[bnt]

Guy from China logged into a video tech interview. Fully nude, only wearing sunglasses, and behind him a huge swastika. That was an instant disconnect for me and a rejection email to the candidate.

Edit for concerned folks: it was a Nazi swastika. Red flag, black tilted swastika.

[tass]

The naked thing, sure, weird, but maybe the camera was on by accident.

The swastika is used in some countries as a religious symbol, among other things. Tourist maps in Japan when I was last there still used it to represent temple locations.

Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society

[jameshush]

> but maybe the camera was on by accident.

Am I the only one who has the rule of "don't do interviews naked ever under any circumstances" or am I just out of touch nowadays?

[ashtonkem]

I’ll generally never get naked in front of where my webcam is, but I’m also fortunate to have enough space where I have a dedicated office separate from my living space.

Honestly, I’ve felt really weird the few times I wore a tank top, and it wasn’t even an interview.

[Spooky23]

All sorts of weird stuff happens. I worked for a place that used awful body shop contracts and people would play all sorts of games to sell fake candidates.

Usually the company would underbid to get some placements, and have a small, smart team back in India or Russia do the actual work remotely. The guy on site would be a fake person who would say yes to anything and ship work to the guys in the backroom.

The interviews were… interesting. People with disguises, dark rooms with grainy video feeds, etc.

[ghaff]

>The naked thing, sure, weird, but maybe the camera was on by accident.

I have the advantage of a separate office but one reason I'm basically never in my office, much less even on a video muted call, unless appropriately dressed. (To be clear this needn't mean dressed up but at least T-shirt and gym shorts.) Too easy to hit a wrong button or otherwise have something on that you think is off.

[alisonkisk]

Physical camera cover; even if it's a piece of electrical tape.

[ashtonkem]

A lot of detached webcams come with flip down privacy guards.

[ghaff]

I think the newer Logitech ones do; I have an older one. I think my point still stands though. You can make a mistake. Of course if your computer is looking at your bedroom, not much you can do other than be careful about your camera not being on and/or privacy shield down.

[vishnugupta]

In India, one of the first things that a Hindu priest does as part of religious rituals is draw Swastika. I’m not a religious person but had to perform house warming ceremony to keep my immediate family happy. My house still has like half a dozen swastika drawn by a priest a decade ago.

Though I’ve never seen tilted one.

[approxim8ion]

I've never seen a black swastika either tbh. Hindu ones are typically red/orange/gold/yellow from what I've noticed.

[vishnugupta]

You are right.

In fact, it’s very rare come across black color in Hindu religious ceremonies. Black represents inauspicious and evil. Of course there are a few gods who are black colored such as “shani”, “Kaali” (black, literal meaning), Yama (God of death). Most of them have something dark/negative about them but aren’t inherently evil.

[bonestamp2]

This one doesn't sound like an accident.

[darkerside]

How did you know he was fully nude?

[sahila]

Clearly no excuse for being naked with sunglasses, but you should know that the swastika is not a universally bad symbol.

In India you'll see the symbol plastered all around in front of people's home, rickshaws (taxis), and on buildings. Nazis repurposed it for their use but its roots stem from East Asia.

I once got into trouble and had to see the principal in 2nd grade for drawing the swastika while bored in class. It sucks that the Western world is largely ignorant of its positive roots and usage.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika