| ▲ | rkuska 6 hours ago |
| This reminds me of my former CTO. He would take bunch of CVs and randomly throw some of them in a bin. He didn’t want to work with “unlucky” people. |
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| ▲ | psalaun 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I thought this was only an old urban legend; some people actually use this technique? Especially in a trade supposed to be led by people trained in sciences? |
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| ▲ | gregates 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Given how often it's been mentioned here, it's likely that this is an urban legend that people are pretending to have first-hand knowledge of for karma. In a trade that's supposed to be led by people trained in sciences, no less! (A more charitable interpretation would be that aforementioned CTO was making a joke that didn't land.) | | |
| ▲ | cyanydeez an hour ago | parent [-] | | or its so old, people would make the joke and interns would repeat it unwittingly. no one has to consciously be lying for this type of meme to continue spreading. |
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| ▲ | aquariusDue 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's OK! We can disguise it as the Secretary Problem and it'll be fine, we could even write a post on the company blog about it. /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem |
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| ▲ | hahahaa 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The problem is with this system he only worked with unlucky people. |
