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[Rolan7]

It sounds like a lot, at least.

[Doomblade187]

It sounds like a lot, at least.

And at least a little, at a minimum.

[pisskop]

Youre joking, but the first person to become woke probably felt weird.

[Gentlefish]

I feel that. First-interview happened last monday and they said they'd get back to me within the week, but.

Here I am with no information even after a followup.

[Arx]

Since it's Interview Season, I walked into mine this afternoon expecting... you know, normal interview questions. Instead I got unexpected philosophical questions and a cross-examination on my hobbies.

[Mephisto]

A business opened up a new location a few miles away - Tire Discounters. The business name on the building is "TireDiscounters" in the same exact italic white bubble font as all of the dubious job simulator games.

I pass it multiple times a day. I've wondered a few times why Tire Discount Store Simulator isn't yet a thing.

[TD1]

Since it's Interview Season, I walked into mine this afternoon expecting... you know, normal interview questions. Instead I got unexpected philosophical questions and a cross-examination on my hobbies.

Was that good or bad? I think I personally might prefer "and what do you think the meaning of life is?" over "name a time when you worked as part of a group to obtain a set goal."

[hector13]

Since it's Interview Season, I walked into mine this afternoon expecting... you know, normal interview questions. Instead I got unexpected philosophical questions and a cross-examination on my hobbies.

Was that good or bad? I think I personally might prefer "and what do you think the meaning of life is?" over "name a time when you worked as part of a group to obtain a set goal."

Well, therein lies the problem. The interview is to determine a person’s fit for a position, skills-wise and culture-wise, broadly speaking.

I’m not sure how your position on an abstract concept likely beyond the limits of the priorities of the position you’re applying for will inform an interviewer of those. At least the former, anyway.

Though I’m speaking as someone who has only ever applied for low-skill positions, the most recent of which I think was basically to make sure I was passable enough as a human to not drool on customers or something.

[Arx]

It's a mixed thing. It was relevant, because the two they hit me with were basically questions of teaching philosophy, but they were also both questions I'd have liked an hour or so to think about instead of thirty seconds. I like to think my answers were good, but who knows.

[NJW2000]

Since it's Interview Season, I walked into mine this afternoon expecting... you know, normal interview questions. Instead I got unexpected philosophical questions and a cross-examination on my hobbies.

Funnily enough, I once walked into an interview for a philosophy degree and got Simpson's Paradox.

You can usually tell when an interviewer gets to choose which questions they ask.

[Frumple]

Well played, Oriental Blue, well played. Normal game expectations, you fight sleep inducing enemy, steal special accessory off them called Sleep Ring, obviously it's a status resist accessory, right? Slip that baby on and enjoy your status immunity.

Oriental Blue's like, haha, actually unremovable cursed ring that inflicts sleep on the wearer. And not as, like, randomly or something. Straight up your ass is unconscious from turn 1 of a fight. Also you can't get it off and acquired it decently deep in a place full of enemies that hit pretty hard. Have fun with that~ and by fun i mean load your savestate and give the designers a nod of respect

[Dunamisdeos]

In Dragon Warrior 3 you had to go to the local Authentic Catholic Priest in order to remove cursed items. Sometimes there were swastikas in the building.

Also literal God was a woman in that game and some kind of fairy, to boot.

The 80's were very culturally different.

[Frumple]

OB's from the '00s, though

Though the older ones generally didn't play around like the ring thing, much. Part of that was just because they were making the tropes to eventually be fiddled with, but still. Its dickery tended to come from poor directions or whatev' than more explicit screw-yous.

... speaking of those, an early-ish warning sign from OB is a minor fetch quest you catch wind of super early and get access to shortly thereafter. The short of it is some dude gets you to bring them this tricked out sword (few hundred gold for a base weapon cost, then studded with the spell components you murder out of passing wildlife), and your reward is... basically the cheapest healing item in the game. Costs like a tenth or less what you trade for it. Dude was super enthusiastic about the thing and it supposedly tastes delicious, though! Game's honestly fairly legit so far, heh.

[Kagus]

I got cursed by a witch tonight.


So, some gal at the bar tonight apparently considered herself some sort of Åsatru hag. She also knew that she'd met me before (despite absolutely nobody recognizing the woman), and the one thing she remembered about me was that I was an asshole... So she was going to cast a spell to bring ruin and misfortune upon my life for the rest of my days, because I deserved everything I had coming to me.

Apparently "What, more than usual?" was not the correct response to this.

[pikachu17]

I got cursed by a witch tonight.


So, some gal at the bar tonight apparently considered herself some sort of Åsatru hag. She also knew that she'd met me before (despite absolutely nobody recognizing the woman), and the one thing she remembered about me was that I was an asshole... So she was going to cast a spell to bring ruin and misfortune upon my life for the rest of my days, because I deserved everything I had coming to me.

Apparently "What, more than usual?" was not the correct response to this.

Maybe the spell works retroactively.