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Not really a similar story, but the OP brought it to mind.

I once applied for a position as a software developer. It said "Java and RPG."

I hadn't done any Java in about 4.5 years at the time. And I'd never so much as touched RPG.

When they asked if I'd done any Java programming, I responded that it had been a few years, but I'd be "brushing up" on it. I wasn't completely new to it.

But I said since I'd never touched RPG, I had been studying that in preparation for the interview.

And the interviewer looked at me funny and said "why?"

I explained that it was in the job description for the position I'd applied to. And he basically facepalmed, exasperated at whichever department was responsible for the job listings.

I've worked there for almost 8 years now and haven't done so much as a single line of RPG.

Then there was the time I applied to a job listing for a Python developer. I showed up and they asked if I had any C# experience. I told them I'd never touched C#, but am a quick study. They said they were migrating away from Python to C#. Said it as if I shouldn't have applied if I didn't have C# experience. But I don't know by what logic they expected me to have been able to intuit that given that the job listing said nothing about C#. Just Python.

Basically, I've never applied to a job that didn't have glaring inaccuracies in the listing.