Did anyone hear about this?

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Today on the way home my husband and I were listening to the radio and one of the DJs announced this news about work places. They said how work places are finding smart sneaky ways before hiring. They are going to install hidden cameras in the room so they can see how you act when you are waiting to do your interview and also go look through your car windows to see how good your car looks and if there is trash in there, it's going to tell them what kind of worker you are. Like if you are a slob in your car, they are going to think you won't care much about your job and they don't care about how good your resume is and references and job history.

There were other things too they said but I don't remember. My husband thinks they were talking about higher paying job work places, like professional jobs than minimum wage jobs.

I've not heard this but it wouldn't surprise me. One thing I've never really understood about many companies is that they want innovative people and slam the door on them during the hiring process.

I've concluded that the problem is the type of people who usually end up in HR. People with MBA's who didn't do well enough to land an executive level job because they weren't ambitious enough, bright enough, or creative enough, and really don't have the aptitude for anything but middle management.

At least that is my impression.

It doesn't surprise me. I knew an engineer who used to get in trouble for riding his scooter to work. Finally management told him he could stop riding his scooter to work or he could find another job. Crazy. What do they care how you get there? They said it "looked bad."

My companies will only hire messy people who act weird. They're the smartest and most innovative.

This reminds me of when I was doing freelance graphics and animation for TV shows. Whenever a client emphasized that they wanted me to have full creative freedom on the project, I knew they were going to over-control it and give me no freedom whatsoever.

I think people want to come across as supportive of free thought and creativity, but only when it comes to themselves. When you try to be yourself, it's amazing how fast they backtrack.

Also, the idea of hiring creative people sounds good on the surface, but it demands that you be willing to entertain ideas that go beyond what you were expecting. Most managers get real nervous when someone does something outside a fairly narrow range.

I suppose that looking at a prospective employee's car or at how they behave when by themselves leads managers to think that this tells them something useful about what sort of employee they will be. I think they are looking for clues and not realizing the clues they are collecting probably have absolutely no relevance to the question.