{"id":418,"date":"2005-10-04T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/people_really_win.html"},"modified":"2005-10-04T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T17:48:11","slug":"people_really_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/people_really_w.html","title":{"rendered":"People Really Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent graduate with a MBA who resorted to walking around with a &#8220;Hire Me!&#8221; sandwich board has found a job . . . handing out fliers while wearing a sandwich board! Just kidding! Actually, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/54714.htm\">the Post reports<\/a> that the plucky young man got a &#8220;straight&#8221; job (as if there&#8217;s something <em>wrong<\/em> with wearing a sandwich board) after a sales director saw him pimping himself near Grand Central Station:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Christopher Barth&#8217;s hard walk has finally paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to land a job, even with a brand-new MBA, the Brooklyn man paced up and down 42nd Street wearing a sandwich board sign urging potential employers: &#8220;HIRE ME.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barth&#8217;s creative job hunting, which The Post first reported in August, has now landed him a position at telecommunications consulting company Broadview Networks.<\/p>\n<p>The budding account executive was discovered when Alan Weissman, sales director for Broadview Networks, saw Barth, 25, standing on 42nd Street next to Grand Central Station.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 19, Broadview confidently offered the enterprising young man a job selling Internet and long-distance service to small businesses.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent graduate with a MBA who resorted to walking around with a &#8220;Hire Me!&#8221; sandwich board has found a job . . . handing out fliers while wearing a sandwich board! Just kidding! Actually, the Post reports that the plucky young man got a &#8220;straight&#8221; job (as if there&#8217;s something wrong with wearing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}