[al_borland]

> I would do it if the company was one I was excited about.

And what happens if you don’t get the job? You’d have a daily reminder of a bad interview and the job you failed to get. For someone with a ton of tattoos, maybe it doesn’t matter, just a funny story. For others, it could be a much bigger deal.

With the coffee shop, you get coffee for life, the life of the company, or the tenure of the owner/manger who agreed to it. With the job interview, you’re not guaranteed a job a life. Just an interview, and for all anyone knows, that tattoo stunt could have been a way to weed out people who were too desperate or make questionable decisions. So they’d get a short interview as a formality, but were never in the running for an actual job.

[paulcole]

> And what happens if you don’t get the job?

I don’t get the job.

Not getting the job doesn’t mean the interview was bad. And if it was a bad interview, life goes on.

You’re right that nothing is guaranteed in life. But you can do what you want and react to stuff how you want.