re: #228 prairiefire

No. I would get passed over in job interviews if I did.

So i was interviewing this guy a few years ago…he was applying to be a supervisor. Decent work experience, so-so background…

In the interview, i thought he was trying too hard to be confident and coming off as a little arrogant (i value a manager’s ability to correctly project professional emotions). Then, out of nowhere…boom…he drops the F-bomb.

I didn’t make a big deal out of it, just finished up. Turns out he’d dropped it on someone else, too. We two voted ‘no’. There were two ‘yes’ votes, one of which was a VP, who thought he could chalk it up to youthful indiscretion (nevermind the guy was a 30yo).

Of course, after supervising in another area for a while to mixed reviews, he ended up working for a manager in my area. Not cool. i reminded the VP of our difference in opinion from the interview as often as possible without getting myself fired.

After a year of poor performance, one day, a maintenance employee caught him taking a whiz…outside…on the building. We fired him that day, and my VP is a little sheepish about the whole thing.

True story!