I've never had a job-interview dinner, and never really thought of it, but I do recall meeting Gene Semchych at a restaurant prior to my employment at Assiniboine Community College (which would be my first real job in 15 years) and spilling food on my shirt. I'm not really a social eater to bgin with; I can't imagine eating when my future employment is on the line. This article gets to the point of job-interview dinners. " Dining is filled with unwritten social codes: signifiers of status, indexes of health, identity markers, taboos. When academic departments invite a job candidate out to eat, they're putting all of that on the table. As a result, their choice of a restaurant can signal who belongs and who doesn't belong at the university or in the wider community." And in a world where everybody should belong, that's not a good signal to send.
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