"...like, you know, because I'm a Libra."
I'm sitting at a local coffee shop grabbing a cuppa between playing AM masses, and I've just been treated to witnessing a second interview of a college-age girl who's applying to work here. (I'm sitting outside, and the interview is taking place at the bistro table right behind me." The interviewer asked how she felt about engaging the public, and here supremely confident answer ended with the thread title. I confess to being a bit bemused. Is citing one's zodiac sign an employment tactic these days? I had no idea. I confess to not knowing the boilerplate traits of Libras, or any of the signs, but she clearly seemed to think her interviewer did, or at least did about Libras. And I guess she's fairly confident in a generally positiver attitude toward Astrology. Huh.
Not sure this belongs in Hell, unless people want or need to rant/vent about Astrology.
Not sure this belongs in Hell, unless people want or need to rant/vent about Astrology.
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If I was interviewing and they said they were into motorsport, parkrun or cricket we could converse about them which would help build up a general picture but if they wanted to impress me for the job they would have to show familiarity with spreadsheets.
(* Do not read this cautionary sentence!)
Yep, sometimes we break out the card table and play with each other.
If I were the boss or the business-partner of the interviewer, and that interviewer accepted "...because I'm a Libra" as relevant to the hiring process, I would not be very happy.
Has there ever been a time when someone told you, and you just forgot? Or has the subject absolutely never come up?
I know my Chinese sign, but I could imagine it plausible that I'd never have found that out. But I think it quite unlikely that I could ever not have known my Babylonian sign.
Actually, I think there is something in astrological traits. Not for the reasons they say, but the time of year you are born can have significant impacts on you - on schooling, for example. What year you are in. And social development also, whether you have birthday and Christmas separated or conflated. It is all how you fit in with the social world, so I can see this.
Nothing to do with where Uranus is, of course.
Also - I can picture that interview. And I think it shows someone who will talk about themselves. It sounds like someone who will interact well with others, will chat with them about herself, Which is probably what is needed. Nothing to do with her star sign, of course.
If someone I was interviewing said that for a job in IT, They would immediately be on the no pile, of course, because we don't need people who waffle bullshit.
By nature I'm very much like Tim Michin here: https://genius.com/Tim-minchin-storm-lyrics
(I’m a caring cancer, lol)
Might be different for a different job. I once sat on a disciplinary panel of a teacher who had run up a £800 bill on the school's telephones ringing astrological lines for guidance on her love life. She was the Head of the Science Department.
Cancer - caring; born on a Friday - loving and giving,: Year of the fire horse - intelligent but stubborn ( in real life I'm both self righteous and bad tempered, a particularly unhelpful combination)
Yes, I thought of that - the clip omits Flanders' conclusion that Swann, who says he's a Libra, is the son of a Librarian...but his remarks may occur only on the recording of their Broadway concert (1967).
*Lots of horror, but not much scope!*
(I’m a Capricorn, by the way.)
I have no idea what my son's star signs are. I never found out and I have no wish to know.
I criticise it because no-one's managed to provide any mechanism by which it could work, or any evidence that it does that holds water for five minutes. The constellations are nonsense as real entities; the nearest stars to us in Aquarius and Pisces, on opposite sides of the sky, are nearer to each other than they are to the other stars in "their" constellations. They just happen to lie in the same direction as viewed from the Solar System. The precession of the equinoxes means that the Sun isn't even in your alleged star sign on your birth date any more; the vernal equinox occurs when the sun is "in" Pisces now, just after it leaves Aquarius, not Aries, just as it leaves Pisces, as it does "astrologically". Nearly everyone's "star sign" is actually out by one.
It really is on a par with believing that sticking your finger up a sheep's backside on Easter Monday making you fertile.
Christians are followers of Jesus, reading and trying live by what he said.
How is it droll that they don't see any value in astrology?
So you think salvation is empirically based?
Blast, I've been a Catholic for 40 years, and I thought they were talking about salvation, ah well, try again.
The difficulty is that astrology makes testable predictions about people and events in their lives which are observably false. Christianity is, for the most part, unfalsifiable. There is a big difference between believing something unproven or unprovable and something proven wrong.