Dec 23, 2017, 6:39 AM

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'm doing a tech screening for a possible job.

One of the questions:
'Describe to a non-technical friend how SSL works.'

'No. Just no. Don't do this to yourself or anyone else' should be a valid answer.

For my last IT job, we had a similar question:

"Describe how a modem and router work to a person who has never used a computer."

My answer was: "If they have never used a computer, then they wouldn't be a student here, and since my job would literally be to offer support to IT students, this would be working outside the authorized scope of my employment."

I got the job.

ETA: Most frequent complaint?

"I think so and so is watching porn in the computer lab."

Answer: "Thank you for your concern. However, as explicit materials are frequently assigned as required homework in a number of Kinsey Institute classes, this is an acceptable use of University equipment."

So satisfactory.