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In retrospect: hiring managers having Ayn Rand books at work.
by hondo77 3y ago
In retrospect: hiring managers having Ayn Rand books at work.
- em-bee 3y agocould you elaborate please? any interesting experience you made because of that?
- thedougd 3y agoI worked for a guy who had Atlas Shrugged on his bookshelf. I chuckled and thought okay. I later went on a business trip with him and found out that 1) he was left of center and 2) a prior CEO was very much a Randist and sent the book to every SVP and up in the company.
- arp242 3y ago"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."