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From: ort@netcom.com (David Oertel)
Subject: Re: No employment available for mathematician/genius/programmer(LISP)
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In article <D4AI1o.uG@parallax.co.uk>,
Robert Worsnop <robw@parallax.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Exercise:  You are a poor student and are applying for a programming job.
>> The job is in London and involves a strict dress code.
>> You prepare the night before by washing your only white shirt and ironing it
>> with your landlady's iron.... this leaves black tar spread around the
>> collar.  All the launderettes are closed and the landlady has no
>> washing machine.  Niether can you wash the shirt by hand.  How do
>> you impress the interviewer in your business suit while wearing a dirty
>> shirt? 
>> 
>
>Cover your suit with a substance of a similar colour and pretend you
>have fallen over drunk on the way to the interview.
>

	i didn't want to post this too early and spoil everyone's fun but the
	answer is to go ahead and wear the dirty shirt.  if they hire you
	anyway because they like your expertise and they're indifferent to
	your clothes, then you've just found a cool place to work.  if they
	throw you out of the interview, then they've saved you a lot of
	dress-code-type grief that's bound to come later.

	dave
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