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Ask HN: Phone interviews during work

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Re: Ask HN: Phone interviews during work

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In my experience, coffee shops and the like are too loud, and if they aren't you won't feel comfortable speaking in your "interview voice". If you have a coffee shop with outdoor seating, that can work.

I have done phone interviews literally walking about the neighborhood near my office. This has the added benefit that you supposedly speak with more confidence and authority when standing up and walking.

Re: Ask HN: Phone interviews during work

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. If they have nothing else to do and they're just sitting around then there's a systemic issue and the employee/employer relationship is broken in one or more of several ways, e.g., employer is over-staffed, employee is under-utilized, etc. An idle employee is a waste of money--e.g., they're effectively making more per hour and/or the employer is incapable of managing their resources, etc. There's no extrapolation…

Nobody's arguing whether the system is broken or not. Or whether it's fraud or not. You're attacking a straw man. The truth is most salaried workers aren't billed per hour.

... And I'm saying you're being pedantic, because the underlying economics are that they are. Workers are paid for output vs. time, whether or not it's shown that way on the record books.
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