Re: Testing job applicants

[hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu (Richard E. Hawkins)]

In article <19990930.79A7720.8513@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us>,
Everett M. Greene <mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote:
>hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu (Richard E. Hawkins) writes:
>> engineer <engineer@safety-scan.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> >Mind you, with the shit pay teachers/lecturers get, it's not that
>> >difficult to bribe them.

>> I had a student ask about that in a review session last week (not
>> serious, I presume :)
>> 
>> "I gave up somewhere between a quarter-million and a half-million
>> in income as an attorney to get my Ph.D.  Do you really think you 
>> can offer enough to even *temnpt* me?"  :)

>If Bill Gates' daughter ever becomes one of your students, a million
>or two would be a mere tip, not worth the bother to ask Daddy about
>before paying it.

Yes, but I don't think I could control my mouth tightly enough for
an entire semester that *any* member of the Gates clan would
consider tipping me :)

One of the differences I've noticed between my fresman and sophomore
classes (I was used to teaching upperclassmen and graduate students)
is that the sophomores laugh at the microsoft jokes/cheap shots, while
the freshmen don't--apparently, they haven't had to use Word yet . . .

hawk



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