Comments | amirine_7: So, am I a horrible person for this?

amirine_7

So, am I a horrible person for this?

May 04, 2007 00:46

So, have you ever been talking with someone and they are telling you about the "achievements" of a friend of theirs or their significant other (i.e. my girlfriend has an interview next week for such and such) and you really want to be happy for their friend/sig.oth but really, you're just like "they don't deserve that job/award/etc"?

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scarreddragon May 4 2007, 14:23:17 UTC

But realistically, I kind of feel like she's taking opportunities away from other people who probably care about them a lot more than she does.

Something like this happened to me recently. I felt really bad for thinking it (and still do), but I still feel like she didn't/doesn't deserve it.

amirine_7 May 9 2007, 11:19:39 UTC

Yeah, I don't mean to be anti-this person, but it still just doesn't seem right.

nowalmart May 4 2007, 15:34:24 UTC

But realistically, I kind of feel like she's taking opportunities away from other people who probably care about them a lot more than she does.

I suppose the question comes down to - who should AI choose: Someone who cares more about the issue, or someone who is a more capable worker?

(I am not saying that the girl in question is a better worker, but it is possible)

Ideally a place like AI would end up with someone who is both, but if they have to choose between those two qualitities, which should they choose?

I am not sure I know the answer to that question and, indeed, I am not sure there is a correct answer. I am quite sure that AI would ideally end up with a mix of both of those types.

So maybe AI just wants to put off the decision between those two qualities in the final interview.

amirine_7 May 9 2007, 11:22:29 UTC

You see, you are assuming that someone who cares about it more than she does can't be just as capable.

I'm not saying that she isn't capable, I don't really know her that well, but based on her boyfriend...

But who knows, maybe she's the complete opposite of her boyfriend, it's very possible...I just feel that if she really cared about working for someone like AI that she should have, or would have, at least come to a single Tulane AI meeting...and I realize a whole bunch of other stuff that I really just don't feel like typing right now, but you get the point.