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[–] 124 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

I feel like the interviewer wasn’t explicit about the conditions. They probably phrased it gently. “Are you alright with wolf spiders finding their way onto you?”

“Naturally”, the potential employee thinks. “Wolf spiders are amongst the least dangerous spiders. I’m fine with their occasional company.”

What they should have asked was “are you capable of tolerating dozens of heavy wolf spiders motivatedly crawling over your head, torso, and arms for hours at a time without reprieve? To become a gathering ground during their apocalypse? To be their Noah’s ark?” That is a question that provokes a sincere answer.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I love spiders. I don't want them on my face.

    Also, it seems like it should be a dedicated job to get the spiders out of the bog. If you're out there working and you're covered in spiders, a fair number of them are going to get squished. Nobody wants that. The spiders don't want to hang out on your body, they want to get to dry land.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Some dollar store inflatable tubes or rafts + maybe a more grippy material would provide a nice place for the spiders and limit the amount on humans

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