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Whatever "this" is.
Dec. 27th, 2005 07:53 pmFrom the Dope boards:
I am an executive at a small company. We were interviewing for another executive position and I was asked to check the guy out. I see his resume and it lists that he is a member of ASCAP the songwriters' union. I ask about it of the head of HR and she says "yeah - he plays guitar."
Cool - I have played for, oh, almost 30 years. Posters up on the wall at work. Everyone knows I am in a mid-life crisis band. I am thinkin' "this could be a fun interview."
He shows up, looks reasonably normal in a suit. He walks in to my office and we shake hands. He takes in my guitar posters (a very low-key one with a sunburst Les Paul collection is easiest to see). I say "so I hear you play guitar - what'cha got?"
And that's when he said it - the stupidist, "oh, my god, this guy is just...lying to my face" type of response.
What he said doesn't matter except to a guitarist (actually, what he said was that he had "a '59 Stratocaster fitted for a locking tremolo") but you have to understand, that to a real electric guitarist with any knowledge of the history of guitars and how they play, he basically said the equivalent of "well, I have a painting - an Impressionist painting - a Monet of some water lilies - and I decided to have it transferred from canvas to black velvet."
My response: "Thank goodness, I thought this only happened to me!"
But then, I thought, what do I mean by "this"? Guitarists? Interviews? Or "people who try to BS the experts, when they should know better, that BS works best on those who don't know"?
The latter. For me, I think it comes in the "I'm smarter than your other boyfriends" maneuver. And, no offense, but if you're stupid enough to try that maneuver, no you're not. And you're likely not anyways, cause I only date the smart ones.
I've heard this, but never seen it-- when squirrels want to establish dominance over other squirrels, they stand on their hind legs, displaying their mighty squirrel genitalia, and squeak, which is apparently imposing to the other squirrels. When I see stories like this, I can't help but think-- "SQUEAK!"
I am an executive at a small company. We were interviewing for another executive position and I was asked to check the guy out. I see his resume and it lists that he is a member of ASCAP the songwriters' union. I ask about it of the head of HR and she says "yeah - he plays guitar."
Cool - I have played for, oh, almost 30 years. Posters up on the wall at work. Everyone knows I am in a mid-life crisis band. I am thinkin' "this could be a fun interview."
He shows up, looks reasonably normal in a suit. He walks in to my office and we shake hands. He takes in my guitar posters (a very low-key one with a sunburst Les Paul collection is easiest to see). I say "so I hear you play guitar - what'cha got?"
And that's when he said it - the stupidist, "oh, my god, this guy is just...lying to my face" type of response.
What he said doesn't matter except to a guitarist (actually, what he said was that he had "a '59 Stratocaster fitted for a locking tremolo") but you have to understand, that to a real electric guitarist with any knowledge of the history of guitars and how they play, he basically said the equivalent of "well, I have a painting - an Impressionist painting - a Monet of some water lilies - and I decided to have it transferred from canvas to black velvet."
My response: "Thank goodness, I thought this only happened to me!"
But then, I thought, what do I mean by "this"? Guitarists? Interviews? Or "people who try to BS the experts, when they should know better, that BS works best on those who don't know"?
The latter. For me, I think it comes in the "I'm smarter than your other boyfriends" maneuver. And, no offense, but if you're stupid enough to try that maneuver, no you're not. And you're likely not anyways, cause I only date the smart ones.
I've heard this, but never seen it-- when squirrels want to establish dominance over other squirrels, they stand on their hind legs, displaying their mighty squirrel genitalia, and squeak, which is apparently imposing to the other squirrels. When I see stories like this, I can't help but think-- "SQUEAK!"
