I remember interviewing for a position at a company I was already at, moving from one department to another. I'd gotten a new manager in the old department, an

I remember interviewing for a position at a company I was already at, moving from one department to another. I'd gotten a new manager in the old department, and I don't think I'd had enough time to get over an initial bad impression. I was the night shift guy, on a help desk, and the call volume was generally low. To help better justify the use of my time, I was tasked with some additional duties, like processing account delete requests and other tedium. My manager at the time found fault with the fact that I had written a series of scripts to completely automate the additional tasks I'd been assigned, and considered me lazy. In the interview, I was asked the question "How do you respond to the accusation that you sometimes cut corners?" My answer was something like "I think cutting corners is a good thing. If there's not a requirement for square corners, and the rounded corners don't impact the quality or integrity of the work being performed, and if the corners aren't irreparably damaged in the process, I think that taking the more direct path of least resistance is not a bad thing." I got the job, and I was later told that the manager was very impressed with the answer. Uhhh, that was a roundabout way of saying "I agree."