Comment in interview

[BitchQueen90]

I had an informal interview for a job today. For part of it I had to do a short literacy and numeracy test. I scored quite highly on both and one of the (male) interviewers said "obviously not just a pretty face!"

I left feeling a bit annoyed and thought this was inappropriate for an interview, even an informal one. But I don't know if IABU and over sensitive? Don't even think I want the job now.

You will experience this all your working life, sexism is rife and endemic. What is said, and by whom, will change as you get older.

Until you reach a point when no one gives a shit what you look like, and then you will feel the hurt of age discrimination instead. With that said, not every man thinks like this. There's just enough of them to remind you it still exists.

How you deal with it is up to you. If it's an otherwise great job with good prospects then I'd ignore him.

Ignore him. You'll never take any job if you are upset by stuff like that, it's daily life!

I haven't been offered the job yet. Thanks, I'll try to forget it and have a think if I do get it!

Yes you are being over sensitive. Its not like he said. " Well BitchQueen you're as repulsive as sin, but. Hey never mind. You scored very high in your mathes and English test

YANBU. It's not an appropriate thing to say in an interview. It's really patronising, even apart from the sexist element.

I turned down a job once for similar reasons. Questions included "And what does your husband do?" (I'm not even married) and the interviewer at one point said "We don't have many girls working at other office - it's quite far from town so I expect they want to work somewhere where they can spend their lunch breaks shopping."

I know people will say "All workplaces are like that" but no, they really aren't. It's been 17 years since I worked somewhere with that sort of workplace culture.

It's just a saying. A woman said it to me the other day. I just replied "I think you mean not even a pretty face!"