Comments on: Does this describe any of YOUR recent job interviews? http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/ We're ALL Rich Rosen, but some of us are more Rich Rosen than others... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:43:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Rich Rosen http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-54 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:29:28 +0000 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-54 Realize that "Which three books would you have taken?" is the money line at the end of the original movie version of "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/">The Time Machine</a>". (SPOILER ALERT, if you care: Rod Taylor as the time traveler returns from the future to tell his tale to his friends, but they don't believe him. As his one true friend (played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949241/">Alan Young</a>) is leaving his house, he hears the time traveler's machine start up as he goes back to the future. The friend asks the housekeeper if he took anything with him to help him in his quest to fix the future, and she says "nothing... except three books." [She noticed an empty space about three books wide on the bookshelf.] The friend asked her which three books were gone, and she didn't know, asking the friend if it mattered. The friend responded "No, only... which three books would <i>you</i> have taken?" Pretty poignant line from a guy who used to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054557/">talk to a horse</a>...) Realize that "Which three books would you have taken?" is the money line at the end of the original movie version of "The Time Machine".

(SPOILER ALERT, if you care: Rod Taylor as the time traveler returns from the future to tell his tale to his friends, but they don't believe him. As his one true friend (played by Alan Young) is leaving his house, he hears the time traveler's machine start up as he goes back to the future. The friend asks the housekeeper if he took anything with him to help him in his quest to fix the future, and she says "nothing... except three books." [She noticed an empty space about three books wide on the bookshelf.] The friend asked her which three books were gone, and she didn't know, asking the friend if it mattered. The friend responded "No, only... which three books would you have taken?" Pretty poignant line from a guy who used to talk to a horse...)

]]> by: Misanthropic Scott http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-52 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:03:02 +0000 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-52 Also, you may want to consider asking questions like <a href="http://misanthropicscott.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/minimum-essentials-test/" rel="nofollow">these</a> on an interview. Lastly, one of my favorites that my wife got asked on an interview, "You're going to be marooned on a desert isle. You can have three books with you. What three books would you choose?" Also, you may want to consider asking questions like these on an interview.

Lastly, one of my favorites that my wife got asked on an interview, "You're going to be marooned on a desert isle. You can have three books with you. What three books would you choose?"

]]> by: Rich Rosen http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-34 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:16:10 +0100 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-34 Or, alternatively, they can react by considering you a smelly ignorant loser for failing to know the deep irrelevant information they only came across because their own bad programming practices resulted in the arcane fact evincing itself, or because they spend all waking (and sleeping) hours that they're not playing World of Warcraft reading tech books and articles on obscure subjects in Dr. J.R. "Bob" Dobbs' Journal of the Subgenius... Or, alternatively, they can react by considering you a smelly ignorant loser for failing to know the deep irrelevant information they only came across because their own bad programming practices resulted in the arcane fact evincing itself, or because they spend all waking (and sleeping) hours that they're not playing World of Warcraft reading tech books and articles on obscure subjects in Dr. J.R. "Bob" Dobbs' Journal of the Subgenius...

]]> by: Misanthropic Scott http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-33 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:32:38 +0100 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/09/18/interview-with-sociopath/#comment-33 I've had a bit of the super obscure trivia type of question, even at the interview for my current job. I find that if you stroke the sociopath's ego at that point by letting them know that you just learned something from them, it can put you in just the right position to get the job and forestall further such questions. I've had a bit of the super obscure trivia type of question, even at the interview for my current job. I find that if you stroke the sociopath's ego at that point by letting them know that you just learned something from them, it can put you in just the right position to get the job and forestall further such questions.

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