Several years ago I introduced my then girlfriend to my grampa at his house.
He as always asked for her last name and proceed to told her that he knew her grandfather and name a few of his children; we chatted for a while, everything was fine.
After she left, he told, you know her grandfather nickname is ” The rat <INSERT LAST NAME HERE>”, and you know what a rat has as offspring? I said: ” little rats?” and he replied “Exactly”.
He was a serious man, who didnt do small talk nor chitchat, but he definitely how to transmit what he was thinking…not that I shared that particular thought.
I have a friend who is like a brother to me, whenever I was in Venezuela and somebody invited me somewhere, it was expected that he will show up there or that if somebody visited me at my house he will be there.
When I went to Venezuela in vacation, he will move in to my house, I mean if I stayed on Venezuela for 30 days, he will probably be on my house for about 20 days, he will get to my house one day with several changes of clothes, eat with me, go to work, come back and repeat.
He has been the only people that I know that has been able to know what I’m thinking just by looking at my face and the other way around too.
We don’t speak as much as we used to do before, we don’t see each other face to face anymore like we used to do, but he will always be my brother from another mother
Several years ago I asked my programming teacher about a rumour I heard about other teacher being better than her teaching programming.
She told me that the other teacher was good, maybe even great, sometimes the students from the other teacher got better grades than her students on the exam, but she never went to a class given by the other teacher to actually check if she explained better or not than her; but more important the other teacher had a major flaw that couldn’t be repaired in any way, I asked what was it, and she told me that matter it fact all the other teacher had the same flaw: they weren’t her.
That was a long time ago, even before I became a teacher but everytime a student of mine asked me if another teacher is better than me, I just reply this, (s)he might be good but it has a mayor flaw, it ain’t me
Continuing with the last interview I had, apparently the main interviewer wasn’t aware that he was the one selling and not buying
He was the one putting all the objections, to everything, I think he didn’t realized that it was him that needed me and not the other way around, he needs to fill a position that doesn’t have a lot of demand and face a scarcity of talent; and well I’m top talent =)
Sometimes when somebody has some kind of power they believe that they stopped selling and now they will always be the buyers, and that’s kind of true, as long as the other party feels that the so called seller has all the power and not the other way around.
I had an interview that required that I was dressed formal, so I suit up!
If an interview requires something like that from you, is expected that the other party complies too, here it wasn’t the case. There were 3 interviewers, the main one and 2 invited. Main one had a tie, shirt and a sweater; other one were ladies that were dressed business casual…they were invited and probably the not let known about the dress code by the main one,so I can live with that.
Talking about giving a bad first impression right from the start, a leader should never request something (s)he can’t deliver.
