Sadie
Fraunhofer IIS MP3 v04.01.02 (fast)at a job interview
"whats your biggest weakness?"
"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"
"could you give an me an example?"
"yes i could"
Richard W. Woodley 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️Something any good literalist would say.
WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮@gray Sounds like every autistic person in my family including me.
RyeNCode 🇨🇦@gray
Dad jokes. Industrialized.
Dad jokes. Industrialized.
DavidM_yeg
Adrien Plazas
Matúš Chochlík
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@matus_chochlik @gray “no, but I have devices on my person that allow me to look it up when needed.”
Ripp_ 
Hywel@gray this really reminds me of a person I work with. I suspect that they’re autistic. My wife, who teaches autistic children suggested the same when I described some interactions without mentioning autism.
The replies here are very interesting.
Jens Finkhäuser@daycoder @gray Had a colleague, who I had this conversation with.
Me: good morning!
Them: the morning is not good.
Me: I'm sorry your morning is not good. I was not trying to state that it is, I was wishing you had a good morning.
Them: oh! In that case, I also wish you a good morning!
Me: thank you! Now is there anything I can do to help with yours?
...
The fun follow up to this is that *I* have come to be semi-/self-diagnosed.
Jeff Grigg
Kaleissin
Amir E. Aharoni@gray some people do it because they are assholes who think that it's funny, and some people do it sincerely because they are autistic. It used to be harder for me to tell the difference, but I'm gradually improving.
kaiserkiwi 
neoluddite@neoluddite @kaiserkiwi @gray yeah, well, of course, and it's that gray area that is the hardest. Different autistic people may have a different sense of humor 🤷🏻♂️
Emma: ƒ(☕️, 🐈⬛️, 🚀️) ⇒ ℂ@gray this is the essence of the IBM joke.
Robin Adams@gray Paradox! That is an example - which means it isn't - which means it is - which means...
@gray Well, telling them that I found that question to be deeply flawed because of human nature didn't fly with the prospective boss either. His deputy seemed to love it...
My answer was that the question was loaded, people would answer "I often work too much!" and an axe murderer would probably not implicate themself, thereby requiring the interviewee to lie about their person.
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸@gray @ohmu Reminds me of the old (90s) joke:
A helicopter pilot gets lost in the fog and his instruments are going haywire. He spots a nearby building and flies in close. He motions to the workers and shows them a hand-written sign: "Where am I?"
The workers write their own sign: "In a helicopter!"
The pilot immediately knows what direction to fly, because he's most certainly at the Microsoft campus.
Weird Socks
HTTP 1.1/418 Old Teapot Typewriter Font@corbden @gray @ohmu @kb6nzv I always heard it as someone in a hot air balloon but with slightly different ending.
First: “you’re in a balloon!” Reply from person in balloon: “you must be (an engineer/msft/whoever you’re snarking about) because the answer is entirely correct but utterly useless”
Second: Then there was my favorite evolution which is that previous version but the reply to the balloonist is “ah, you must be a manager - you still don’t know where you are or where you’re going but now you think it’s my fault”
Billy O'Neal@gray oooooo I need to put this one in my back pocket next to
I: What's your biggest weakness?
C: Honesty.
I: I don't think that's a weakness.
C: I don't give a fuck what you think.
John Vechey@gray a work of art
Juho VepsäläinenHired.
Curt Olson@gray Yeah, I hate standard interview questions. My standard answer now (if I ever have to interview again) is that I go out too fast in a road race.