Had my first 'bad' interview in years yesterday

[Gentile]

PS: @Cojak - When someone tells you you're too good for them, believe them; because they're probably right even if they're not speaking in earnest.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Here is a good idea for a film:

"The Interview"

[Platypus]

...Take this thread, as an example. In response to a simple story about Having A Bad Day, all of the women responded with empathy. By contrast some (by no means all) of the men took a simple story about dropping a clanger as a cue to give unsought and unnecessary advice...

Basic Venus and Mars stuff. I'd advise all men to read it.

[norrahe]

You're too good??

That's a rubbish line, and told me nothing about why I hadn't got the contract (which is what I wanted).

And the Senior Manager was a tosser..

I hate those replies or you get "you would get bored too quickly" in the role.

Though in the past I didn't get a permie role as I had a lower golf handicap than the interviewer ( old school financial services company).

[AtW]

Try showing a bit of leg, works great for me.

[doodab]

Basic Venus and Mars stuff. I'd advise all men to read it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Night-...0976310&sr=8-3

Any excuse to peer out the window with a telescope eh....

[adubya]

In response to a simple story about Having A Bad Day, all of the women responded with empathy.

They will be bitching about you on mumsnet.

[oscarose]

simple story about Having A Bad Day, all of the women...

All comments look constructive to me old girl. Sour grapes prehaps?

[EternalOptimist]

Because reception is fairly near the bottom of the hierarchy in most organisations, whatever the place's internal culture is like is usually reflected in how happy the person doing that job is to be there.

too true.

coffee machine and toilets are the other two giveaways.

[SupremeSpod]

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Most women are more perceptive, empathic and insightful than most men in my experience; we're just less likely than you to show everything we know. Take this thread, as an example. In response to a simple story about Having A Bad Day, all of the women responded with empathy. By contrast some (by no means all) of the men took a simple story about dropping a clanger as a cue to give unsought and unnecessary advice. And a special sub-category of special needs contractor (you know, the type who do this not as a career choice, but because their EQ and consequent ability to deal with human beings is so low they've never been able to hold down a permie job) responded with flippant misogyny. These differences aren't a biological thing, I don't think. It's just that women find people thrust their personalities at them far more often, more overtly (and, occasionally, more revealingly) than men. It's hard not to form opinions about people's motivations when they show so much of themselves to you across so many different situations.

FFS, you're worse than Lucy!