What's in YOUR Wastebasket?

When I was a senior in college and interviewing for jobs, there were the usual folks out to hire new graduates with engineering degrees: Boeing, Ford, Lockheed, GE, etc. But there were also non-technical companies too. One of those was Capital One. Since I was not entirely sure that a real technology company would hire me (my hair was a dark orange at the time, long story), I talked to them and went to one of their presentations. They said they wanted to hire people who were sharp thinkers, and then showed examples of existing Capital One employees who came up with impressive marketing schemes for generating new customers. I took their little test, but evidently didn't do very well because I never heard back.

Over the past two days, I've gotten four pieces of mail from Capital One, all addressed to me. One was a regular envelope containing an application for a credit card. Another was a large padded manila envelope containing an application for a credit card. A third was a large white cardboard envelope containing a smaller regular envelope (also addressed to me) containing an application for a credit card. The final one was exactly the same as the third, with the smaller envelope inside the larger one.

Man, I must have really fucked up that test.