think they’re fantasizing about a bdsm sex dungeon role play instead… Well that tells me more about you than it does a potential hire.
It must be great living with no anxiety or mental issues that would make such interactions not immediately comfortable for the interviewee.
Maybe. I wouldn’t personally know.
Sorry, but I’m definitvely not the strawman normie talking down to the neurodivergent people that it reads like you hoped I was.
And how in the hell did you get idea “you think they’re fantasizing about a bdsm sex dungeon role play” when someone pauses in an interview out of what I said?
First off, I never used the words “role play”. Dohohoho.
It was an exaggeration for humor’s sake, and the scenario in my head was someone just immediately responding to the question with a boatload of details about their sex life.
It’s one of the many questions meant to ensure you’re capable of basic human interaction and aware of basic social conventions. You aren’t rambling about your BDSM sex dungeon or how much you love setting Teslas on fire in a mock work setting, you have the tact to choose something work appropriate.
It’s also because you might be spending 40 fucking hours a week with the person interviewing you, and it can be nice for them to have some small chat topics going in. No workplace is 100% “keep your head down and just work”. Human connection is extraneous to the job at hand, but it sure can make those 40 hours far less of a death march every week.
And now it serves yet another minor purpose: it’s another flag that might point to the interviewer using ChatGPT to bullshit things.
It’s concerning to me that so many people can’t come up with even a few useful reasons for a bullshit interview question like that.
[Copy paste from my other answer] It was a rhetorical question, sorry that wasn’t clear. I know that knowing details about my private life can be useful for an employer to estimate how exploitable I’m going to be. What it meant is more or less ‘Not their fucking business’, asking personal questions in an interview is a big red flag for me, how about ‘are you thinking on getting pregnant any time soon?’? I’m sure most companies would like to have that information too…
No, it only does for the unprepared: ‘Hey, chat gpt, give me a list of hobbies that would make a good impression in a job interview’, or just bullshit through it: ‘I volunteer, I play some [team sport], I like hiking, hitting the gym, reading, playing the guitar even though I’m not very good…’.
It must be great living with no anxiety or mental issues that would make such interactions not immediately comfortable for the interviewee… If you think they’re fantasizing about a bdsm sex dungeon role play instead… Well that tells me more about you than it does a potential hire.
Wouldn’t that also make you an unpleasant coworker on the actual job
Maybe. I wouldn’t personally know.
Sorry, but I’m definitvely not the strawman normie talking down to the neurodivergent people that it reads like you hoped I was.
And how in the hell did you get idea “you think they’re fantasizing about a bdsm sex dungeon role play” when someone pauses in an interview out of what I said?
First off, I never used the words “role play”. Dohohoho.It was an exaggeration for humor’s sake, and the scenario in my head was someone just immediately responding to the question with a boatload of details about their sex life.