From the Kap-files #21:
[Quick reminder about this countdown ... in 21 calendar days, my position is being eliminated at my job, and so I'm looking back through my files, mental or otherwise, representing nearly 11 years with the company ...]
#21: Whether in the center in the suburbs or in the center in the city, during those early years, one of the main responsibilities was evaluating the auditions of potential teachers (and don't worry ... I'm not spilling trade secrets, as the process has been completely redone in the current decade). But in the naughts, at least once a month, there was a gathering of individuals who were tasked with presenting a five minute how to presentation for us to judge (and yes, let's pause and celebrate the fact that I still have my original timer from over a decade ago -- that's a real picture, not the result of a google image search).
If pressed, everybody involved can remember the best one they heard (for me, it was the one about how to successfully fend off a vampire attack) ... but without being pressed, everybody can *easily* recall the worst ones. (If only we could have given hints, we could have avoided dozens of failed attempts to "teach" Texas hold-em in 300 seconds [Hint: it *can't be done!]). Mine was easily the older gentleman who presented the self-help strategies he learned whilst incarcerated ... made all the worse by him seeking me out afterward to explain that his jealous ex-wife made up the story about what he did with the underage kid as part of his ugly divorce and he chose to go to prison instead of to fight it. HR won't let me say whether or not he was hired ... but I think you can guess!
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