# Have you ever met someone then found out you have met them before?

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**Created:** [August 19, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-met-someone-then-found-out-you-have-met-them-before/819873 "2018-08-19T16:09:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-met-someone-then-found-out-you-have-met-them-before/819873/41 "2018-08-23T04:49:14Z")

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I was the sales manager for the branch off a a US company in Japan.

Once I was on a sales call and a guy comes into the conference room. We start to talk and I realize it was a guy I had interviewed for a sales position in my company. I had passed on him and then later he had gotten a job with my customer! Fortunately, we were all able to laugh.

My customer asked why I had passed on him because he was pretty knowable about the market and products and had good English – which was rare in that field. I didn’t really share my major concern, that the guy had had a string of jobs from one to two years and nothing longer than that.

Sure enough, within about 18 months, he was gone.

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