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Hey… that’s not Batman, that’s Fatman!
If someone has to watch Fatman to figure out how to dress for an interview, do you even want to consider that person for a job?
Yes, but what about jury duty? What exactly is “business casual”?
There is no right way to dress for an interview.
The fact you are going to an interview is a FAIL.
Souless corporations interview 25 candidates meaning they are wasting the time of 24 people automagically.
And if you get hired, in this current economy employers know they own you like a serf.
You can escape from this system.
Start your own business. Yes, few of you have the required skills.
For the rest of you, work a job where you are dramatically underpaid and perform so highly they’d never want to lose you where you can control your schedule.
But this involves actual hard work, and most of you are candy asses and fatties who wouldn’t make the cut.
However, if you can pull this off, you control your schedule, have ultimate job security, robust finances — if you have the required money management skills. And you aren’t a serf!
And if you can’t, we have this thing called evolution. It sorts us all out.
Not all of us can be winners. Fair? Not fair? The question is immaterial.
Life inherently isn’t fair, and yet the strong survive and dictate the terms of their life even in this rotten economy.
It’s called survival of the fittest. You may not like the system, but the system never asked for your approval.
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We don’t hire buffoons wearing dress shirts and ties, your application goes straight to the circular bin. I guess it’s one trait we share with Apple. We don’t own suits.
No, no, no! Howard Wolowitz (NOT PhD!) on The Big Bang Theory has it down when he wears one of his cruising for babes outfits:
BTW, hilarious show, the first network show I’ve bothered to watch in a very long time.
I usually wear nice suits to interviews, but I tend to apply for more professional jobs. Once I went to an interview in a ratty old t-shirt and jeans and they made me unload trucks in a warehouse for three years. I sure learned my lesson. Now I always dress up for interviews.
Granted at the time, I was working construction for a temp job in between professional jobs, and I applied at the building I was building, so that explained the clothing choice I made.
If you’re applying for a job shoveling shit at a stable, you can omit the tie. There’s a lot to be said about shoveling real shit, instead of the paper kind, other than the damn flies.
The stupidest interview question I got was the principal asked me if he needed a 6 foot deep trench dug, would I be willing to help. I told him yes, I would call a contractor for him and rent a excavator. The interview ended then.