at a job interview

[gray@merping.synth.download]

at a job interview

"whats your biggest weakness?"

"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"

"could you give an me an example?"

"yes i could"

[the5thcolumnist@ottawa.place]

@gray

Something any good literalist would say.

[ryencode@mstdn.ca]

@gray
Dad jokes. Industrialized.

[matus_chochlik@mastodon.online]

@gray
"excuse me, do you know what's the time?"
"yes, I do"

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@matus_chochlik @gray “no, but I have devices on my person that allow me to look it up when needed.”

[ripp_@chitter.xyz]

@gray ah, so autism

[daycoder@toot.wales]

@gray this really reminds me of a person I work with. I suspect that they’re autistic. My wife, who teaches autistic children suggested the same when I described some interactions without mentioning autism.

The replies here are very interesting.

[kaleissin@wandering.shop]

@gray Very "Man with the Naked Gun"

[davidm_yeg@beige.party]

@gray @RyeNCode

The old Peter Sellers joke:

Aww, look, what a good boy! Does your dog bite?

No

[ruff… grr… violence]

I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite!?

That’s not my dog ‍️

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@daycoder @gray Had a colleague, who I had this conversation with.

Me: good morning!

Them: the morning is not good.

Me: I'm sorry your morning is not good. I was not trying to state that it is, I was wishing you had a good morning.

Them: oh! In that case, I also wish you a good morning!

Me: thank you! Now is there anything I can do to help with yours?

...

The fun follow up to this is that *I* have come to be semi-/self-diagnosed.

[aharoni@wikis.world]

@gray some people do it because they are assholes who think that it's funny, and some people do it sincerely because they are autistic. It used to be harder for me to tell the difference, but I'm gradually improving.

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@jens @daycoder @gray

"If it is a good morning, which I doubt."

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@JeffGrigg @daycoder @gray I was thinking more of Gandalf and Frodo.

A quote from The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

J.R.R. Tolkien — ‘Good Morning! said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under lon...

(www.goodreads.com)

[kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com]

@aharoni @gray You usually see it on their faces. If they show signs of joy, then they're assholes. If they look at you dead serious they might be trained assholes, but more likely autistic.

[kekunplazas@mamot.fr]

@RyeNCode @gray We call that Carambar in France: each caramel comes with not one, not three, but two dad jokes. And they say there is no French industry.

[peter@thepit.social]

@gray "hi Confused, I'm dad!"

[emma@orbital.horse]

@gray this is the essence of the IBM joke.

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@gray Paradox! That is an example - which means it isn't - which means it is - which means...

[aharoni@wikis.world]

@neoluddite @kaiserkiwi @gray yeah, well, of course, and it's that gray area that is the hardest. Different autistic people may have a different sense of humor ‍️

[drchaos@sauropods.win]

@gray Well, telling them that I found that question to be deeply flawed because of human nature didn't fly with the prospective boss either. His deputy seemed to love it...

My answer was that the question was loaded, people would answer "I often work too much!" and an axe murderer would probably not implicate themself, thereby requiring the interviewee to lie about their person.