Oct 6, 2026 · 28 min · 7 segments
An interviewer went online and said they passed on a candidate for bringing an iced coffee to the interview. The internet split in half. Adrienne's gut said absolutely not, and then she had to figure…
Adrienne DorisonHostEmilyHostYou got a reaction.
You were like living in a hole.
Well-
Yeah.
But I had to bring you crashing back to the reality of-
... what's going on in the workplace right now.
So my first reaction to this was, my gut response was like The millennial in me, the rule follower was like, "Why would you bring an iced coffee?" Like, so unprofessional.
And then, but then the under- then, like, my second thought was, "But why? But why is, why d- why do I care," right? Like, so I had to, like-
Yeah
... dig a little deeper, and I was, like, really trying to analyze my own thought, you know? And I was like, okay, professionalism is a social construct, right? It is something that we created, uh, has been created-
You got a reaction.
You were like living in a hole.
Well-
Yeah.
But I had to bring you crashing back to the reality of-
... what's going on in the workplace right now.
So my first reaction to this was, my gut response was like The millennial in me, the rule follower was like, "Why would you bring an iced coffee?" Like, so unprofessional.
And then, but then the under- then, like, my second thought was, "But why? But why is, why d- why do I care," right? Like, so I had to, like-
Yeah
... dig a little deeper, and I was, like, really trying to analyze my own thought, you know? And I was like, okay, professionalism is a social construct, right? It is something that we created, uh, has been created-
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