{"id":38813,"date":"2004-06-18T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/18\/too-late-mr-jenkins-you-were-an-f7-back-at-question-2\/"},"modified":"2004-06-18T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T06:58:00","slug":"too-late-mr-jenkins-you-were-an-f7-back-at-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040618-00\/?p=38813","title":{"rendered":"Too late, Mr. Jenkins. You were an F7 back at question 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2003\/02\/04\/phone_center\/index.html\">  The story of somebody who worked for a job screening service<\/a>.  Companies hired the service to do preliminary filtering of job applicants.  The best part: When applicants mistake the screener for the receptionist.   <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  When I launched into the actual interview, it really pissed them off.  They&#8217;d get furious that the freaking receptionist had the audacity  to waste their time by &#8230;  And then round about question 5 it would dawn on them  that this was the interview.  I could hear the quick catch in their speech as it hit them,  and the sick pause as they thought back over how they&#8217;d been behaving  for the past several minutes.  It was the attempts at damage control that I really found hilarious.  Suddenly, we were best pals.  They almost always thought that using my first name  as much as possible might somehow make up for their earlier suggestion  that I make it snappy.  Too late, Mr. Jenkins. You were an F7 back at question 2.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of somebody who worked for a job screening service. Companies hired the service to do preliminary filtering of job applicants. The best part: When applicants mistake the screener for the receptionist. When I launched into the actual interview, it really pissed them off. They&#8217;d get furious that the freaking receptionist had the audacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The story of somebody who worked for a job screening service. Companies hired the service to do preliminary filtering of job applicants. The best part: When applicants mistake the screener for the receptionist. When I launched into the actual interview, it really pissed them off. They&#8217;d get furious that the freaking receptionist had the audacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}