Tales from the Trail, part 2

November 22, 2006 at 5:05 am | Posted in clothing, interviews, neurosurgery | Leave a comment

Do you ever run across someone who’s dressed so inappropriately that it can’t possibly be an accident, and yet they don’t seem aware of it? There was this girl at my last interview who wore a shirt on which the first button was already too low, and even so, she left it unbuttoned. So, you could see the bottom edge of her bra. I mean, even if she’d buttoned it, it would have been too revealing.

What gets me is that no one else seemed to notice, either. Which is weird, because neurosurgery is not the kind of crowd to politely ignore anything.

The other thing that doesn’t make sense is that the person in question is one of those people who has to be better than you at everything. Like, if she finds out you’re doing something that makes you a better applicant in some way, she has to do it twice as much or be twice as good at it, and then she always makes sure to mention it in your presence. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it’s still very annoying. It seems like the only reason she wants something is to beat out somebody else.

So it doesn’t make sense to me that she would go off the deep end with the cleavage, when nobody else is even trying to show any in a subtle way. Possibly she wasn’t aware of it, but given how meticulous she is about everything else, I find that hard to believe.