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From Timesonline:
Unemployment must be a stiff test of any sense of humour, but Boothroyd’s survives, as his tale of one experience with a prospective employer demonstrates. “I was asked to meet the chairman, who sat me down, said he’d been very impressed by my work at Watford and offered me the job,” he said.
“ ‘Hang on,’ I said. ‘There’s a few things I’d like to discuss first.’ He asked what. I said I’d like to talk to the owner about a variety of things — including who picks the team. He told me not to worry, everything would be fine. So we shook hands on it.
“Two weeks later I turned on Sky and there was someone else with the club scarf held above his head. Apparently, the chairman had offered the job to about five or six of us. It was just as well we didn’t all turn up on the same day.”
From Timesonline:
Unemployment must be a stiff test of any sense of humour, but Boothroyd’s survives, as his tale of one experience with a prospective employer demonstrates. “I was asked to meet the chairman, who sat me down, said he’d been very impressed by my work at Watford and offered me the job,” he said.
“ ‘Hang on,’ I said. ‘There’s a few things I’d like to discuss first.’ He asked what. I said I’d like to talk to the owner about a variety of things — including who picks the team. He told me not to worry, everything would be fine. So we shook hands on it.
“Two weeks later I turned on Sky and there was someone else with the club scarf held above his head. Apparently, the chairman had offered the job to about five or six of us. It was just as well we didn’t all turn up on the same day.”
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