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The web is made of Java
So I was desparately looking for a job in the early-90s - did a cold-call at a DTP type place, who were looking to get into the new business of making websites.

I had a short interview with the 2 bosses where they asked me if I could do HTML (I had lied that I could in the phone call) and then not able to keep my big yap shut I said (based on some newspaper article I had skimmed and not understood at all that morning) that "I am so excited about the possibilities since the net runs on Java now not C++ anymore {with accompanying facial gestures of disdain}"...

Well the bosses were so impressed with my understanding of the internet and how it worked, they promptly put me to work... manning the scanner.

2 weeks of lift lid, put photo/brochure in, wait for warmup, scaaaaaan, lift lid, file pic and a right arm thicker than schwarzenegger's later i called the office one morning and said - well as soon as my boss was on the line, I was overcome with a giggling fit - so I mumbled "uh...I don't think I'll be coming anymore" - and he just said "ok" and hung up.

So I didn't really get sacked, but something tells me he wasn't sorry to see me leave.
(Wed 1st Mar 2006, 21:25, More)