Back in the ancient days before the ipod when I ran a semi-successful amazon & e-bay book & music & movie store, I put an ad on craigslist to see if I could get someone knowledgeable enough to go to garage sales and buy stuff for me to re-sell. I had some very basic questions to qualify dipshits on the phone for even a preliminary interview, after which I had a harder hundred question multiple choice test ready, to which I would give them the answers to study in jumbled form first: name one book written by Mark Twain. Who wrote "War & Peace"? Name one book by Ernest Hemingway. Who wrote the book "1984'? Who was Miles Davis? Who directed "2001 A Space Odyssey"? Who directed "Taxi Driver"? Basic crap.
Lots of people called because I was offering decent pay for part-time work on weekends & profit-sharing if they were good at it. Forget Miles Davis, most people who called didn't even know a single Mark Twain or Hemingway book and they're supposed to be Americans. Of course, more people knew who directed "Taxi Driver" than a single book by Mark Twain, which was hilarious and predictable. Only 3 people out of maybe 40 that called got all the answers right. A guitarist who had played some sessions with ex-members of the band Swans was one of them & a red-haired half-Jew with a red-&-yellow Ho-Chi-Minh shirt. lol The red-haired half-Jew got 100% on the hundred question test without even studying for it! I couldn't friggin' believe it because it wasn't an easy test or I wouldn't be letting them look at the answers in jumbled form. I wanted to see how well they retained information. The guitarist passed with around 70% after studying. I hired the 100% guy, suspicious that he might have hacked the test out of my computer, but the bastard didn't shower, chain-smoked Marlboro reds & to increase the stink wore his boxers out of his baggy pants like some black rapper, etc. When he started giving me a lecture about how Ezra Pound was a 'Jew-hating Fascist' and not a great intellect of any kind and bankers-funding-both-sides-of-wars was a debunked anti-semitic 'myth,' I told him to either wear a belt to hold his goddamn pants up or take a hike. lol The non-commie beer-drinking guitarist who actually showered once or twice a week got the job and kept it for one year, but needless to add he also wore his underwear out of his friggin pants.
Back in the ancient days before the ipod when I ran a semi-successful amazon & e-bay book & music & movie store, I put an ad on craigslist to see if I could get someone knowledgeable enough to go to garage sales and buy stuff for me to re-sell. I had some very basic questions to qualify dipshits on the phone for even a preliminary interview, after which I had a harder hundred question multiple choice test ready, to which I would give them the answers to study in jumbled form first: name one book written by Mark Twain. Who wrote "War & Peace"? Name one book by Ernest Hemingway. Who wrote the book "1984'? Who was Miles Davis? Who directed "2001 A Space Odyssey"? Who directed "Taxi Driver"? Basic crap.
ReplyDeleteLots of people called because I was offering decent pay for part-time work on weekends & profit-sharing if they were good at it. Forget Miles Davis, most people who called didn't even know a single Mark Twain or Hemingway book and they're supposed to be Americans. Of course, more people knew who directed "Taxi Driver" than a single book by Mark Twain, which was hilarious and predictable. Only 3 people out of maybe 40 that called got all the answers right. A guitarist who had played some sessions with ex-members of the band Swans was one of them & a red-haired half-Jew with a red-&-yellow Ho-Chi-Minh shirt. lol The red-haired half-Jew got 100% on the hundred question test without even studying for it! I couldn't friggin' believe it because it wasn't an easy test or I wouldn't be letting them look at the answers in jumbled form. I wanted to see how well they retained information. The guitarist passed with around 70% after studying. I hired the 100% guy, suspicious that he might have hacked the test out of my computer, but the bastard didn't shower, chain-smoked Marlboro reds & to increase the stink wore his boxers out of his baggy pants like some black rapper, etc. When he started giving me a lecture about how Ezra Pound was a 'Jew-hating Fascist' and not a great intellect of any kind and bankers-funding-both-sides-of-wars was a debunked anti-semitic 'myth,' I told him to either wear a belt to hold his goddamn pants up or take a hike. lol The non-commie beer-drinking guitarist who actually showered once or twice a week got the job and kept it for one year, but needless to add he also wore his underwear out of his friggin pants.
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