I read your column last week about whether coffee preferences are a good measure of character. I agreed that such a minor thing probably didn’t reflect something larger. But it made me think about one of my own recent experiences. I was going for a job that sounded like just my sort of thing. I was asked to do a formal interview. Beforehand, I did a bit of research about who would be interviewing me. As I researched I found one of my interviewers, someone I would work with if I got the job, was a prolific LinkedIn poster.

I found one of their posts quite interesting, but most of the rest seemed a bit overbearing, and a few were so dogmatic it made me nervous. This person seemed quite pleasant during the interview, but that post played on my mind; I was offered the job but declined. Could I have been too judgmental?

LinkedIn posters exist on a spectrum. Or multiple spectrums. Irreverent to fawning. Whimsical to earnest.Credit: John Shakespeare

In some ways, I think what you’ve described is the opposite of the situation with the hot coffee drinker from last week’s Work Therapy.

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