IT
The one and only time I was involved in interviewing for an academic
post outside mathematics or computing, it was for a lecturer in
Socialiology. My preferred candidate was an expert in IT, which I had
thought was Information Technology as described elsewhere, but as the interview progressed I
discovered it stood for Intermediate Treatment which seemed to
be some kind of punishment between prison and freedom, with the old
fashioned concept of reforming the wrong-dooer rather than just
revenge by society.
It did seem such a good idea; but this was long ago, when the full
force of the Thatcher distruction was to come, and long before such
disasters as Michael Howard strutted and pontificated their vitriolic
and often illegal poison.
The candidate did not get the jobs by teh way. Instead we appointed a
marriage councillor.
jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk
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