An accountant answered an advertisement for a job with a large firm.
-At the end of the interview, the interviewer has one last question:
-What is three times seven?”
-The accountant replied, “Twenty-two.”
-Outside he realized he had given the wrong answer and concluded he had lost the job.
-But two weeks later he was offered the position.
-He asked the interviewer why he had been given the position when he had given the wrong answer.
-“You were the closest to the right answer,” she said. Today in the Word, September 30, 1995, p.
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