Interviewing for a financial position. Candidate had close to a 4.0 in nuclear engineering from Georgia Tech and a 4.0 in his MBA from Minnesota. Supposedly the highest score on the CPA the year he took the exam…..about 24 months after his first accounting course. Seemed like red flag for a personality disorder, but I thought I'd talk to him anyway. Told me during the interview that if his urine test comes back positive for VD that it's a false positive….that he always tests positive for VD. I did not ask any kind of prompting question.

I hired the guy….one of the best employees I ever hired. Quickly recognized he was too talented in finance department and moved him to operations. Two years later we/he won second place in a National industrial engineering competition . Was related to an optimization project I put him on that saved us $30M a year and caused us to become profitable. Then took him overseas to Europe. Would always order milk at nice bars and inevitably would accidentally get jammed while going through revolving doors…..too impatient to wait for others ahead. Lots of other great stories about the guy…..back in the day.

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Greggo: We're talking to the number one cop in Dallas, the #1 cop, the commissioner, chief of police, David Kunkle.
What umm, do you like this gig?
Kunkle: No. I, I, uh, uh, uh love my job. It's a. .. .
Greggo: I the, that wasn't the question. Do you…do do do you like your job?
Kunkle: No, I said, do i love, maybe i didn't understand the question.
Greggo: Ok. I, I mean do you like being chief of police.

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For some reason the prompt brought this classic to mind.