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Let's say you're the hiring manager for a non-customer-facing technical position, and your workplace is somewhat laid back, but not quite foosball tables in the bathrooms laid back. Further, let's say you interview someone for a position and they basically knock your socks off on the phone, but when they come in for an in-person interview, despite knocking even more socks, they turn out to have BRIGHT ORANGE HAIR.

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I know what I'm going to do, but I'm curious what other people think I should do.

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The "other" for me is about corporate culture - do i think that the hair color would get in the way of the person being taken seriously at hir job? Not by me, but by other people int he department or whatever.

(Technically I'm not a hiring manager right now, but i interview people)

Yeah, me too. That's the other part of it that I would personally consider, if I were interviewing.

Yeah, I'd think about that, and I'd also think about many of the things

dbang said, for the same reasons. Also, I think there is orange hair that is meant to say "I love orange!" (like yours) and there is orange hair that is meant to say "fuck you if you're not cool enough to take my orange hair," and "fuck you" is not really the predominant attitude of people I want to hire :)

I sometimes think that I'm not nearly enough of a fuck-you kind of person, but in this case, it works to my advantage. :)

You know,

kcatalyst and

trom's kid is an authority on when it's a good time to say "shut up." Maybe what we need is a local authority on when it's a good time to be all "fuck you!" Except probably not a kid.

I would like to volunteer for this position! Where do I apply? Is there a dress code?

;)

I think that distinction underlies a lot of what

dbang is saying -- you can tell which side of attitude people are on if they come in with orange hair and ripped jeans vs. orange hair and a nice suit.

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