I know Alice and Bob are mega-classic foo/bar-style example names, but I also feel like it brings an unnecessary implication to use gendered names as examples when talking about hiring.
2. Did you find Alice was a negative gender stereotype in the post?
I actually had the opposite impression: Bob is a free spirit/idealist who can’t focus on his day job but Alice is a practical/good employee who gets stuff done. If the roles had been reversed I think it would have been more likely to raise a flag for me. I can how someone could have the opposite interpretation, that Bob is a thought leader and Alice is a simple worker bee. It seems to depend on the reader's interpretation.
Of course that would be equally silly, because an example is just an example and there's no reason to read this sort of thing into it.
The Rorschach Test
http://bouldertherapist.com/html/humor/MentalHealthHumor/ror...