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Re:Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruis... by iamdave on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:08PM (#17570280)
Seems to me people that have a job title where the first letter begins with "C" and rhymes with "Reef" are given a much wider berth when it comes to the types of thing that would get the average worker thoroughly passed over in job screenings.
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Re:Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruis... by taneq on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:16PM (#17571749)
As an aside - I've always heard "to give a wide berth" used in the same sense as "keep at arms' length" or even "wouldn't touch with a barge pole". I'm curious as to whether it's also commonly used in this sense?

Interestingly, the way I'd phrase this case is to "give them more leeway" which is a closely related nautical term but seems to be used the opposite.

Edit: Thinking about it, I guess to "give them more leeway" is to give them more room to maneuver, while "give a wide berth" is to give yourself more room.

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Re:Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruis... by woah on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:42PM (#17571827)
They have already been selected specifically. This is different from the average worker who came out of a stack of resumes that needed to be whittled down fast.
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