Several weeks after a young man had been hired, he was called into the personnel director’s office. «What is the meaning of this?» the director asked. «When you applied for this job, you told us you had five years experience. Now we discovered this is the first job you’ve ever held.»
«Well,» the young man replied «in your advertisement you said you wanted somebody with imagination.»
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Several weeks after a young man had been hired