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by JabavuAdams 1546 days ago
This is neat, but it puts a certain spin on your personality that might give others pause, even if they would be totally okay with working with someone who just behaved as outlined in the doc. There's a whiff of being overly prescriptive, and prima-donna-ish. Of maybe being Aspergers / on the Autistic spectrum, which could be +ve or -ve, depending on who's hiring.

Overall, I think I would like to work with someone who is conscientious enough and introspective enough to take the effort to make a doc like this. On the other hand, I did have to suppress a bit of an eye-roll and I would wonder whether contextually they'd be annoying to work with or oblivious to subtler contexts and human interactions. But I've written plenty of communications that could cause the same questions in someone else, so...