Everyone who has ever hired an attractive person at least subconsciously let it effect their decision.
I agree.
I think people should change their names for similar reasons. If you want to get a certain job or whatnot, change your name as that is one of the strongest ways to create a similar bias. Like if I want to be an electrical engineer, change my name to Max Watts. I bet the bias that creates is equivocal; just on the edge of plausibly deniable consciousness.
There was a Winn Dixie by my old house where the manager had a thing for pretty, young, white girls. Every single cashier was really young and really pretty, no exceptions. It was so obvious my ex-wife and I laughed about it all the time. Seemingly overnight, suddenly the cashiers were all ages, races and varying attractiveness. I would kill to know the story behind that.
Worked at Eskimo Joe’s in college and all the servers were white girls and insanely hot. Something changed and we got a single waiter and some not so pretty waitresses. I think someone sued them or tried to, been over 30 years ago, can’t remember.
I was a bar manager and used to get a flood of applicants every time I needed to hire people. I wasn’t particularly picky since I was always happy to train people up to my standards since I usually had to untrain bad habits anyways, so I would only schedule one interview at a time and generally just hired the first person I interviewed to save myself the work unless their vibes were off.
The one time I interviewed someone where I thought “damn he’s hot asf”, seemed nice, could answer my questions and he was experienced in the role, so I hired him on the spot. I have never had to fire someone so fast. Dude lost his shit at another bartender for bumping into him, I gave him a warning and told him it would be his only one. Shit happens, it’s a tight space.
Then a customer that was smoking in the alley after we shut asked him a question as we were leaving and he said “why the fuck are you talking to me”. Had to tell him not to bother coming in for his next shift…
anecdotaly, all the guys who’ve been hired recently at our company have really nice butts, but I doubt it’s intentional lol
I was responsible for hiring some folks for a commercial spot. So yes, I literally picked them out of a binder the company had based on looks. Then we slapped fake glasses and white coats on them to ugly them up into the world’s sexiest scientists. That day felt like it could have easily turned into a porno set.
I get a lot of jobs that I interview for because I’m a solid 5/10. Then they get to know me and it makes them think I lied to them about my qualifications but no, they just equated average-to-medium looks with competence and neurotypicality
hah ! malicious incompetence. love it
Actually I’m just not good at things. Not even being malicious
Ugh can we swap? I’m so good at what I do, but the only jobs I ever get are when my credential speak for themselves so much that the interview is basically just ‘ok let me summarise the job duties; now let me know by Monday if you’ll take the job’. I’m not even ugly, just autistic and visibly queer.
How about I do your job interviews for you? then we like, hit em with “The Prince and the Pauper”
Fuck, maybe that should be my life calling
Only that one time I was self employed.
Me, looking in the mirror
You’re too ugly to work here. You’re fired!
I’ve never hired anyone.
But I take it for granted that in any public-facing position, the attractiveness of the candidate for hire will play a role, since it will also play a role in their job performance later.
Not personally but my old manager certainly did. I really wish I had reported to HR but I was still new, early in my career and the company wasn’t very corporate - HR was just a lady who was an early hire without any real credentials.
He (my manager) would regularly hand CVs around the team to see if they were a good fit skill wise but would also search for (and print off!) any facebook photos he could find that showed skin. He almost exclusively looked for and hired women. He later got sacked for bullying and generally being very inappropriate.
No, but I assume it’s why I’ve got every job I’ve ever had
You handsome bastard.
When I was younger, definitely. There is one job I didn’t get because one of the women in the panel immediately turned against me, so I suppose it had its downsides sometimes.
Being competent is sexy what can I say
I’m not a handsome man (not ugly either, I ain’t complaining!), but I have been told I have a “friendly face”, like the face of someone you know you can ask for help, and since I’ve only worked front desk jobs after my short time in the army, it probably helped.
No. Even if had ever wanted to, when I’ve needed to hire someone the baseline of competency and was such that we were happy to have the most qualified person be willing to take lower pay than they probably deserved as it was all we could afford. It’s hard to present a legitimate reason to hire a candidate that’s genuinely less qualified that someone else unless they’re just waaay over qualified.
Never
Nope
