A literal paddling for being late to homeroom in middle school. Bad as schools are now, they have been worse.

Also, wearing a mini skirt on a football game day, when the cheerleaders had to come to school in their uniforms (skirts much shorter than mine.) this is the only time my mom backed me up, she said it was stupid and picked me up I was not in trouble. Dress code should be the same for everyone, if you have one.

I think it’s an ok question, just tell them there’s no wrong answer. Sometimes people say “culture fit” as some kind of code for discrimination, but I don’t think that taste in music or books is a protected category, lol. I am just not sure it’s going to work to do what you want. Some of the guys are work who come ooh and ah over my geeky cube decor are nice and some are assholes, there doesn’t seem to be a correlation and some of my favorite people at work are so different from me if spun on that axis, like they drink wine and go see romantic comedy or football games, or reality TV (blech) but are so great to work with.

It is absolutely ok to try to build a good team that can work together. That makes a better working environment for sure. I hope you can influence the selection process, you do sound like a good boss.

These are two separate questions. Is the person into sci fi and is the person an asshole because they think people in lower ranked positions are inferior as people.

If you asked me my favorite sci fi and I said it was the Black Science comics, or Atomic Robo, is that a yes or a no? And how does it tell you whether I’m an asshole to people in junior positions? I work with a set of diverse people who are all pretty cool but I don’t think that most of them are, well, “like me” in a standard cultural sense. In fact I know they aren’t.

I had a boss who would interview people with relevant questions but most of what he was looking for was people who were not afraid of him, lol. He was a very intense person and you had to be able to push back if you thought he was wrong.

I think if you made it funny it might be ok, it is a question that would put me, personally, at ease, but how are these yuppies sneaking through your screening at all? It’s not evident in the interview?

You can identify however you want and I think pansexual is correct because you are attracted to the person not their gender, you just lean straight.

Hmm, I don’t wear pantyhose but as a tall-ish woman with a long rise (distance between crotch and waist) I do sometimes have problems with allegedly high waisted garments that are too small in the waist because they are trying to close around my hipbones. That is wildly uncomfortable, yes. But if they are really so high waisted that they reach my natural waist, they are so comfortable.

So I think your pantyhose are just too small in some dimension, maybe try a bigger size or see if you can find some that are labeled “tall”.

Here is a list of the top 5 most litigious countries by capita:

1. Germany: 123.2/1,000 2. Sweden: 111.2/1,000 3. Israel: 96.8/1,000 4. Austria: 95.9/1,000 5. U.S.: 74.5/1,000. The Top 10 also includes the UK (64.4); Denmark (62.5); Hungary (52.4); Portugal (40.7); and France (40.3).

From https://eaccny.com/news/member-news/dont-let-these-10-legal-myths-stop-your-doing-business-in-the-u-s-myths-6-and-7-the-u-s-is-very-litigious-and-that-is-too-threatening-to-a-small-company-like-ours-as-a-result-the-risk/

I would call it grain flavor, they have a slight natural sweetness and mild, almost creamy flavor I wouldn’t call it bland exactly, but subtle, yeah.

Obviously this sucks, those asshole fascists can fall off a cliff but holy crap MEGA is a much better acronym than MAGA.

It depends. Eggs are part of cakes and pancakes, and a very quick to cook healthy thing to eat. Family of 4 now, we go through between 8 eggs on a light week and 32 eggs on a week I make a lot of egg stuff, or if someone is bulking, like today I made shakshuka for supper and a cake, that’s eight eggs in one meal.

I think they are a commodity and historically a cheap source of animal protein, that’s why they are talked about.