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JEFF: So how did you do at your last job interview then?
RON: Well, I thought it was going well, until he said "How would you describe yourself in one word?" I don't think he was impressed by my answer.
JEFF: Why, what did you say?
RON: I said "constipated".
JEFF: Ah. What was the reaction?
RON: One of those terrible silences. Like that time I walked through the hospital with the dead dog in the wheel barrow. And he finally said "that reminds me, I need a crap. Mind the phone would you?"
JEFF: What, some kind of test of your ability?
RON: I figured so. The phone rang, and I picked it up. The voice said "Is Mr Banister there?" And I said "I'm sorry, we're not sure where he is at the moment."
JEFF: Good answer.
RON: But the voice asked "why not? Haven't you got any idea where he is?" So I said "Ummm, well, we're not sure which cubicle."
JEFF: Probably not what I would have said.
RON: Turned out that was this guy's manager, who fired him. So when Mr Banister got back, I told him he'd been fired, and he told me that he hadn't hired me, but he wanted to fire me anyway. So in the end I didn't get the job.
JEFF: No go then.
RON: Nope. But I probably wouldn't have got it anyway.
JEFF: Why not? Wrong tie?
RON: No tie. And I don't think they appreciated my "Screw the Corporations" T-shirt.
11: Junk Mail
