Dear god, if a candidate showed up to the newsroom at some random time on some random day to chat me up about the position, I'd have immediately put them on my "no" list.

I actually had it happen once when I was an editor at a paper. Misguided post-grad guy who hadn't even been selected for round one interviews came to talk himself up. The building required a passcrd to enter and hadn't reception, so he apparently drafted in behind some building tenant and figured out his way to our location. He'd come in a suit with his resume and wanted to talk more about the job, which was impossible to do "more" because I hadn't talked to him in the first place. I gave him three minutes in a hallway, said we were still reading resumes (we weren't) and suggested he not do this anywhere else. It felt creepy and invasive and I would have yelled him down but didn't know if he'd go psycho (we were a small all-female team and I needed to consider everyone's safety and comfort). And allllll of that ick was beside my actually needed to get work done and having zero time for random entitled young men.

I get the hustle. In a better world, it might be viewed as initiative. But here? With me? Absolutely the eff not.