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steelpillow Silver badge

I was in it the other way round - I was applying for an authoring job.

The interviewer was sporting blonde dreadlocks and expensively-distressed hippie gear. He emerged from the London traffic on a bike the same time I did on foot, no time to get out the juggling balls - they lay in his artlessly half-open desk drawer.

He asked if I was familiar with online version management systems? Thinly-veiled fanaticism gleamed in his eyes.

"Yes, but they are awful. None of them is adaptable to match the required documentation model, so I prefer to do it manually." Which in those days was very true.

It was a short interview, but at least I got my travel expenses. I sometimes wonder how long it was before the traffic got him.

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