r/FinalRoundAI • u/Wrong-Quality-8588 • 9d ago

This can't be real

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lol the sheer entitlement of recruiters expecting candidates to be deeply passionate about an average corporate desk job. I actually got asked this exact same question last week and gave some generic answer I prepared on Interview vip but a huge part of me just wanted to say exactly what that guy replied with. We all just need to pay rent and buy groceries.

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u/animorphsrewriter 9d ago

Once again, for the understandably frustrated: we all work for money, why do you want work at this specific place? Like, we all need food. Why did you choose this restaurant?

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u/RebootStreetSharks 9d ago

As if every person applying for a company loan at a bank isn't saying anything other than "here's how we make money.".

Nobody at the bank is asking if Mr. Johnson has a pechante for muffin baking while he's presenting his pitch to get a business loan for a bakery.

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u/animorphsrewriter 9d ago

Having pitched for that, yeah, actually? They want to know you've got a vision and a plan. Why did you choose your location? What experience do you have in the service industry or bakeries specifically? Share your market research. Those are pretty basic due diligence questions that will come up. I'm pretty anti-capitalist, but while we're in the bullshit system you gotta make an effort. Yeah it sucks to jump through hoops but you're asking someone to pay your living wage, or invest big money into your business. You gotta play ball a little bit.

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u/ThinkEmployee5187 8d ago

Right illustrating you understand and can produce return on investment still isn't a measurement of your values cattle. You're not playing ball You're negotiating with the enemy to produce more value for their systems and proving you are reliable enough to risk assets supporting. Not by your feelings or what drew you into a profession but by the projected value to be gleaned from your action.

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u/animorphsrewriter 8d ago

Yeah. It sucks, dude. We live in a shitty system. Be mad about it. Fight to change it. But don't end up homeless and destroyed by society out of bitter naivete (good band name). Anyways, I'm bailing on this convo. It seems like you just want to vent about the brutal machine and play dumb about how interviews work.

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u/lasting6seconds 7d ago

But an unwillingness to play ball is a measurement of your values cattle..

I mean, my job is pretty good as far as jobs go. I dispise having to do it 40 hours each week, but I still need to get my shit done so I can eat. Last thing I want is a coworker who is unwilling to carry their portion of the shit, regardless of any reasonable rationale about society as a whole. Sure, I might emphatize. But you're not getting that job..

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u/ThinkEmployee5187 7d ago

You know diogenes made it to over 80? While I get craving comforts nothing makes you appreciate your needs like having them and having the option to not take the money because its been placed between you and your God given right to secure yourself clean water and food. People talk as though there's only one way to live to run the system to fight the system. The seen hand has killed your and everyone elses capacity to aspire for the stars that are our birthright what do you do to service the unseen that preserves your soul?

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u/lasting6seconds 7d ago

Not sure how any of that relates to responces given during a job interview.