Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Yo mama....

Jeff Ireland.

If you ever get an interview confirmation with this man's name on the email, you may want to avoid that job.

As reported by Yahoo Sports, apparently during an NFL pre-draft interview, Jeff Ireland dropped the biggest insult on a top prospect. Just imagine this scenario if you will. You're in an interview for a government job, they've delved into your past. The recruiter has asked you questions about how you'd deal with stress such as:

"Mike, tell us about a time where you were confronted by a superior and the end result".

This is a typical behavioral question, to see how well you handle these situations or how fast you can lie about one. Now perhaps for jobs such as the CIA or FBI you'll experience the mind games where, you'll ACTUALLY be submerged in a stressful situation, so they can gauge your reaction.

However, would you ever expect this from any "corporate" recruiter. After being asked about your greatest accomplishment, he hits you with this one:

"Mike, Is your mother a prostitute?"

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? This actually happened.

The Miami Dolphins General Manager "GM", asked Dez Bryant this stunning question. Ok, so Dez has had character issues, he gets his advice from Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin, but does that mean you can ask anything you want?

I cannot ever see a situation where this is ok. Even the FBI recruiter is thinking "Damn man, that's low".

If you were close to your mom at all, would you not be tempted to either curse the guy out right there or go Mike Tyson on him? I would not have blamed Dez one bit if he did react that way.

The Dolphins have quickly tried to cover it up by explaining it was asked to see how'd Dez would react. Somehow I don't believe that's a standard question to all players. Everyone has to deal with stress at work, athletes deal with trash talk all the time. I have to imagine there are other ways to put them in a stressful situation during a formal interview. For that to be asked by an Executive of a company is unheard of and completely out of line.

So the warning is out there if Jeff Ireland doesn't get fired. Next time you're interviewing for that Manager position, you better prepare yourself for this one:

"I heard yo mama so nasty, that she pours salt water down her pants to keep her crabs fresh."

"Is it true?"

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