Just tracked my Dad down - he is at Fort Monmouth, NJ this week for a
conference - and checked with him. He said he did get the story first hand
although he can't remember the name of the guy right now. I did catch him
standing at the baggage carrosal on his way to the rental car counter so
I'll cut him some slack since he will have been well over 30 years ago that
the story was related to him. I did get the food wrong however. He said it
was French fries and not soup.
At 05:02 PM 2/23/2004, Doug Mitchell wrote:
>This is probably an old wives tale. I have heard similar stories
>about people being interviewed for positions at Dow Chemical.
>Except it was a steak.
>
>Doug
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of David Riddle
>Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 5:12 PM
>To: fot@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Nomination
>
>
>My Dad (Retired in 1981 as an Army Major - with Honorable Discharges
>from the Marines (Reserve grunt while in College), Navy (CT) and Army
>(Signal Corp & Avaitor) hanging on his wall - now double dips doing
>work for the Maries at Pendleton) has a great Rickover story that he
>loves to tell.
>
>A Friend of his was going in for a meeting with Rickover and when the
>meeting started Rickover invited this young Officer to have lunch with
>him. Of course he said yes. When the Soup was served the Young
>Officer picked up his salt shaker and put some on his soup. Rickover
>watched him do this and said "The interview is over. That soup was
>already salted and I don't want an officer who makes decisions without
>being aware of the facts."
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