"I am trying to think of any reason not to hire you."

[DaveJ]

When I was 19, I tried to get a job for UPS, and that is what the recruiter said to me during an 'interview'. That was over 20 years ago and it's still nagging me.

I've been trying to figure out if he meant me personally, or if that was his process. Either way, it seems wrong. If it were part of his process, and he was just looking out for the wellbeing of the company, I think that is a shitty process, because he's not going to find out during an interview if someone will ultimately steal from the business or not show up for work.

Ok, so someone can say "it's just one jerk", just forget about it, but it's a reoccurring theme. It's common for managers to think this way, if not actually say it.

Some managers who hire seems to come off that way. And it makes me wonder how someone in charge of hiring for major companies can be so narrow minded and infantile, and become managers. I know that there are reasons like 1) they claw their way up the ladder, or 2) executives want assholes in charge because they run a tight ship. But I would have thought that the world would evolve at some point. One can be nice and run a tight ship. It can be done. My dad is one of those who managed hundreds of people who was one of the few in a big corporation who, unlike others, was humble and soft spoken yet he still kept everything and everybody perfectly organized. So I grew up thinking a good manager did not need to be a jerk.