Rykk wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>> Rykk wrote:
>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>>> Rykk wrote:
>>>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>>>>> Rykk wrote:
>>>>>>> Mr. Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>> message news:k980t0hhmfdi4fpu78lqkg3bn17vp34dop@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:44:04 +1000, windsor <fake@none.com>
>>>>>>>>> brought
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Depth of rapport with the interviewer is also important.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> That's a very pleasant way of rephrasing "sucking up".
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> that's silly, "sucking up" is usually a poor way to impress
>>>>>>>> someone at an interview. It usually means you don't have
>>>>>>>> anything interesting to say and you are easily intimidated.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Unfortunately that would be me.  Not that I am so much
>>>>>>> intimidated the person as by the act of attempting to establish
>>>>>>> rapport.  It isn't that I have nothing to say either, but that I
>>>>>>> am completely uninterested in all non-functional conversation.
>>>>>>> So as long as the conversation is pertinent I do fine.  But if
>>>>>>> it turns to something trivial such as the weather, or personal,
>>>>>>> "I had a baby yesterday," then I am filled wave of disinterest.
>>>>>>> I have absolutely no idea how to respond to these completely
>>>>>>> irrelevant remarks.  Interviews seem to involve one non-sequitor
>>>>>>> after another.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Wow. Aren't you supposed to preface a confession like that with
>>>>>> something like. "Hi, my name is Rykk and I'm a suffering
>>>>>> self-a-holic"...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Heh,  are you trying to imply that I'm conceited?
>>>> 
>>>> No implication required. You said it quite clearly yourself I
>>>> thought.
>>> 
>>> Then you are just misunderstanding me and making assumptions.
>>> 
>>> I fail to see how being disinterested in non-functional conversation
>>> equates to conceit.
>> 
>> "But if it turns to something...personal...then I am filled wave of
>> disinterest." It seems you are only interested in talking about what
>> you deem to be worthy of conversation rather than what someone else
>> considers worthy. Doesn't that suggest a little me-ism at work?
> 
> It should suggest nothing of the sort.  It isn't as if I want to talk
> about myself.   I just want to keep conversation to a minimum.  I'm
> not one of those people that enjoy talking or being talked to.

Exactly the kind of thing the interviewer wants to know...