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Recruiter: 'What are your hobbies?'
My brain: 'Don't say fucking your mom, don't do it. DON'T. YOU. DARE. SAY. FUCKING. YOUR. MOM!!'
Recruiter: 'You're using chat gpt aren't you?'
Me: 'yep, that's definitely it. Absolutely...'
What do the things I do in my personal time have to do with being selected for a job? Fuck these people, I'm sure the process before reaching these interviews is highly automated (with or without llms). If companies are going to use all kinds of ai bullshit (on top of the usual non-ai bullshit) workers ai-bullshiting back is only fair.
It's one of the many questions meant to ensure you're capable of basic human interaction and aware of basic social conventions. You aren't rambling about your BDSM sex dungeon or how much you love setting Teslas on fire in a mock work setting, you have the tact to choose something work appropriate.
It's also because you might be spending 40 fucking hours a week with the person interviewing you, and it can be nice for them to have some small chat topics going in. No workplace is 100% "keep your head down and just work". Human connection is extraneous to the job at hand, but it sure can make those 40 hours far less of a death march every week.
And now it serves yet another minor purpose: it's another flag that might point to the interviewer using ChatGPT to bullshit things.
It's concerning to me that so many people can't come up with even a few useful reasons for a bullshit interview question like that.
It must be great living with no anxiety or mental issues that would make such interactions not immediately comfortable for the interviewee.. If you think they're fantasizing about a bdsm sex dungeon role play instead... Well that tells me more about you than it does a potential hire.
Wouldn't that also make you an unpleasant coworker on the actual job
Maybe. I wouldn't personally know.
Sorry, but I'm definitvely not the strawman normie talking down to the neurodivergent people that it reads like you hoped I was.
And how in the hell did you get idea "you think they're fantasizing about a bdsm sex dungeon role play" when someone pauses in an interview out of what I said?
~~First off, I never used the words "role play". Dohohoho.~~
It was an exaggeration for humor's sake, and the scenario in my head was someone just immediately responding to the question with a boatload of details about their sex life.