So you’ve made it to the end of a lengthy job interview without a misstep. But moments before you can confidently head out the door, the hiring manager slams you with one more, asteroid-sized question: “Why do you want to work here?”

When a new job just isn’t working out, you might be concerned about what quitting might mean for your resume and career. You’ll feel like your short, six-month stay at a company might overshadow all your other professional accomplishments and spiral into an identity crisis.

In a recent story for Insider, executive managing editor Jessica Liebman made one thing clear about her hiring practices: You better send a “thank you” note if you want the job. “When I first started hiring, I came up with a simple rule: We shouldn’t move a candidate to the next stage in the interview process unless they send a thank-you email,” she wrote. This rule, however, wasn’t so well-received on social media. 

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Ever since the New York Times broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's many, many years of predatory sexual behaviour, the floodgates have opened. Men in fields from entertainment to journalism to politics have been accused of sexual harassment and assault, taking down the unlikeable and repugnant (Weinstein) to the honored and even beloved (George H.W. Bush; Elie Wiesel).