So many of the tours that I've been on have been super awkward! It's just so silent. No one wants to say anything, smile, or walk first next to the person giving the tour. Sometimes I ask questions to break the silence but sometimes I feel forced to act like everyone else because I don't want to stand out. Is there a certain way we should be acting during these tours?
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Tour guides are human beings too. We like to be talked to. We ask if there are any questions when we can't think of something to talk about because it's nice to be able to say something instead of walking awkwardly in silence with a bunch of people clustered behind you.
Don't be like the guy at one place I interviewed at who asked the tour guide resident exactly how much money the residents make and wouldn't let the topic drop even though the resident was declining to give exact numbers.
Other than that kind of thing I think asking some questions is fine.
Other than that kind of thing I think asking some questions is fine.
It's bizarre both that someone asked that question and that the resident was reluctant to answer, since the answer is usually prominently displayed with 5 significant digits on the residency website.
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At one of my interviews, that was the first thing they mentioned in the presentation and laid out the exact salary structure for all 3 years. Or course, this program happened to have the 2nd highest resident salary in the nation so they obviously wanted to point that out.
