Pitting Amateur Barbarian

[erysichthon]

To brighten up your Monday morning, here’s an AB classic: Too Smart to Work at Radio Shack.

A choice excerpt:

@Amateur_Barbarian

As, basically, a freelance writer, I was never averse to extra income, so a couple of years I tried to sign up as Xmas help at the stores. I knew the managers well - first name, special orders, occasionally lunch at the McD’s next door, that kind of thing - and all three told me, over time, that they could not hire me because I was too knowledgable - they were bound to hire only iggerant neat young men in white shirts and ties who knew nothing about electronics, so that their knowledge would be RS-approved or nothing. They actively did not want anyone with wider knowledge.