On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> It wasn't just the incessant whiners, or the obvious apple-polishers, or
> having to cover up for the occasional bad staffer that drove her nuts, she
> says. In particular, it was the hiring. "Does it sound awful to say there
> are just a lot of dumb people out there?" she asks. "Like the girl who
> interviewed for a sales job and ate a piece of licorice on the way in and
> spent the interview picking it from her teeth."
Not too sound too much like Woj, but man, that's a fucking pathetic commentary on U. S. culture: "dumb" means that you don't follow arbitrary social rules about how to act around a potential boss. Apparently intelligence is--obedience to authority?
Miles