Autumn and a boy, part III

[aldersprig]

after Autumn and a Boy and part II

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He was actually interested in her art, which she probably should have expected, and knew things to ask about technique and had interest in both her process and her decisions, which was a pleasant surprise.   It took her a while to pry them both away from talking about her art, and when she did, she found herself almost quoting that old saw “Well, enough about me, what do you think of me?”

“So, why do you like it?  My art?” she asked, feeling a little shy.  “I mean, I don’t think it was my pretty face that got you hiking till your feet bled, was it?”

read on…

Comments

[kelkyag]

<twitches> You just met him!
Not that Autumn doesn't leap straight into Situations all the time. I'm hoping that (generally) does not result in "live fast, die young, leave a good-lookig corpse".

[aldersprig]

She just kissed him! Not like, threw him into her bed and had her way with him :-)

[clare_dragonfly]

That is very inappropriate for a job interview! :D Also, adorable.

[aldersprig]

He is both of those things!!

[sauergeek]

I very rarely want to throttle people for asking me silly questions.

Speaking as someone who works at least partly in tech support, that's certainly a qualification for being front-line. I'm good with silly questions, so long as the person asking me doesn't come back with the same silly question repeatedly. I like to think that I'm at least getting something through to them.

...and that's the oddest job interview I've heard of, and I've been interviewed, cold, without them having seen even a resume, over a poker game while drinking the company president's very good port. (I got the job. I'd gone to the game to support a friend who was getting interviewed there. And when they were done talking to him, their lead sales guy turned to me and said "You work for <that company> too, why aren't we talking to you?" I left our old company a week after my friend did.)

[aldersprig]

I thought that seemed like a good qualification!

… I think you have the best IRL job interview story I’ve heard.