I can well imagine. People in that part of the UK can be very touchy at times ... ;) And I've just checked my booklet on neurological examinations, and I suspect that holding a tuning fork to the head of the HR interviewer, to check he/she has fully-functional hearing, so has actually heard what one has said, is likely to not go down well ;) Wesley Parish Quoting Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On a similar vein, we used to do a lot of walking back in the UK, and > carrying maps of the Scottish Highlands when up in the Lake district > used to *really* get some people going (: > > Steve > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:06:40 +1200 (NZST) > Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quoting Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > > > > >http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I still need the manual thou... > > > > > > Have to look impressive at the interview... manual in breif case > always > > > > > > looks good. > > > > Is that the manual for operating the Human Resource sorts of people? > (I've > > often wondered what would happen if I turned up at an interview with > either a > > speech therapy or neurological test in a briefcase and proceeded to > test the > > interviewer during the interview, just so I could be sure that they > were > > neurologically sound enough to interview me. There's at least two > electronics > > manufacturers in town that _might_ get the point I'd be trying to make > - the > > others would be total dead losses! ;) > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > > > Cheers Don > > > > > > > > > > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. > > "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" > > - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge > > > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of > the > > other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
