> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > "Horn, John" wrote: > > > Remind me to tell you the story about the homophobic fundamentalist > > christian I interviewed once who talked himself out of a job... > > OK, I'll bite. You've piqued my curiosity. > OK. I used to work as the programming manager at a health insurance company (a PPO, actually). I was interviewing this guy for a programmering position. Everything look very good. His resume was excellent, the interview had gone well, I thought that he might be a good fit for the company.
At the end of the interview, I always ask: "Do you have any questions?" He said to me: "I know this might sound a little funny, but do you or any of the companies you cover offer insurance benefits to same-sex partners?" This surprised me, just a bit. At this point, I started thinking that the guy might be gay and was wondering about covering a partner. "Uh, no. I know that our company doesn't but I don't know about any of the other companies we might cover. Why do you ask?" "Well," he replied, "I would never want to work at a company that would do that sort of thing. But if your company doesn't, that's OK." At that point, I decided that this guy wasn't a very good fit. I mean with 60+ people on an IT staff, odds are some of them are gay. How would this guy fit in if he found something like that out. So I thanked him very much and that was the end of that. Actually, it was probably for the best. If he had an attitude like that, he and I probably wouldn't have gotten along very well. Hopefully, he got a job somewhere else where they have the same sort of attitude. - jmh
