Last week someone asked if I ever thought about hiring females…since the boys all seem to work out so well. I have hired females, but other than a few personality quirks, they’ve been quite good.
Not so for a friend of mine. He brought on a graduate student that was quite literally insane. At first, when we interviewed her, she was impressive. She knew a lot about bears, had read a lot of articles and asked intelligent questions. But after a bit, I realized something was off. She didn’t just like bears. She revered them. She actually uttered the words, “I worship the grizzly bear.”
Shockingly, I didn’t burst out into laughter, but I did poke fun. “So you’re really into bears,” I said in my snarky tone.
She didn’t seem to catch my sarcasm. She simply nodded and said, “Way,” as only a stoner could.
Needless to say, I was shocked when my colleague brought her on as a grad student. I wasn’t shocked when he let her go.
