Like minnows through my brain.
I had an interview today at a temp agency that supplies graphics people to large multinational corporations. I took a PowerPoint test and finished the one-hour test in forty minutes, doing stuff most people would never do to PowerPoint: Standardizing chart formats, matching RGB colors and typesetting away like Robo-Gutenberg. And then I spent the next twenty minutes on one thing, which was how to start numbering pages from “1″ starting on the page after the cover page.
I looked under every menu and sub-menu for the magic formula, clicking headers, footers, options and tools until the timer dinged. I asked the guy in charge of the test room, “How do you make the page after the cover page be 1?” And he answered:
“You number the cover page zero.”
All right…it’s not like there’s actual multinational corporate work flying around out there.
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