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Elder Lister
The Most Brutal Job Interview I Ever Attended
It was a teaching job. After you handed in your CV, they would instruct you to get ready for an interview in about 20 minutes. But this was not the normal oral interview you would expect in such a situation. Instead, you would be required to sit the end-year subject exam of the class you had applied for. Of course, when preparing a CV, most people will garnish it with half-truths, exaggerations, and outright lies to boost chances of getting a job. I guess the 20-minute window was to allow applicants to run away, which most people did. I badly needed a job. I had a sit-down with myself and convinced me that we had to go through this despite the humiliation. I had lied a lot in my CV, as expected. But luck was on my side this one time; they selected a subject for which I was more than fluent. Had they diverged just a little bit, I would have taken flight, without shame. Why am I telling you this story? It’s about Baba. I would know an easy method to settle the debate about his credentials.
