VP shows me a series of HAWK TUAH memes in a Coffee Chat
So I was on a coffee chat with a BB VP (I know it's a little early, but I had a family connection who set this up for me and they were happy to meet now).
VP shows up ~10min late. White guy, mid-thirties, semi-balding, tall, sort of intimidating honestly. Anyways this guy just shows up, shakes my hand, we go get coffee etc. etc. We sit down and do maybe 5 min of small talk about college football. After that, VP TAKES OUT HIS PHONE with the pdf of the resume I attached in my email and starts going through it line by line, asking me what I did in this and that club, why I choose my major, and finally what I did at my internship.
I was completely put-off by this, but I continue answering him, trying to play up my garbage summer Search Fund internship where I didn't see a single piece of financial data when VP's eyes work their way down to the Skills & Interests portion of my resume.
VP: "You're interested in comedy?"
Me: "Yeah, stand-up comedy, I've been interested in it for a long time and I really enjoy the process of refining material and learning from--"
VP: "Do you like memes?"
Me: "Memes? Umm yeah I guess I like to share them with friends and stuff."
VP: "Wait one second I got to show you something."
VP proceeds to swipe a bit on his phone, and turns to show me his screen. He's scrolling up on what I think was a FB messenger group chat and starts showing me a series of terribly unfunny Hawk Tuah girl memes. I force a chuckle and say "oh yeah... these are great... my friends send these all the time." VP seemed to be very pleased at that and continued to show me more VERY LOUD Hawk Tuah videos as I intermittently look over my shoulder praying that nobody in the Midtown Starbucks is staring at our table.
After about a minute more of this, VP finally moves on to asking more standard questions about my interest in Finance and Banking. He nodded his head at my responses, with a much more approving and receptive attitude than he had at the beginning of the chat. After about 20min of convo, VP excuses himself to get back to work, shakes my hand again, and with a smile tells me to email him to let him know when I submit my application.
I'm honestly can't believe the experience. Obviously I'm grateful for the chat but that was not what I was expecting.
Cringe
You know if the VP sees this it’s probably going to be a bad look for you, this is such a unique situation it’s basically doxxing lol
This is the kind of guy you would want to work with, not paragraph post. Perhaps you belong in consulting?
I'm more worried about whether it's a troll post😂
OP would be so annoying to have on the floor.
Surely there are better things to do with ur life than make this post no?
Better hope this post doesn't catch his eye because it is 100% a personally identifiable story and will wreck your positive ending to the meeting. Keep this kind of thing as a joke to tell and maybe wait a year or two before sharing a story this personal online so you don't risk doxxing yourself.
"After that, VP TAKES OUT HIS PHONE with the pdf of the resume I attached in my email and starts going through it line by line, asking me what I did in this and that club, why I choose my major, and finally what I did at my internship.
I was completely put-off by this"
Wow a typical start to an interview/coffee chat -- SHOCKING
he was expecting a HAWK TUAH on his CV that's why this caught him off guard
Sorry if you are worried about what people think of you in Midtown with a Finance bro and caught off guard by all this, you don't belong in finance. this guy is a newer generation guy; wait till you meet an old head; the stuff that will come out of their mouth. As another poster said, go to Consulting, pretend you're in finance.
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This is very funny. I recommend deleting this post.
This guy sounds awesome lmao, would def wanna work with him
OP sounds like he would tell the teacher on you for saying a naughty word
god forbid the vp asks about his resume
lol
I don't understand your first point. You were put off by the guy taking out your resume and asking you questions about it? What?
Not so much the going through my resume, moreso the fact he was staring into his phone to do it.
Ah of course, you expected him to bring a laminated printout instead.
Sounds like a legend
Vp must be a chad
Chad VP stuns intern with memes instead of derivatives questions and intern still finds a way to complain
Sounds like a fun interview
You gotta lighten up sheesh
Did you get the job
Lolol what is this
don't understand what the issue is here
😂 😆
Would kill for coffee chats like this, stop complaining
God forbid he... looks at your resume?!
Most likely Stud vp
LOL You should send him the link to the TALK TUAH podcast that girl just started doing and tell him you thought of his memes while watching it... Instant cred. You're resume will easily move to the top of the pile.
Thank you so much for risking your reputation with this guy to post this extremely specific story because this is one of the funniest things I’ve read all week
OP sounds like a female
lol nice one
Dream cc
Some kid coffee chatted with an analyst who'd smoke his e-cig during the chat lol
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