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Black text on white background reading “when i say “if i recall” or “if i remember correctly” i am being polite about being right. i remember and i am correct.”
Black text on white background reading “when i say “if i recall” or “if i remember correctly” i am being polite about being right. i remember and i am correct.”
I hate not using that phrasing because I know I am fallible, but to many normal people, even if you know you can be wrong, you give a confident response.
If there is any chance I could be slightly incorrect I use this phrasing, but this really has meant that some people are more grating to me than others because they will think you arent confident or smart if you show any signs of being able to acknowledge your fallibility
I think acknowledging my fallibility is part of why I got the job I have now, but it’s generally part of the interview at my work to throw curve ball questions to see how the candidate handles it.
Like, for example, I had 60 seconds to list as many protocols and associated ports as I could. I got a few (apparently the most of the candidates which is wild), but I prefaced it by telling them my skill set wasn’t rote memory recall.