Palin's winking: a good job interview strategy?

[Joanne98]

by boydmcdonald
Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 10:39:31 AM PDT
Viewing the debates in the context of a job interview, I thought Joe Biden smiled way to much and at inopportune times. The ability to keep a straight face is a necessary gift in a diplomat and he didn't have it. OK so he's not perfect he's passable.

However, Sarah Palin's winking really got to me. You know, the wink, wink, wink, that Sarah Palin gave to the voters to convince women that she's "The one, the friend, the helper candidate," and to the men she's the "I'll lay on my back for you candidate."

TheImproper.com

Sarah Palin Winks But Loses VP Debate, Polls Say (VIDEO)
By Samantha Chang 10/03/08

Personally, I was offended by Palin's pandering to the TV audience with her folksy expressions, smirks and winking. I mean--can you imagine Hillary Clinton, Margaret Thatcher or Madeleine Albright doing that and being taken seriously? As a woman (and a mom)--a demographic the McCain camp wants to sway with the addition of their token female to the ticket--I was annoyed by Palin's obvious need to rely on her charm rather than substance.

Watch the wink.

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boydmcdonald's diary :: ::
I do not want anyone to be sexually propositioned, or think he/she hs been sexually propositioned by a VP with uncontrollable winking syndrome. I'm rigorously anti-sex harassment in the office (dirty looks and winks can be harassment) so I thought it was jut my overworked smut meter going off. But I wasn't the only one to notice.

As an employer who has been involved in hundreds of job interviews, I would never hire anyone who winked at me during the interview. We are professionals working in a professional atmosphere. The prospective employee's use of a wink in an interview shows one of two things. It is either a sexualization of the employer employee relationship or it is gross over familiarity. Either trait is unacceptable in anyone who will work as an independant professional for my firm. On this issue alone Sharah Palin's debate performance did not pass muster.

Unfortunately, it's more than just her lust to be VP that is at stake. What is popping up on the intertubes today is the sorry fact that Sarah's winking has overtly sexualized her campaign. The group most vulnerable to being influenced by Paln's wink is narcissistic and/or sleazy older white men, the same ones who will be interviewing women for the few jobs remaining in a very tight labor market. With this crowd, Palin's enthusiasm and backwoodsiness counted more than her experience and won her kudos. That she was good to look at was even better. Today, it's not even an issue of her enthusiasm or compentency any more. The meme has changed to, "Is she a babe, yes no?" "Why do you think she's a babe?" "When she's compared to Nancy Pelosi is she a babe?" "Is she a bailout babe?" "Will she wink for me?" "Is three winks an agreement to go to third base in the car?" "She's hot!" "She's not!"

The reality is Sarah Palin's campaign has been a disaster for all working women who need to be taken seriously to get the same pay for the same work as men. Sexy winking is generally not a performance measure outside the sex industry. Working women need to be able to compete on performance, not the babe-wink-will-she-put-out-factor. I will not vote for McCain Palin. I hate to think of "the wink that might destroy the world."

http://preview.tinyurl.com/...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/3/123514/135/362/619001

[dancingme]

1. here's the photo

[WeDidIt]

4. She snarls when she winks

From the nose to the chin, she's all Cheney.

[liberal1973]

6. lol..

Last night Palying said, she is the energy expert? :wtf:

:rofl: :rofl:

[budkin]

2. No, it comes off as smarmy

[Loge23]

3. I'd run for the hills

if I were interviewing a woman who did that.
Yikes!! What the heck is she thinking here?

[Erin Elizabeth]

5. This is going to sound weird---

I'm considered an attractive woman. I'm sure I could have flirted my way through a few interviews with men. But I know my stuff. I'm good at what I do. And I would have never even considered flirting my way through an interview. I would think the interviewer wouldn't have much respect for me, would assume I don't know much, and/or would assume I was available, if you get my drift.

I wanted none of those things to happen. I always wanted to be hired on my merits and what I could bring to the organization, not my looks or any inappropriate behavior and what that might be construed to mean.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. I voiced this quite vociferously last night right after her first wink.

After the second wink, I SCREAMED at the teeVee!!!