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> Not to be mean spirited In the history of human interaction, has anyone said that and not then followed it up with something arrogant and dickish? > I've go
by santoshalper 10y ago
> Not to be mean spirited
In the history of human interaction, has anyone said that and not then followed it up with something arrogant and dickish?
> I've gotten every job I've ever interviewed for that I really wanted
Of course you have. And the jobs you didn't get you later decided you must not have really wanted enough. I wonder how you would have felt about those jobs if you had gotten them.
We get it, you're a super impressive person. You can stop trying so hard to impress us now.
- a_t48 10y agoHe may also be in an industry or an area where given a certain bar of quality and a friend at whatever company you are applying to, you get in. From my viewpoint, it's super common in engineering.
- bigmanwalter 10y agoHe's also probably also a well off, straight, white male.
- jimmywanger 10y agoBased on what? Racist misconceptions about how hiring processes work?
- lazyasciiart 10y agoWhy can't it be based on HN demographics?
- jimmywanger 10y agoWhich demographics? The one that has never been measured or published? (Except for age, which is not mentioned) Or the one that exists in the stereotypes and imaginations of people futilely trying to find discrimination where there is none?
- sctb 10y agoOn controversial topics, we need commenters to pay special attention to posting substantively so we can keep having a conversation instead of a skirmish.
- vacri 10y ago> and not then followed it up with something arrogant and dickish I remember a comedian saying that he likes to say "I don't want to sound racist, but" and then follow it up with something that actually wasn't racist. As in "I don't want to sound racist, but do you have the time?" or "I don't want to sound racist, but can you tell me the way to High St?"
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoI wish I could remember which comedian this was, I distinctly recall the line as "I don't mean to sound racist, but could you pass the salt" in reference to reclaiming phrases that are usually negated by what follows.
- Asooka 10y ago> In the history of human interaction, has anyone said that and not then followed it up with something arrogant and dickish? Of course not. I take that to mean "what I have to say I cannot say in a way that is not dickish, so understand that I'm not doing it with the purpose of hurting you".