Originally Posted by
Kate_Canuck
If you are interviewing for a job and the interview experience includes a meal, do not order a) pasta with long, floppy noodles - too easy to splatter yourself with sauce); or b) shellfish that must be extricated from their shells.
Your suggestion about pasta choice is mine as well. Get penne rather than linguine or spaghetti. Even an expert at twirling their pasta with a spoon can be mocked by the gods of red sauce
Originally Posted by
Kate_Canuck
...Thankfully, she laughed and repeated the line to the lawyer to her left, who also laughed. I got the job offer - and also decided that these were people I felt comfortable working with.
You probably already felt some degree of comfort with these people to make that comment. At my last interview lunch with ten future potential co-workers with whom I'd already spent most of the day, one of them asked, "Your resume shows you've been in many positions...which was your favorite?" I responded, "Well...that's a rather
personal question..." and everyone burst out laughing. I should point out though that our industry is pretty informal about many things.
They offered me the job and I very happily accepted
