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> Interestingly enough the "creatives" (media, publishing, even real
> casual medical companies) all were fine with it. What's odd
> is that the
> one company that said I made a poor judgment call to show it asked me
> "Who was the photographer?" I said "A guy that does construction FT."
> and the man replied, "This must've made his day."
>
> BUT this is a company that rated me. They gave me 4 out of 5 for
> technical expertise (SQL, Oracle, etc) and a 1.87/5 for personality
> (owing to my "lack of judgment") Where did they get 1.87?
> What kind of
> math is that? There were three male interviewers, one of whom told me
> his sexual orientation on the way to the interviewing room.
>
> Weird. Weird. Weird.
FWIW (and to be taken with the usual grain of salt) I would
keep the samples, but put it/them behind a text page that
included the above observation.... while mentioning no actual names.
If somebody wants to call you on it, you could just say:
"Hmm? Oh, that was some other evaluating company, I'm sure.
Name? No. That would be telling."
Nobody at the offending company could come back at you
without first admitting: "Well, yeah, we *did* make those
stupid sexist comments to her. That's how we identified
ourselves in her description... oh... wait... can I take
that back? Is that recorder on?"
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