{"id":1601,"date":"2015-06-22T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2015-06-30T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:00:21","slug":"table-manners-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/table-manners-ugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Salad Dressing on Your Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, you are asking yourself, “Why is he writing about that?” Well, it is because at least twice a month one of our candidates loses an opportunity for a job offer because of their manners…mostly table manners.<\/p>\n

Just this week…the reason I’m writing this..one of our v.p. candidates lost an opportunity because he went to lunch with the CEO and two other vice presidents and, to quote the CEO, “he acted like it was the first meal he had all week.” On top of that, he ate his salad so fast, “he sent dressing flying onto his tie.” End of consideration. The group doing the hiring was appalled.<\/p>\n

We had a candidate sometime back who lost the opportunity because, at a meeting over coffee at the local Starbucks, he slurped his coffee instead of drinking it. The hiring authority was so annoyed he decided not to hire the candidate.<\/p>\n

it seems to me that many of the generations in the workplace just aren’t as concerned about manners as they used to be. My casual observation of the generations behind me (\u2026 I’m a boomer) is that people’s table manners just aren’t as good as Mama taught us. This isn’t \u00a0a criticism so much as it’s an observation.<\/p>\n

So, here are some thoughts about interview “meals”:<\/p>\n