A candidate showed up very early to a job interview. How early? 3 months early. Before we even put up the ad. Him: "I'm here for the Junior Marketer role." Me: “Err...we aren't hiring." Him: "Not yet. I'm from the future and have travelled back to get a leg up on other applicants." I was floored. I couldn't argue with this dedication and hired him on the spot. After a couple months I suspected him to be a con artist and a compulsive liar and fired him on the spot. I vowed never to fall for the "I'm from the future" trick again. However, I realised that we actually do need a new Junior Marketer and put out a job ad for it the following Monday. That Monday was exactly 3 months after that man showed up "early". Wow. I might have fired a real time traveller. There is still so little we understand about the universe
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That's very interesting, I shall look into that book, thank you for the recommendation.

I think that posting Ken screenshots to this community here kind of fits both meanings of that phrase because:

  1. You always get people in the comments questioning should Ken screenshots be posted here as he's not an actual linkedin lunatic, but a satire of one.

  2. Ken screenshots are still allowed because if you didn't detect the sarcasm and were as dense as some real people who are posted here, then you could mistake it for genuine lunacy. Therefore he's the single exception of satirical posts amongst a sea of real ones.

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