We hired a lady with 20 years of experience with the type of engineering that we do and she started yesterday. She is on my team and I am optimistic as we've been understaffed for a while. When I was introduced to her the exchange went like this:

Me: "Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."

Her, without missing a beat: "Thank you. But what's puzzling me is the nature of your game."

The kid's got potential!

LOVE working with people that are in tune!

Over the years I’ve used a line from The Firesign Theater’s album “How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All?” When appropriate:
“Oh, he's no fun, he fell right over”

Only a few have caught and acknowledged it…

I heard the music while reading that.

Maybe I'm the lone dummy here but I have no clue what all this means.

Rolling Stones line from Sympathy with the Devil.

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Maybe I'm the lone dummy here but I have no clue what all this means.

Lyrics from a famous Rolling Stones song.

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:
Maybe I'm the lone dummy here but I have no clue what all this means.

Don't worry. I was right with you!

Sounds like she's a good fit. It's nice to hear a positive story about a new hire.

Sympathy for the Devil.
Is she a fan or is she telling you something?

Same situation, different genre:

When I worked IT for the school system, I was authorized to hire an assistant. While I was interviewing an applicant a student came in with a spectacularly silly question.

After said student left, the applicant and I looked at each other and he says "What a maroon. What a nincowpoop!" quoting Bugs Bunny. Anybody that can quote 50's Looney Tunes is my kind of people.

Hired, worked out great. Took over my job as a matter of fact as he knew a LOT more about the topic than I did and I was ready to move on.

Are you saying you're a devil to work with?

I think you kinda gotta be old to be able to spout Stone lyrics. I can't get no satisfaction out of it.

I love The Monkeys!

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I love The Monkeys!

Hey! Hey!

That's great! She's a sharp wit for sure.

I had a relatively new hire a couple years ago, a group of my guys were checking out some empty apartments with me. We're all in different rooms, talking out loud to each other and to our selves, making comments and mental notes about conditions and things that needed to be addressed. In the other room the new guy makes a comment... a line from some relatively obscure early 80's television special. I reply with the next line and there's silence.

A minute later he walks through the door and looks at me. He says "There's probably ten people in the world that would have got that." (an exaggeration, it wasn't THAT obscure) But from that moment I knew I liked this guys. For the next couple years he worked for me it was like that, making jokes back and forth no one got, working song lyrics and movie lines into conversations that just went over everyone else's head.

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I think I would have proposed to her.