Candidate rejected by interviewer for wearing a shirt that said “I’m too Hot for a Job”

Recently an Amazon executive revealed that she had rejected a candidate who showed up to an interview in a T-Shirt that said “I’m too Hot for a Job”. This caused a lot of noise on social media with folks either supporting her or calling the interviewer out for rejecting the candidate for no good reason. I am in the former camp and would have rejected a candidate if they came for an interview dressed like that. I personally love quirky T-Shirts and about half of the T-Shirts I have have some saying/joke on them (At one point it was more than 90% of my T-Shirts) but I have never worn them to work, or even to meet people who I know on a professional basis. At one point a few years ago I remember complaining that I wasn’t able to wear any of my T-Shirts because of this, which is when I started getting T-Shirts that were more neutral and less quirky. The reason for that rule is quite simple, there is a time and place for everything and a Job *Interview* is not where you wear such clothes.…