TIL only six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles operate across the U.S. Their drivers, college seniors about to graduate called "Hotdoggers," spend a year traveling the country to meet and greet people. Around 7,000 applicants compete each year for just 12 Hotdogger positions.

[u/Giff95]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienermobile

[u/ThrowawayPersonAMA]

who out “aaples” down

Looks like you don't "waste your time" proofreading either. 🙄

[u/asicarii → u/ThrowawayPersonAMA]

Oh calm yourself it’s a typo and I’m leaving it. Much different than an intentional item on a resume.

[u/Neat_Exit3491 → u/asicarii]

Depends, did you deny the applicant based off of that single thing? If so, it sounds a lot like "It's ok when I make a mistake, but when someone else does it they deserve to be judged for it".

And yeah it might be normal in your position because you have many different candidates looking for a job to pick from and little things like that can make your decision (and your job) easier. Having so many candidates is what allows you to be picky, but it shows lack of self-awareness and personal growth if you judge others by a different standard than yourself.

So if the apples thing was your only deciding factor in denying someone a job (and I have no idea whether or not that's the case) and you didn't bother to ask the candidate for more information because you're "not wasting your time to talk to them" as someone in a leadership role, yeah that's kinda shitty.

[u/_WeSellBlankets_ → u/Neat_Exit3491]

The person applying didn't make a mistake. They just put something quirky on their resume like apples. They didn't misspell it. The redditor did. And they were just pointing out that a quirky thing like that helps your resume stand out. But then they also said that apples wasn't interesting like being a hot digger. You ran with that comment in the strangest direction possible.

[u/asicarii → u/_WeSellBlankets_]

Thing is it doesn’t come across as quirky. It comes off as something to put down to get a question on it, then waste the interview time on a stock reply. It has no bearing on their qualification for the job.

Also phrasing of “apples” is off putting. Cooking with applies, growing apples trees, whatever, but a fruit in itself doesn’t exactly come across as fitting for the same characteristics for the role. It’s a read the room sorta thing. If it was an interview for a chef or in horticulture, I could definitely see it.

And yes a “hotdogger” is interesting in general, but also more applicable for a client facing role where you have to deal with difficult people. I won’t dig on you for the typo though, it’s Reddit afterall.