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 Message 2123 
 Mike Powell to ROB MCCART 
 Re: Amazon is reportedly 
 28 Dec 25 09:42:39 
 
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> KW>>  I wonder what hiring manager would say, "That guy has 'WINNER' written
>   >>  all over him!"

> MP>Probably the kind that doesn't actually know what they are doing,
>   >either.  :D

> Years later he told me that my comment about getting wet was what
> got me the job. There were apparently a lot of applicants for
> the opening who lived a lot closer to the store than where I
> was (16 miles away) but he figured I sounded like the type of
> person who would suffer almost anything to make it into work,
> and he wasn't wrong..  Flooded roads, freezing rain, driving snow,
> I always made it in..  B)

Sounds like maybe that manager wasn't in the "doesn't know what they are
doing" category.  Good on you both.  ;)

Mike


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