On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:18:50 +1100, Anthony Farr wrote: >Back in the late 80s, Australia's intelligence service, ASIO, advertised >(yes! advertised) in the daily papers for photographers. Needing work at >the time I applied, and it was one of the strangest interviews I ever sat, >in a mirror walled office, no less. The very first question was, "How do >you handle heat?" I believe they were fishing for an inappropriate response >to an alternative definition of "heat".
When I was an apprentice technician for Telecom in Brisbane one day we managed to loose on of our technicians. He had inadvertantly walked into an ASIO office while running a cable for the government department next door. He was there for about a minute when someone noticed him and said "What are you doing here?" At that point covers were slammed down over all the desks and several men came up to him. He was then taken away and questioned until nearly midnight - he was working on the job in the morning. He was eventually let go and finished his work the next day. A few weeks later some work was required in the office he had wandered into and he was requested by name to do the work and did all the work there following that. I guess he passed the tests as well. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
