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Previously on "Interview questions"

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  • EternalOptimist
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    no,no,no

    you're supposed to say

    WHS




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  • threaded
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    'Monglod' is the process of batch transfering groups of customers from an old system to the new system on a JIT basis.

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    Any advice on where to buy a newspaper this lunchtime ?
    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...MqDc2gLwy_nEBw

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  • Pinto
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    No fly's on you!
    flies

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Any advice on where to buy a newspaper this lunchtime ?







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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by Marina View Post
    From the context it presumably means "I agree".
    No fly's on you!

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  • Marina
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
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    From the context it presumably means "I agree". But I'd never heard of it until a week or so ago, and then everyone on CUK all of a sudden started using it.

    Obviously a new catch phrase from some chav TV show I wouldn't have seen

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
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    I much prefer the wobbly hedgehog,

    and the new word, hmm, I'm off to a meeting now. I think I shall try to use it.

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  • snaw
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    Or possibly that the person is stoned, asleep or dead. All the c-responses seem to indicate complete tulip-heads.

    From the original quoted: Coolly asking the policemen whether it is you that has been shouted at, or a stranger, asking for guidance as to how you should act next.

    To which the average cop will answer "****-off you prat".
    Nah, I'm sure for the purposes of this interview he'd be happy to take some time out from his hot pursuit to help you with your reasonable enquiries.

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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    hmm. it is in fact a tendency I have to fight against. I hereby appoint you CUK shrink.
    For the benefit of all concerned I hereby resign.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    ...
    c) A third response is that people are calm and composed even with the disturbance and uncertainty of the chaos around them. The upheaval of the process, which differs from their expectation, is perceived in an interested manner, their concentration never diminishing, their condition unchanged. This signifies that they are: independent thinking individual’s, that they are patient and alert, and are able to concentrate on the original motive for their presence, however much they have been side-stepped, and are ultimately able to complete the original task. "...
    Or possibly that the person is stoned, asleep or dead. All the c-responses seem to indicate complete tulip-heads.

    From the original quoted: Coolly asking the policemen whether it is you that has been shouted at, or a stranger, asking for guidance as to how you should act next.

    To which the average cop will answer "****-off you prat".

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  • Xenophon
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
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    Thanks, OS.

    OS being short for oraceslave.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    Which in turn implies you would make a large issue out of something minor in the workplace. FAIL...Next!
    hmm. it is in fact a tendency I have to fight against. I hereby appoint you CUK shrink.

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  • Epiphone
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    I read that article and if anyone asked me questions like that in an interview I would walk out, their loss, my gain.
    Been there, done that.

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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    A bit sad really as I don't know what WHS means so I put 'whs acronym' into Google and it came back and said something to the effect that I looked like a bot and needed to enter the text below to continue. The 'catcha' (or whatever they're called) was 'monglod' which I quite like as a word and will start to use in everyday conversation. Anyway, now I know what WHS means - wobbly hedgehog syndrome
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