I just once applied for a job at the BBC, in the Music Department, although it meant a rather awkward journey from Charing Cross with a change of tube half way.
To my disgust they asked me to take a typing test on the oldest 'sit up and beg' manual typewriter. After using a modern electric machine in my previous job I made a mess of typing something. It may have been that or something else but there were a lot of applicants and I didn't get the job. My only refusal I think, and I wonder, too,how things would have turned out. At least I would now have an occupational pension.
To my disgust they asked me to take a typing test on the oldest 'sit up and beg' manual typewriter. After using a modern electric machine in my previous job I made a mess of typing something. It may have been that or something else but there were a lot of applicants and I didn't get the job. My only refusal I think, and I wonder, too,how things would have turned out. At least I would now have an occupational pension.
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