Didn’t your momma teach you that two wrongs don’t make a right??
If someone is a jerk to you, and then you’re a jerk to them… you’re still a jerk.
If someone is a jerk to you, and then you’re a jerk to them… you’re still a jerk.
Pointing out something that was objectively douchy isn’t “wrong”. Yes I was a little snarky, and maybe I am a “jerk”, but considering that this person was happy to just waste my time like it was nothing I do think he was entitled to a little embarrassment.
This is exactly the kind of signal that would make me not want to hire someone.
Tit-for-tat? Spite? No thanks.
If I had shown up fifteen minutes late for the interview I wouldn’t have gotten an offer and the interviewer might have made a comment about it during the interview and people generally wouldn’t call them an asshole for it.
Regardless, you kind of proved what I was trying to say. Most people don’t actually want directness. The fact that when I was direct with someone you’re treating it like some mafioso retribution is telling.