Weird developments on the job hunt front

[featherynscale]

I had a very instructive conversation with a woman from one of the head-hunting/placement firms I'm using to look for a job... she tells me that the reason I didn't get an offer from the last interview I went on with them was because I looked unprofessional. Reason for said unprofessional-ness was that I failed to take out my tongue-ring. This is exciting, because I don't have a tongue-ring to take out, and in fact, the only piercings I'm currently sporting are the ones in my earlobes, one apiece, in the socially upheld manner.

So I'm not sure what that's about. I do have a lisp, which frequently suggests a tongue-ring. But that's about as close as I come. The idea of someone popping a heavy-gauge needle through my tongue does not appeal to me much. And I don't know what I can do to dissuade people from thinking I'm wearing odd facial jewelry to interviews aside from, you know, not wearing any, which I'm already doing.

So that's fun.

Comments

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you had an amazingly interesting time explaining to the placement person that it was quite perplexing as to how you had a tongue piercing at an interview, when in fact, your tongue is not pierced...?


D.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I did, in fact... I was wondering if they'd gotten me confused with someone else that they were interviewing that day, or if perhaps they'd seen some of my ink, and couldn't remember which bits of alternative culture body modification it was that they were objecting to. Hard to say.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

i sure hope you pointed out that you don't have a tongue ring or anything of the sort.

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

darkrow has offered you a Generic Sharp Stabby Thing for stabbing (or at least making vague stabby motions at) whomever may need stabbing in this case. (I'm rather with him on this one.)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Thanks to darkrow for stabby-thing, and to you for passing on aforementioned implement of stab. I hope that this does not become a trend, this desire to stab at persons who could possibly offer me employment.

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

Does this mean that you need to stick out your tongue in interviews to be professional? 8^)

The work world is getting odder as we go.
May you find what you need soon.

Adam

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That was sort of the tack I was planning on taking with it. Gods know I'm generally unwilling to pass up a given opportunity to stick out my tongue, especially at executives.

[chronarchy.livejournal.com]

You should tell them that you're really a gay man in disguise, and that they're obviously abridging your rights by assuming that you have a tongue-ring when really that's just how you are.

Threaten to sue for discrimination, and they'll bend over backwards for you :)

Of course, you might have an interesting time describing to the HR person why your gender should really be listed as female, but that's what makes job-hunting fun!

They deserve a smack.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm perfectly willing to have my gender listed as male... Gender has never really been that big a deal to me anyway, and depending on the workplace, it might save me on insurance. Of course, there will be questions about why someone listed as male would regularly be filing claims for birth control and such, but hey. Let them wonder.

[chainwoman.livejournal.com]

This is all to amusing for me because people don't usually realize that I have a tongue ring. So, perhaps I should go to your interviews?

On a serious note, did you point it out to the head hunters so that they could point it out to the business who said that and any others who might assume in the future?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I did. I don't know if it will do me any good or not, but I did plead non-piercedness.

[chainwoman.livejournal.com]

LoL Not guilty... Not guilty...

LIAR! You took it out today because you knew we were going to say something! ;-)

Ugh

[lightonthesill.livejournal.com]

How lame is that! Lame lame lame. Tell them you'll have their "STUPID" stamp availble the next time you see them.

Re: Ugh

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't have a STUPID stamp. I don't for the life of me know why I don't, though. I think that means I should get one. I would use it all the time.

I did, however, take the Chainsaw of Natural Selection ™ to my interview today. It got to stay in the car, but it does make me feel better, knowing it's on hand.