I skipped the steps of the application process that would have clued the agency in on my lack of fitness for the position. I made no effort to hide my public loathing of the agency, what it stands for, and the administration that runs it. And they offered me the job anyway.

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    12 hours ago

    The danger of doing something “ironically” or “to gain access from the inside” is, you MUST have a hard cutoff point, both in terms of time spent and things accomplished, and you MUST exit as soon as either one happens, regardless of the status of the other.

    Anything less, and you run the very real and serious risk of doing it for so long, you end up actually just doing it for real.