Personally I've been drinking coffee longer than i remember, heck some of the earliest coffee drinking memories i have are back when i was around 4 years old.
So she got her self worth and self-esteem broken down by the recruiter so she would be more desperate for the job. It's vile that companies do this all the time, all around the world.
From my understanding if you do anything close up for too long it will give nearsightedness, some studies suggest it may be more of a flexible adaptation do to the fact the opposite farsightednes can happen if you do a lot of things that require you to look far away a lot. Inverting the roles...