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{{comic<br />
| number = 1293<br />
| date = November 20, 2013<br />
| title = Job Interview<br />
| image = job_interview.png<br />
| titletext = When you talk about the job experience you&#39;ll give me, why do you pronounce &#39;job&#39; with a long &#39;o&#39;?<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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The comic makes fun of a virtual economy where any actual connection to goods or services vanishes. The purported "company headquarters" look suspiciously like a fast-food place, although the online soup (a take on [http://soup.io]?) makes it somewhat more nerdy.<br />
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The label is a variation on the countless humorous signs near wall outlets and faucets. <br />
==Transcript==<br />
:[Employer with hat ushers a prospective employee into a room]<br />
:Employer: Welcome to our company! We're headquartered right here, in this real building I found<br />
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:[They sit down at a table carrying dishes. There is a wall outlet with a lopsided sign SOUP] <br />
:Interviewee: What do you ... ''do''?<br />
:Employer: We make stuff for phones<br />
:Employer: Like apps and stickers.<br />
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:Employer: We want to hire you to write stuff on our computers.<br />
:Employer: We can offer you a bunch of paychecks.<br />
:Employer: There are ghosts here.<br />
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:Interviewee: Are you sure this is a company?<br />
:Employer: I hope so!<br />
:[Employer plugs a cable into the wall outlet, a liquid pours into a soup bowl]<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>Aoehttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1293&diff=5313112932013-11-20T06:21:40Z<p>Aoe: Redirected page to 1293: Job Interview</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[1293: Job Interview]]</div>Aoe