# Work Dilemma:  Told to hire the boss's pet

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-dilemma-told-to-hire-the-bosss-pet/714649>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-dilemma-told-to-hire-the-bosss-pet/714649 "2015-03-10T00:15:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-dilemma-told-to-hire-the-bosss-pet/714649/61 "2015-03-12T21:40:43Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> Being too upset about a top manager exercising his clout would be silly and unproductive. Worrying about that manager lying about what you said is not silly at all. What else is he going to lie about?
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> If you are very lucky he’ll confess to a “typo” in the mail and back down. It is also possible he will claim you said something to make him think you loved this candidate so it is all your fault. If you can think of anything that you said that could be twisted into an endorsement, however painfully, you might bring it up to give the VP an out.

I think that this is the wrong approach. His manager will remember if he is a team player, or if he likes to cause trouble. OP should nod and hire.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-dilemma-told-to-hire-the-bosss-pet/714649/62 "2015-03-12T22:26:41Z")

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Since we know the OP has been misrepresented as thinking OzGuy is his favorite, is it possible that maybe OzGuy was also misrepresented to the OP? Maybe the interview schedule required him to make multiple trips back and forth between the US and Oz, and all he really asked was isn’t there some way to do the whole interview process in one trip? Having to go through long flights and jet-lag each time he had to do a step of the interview _would_ be wearying, and also wouldn’t allow him to be at his best, as opposed to say, staying in the US for a week or two straight, and getting all the interviews done in a shorter space of time.

How it all ended up in “Just hire the guy,” I don’t know. Maybe the VP thinks the accent is really cool.

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