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

[Seth Dimbert]

You know, I got this. Am I the only one?

:D

On 9/20/02 3:01 PM, "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler at westrope.com> wrote:

> You know, I think the Nazis used to shake hands...
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
>> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Marvin
>> GodfatherofSoul Bellamy
>> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:38 PM
>> To: Kclug
>> Subject: Re: Job Skills - was Re: Tech-support Hall of Shame
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>> Socially, a hand or wrist injury is even worse than a marshmallow
>> handshake!  The potential jokes you expose yourself to ;P
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>> Brian Densmore wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> </rant>
>>> 
>>> Sorry if I insult you. Just couldn't let it go.
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>> to
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>>>>> ensure that you're standing exactly the length of each
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>>>> other's arms when
>>>> you're
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>>>>> ready to do the shake. And when do you do the shake?
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>>>> Before, during, or
>>>> after
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>>>>> the greeting? What if the other person doesn't shake? Then
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>>>> you're left
>>>> standing
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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
>>>> in
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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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Aaron
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> majordomo at kclug.org
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