I was meeting with the Sales Manager today when the receptionist rang through to announce that a job applicant was waiting to see him in the lobby. His first question: “Is she wearing shoes?”

He later showed me an “application” he once received that he keeps pinned to his corkboard. It came in an envelope addressed in pen to “Reseum” as the recipient at the station’s address. The “reseum” consisted of a single page torn from a 3×5 wire-bound memo pad with the applicant’s neatly handwritten name, address, telephone number, and the Sales Promotion position she was interested in.

She didn’t get the job.