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I generally evaluate applicants based on skill, attitude, and experience. Somehow whether they're holding an iced coffee or not hasn't made it on my checklist.

Bringing my steak shack double combo to the 'view

Oh ffs.

You ok? You appear to have travelled forward in time from 1960. This is 2026 mate. Hope you find your way back anyway. Good luck. p.s. In 1973 your publication breaks a seismic story about President Nixon & wins awards. Now it’s owned by a billionaire who has turned it into a joke. Sorry etc.

Everyone agrees that Jeff Bezos has turned WaPo into meaningless shit.

Trick questions are a waste of time.

shut up

WHAT interviews?? And WHAT jobs on the other side?? You're better off starting an iced coffee company..

Our elites want us to be fancier.

Too likely you'll end up wearing at least a drop of it—better not.

You guys are clowns.

@washingtonpost.com, this is fucking embarrassing.

I require all candidates to smoke in the job interview because I find that smooth, rich flavor of Virginia tobacco calms the nerves

I can’t remember a job interview where I wasn’t offered a drink.

I want to live in the world that Washington Post columnists live in, where there are zero meaningful problems and we have nothing but time to focus on this kind of pointless, petty bullshit.

I think the real question is, Would you bring TWO iced coffees to an interview?

You guys have had way too much time on your hands since the Trump media blackout.

What’s it like being a puppet for Jeffrey Bezos? Must be terrible.

I worked in hiring. if you asked where the bathroom is i would immediately bin your resume.

I forgot what specific stupid thing you did that made me stop subscribing to the Bezos rag, but I enjoy being reminded that I did so by all the subsequent stupid things you do.

who fucking carez

Nobody disagrees and you're pretending people don't so you can sell a cheap story. This is shit.

An addiction? That's a pretty fast assumption to make about someone. A truly prepared person would KNOW if someone judgy is going to criticize them having a drink. I suppose you wouldn't bring coffee to interview someone, huh?

Is this before or after the lamplighter lights the lamps?

Fuck you Bezos. Fuck all billionaire trash.

The link goes to an article on Trump’s state dinner.

Is this parody?

I hate coffee, tried it once, am I hired?

Incredibly slow news day I guess, but not slow enough to take a simple picture of an actual coffee drink apparently.

Wait I can smoke during job interviews? Also you guys are a joke.

Pulitzer material right. ... ... I'm so... Emotional rn* *Derision counts as "feeling" yeah?** **Hang on... Might just be spite*** ***Hot dang that counts too!

On my way to a job interview now, with a flask full of rye, pack of smokes and a fedora full of hosiery.

Is this news? You know real things are happening in the world right now. War? Genocide? Famine? Human displacement? Any of that ring a bell?

Remember when you used to be a real paper?

You guys are fucking clowns

Is talking about these things at the interview a bad idea? 1. Concentration Camps 2. Disappeared People 3. Graft & Grift by Politicians 4. Money in Politics 5. Foreign Powers along with Political and Wealthy Classes Colluding to Destroy Democracy 6. Hunger and Poverty 7. The Elephant on the Table

as long as the washington post is opening time portals to the 1950s could you tell my grandparents I said hi

“everyone disagrees” so you asked two people?

Is ‘assembling a team of staffers’ to write crap like this as pointless as it sounds? Yes it is. Everyone agrees.

Hey question, what the fuck you talking about

This is the hard hitting journalism needed in these times where pedophiles hold the reins of power and AI threatens every facet of our life.

the failing washington post

What a ridiculous newspaper. This is why we cancelled wapo and the nyt.

Congrats, WaPo. You’re Buzzfeed now.

I can't believe this is an article in an allegedly-legitimate news journal. What the actual f*** are you writing? The world is a dumpster fire, and you're talking about... Coffee at job interviews? You're nuts.

Ah , yes, the greatest concern of our era. Without this quality journalism how would I ever make it in the world?

If this isn’t evidence that we are all starving for a more banal existence, then I don’t know what is.

What if you reported on news.

You guys are friggin embarrassing

Interview Brew now available from Amazon!!

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Jeesh. I need to edit better. *Who do you think drinks iced coffee?

Boomers don't have enough to worry about.

i didn't get it but thought it was good then i clicked through and it's the wrong fucking article

Lol I hope they did it on purpose because this seems like a largely anti-worker article

LMAO oh my god

Stuff I will never read.. Fuck this shit. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

The funny thing to me is how different the reception to this is here compared to twitter. Twitter >most people agree with the article and shame anyone who would dare show up without their ass ready to be fucked by a minimum wage job Bsky >most people agree banning coffee at an interview is dumb.

Did someone just find a 'Miss Manners' book from the 70's and decided to cobble together a story from it?

???? Wtaf?

“You guys broke Watergate.”

bait lets move on

Is making a candidate do unlimited amounts of interviews appropriate? Unpaid internships?

Truly the question that wakes me up in a cold sweat at night.

This must hit really hard if you're stupid

I thought you guys being bought by Blofeld would be the end of your journalism, but I guess I was wrong... this is Pulitzer stuff! Breaking the hard scoops and speaking truth to power! You're back bayybeeee!

We aksed a dozen brain dead dipshits the dumbest question of the week, and now you can read the stupid bullshit they said

I will say that I was interviewing someone for a job once, sitting on our loading dock in Manhattan, when he saw a friend across the street and LEFT the interview to talk to him for 5-10 minutes. Then came back as if nothing had happened.

JFC. A fifth of bourbon or nothing.

Bitch, I'll bring an iced coffee to Trump's funeral, I don't give a shit.

Thanks so much for helping the stupidification of the country.

Is this what you all went to J-school for? Your parents must be so proud.

U sukk

wow I am so grateful to the Washington Post for covering important issues like this one

Our world is burning down and we're talking about this? I think any person hiring who has a problem with a drink should be beaten

🤡📰 - KH

I like that you guys are buzzfeed now.

Clearly someone's great great granduncle framed that question. Those who have hired & fired employees will take interview behavior into account when deciding which candidate to hire. So, no, don't ask a candidate to do any of these suggestions. Take the applicant as they present themselves.

This paper is an embarrassment.

I'm glad that we live in an era in which no news is happening

“Democracy Dies In Darkness”

Also the link is wrong FFS

JFC no one gives two shits about this.

A question like this makes me think about how the 45th/47th President of the United States is a convicted rapist and felon who grovels to our country's worst adversaries, has vandalized the White House, destabilized the global economy, and is desperate to prevent investigation of his pedophilia.

WTAF. Your great grandfather wrote this, didn’t he?

This is the dumbest 💩 ever. What happened to the Washington Post? Get the f outta here.

What year is it

Would you choose to work for an employer who thought this mattered at all? Bit of a controlling red flag.

Any employer that asks this of a job candidate is not an employer anyone would want to work for…

Instead of "EVERYONE DISAGREES" it should read "NO ONE GIVES A SHIT."

This is what you're using your resources for? Then you want to tease stupid, paywalled junk like this? Just fuck all the way off.

Iced Coffee sucks. So, I am not bringing it anywhere.

What an absolute joke "the news" has become...

Good to see you embracing alternative energy by powering your offices with the spinning corpses of Mrs. Graham and Ben Bradlee.

Yea say that in interviews too and I still don’t get the job!

Boy howdy I'm glad you're covering this and not the complete breakdown of democracy in your shithole country.

The president rapes children but sure this is an important story.

Did you guys enter a time warp?

My first thought would exile my comment to the hidden realm, so I’ll leave this for the ratio.

if the interviewer complains i'll just say "actually it's common knowledge that bringing drinks to interviews makes you look more powerful and smart" and the interviewer will say "You are totally right! It DOES make you look strong and smart! Would you like to hear more ways to ace this interview?"

I walk into a client's office with two coffees for myself and they know I came to get shit done lmfao what the fuck is this discourse

For an interview? Bringing in during work is never an issue but I have always avoided doing that during an interview.

I have just kind of avoided doing stuff like bringing any kind of drink anyway out of fear of it making it awkward.

for real lmao

Alexa, play Secretary (2002).

Remember when you did real shit like watergate? Pepperidge farms remembers

What the fuck is this?

Someone rattle the ice in their cup at you one too many times?

No, leave the coffee till after the interview.

I like how big the picture is. It really gets how much you've shifted to dumb clickbait articles. Please start doing articles like, "this child actor is now 80-- and looks unrecognizable!" You guys are doing great.