Do you speak English or should we do this in Spanish?
What is your name?
What is your date of birth?
What is your current mailing address?
Phone number?
Email?
What’s your annual net income?
What’s your social security number?
Do you prefer paper or electronic bank statements?A great way to learn about someone’s values is to ask what their pronouns are
It’s tough finding a question inconsequential enough to avoid raising their defenses but meaningful enough to elicit a real, useful response
- “What is your biggest pet peeve that other people do?”
- “How would your friends/coworkers/SO describe you?”
- “What are you excited for?”
“what do you geek out about?”
“if you could start up any hobby, what would you start doing?”
“when getting dressed and pulling your pants on… fasten zip, or zip fasten?” (if you know. you know.)
Actively listen to what they’re saying, talk to them, find something that’s annoyed them. And figure out how they got annoyed? Figure out how they handled it. Are they being reasonable? You want to see the temperament of the person through what they say, and how they react. Most people will tell you who they are if you listen.
I felt old when the new colleagues did not know what a CRT was.
“What did you get up to today?” Then ask follow up questions about whatever they answer. You just need somewhere to start and you’ll almost always find out something interesting.
“So, you into butt stuff?”
