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Subject:Re: Test assignment for a tech.writer candidate? From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:14:57 -0500
The person in question had already been a handful at that point. It was the
proverbial straw.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> Usually a bad idea to confront candidates about things like this. Just
> carry on the rest of the interview (cutting it short as gracefully as
> possible) and then move on to the next person on your list.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> On 12/9/2014 8:29 AM, Bill Swallow wrote:
>
>> I had the same thing happen to me. Fortunately I had the EXACT same hard
>> copy in my office to pull down. "I don't need to see the sample; I have my
>> own copy that I wrote."
>>
>
>
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Bill Swallow
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