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What an awkward time to take photos. My company was interviewing a candidate once. He was spectacular during the interview, but then he stared taking pictures
by juanbyrge 13y ago
What an awkward time to take photos.
My company was interviewing a candidate once. He was spectacular during the interview, but then he stared taking pictures of our office and our employees, which made us all uncomfortable, and that's the only reason we did not offer him a job.
What may seem like normal behavior to one person may be offensive or intrusive to someone else.
- CamperBob2 13y agoIn this case, the guy had just rambled on for some time about how he didn't care if anything "leaked." If I were inclined to take photos, his earlier words in the recording might well have sounded like permission.
- gojomo 13y agoExcept: it came right after Armstrong talking about not being bothered by "leaking information". And that according to Business Insider, this same employee "always" took photos during meetings/conference-calls, for internal publishing. It's possible that in the stressful moment, with his mind on the "you're with the plan or should leave" theme, Armstrong misread or overreacted to the photo-taking. (Perhaps even, the "you're fired" was a reaction to a momentary facial expression from the photographer, in reaction to the first "put that camera down" command.) Or maybe there's a history, and Armstrong already viewed the employee as insufficiently serious about Patch. Either way, an odd occurrence.
- tga_d 13y agoThis was considered normal behavior. "We hear that Lenz, based in New York, would always take pictures of people talking on company-wide conference calls so that he could post them on Patch's internal news site." http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-audio-listen-to-aol-ceo-tim-armstrong-fire-a-patch-employee-snapping-a-photo-2013-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-audio-listen-to-aol-ce...
- colmvp 13y agoI couldn't disagree more. Your anecdote and this situation are completely different.