Job Skills - was Re: Tech-support Hall of Shame

[Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy]

Socially, a hand or wrist injury is even worse than a marshmallow 
handshake!  The potential jokes you expose yourself to ;P

Brian Densmore wrote:

>I can accept the cultural greeting thing, but
>to seems to me you are being a bit anal on the 
>handshake thing. To judge an entire interview on a
>handshake is, well pardon my French, inane [ok changed word]. 
>Sorry if this insults, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
>or handshake in this case. A bad handshake might be the 
>result of injury to the hand. Judging a person's ability on
>a handshake is ludicrous. 
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>Sorry if I insult you. Just couldn't let it go.
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>Brian
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Aaron [mailto:aaron at aarons.net]
>>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:29 AM
>>To: kclug at kclug.org
>>Subject: Re: Job Skills - was Re: Tech-support Hall of Shame
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>>>Hand shakes are just wierd... You have to leave your 
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>>personal space and
>>*lean*
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>>>in to someone else's to make the connection. Not to mention 
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>>that you have
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>>>ensure that you're standing exactly the length of each 
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>>other's arms when
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>>>ready to do the shake. And when do you do the shake? 
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>>Before, during, or
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>>>the greeting? What if the other person doesn't shake? Then 
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>>>there doing a James Dean brush of the hair. Too much work.
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>>If you extend your hand and the other person doesn't shake 
>>for no apparent
>>good reason (broken arm, no hand, etc) then you've been 
>>insulted.  The main
>>thing is that you extended your hand and those around you 
>>will see you as
>>the better man for it.
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>>>If you're hiring someone, I hope you don't use the hand 
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>>shake as a good
>>first
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>>>impression. Personally, I think there much more to be read 
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>>about a person
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>>>whether or not they're able to make eye contact with you.
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>>The hand shake is the first impression.  It's the traditional 
>>greeting in
>>our culture.  You extend your hand, smile, look the other 
>>person in the eyes
>>and introduce yourself.  When I'm hiring someone, a bad 
>>handshake means a
>>bad interview.
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>>If you think about it, it is kind of wierd that we grab 
>>eachothers hands as
>>a greeting.  Who knows where that hand's been?  For all I 
>>know the other
>>person could have just come from a vigrous butt picking 
>>session, or worse.
>>But that's the way it is.
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>>Aaron
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