Ha - this is not a post for or about the kids. It's just a humorous thing that happened to me the other day. Well, more like a humorous thing that happened in my presence. I'll take out the specifics but here's the gist...
So, let's say your company was hiring a new employee and you are one of the people who is reviewing and interviewing candidates. Each candidate is brought in for a day long on-site interview that includes a tour, meetings with various people, a presentation, and a lunch. That lunch (by the way) takes place at an awesome restaurant with awesome food.
Well, let's say one of the other people on the interview team is young and energetic; quite fun and a good person to make a potential candidate feel at home. We'll say that person is - oh - an expert in women's issues. Near the end of the lunch for the final candidate, it's revealed that this person is giving a lecture on the role of technology in women's lives throughout history - has it been a good thing, a bad thing, or neither?
The job candidate innocently asks - "well, which is it?" and the team member says that the audience will really need to draw their own conclusions; but there will be many examples. Things like.... clothes dryers, microwaves, and "since we are done eating" - vibrators.
Let's say this launches a lengthy tale of the history of the vibrator - from medical device to sex toy (the 1920's and the advent of distributed porn caused that shift - and vibrators went "underground" so-to-speak).
OMG - awkward much? Illegal? I don't know! I mean, you can't ask a job candidate if they are married but you can give them a history of a vibrator! Hopefully - this candidate is not on twitter because if it had been me - I would totally have tweeted that #crazysexinterview.
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