"...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.
She was always trying also to get out of you when your birthday was. This was extremely dangerous. Once she knew when you were born, she could pigeonhole you into a raft of characteristics which were supposed to go with whatever star sign went with the date, and this was irrespective of what she could see, or whether it fitted your personality at all. Once she knew a person's star sign, that was how she saw them, irrespective of the evidence in front of her. As that was how she saw a person, this became for here a self-endorsing motif.
Well, it's worth a try .... is the sheep's star sign important?
As for salvation, it happens every day for this follower of Jesus. As you know, Jesus was (is) Capricorn.
Apparently, as a Taurus, I should be, 'Dependable, patient, and deeply appreciative of life's finer things' and marry a virgo. Fortunately, Mrs RR is indeed a virgo, soft and sensitive with a deep capacity for love.
Well really, what a load of self-centered tosh. Utter tosh. It is right this should be in Hell. It is hellish and inimicable to any true religion.
PS: Mrs RR wishes to make it clear she is no longer a virgo.
I think you are half-right, in a way, astrology is too empirical. However, there is a wide spectrum, including psychological astrology, which is more symbolic. I'm not a fan of it. But people tend to take pop astrology as the entire thing, and I don't think it is. I was going to quote Jung, who was a fan, but I guess that is tosh.
Anyway I am a water sign and my wife is a fire sign we should not be together.
Those who take this stuff seriously say thing are much deeper than reading your daily fortune in the paper
I've met plenty of people who apparently believe in Astrology and like to import it in to every conversation they have. Any observable aspects of their or another's personality will be "explained" by their star sign. So I find it completely believable that such a person would use it in a job interview when discussing their personality traits.
I am mildly put off by this kind of person (believe what you want, but I have no way of engaging with a discussion of how you were late for your bus because Mercury is in retrograde), and would tend not to hire such a person in a customer services role (I'd want waitstaff to be polite, personable, and efficient, and not inclined to drag their special interest in to every interaction with a customer.)
Bloody hell Karl, even by rural standards that's kinky!