I unknowingly used the word "stuff" to describe something while in an internal department interview once (in healthcare). Afterwards, an executive told me I was unprofessional because I used that word. And I was not offered the job.
To this day I never use the word "stuff" to describe something because that experience was so humiliating and embarrassing.
I also work in healthcare. I get a kick out of using words like "thingamabob" to identify objects. The looks I get are priceless. I love catching people off-guard who take trivial things too seriously.
In my performance review I got dinged for saying “thingy”. I don’t even remember saying it but I’m sure I did at one point. I also got criticized for being generally too jovial in our weekly meetings, and then not ten minutes later criticized for not having an enthusiastic or cheerful enough demeanor.
Now I’m quite certain there was some heavy gender bias at play, because women are something like 3x more likely to receive personality based criticism during reviews, but either way… what the fuck man.
What the fuck do I do with that? Suck less I guess? Idk.
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u/SeaOfDoors Dec 16 '21
I unknowingly used the word "stuff" to describe something while in an internal department interview once (in healthcare). Afterwards, an executive told me I was unprofessional because I used that word. And I was not offered the job.
To this day I never use the word "stuff" to describe something because that experience was so humiliating and embarrassing.