Make A Wish Or I’ll Blow You Away. Chuck Norris birthday cake.

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I tried to be the one with the sense of humor, but having a roommate rushing the giggliest, most destructive sorority on campus took the mild right out of my manner.

I don't know, Beej. I think I have a pretty good sense of humor and a very slow burn of a temper, but certain kinds of behavior get me angry in a way that's cold, white, and calculating, and by the time I quietly explain how I'm going to dispose of their corpse people usually understand that they are not to endanger other people in wildly stupid ways while I'm around.

Or, in other words, I feel like I need to high-five you for Hulking out!

What's the last/biggest thing that John Byrne did that marked him an asshat? Was it something about blonde Latinas?

Banning wikipedia is pretty funny. That's all I know about him, though.

Be ready to discuss your goals for each major area of your life: career, personal development and learning, family, physical (health), community service and (if your interviewer is clearly a religious person) you could very briefly and generally allude to your spiritual goals (showing you are a well-balanced individual with your values in the right order).

Dude. That's INSANE. Also, fairly illegal. But I hate when you have to answer shit that you're like "Dude, your'e not allowed to ask me that" because if you SAY "Dude, you're not allowed to ask me that", they won't want you because you're touchy. That said, I've also been the one interviewing someone and trying to make "get to know you" conversation, only to realize I was asking things that really we weren't supposed ot ask.

certain kinds of behavior get me angry in a way that's cold, white, and calculating, and by the time I quietly explain how I'm going to dispose of their corpse people usually understand that they are not to endanger other people in wildly stupid ways while I'm around.

Or, in other words, I feel like I need to high-five you for Hulking out!

Thanks my sistah. It sure seemed like the thing to do at the time.

Shortly thereafter, the same slow-on-the-uptake crew came to trash our room at dawn...while I was still in my bunk. Out of sheer delirium and an attempt to not get into a huge thing with the roomie who was conveniently absent, I let them...until one of them chirped, "I know, let's tie her roommate up! Tee hee." I came out of that bed, and through the rubble like unto someone to make John McClain proud. Things were thrown, curses were cursed. I never saw any of them again. Ever. Might have dropped out for all I know.

My current cold, white, calculating vendetta is against people who are afraid of their dogs. Don't get me started.

Be ready to discuss your goals for each major area of your life: career, personal development and learning, family, physical (health), community service and (if your interviewer is clearly a religious person) you could very briefly and generally allude to your spiritual goals (showing you are a well-balanced individual with your values in the right order).

Yeah, this needs a hard stop right after learning. Maaybe community service if it's career related. As an interviewee, I'd flip out like a mammal if much of the rest of that came up, and (aside from the legality/ethics of it), way to lead you into a potential minefield.

As an interviewer, the few times those sorts of topics came up, my (internal) response was "why the hell would you be talking to me about that?"

The advice about being prepared with concrete, progressive goals is right on though. (Progressive as in multi-stage, not lefty.)

With women, especially, asking about future family plans can lead to "Well, she wants to have kids, so we can't hire her as a manager when she'll be off on maternity leave!" That happened to a cousin of mine who didn't know she could tell the interviewer that her family planning was no business of his.

Our instructor pointed out that aside from HR reps, many interviewers don't know what the rules actually are, hence the need to be prepared for wacko and possibly illegal questions.

I've never been asked those personal sorts of questions, and I'm not sure how I'd feel working for somewhere that thought it was okay.

However, I have been asked for samples of documents I'd prepared for previous employers, and well, patently not mine to distribute and I said so.

Still got the gig.

I love that there's a wank!wiki.

I found this Byrne-related article which includes the quote I'd been thinking of:

Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are.

"Personal prejudice" reads to me here like "no insult intended."