{"id":3863,"date":"2008-12-23T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2008-12-23T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:05:46","slug":"my-husband-went-for-a-job-interview-and-never-came-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3863","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Went For A Job Interview and Never Came Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3082\/3130898312_1b74b4f034.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was viewing a news video on CNN.com and the obligatory pre-commercial was for openings at the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videojug.com\/interview\/recruiting-cia-agents-2\">Men In Black<\/a> if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/ads\/pdf\/CIA03012m_MythsHandout.pdf\">they<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fg4_MuV4MpY\">need<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ThJ0wxKZnI&#038;feature=related\">advertise<\/a>? There&#8217;s no waiting list, what with all the cool toys and mysterious women you meet?<\/p>\n<p>Are you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobmonkey.com\/governmentjobs\/cia-hiring.html\">qualified<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CIA has very high standards for hiring. Some suggestions they offer on  their public website for people who may be interested in CIA jobs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be a U.S. citizen<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen verbal and written communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Keep a clean record-that means absolutely no involvement with illegal drugs  and no criminal activity at all, because no one can work for the CIA without a  security clearance<\/li>\n<li>Hone foreign language skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, wait a minute. The President of the United States doesn&#8217;t even need all that! U.S. Citizen? Pfffft!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Successful applicants must go through a <strong>rigorous background investigation<\/strong> (emphasis mine-JR) and  physical and psychological testing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like the President? Ah, never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Then I learned this piece of information that I am sure the Government doesn&#8217;t want you to know.<\/p>\n<p>I was visiting the site www.c<font size=\"+2\">[CLICK]<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was viewing a news video on CNN.com and the obligatory pre-commercial was for openings at the CIA. What does it mean for our Men In Black if they need to advertise? There&#8217;s no waiting list, what with all the cool toys and mysterious women you meet? Are you qualified? The CIA has very high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}