I planned on writing a completely different post. It’s even drafted. For a variety of reasons, though, it won’t appear here–a little too<\/i> much about corporate myopia and tunnel vision.<\/p>\n
This evening I conducted an interview. Store managers in the district send employee candidates to me for a second interview, and after a few fits and starts in getting this particular interview scheduled we finally found the time this evening.<\/p>\n
I close my interviews out with two questions. The first, what can you bring to the table another applicant cannot? The second, what questions do you have for me?<\/p>\n
The first question received an answer so absurd, so off-point, that I still<\/i> cannot believe he gave it. Interviews are a serious process, and my free advice would be, take the process seriously.<\/p>\n
For the second question he came back with, How has your day been?<\/p>\n
It’s an interesting question. I even took a stab at answering the question in a fairly positive manner. But, how does asking that question help toward my making a recommendation on the candidate’s behalf?<\/p>\n
Overall, it was a decent day, but a long day, an unintended open-to-close shift, twelve hours. Business wasn’t quite<\/i> where it needed to be, but in the end we did better than it seemed we might. I wanted to take a crack at cleaning up some paperwork at the store today and got to absolutely none of it.<\/p>\n
I made plans to see Constantine<\/i> tomorrow night. I’m not exactly thrilled<\/i> at the prospect, but a friend wants to go so I said I would. It does have Rachel Weisz, which forgives a lot<\/i>, but on the other hand it has Keanu Reeves. Sigh.<\/p>\n
I’ve added a “Recent Comments” sidebar to the webpage, as much for my own convenience as for that of casual browsers.<\/p>\n
I really<\/i> need to tackle my e-mail inbox. A thousand unread messages is not<\/i> a good thing….<\/p>\n
Drink another Guinness, put Eisley<\/a>‘s “Room Noises” in the stereo, and read some of The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane<\/i> before bed. Sounds like a plan to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I planned on writing a completely different post. It’s even drafted. For a variety of reasons, though, it won’t appear here–a little too much about corporate myopia and tunnel vision. This evening I conducted an interview. Store managers in the district send employee candidates to me for a second interview, and after a few fitsContinue reading “On My Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[228,4124],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-eb-games","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}