This is a post I know the Paper Chaser will appreciate. Job candidates, wear your jackets, and ties if applicable, no matter what anyone says!
Last year one of ours did not and it was because the instructors and graduate students had told him at the arrival from airport party that it was not necessary. They said this in an effort to be welcoming and because it really is hot here, even inside our building.
I noticed he gave his demonstration class and his talk in shirtsleeves and thought briefly, “What a confident candidate.” Then I forgot about it. Later, however, it turned out that some of the faculty thought it meant he was not serious about this job and was just using this interview as a rehearsal – and not even a dress rehearsal – for others.
Candidates! Citizens! Take up arms! Wear your jackets and ties!
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Ned Kelly would be so proud of this article.
Now I have figured out who Ned Kelly is, but not why he would be proud of this article! ?
Take up arms! Wear your jackets and ties!
Well Mister Kelly took up arms!
But he was even more well equipped defensively than with just a jacket and tie!
Aha, I get it! But he was an official outlaw whereas the Marsellaise says Aux armes, citoyens (so they were inside the nation space).
See how pedantic I can get? Anyway, I want defensive arms like his, and also a carabina 30-30.
Aha, I get it! But he was an official outlaw whereas the Marsellaise says Aux armes, citoyens (so they were inside the nation space).
See how pedantic I can get? Anyway, I want defensive arms like his, and also a carabina 30-30.
those citoyens! no Australian is really a citoyen — at least to the degree that they are authentic. They are all outsiders with regard to the British mode of Being.
I borrowed a suit from a lawyer friend.
I figure it was important for the committee to know that I, at least, had a friend from whom I could borrow a suit.
That was the last time there ever saw me in such a get up.
RG – I cannot abide suits and I refuse to wear most of them. I do need a good jacket, though.
J – gotcha. That postcolonial bind! I should write a ragtime song about it. Oh oh oh that postcolonial bind. It’s so primitive, yet so authentic, oh oh oh I must balance these things. Civilized savage, are we a citizen, noble evil, in the wide outback, wearing kangaroo hats, oh oh oh that postcolonial bind!
oh oh oh that postcolonial bind! — it will make you blind, it will make you blind. It will put hair on your palms.
😉 O, that’s good. Seriously – when I get some peace and inspiration, I’m going to write this song, it will be a hit!
Oh, come on, now. As if this process were not gut-wrenching enough!
Someone said that not to expect a candidate to wear a jacket and tie for us was to succumb to our inferiority complex.
I think that to be that sensitive about it is to *express* the inferiority complex.
What do you think?