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Gen-Z Coffee Interviews - You Don't Mind If I Have My Lunch While We Do This Do You? · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: It's too early.
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  Speaker 2: Too early? Too early for what? It's too early for this. Lisa,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm getting old. Actually, I know I'm getting old.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: But things like what we're about to talk about actually
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  Speaker 2: make me just a touch grumpy.
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  Speaker 1: Just a touch. Question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Is it okay to... This is a question that is being...
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely innocently asked.
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  Speaker 2: Burning question.
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  Speaker 1: On the old TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Jeez, my go-to place for the world's worries.
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  Speaker 3: Is it okay to take an iced coffee into a
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  Speaker 3: job interview?
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  Speaker 2: I would say no unless explicitly said, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: interviewer says, just bring it in. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, what we're talking about is TikTok types.
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  Speaker 3: With their gigantic slurpy size iced coffee with a straw.
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  Speaker 3: They've just grabbed it on the way to the interview
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  Speaker 3: and they're going to drink it in the interview.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm asking a question. So where do you see
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  Speaker 2: yourself in this company?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I get this.
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  Speaker 1: Like I see myself in.
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  Speaker 2: I see yourself out the door.
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  Speaker 1: Now, to you and I.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're Gen X.
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  Speaker 2: We are Gen X, yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's lost on us how it is even a debate
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  Speaker 3: because it's sort of just, is it not obvious why
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  Speaker 3: you would not take a takeaway coffee into a job interview?
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  Speaker 2: No. It's like taking a packet of chips or a
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  Speaker 2: can of Coke or, you know, or a small bag
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  Speaker 2: of Cobbers. Exactly. Chew, chew your way through the interview.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: The curry you just heated up in the microwave. That's
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  Speaker 1: exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: You don't mind if I have my lunch while we
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  Speaker 2: do this, do you? It's like, this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's just the thing because a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: Gen Z candidates said it's ridiculous It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Cop this. One bloke, Hanad, he works for an energy
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  Speaker 2: supplier in London. He likes iced coffee, but he wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: bring one to an interview. A job interview is all
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  Speaker 2: about first impressions. Anything that can deter the employer from you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, employer employing you, you know, you want to avoid. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You want to present. You're almost like a blank canvas. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose in a way you're like a blank canvas.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You're sort of. Let's paint the picture of you while
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  Speaker 2: you're in the interview. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So he gets it.
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  Speaker 2: He says that it would look immature and too informal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: So not all the Gen Zers have taken gigantic lattes.
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  Speaker 1: With oat milk into their interview. But there was one
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  Speaker 1: girl who responded.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And she gave me hope because she said she
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't take it because she said she thinks a lot
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  Speaker 3: of employers like to see the personality of the candidate
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  Speaker 3: and it you know, but she, um, she said she
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't personally turn up to a job interview with an
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  Speaker 3: iced coffee, but this is where she lost me. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: she sees the controversy around the post as a bit
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  Speaker 3: sexist because it's usually girls who drink iced coffee. If
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  Speaker 3: it was a hot, she goes on to say, if
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  Speaker 3: it was a hot coffee, which is more masculine, there
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be this discourse about it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. You had to keep talking, didn't you Katie?
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  Speaker 2: Um, Svetina.
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  Speaker 1: The toxic masculinity.
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  Speaker 2: Of a coffee.
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  Speaker 1: The toxic misogyny.
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  Speaker 2: Of a coffee. Svetina, who's 24, thinks a potential employee
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be judged on what they bring to the interview,
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  Speaker 2: nor their dress code. Seriously?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: I think we should be moving away from these traditional
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  Speaker 2: corporate stigmas.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Aisha, who's 28. says she would take along an iced coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I think it shows that I've come early enough to
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  Speaker 2: get an iced coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of town.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of town. I kid you not. But, but,
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  Speaker 2: she wouldn't bring a fizzy drink, though.
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  Speaker 1: This is true.
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  Speaker 2: Our future is lost. Shape up, Gen Z.
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  Speaker 1: And look at me drinking a masculine hot coffee here.
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  Speaker 1: Where's my iced coffee?
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  Speaker 2: I always thought you were a bit bush.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.