"I've worked with a lot of black people and you know how lazy they can be"

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Actual answer to an interview question. I asked "can you name a few negative aspects of previous jobs and how you dealt with them".

The title to this thread is the answer this guy gave me.

Now this was an instant GTFOLOL moment but I continued the interview more out of curiosity than anything but suffice to say we won't be seeing him again. My question is:

Would you tell him that's the reason he didn't get the job, or keep quiet and leave him to it?
 
Don't know to be honest.

On one hand I feel we all should want to help (in some small way by explaining to him why you can't make such a generalisation) try reform idiotic individuals to make society overall better, on other hand he's getting what he deserves for saying something so stupid. He's probably ruined quite a few interviews.
 
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Diddums said:
Actual answer to an interview question. I asked "can you name a few negative aspects of previous jobs and how you dealt with them".

The title to this thread is the answer this guy gave me.

Now this was an instant GTFOLOL moment but I continued the interview more out of curiosity than anything but suffice to say we won't be seeing him again. My question is:

Would you tell him that's the reason he didn't get the job, or keep quiet and leave him to it?
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Did he mention a particular demographic or was he unfairly belittling an entire race?
 
Semple said:
I wondered if he'd have said that if there was a black guy interviewing him.
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if it was a black guy interviewing I'm assuming he'd have tried to emphasise how 'not prejudice' he is, maybe an anecdote about his friend/co-worker who is black (even though the anecdote doesn't require revealing his race), in fact perhaps given how blatant his is maybe he'll try to say something positive about 'your people' to the interviewer

you know, trying to build rapport in a way that I'm sure the black interview won't have ever spotted a mile off before :D
 
Purely so the company wasn't hit with any kind of legal claim I wouldn't tell him the reason. But I'd cut the interview short and he wouldn't get the job.
 
Hades said:
Purely so the company wasn't hit with any kind of legal claim I wouldn't tell him the reason. But I'd cut the interview short and he wouldn't get the job.
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I actually wondered if this was some kind of trap or test, but this guy came from an agency and I've worked with those recruiters for years, so the chance is slim to none.
 
I mean we all think it but none of us actually say it...

Right?

:D:p

What an utter moron. Glad you kept the poker face diddums.
 
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