# Chewing tobacco and interviews do not mix. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324 "2005-05-04T04:10:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/1 "2005-05-04T04:10:24Z")
Ardred and I were leaving a local chain italian restaurant a few nights ago to go see Hitchhiker. As we were leaving, I saw a guy, tall, clean cut, maybe 18 with a large mountain dew bottle, spitting his chew-nasty into it. Now, this is disgusting, but not all that uncommon, sadly. Then, this nasty cancerous fool looks at the manager-type guy he’s been talking to. They shake hands and I realize… he’s holding an application in his hands. This kid is on an interview (to be a server, I would guess) and he’s CHEWING TOBACCO. Moron. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/2 "2005-05-04T04:59:04Z")
So are you going to eat in that restaurant again if the kid is hired? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/3 "2005-05-04T08:31:20Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > So are you going to eat in that restaurant again if the kid is hired? > > 😃 That was my first thought. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/4 "2005-05-04T10:24:56Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > So are you going to eat in that restaurant again if the kid is hired? > > 😃 I’d think twice about drinking the coffee, ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/5 "2005-05-04T14:17:50Z")
I wish more people would do this, thus allowing me an even higher probability of being interviewed and hired. I love my dress shirts and slacks. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/6 "2005-05-04T14:40:29Z")
Obviously, this guy was watching this season of **The Apprentice** , but somehow misinterpreted Trump’s (and Carolyn’s, and George’s, and the other contestants’) “oh yuck” reaction to the practice. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/7 "2005-05-04T17:22:45Z")
The guys who worked in the kitchen of a restaurant I used to work at chewed all the time. They’d just be walking around the restaurant with a big chew and it was pretty obvious. I don’t really have anything against chewing but a restaurant isn’t the best place to be doing that in. Also my boss didn’t even care. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/8 "2005-05-05T00:58:51Z")
Eww. Bad judgement, all around. I would do everything possible to not let on that I’d even had a drag from a cigarette before an interview, never mind spitting… Eww. ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/9 "2005-05-05T01:37:25Z")
:eek: I would have seriosu doubts about consuming anything from any business that has such employees. Yuck! Luckily over here, there are very few people that chew so I don’t have to vomit too often. And if I hae a job interview, I avoid cigarettes like the plague until I get home. I purposely cross the street to avoid a smoker so I don’t smell like stale smoke. Once again…YUCK! ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-tobacco-and-interviews-do-not-mix/302324/10 "2005-05-05T10:16:01Z")
On a side note, the Times mentioned this yesterday, entitled Naked Interview “A man who stripped naked to interview a 25 year old woman for a job claimed that it was part of his “tough interviewing technique”, Glasgow Sherriff Court was told. Saeed Akbar, 35, pleaded guilty to committing a breach of the peace and was placed on the sex offender’s register. Sentencing was deferred.” Mad me chuckle /end hijack