Yesterday, at my job as a reporter. Some men, even though I tell them how the interview/quoting process works, will just assume I’m stupid for asking “groundwork” questions without realizing I’m doing that to get quotes, which I need in his words, not mine.
I should also say my job is borderline public relations work, so I wasn’t asking probing, hardball gotcha questions either. The articles are essentially free advertising for companies.
Sometimes, they’ll get that I understand what I’m asking about as the interview progresses, but this man continued to give me condescending, non-sentence answers while repeatedly questioning my knowledge on the subject. Which will just make it harder to grab good quotes when I write the article, because they all come with spice. I never have these problems when I interview women.
Oh good grief. There was no need to be condescending, if he thought you were being ridiculous he could have just asked you why you were asking these questions. But instead he chose to rub your face in his superiority and try to embarrass you in the process. Did he realise he faceplanted?
Yesterday, at my job as a reporter. Some men, even though I tell them how the interview/quoting process works, will just assume I’m stupid for asking “groundwork” questions without realizing I’m doing that to get quotes, which I need in his words, not mine.
I should also say my job is borderline public relations work, so I wasn’t asking probing, hardball gotcha questions either. The articles are essentially free advertising for companies.
Sometimes, they’ll get that I understand what I’m asking about as the interview progresses, but this man continued to give me condescending, non-sentence answers while repeatedly questioning my knowledge on the subject. Which will just make it harder to grab good quotes when I write the article, because they all come with spice. I never have these problems when I interview women.
Oh good grief. There was no need to be condescending, if he thought you were being ridiculous he could have just asked you why you were asking these questions. But instead he chose to rub your face in his superiority and try to embarrass you in the process. Did he realise he faceplanted?