Language barrier, redefined

This pilot fish is doing phone screening for a Linux sysadmin position, but the resume for one of the candidates HR has sent him seems, well, a little off.

"There was the extensive experience in this and that area," says fish. "Twenty-plus years as an enterprise-level architect. Expert knowledge in alphabet soup."

But an HR-approved candidate's a candidate, and fish proceeds to the phone interview.

Fish: OK, on your resume you list a bunch of operating systems. Since we're interviewing for a Linux admin, what's your favorite distribution and why?

Candidate: "It said right in the resume. I'll repeat it again: HP-UX, Windows 2008, Solaris, CentOS, Red Hat, BSD, OS X, AIX, Fedora Core, HP-UX..."

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