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People Are Bringing Ice Lattes To Job Interviews · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: All right. If you're a boss and you're in charge
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  Speaker 1: of hiring people, how would this go over in your office?
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  Speaker 1: It's 106.7 Light FM. Cubby Christine, producer Kristen. Take it away, Christine.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to a job interview and you show up
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  Speaker 2: with an iced latte in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: All casual.
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  Speaker 2: So what does the person interviewing you think? There's a
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  Speaker 2: little debate happening online where a job recruiter is saying,
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  Speaker 2: please don't do this because it looks like your interview
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  Speaker 2: was just like Hey, just stopping in between errands.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, really cash. And then it goes like towards,
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  Speaker 2: you know, age has a lot to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: The younger generations are saying, that's ridiculous. You don't judge
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  Speaker 2: somebody over a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we do. It's not the coffee. It's
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  Speaker 1: how it's portrayed as you're walking in the office and
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  Speaker 1: everything is being picked apart.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: How you're walking in, your confidence, what you have with you.
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  Speaker 2: I know you don't like thinking about that because it's unnerving,
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  Speaker 2: but it really is what's happening. Yeah, that's what the
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  Speaker 2: recruiter is saying. And, you know, people who have had
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  Speaker 2: more of this life experience are saying exactly that, Covey.
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  Speaker 2: It's the optics. It's not, okay, I have coffee. It's
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  Speaker 2: the appearance that you're giving, that you're just not really
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  Speaker 2: taking this seriously. And they said, you come in and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times Like it can distract you because
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  Speaker 2: you're like shaking the ice. You're doing things. It just
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  Speaker 2: can pull focus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But I wonder if any research has been done on
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  Speaker 1: what if you are going in for a job interview
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  Speaker 1: and you have a cup of coffee and you brought
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  Speaker 1: another cup of coffee for the person interviewing you. That
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  Speaker 1: might go over well, right?
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  Speaker 2: Wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I hope you like, you know, black coffee or
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  Speaker 1: a nice latte. And then you hand it in front
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  Speaker 1: of him or her. And then you could sip on yours.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is hard because when I was doing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of auditioning, like sometimes actors would do that.
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  Speaker 2: They would bring treats for casting people. Yeah. But then
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  Speaker 2: the casting people were like, they didn't like it a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times because they thought it is schmoozing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I think it's tough. I think
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  Speaker 2: maybe just go in there without coffee for yourself or
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  Speaker 2: the person. Yeah. Just do the best you can do.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe we're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And get coffee on the way home.
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  Speaker 1: Right. I think that's the best. But your opinion, please, 44363,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're a person, like I said, that maybe
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  Speaker 1: hires people on the regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell us.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us what you would do if somebody came in
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  Speaker 1: for an interview with a cup of coffee and just
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  Speaker 1: acted very cash. 44363.