[2061] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Being told at a job interview...
henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 18 18:29:34 1991
you can agree with barry all you want, but you must remember that the
world is full of non-MIT graduates who are quite often good at what
they do without large measures of arrogance.
what is true is that some interviewers will erroneously classify
confidence as arrogance (and i believe that some writers in this space
similarly misclassify confidence). i've lost out on jobs this way,
and i am not sorry about it.
some food for thought:
54 w20-575-10 /mit/henry --> webster arrogance
ar.ro.gance \'ar-*-g*n(t)s\ n : a feeling of superiority manifested in an
overbearing manner or presumptuous claims
