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"You based your resume tips on a sexual grooming chart?" "As a joke!" "I'm gonna go work somewhere else..." I know cultures are different in different places
by vonnieda 3y ago
"You based your resume tips on a sexual grooming chart?"
"As a joke!"
"I'm gonna go work somewhere else..."
I know cultures are different in different places, but in corporate America this post is all red flags. Always Sunny is hilarious, but I sure wouldn't want to be sitting in HR explaining "the implication" to someone who has never seen the show.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoThink of all the implications
- dclowd9901 3y ago100% with this. I love the show but this reeks of tech broism to an extent it almost feels satirical.
- dbg31415 3y agoI had to Google it... Yeah, not something you want to have to explain in an interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THvCDn8mGwo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THvCDn8mGwo
- nkingsy 3y agoMy favorite episode, but I think this is maybe one step worse than taking cues from "Succession"
- Minor49er 3y agoDennis is a master of dark patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTKZ9Gyqiyo&t=29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTKZ9Gyqiyo&t=29s
- bigmattystyles 3y agoI'm sure OP can just share his erotic memoir of his exploits to explain.
- jeffwask 3y agoWatch out for Sinbad
- jakey_bakey 3y agoMy memoir is the least erotic literature since The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Syzygies 3y agoAnyone who follows an acronym for advice isn't cut out to be an effective manager.
- version_five 3y agoMany successful managers are people who blindly follow processes without understanding or caring why they're doing stuff. And many companies (and especially government) want wind-up dolls, not mavericks who think for themselves.
- reducesuffering 3y agoYou just don't understand BOBODDY
- khazhoux 3y agoApart from using the letters D E N N I S for lulz, this has nothing to do with the content of the show.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoYeah, it's as if this person read the first paragraph and assumed the system was the exact same one as in the screencap. Anyone who read the article would see they're different in all but acronyms.
- jakey_bakey 3y agoSorry if that came across badly. I'm fairly new to blogging and still trying to strike the right tone with my content - trying to get a decent balance of informative and entertaining. If it helps, I'm working on a 6-part series about unit testing with the new asynchronous features in Swift that's dry as fuck
- shalmanese 3y ago[flagged]
- odshoifsdhfs 3y agoI didn't read the article (so hopefully you aren't advocating something nasty), but will give you a piece of advice I have read somewhere a long time ago which is attributed to Bill Cosby (I know!) and has helped me immensely. `I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.` So write with your own voice. Maybe you will rub some people the wrong way, but that is the path you should follow to resonate with your target audience.
- tekla 3y agoThere was nothing wrong with the article at all. Dont let people take humor out of life.
- sc2862 3y ago"Well don't you look at me like that, you certainly wouldn't be in any danger"
- pcthrowaway 3y agoGet the hiring manager on a boat with you on international waters. Then they'll have to hire you... because of the implication. yeeaah, this post is simultaneously hilarious (because the show is hilarious) and also demonstrates that the author is more interested in being edgy than promoting an inclusive environment for people who aren't tech bros. This speaks to company culture, and to be fair, the more inclusive end of the spectrum isn't a given. There are plenty of companies like Kraken and Basecamp that have made it known they value just focusing on work rather than identity politics, and the author is waving a flag that signals he's part of "their tribe". To some companies and people (such as myself) this flag happens to look red, but I don't think you can generalize to corporate america, because I think more companies are more interested in cultural homogeneity and having their worker bees looking similar and falling in line than they are in celebrating individuality and promoting diversity/inclusivity in their workforce. Even if most don't make this as explicit as Basecamp/Kraken.
- singleshot_ 3y agoI think it’s worth reading this post as a championship level ecosystem parasite getting his host to spread his resume widely within the ecosystem. If the message wasn’t itself a strong advertisement not to do business with this person, I’d suggest it doesn’t belong here, but as it is, this post is a valuable community service.
- marcellus23 3y agoThis seems like a wild overreaction to me. The author just used the DENNIS system as a humorous starting point, but the advice doesn't have anything to do with manipulating women. I'm not sure how inclusion or diversity applies at all -- this isn't a corporate learning presentation, it's a blog post. He's allowed to reference a sitcom. Frankly, your comment also reeks of the tribalism that's pervading modern political thought. Because he referenced a risqué joke from a sitcom on his blog, that means he's a "tech bro" who's anti-diversity? Come on.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago> Frankly I see what you did there
- kraftman 3y agoWhy would you have to explain that in an interview? How would that conversation even happen? First they would have to ask you to explain the process of improving your resume, then you'd have to get into a conversation about how you read some tips from a blog post, then you'd need to tell them the blog post used the DENNIS acronym for humour, then explain the DENNIS system in its always sunny.
- unmole 3y agoWhy would this even come up in a discussion with HR?