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In 1996, my employer got a contract to work with AT&T to build a website that provided regular event updates from the Atlanta Olympics. In 1996, this was a very
by jjslocum3 4y ago
In 1996, my employer got a contract to work with AT&T to build a website that provided regular event updates from the Atlanta Olympics. In 1996, this was a very big deal, such a newish concept that the project was written up in AdAge or some similar industry magazine.
A few months later a prospective junior engineer came in for an interview. My manager asked him the typical "tell me about an interesting project you've worked on lately." He then proceeded to describe in detail the very project we had just completed, even referencing the magazine article about it (he must have forgotten he was interviewing at the company mentioned in the article). At the end of his presentation, my manager said "That's interesting, because here at X, we just completed that project."
Awkward silence. Then the interviewee got up and said "I guess I should go now." My manager said "Yes, I guess you should."
Impersonation of this sort can be simultaneously disturbing and somehow comical. It isn't a new phenomenon; I'm not decided on whether I believe the information age makes it easier or more difficult.
- tg9000 4y agoWhat a small world! Unless you are also making up that story (which I would get a huge laugh out of) I'm 99% positive I was in the room with you when this happened. :)
- codazoda 4y agoWait! Are you his manager or the imposter?!?!
- RationPhantoms 4y agoWhat the heck is going on in this thread?
- NonNefarious 4y ago<click> Candidate 1 has left the chat
- Aperocky 4y agoThere's a high possibility that he's the imposter of the imposter.
- caf 4y agoIt's impostors all the way down.
- birracerveza 4y agoThis thread is sus all the way down
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- jjslocum3 4y agoI wasn't in the room, but my manager was. Is that you, Preserved Killick?
- tg9000 4y agoThis is TG. I was the one who had to go on-site with this app in Atlanta for five weeks. I messaged you on Linked In. :)
- cobbaut 4y agoAre you the guy who installed unlicensed Novell Netware servers at the Atlanta Olympics? I clearly remember those weeks, all of the Netware servers at IBM were beeping during the Olympics because someone had installed those unlicensed servers in Atlanta. Probably not you though.
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