On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:15:35 GMT, "Rykk"
<NospamIshnar@nospamhotmail.nospamcom> brought down from the Mount
tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:27:13 GMT, "Rykk"
>> <NospamIshnar@nospamhotmail.nospamcom> brought down from the Mount
>> tablets inscribed:
>>
>>> Mr. Smith wrote:
>>>> "Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:k980t0hhmfdi4fpu78lqkg3bn17vp34dop@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:44:04 +1000, windsor <fake@none.com> brought
>>>>
>>>>>> Depth of rapport with the interviewer is also important.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's a very pleasant way of rephrasing "sucking up".
>>>>
>>>> that's silly, "sucking up" is usually a poor way to impress someone
>>>> at an interview. It usually means you don't have anything
>>>> interesting to say and you are easily intimidated.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately that would be me.  Not that I am so much intimidated
>>> the person as by the act of attempting to establish rapport.  It
>>> isn't that I have nothing to say either, but that I am completely
>>> uninterested in all non-functional conversation.  So as long as the
>>> conversation is pertinant I do fine.  But if it turns to something
>>> trivial such as the weather, or personal, "I had a baby yesterday,"
>>> then I am filled wave of disinterest.  I have absolutely no idea how
>>> to respond to these completely irrelevant remarks.  Interviews seem
>>> to involve one non-sequitor after another.
>>
>> Then actually doing the eikaiwa grind would just seem like one
>> extremely protracted Interview From Hell for you.
>
>Really?  I was hoping that all the standardized formalities and pleasantries 
>would make it easier.

Yes, but the same holds true for "Welcome to McDonalds" and "Would you
like fries with that?"





--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College