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Re: New interview
« Reply #25 on: May 12, 2011, 07:27:47 AM »
Quote from: Gina on May 12, 2011, 05:47:34 AM
I am sure! the only thing they don't want is my bluntness.  They didn't like that before. 

I had a grievance filed against me by some union puke there.  Get this.  In the hearing he said that while everyone else on the elevator said "Good morning" and carried on, I never said good morning to anyone and I never looked at anyone.  I looked him straight in the eye and said "I don't come to work to make friends, I come to work".  Can you believe they actually let that hearing go on?  :lmao:  Nothing else going on at the company but a woman that can't stand to hear a bunch of cackling in a 5x6 elevator in the morning.  Stupid union assholes.

I also got in trouble one time because I made my very own blueprint copy.  You see, that's Patricia's union job and by me running my very own copy I am infringing on her job description.  She failed to tell everyone that she is never at her station so she can run these copies.

I hate unions. :argh:  will not join one for the life of me!

anyway, hair is up in curlers and I sit here with pants on demarking my Chaps heels :naughty:

There is one constant in the government/corporate/union/bureaucratic world (as explained to me by a very astute, very wise, and very accurate friend some years ago) ---

Competency and efficiency will NOT be tolerated.

I got fired some years ago because I had an issue with a temp worker who made a habit out of texting her boyfriend endlessly while on the job. She didn't like it when I called her on it and made her do shit she didn't want to do. At the end of this bullshit charade, I was the one who got canned -- not the young, nubile, very pretty chick who knew how to bat her eyes and work the system.

But, anyway, GOOD LUCK, GINA! Kick some ass and don't look back!!
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Re: New interview
« Reply #26 on: May 12, 2011, 08:21:03 AM »
Quote from: Gina on May 11, 2011, 08:01:07 PM
Are you saying that I shouldn't work my ass off at a gov't job?   :???:

Well, not completely....   :naughty:

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Re: New interview
« Reply #27 on: May 12, 2011, 09:27:22 AM »
I think the interview went well.  260 applicants and they are interviewing 6.  I won't have to be trained on alot of the software so that is a plus.  Only negative and it didn't affect me before there but I had a dui when I was a teen and I hate always mentioning that on an interview.  I don't even think it shows up anymore but I always mention it.

Anyone know how long that stuff stays on your record?

Off to field work.  Thar's a sewer waiting on me  :fuelfire:
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Re: New interview
« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2011, 09:57:05 AM »
Personally, I would appreciate your honesty about the teenage incident, and not hold it against you at all.  Look at who else is in government these days.  Barack Obama wouldn't be able to pass a security clearance, given all his best buds blowing up government buildings and all. 

Unionized office workers....that's the worst!   :banghead:  It's not like they're miners asking for safety precautions and such.  My first job out of college was at a papermill in Maine, and they just love their unions.  The company had to fight for the right for accountants to enter their own numbers in spreadsheets.  Can you imagine?  We'd all sit around staring at the wall if we couldn't monkey around with our own spreadsheets.  Data entry...one little old lady had the monopoly on entering journal entries into the mainframe.  Zzzzzzzzz  took forever. 
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Re: New interview
« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2011, 10:03:50 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on May 12, 2011, 07:27:47 AM
There is one constant in the government/corporate/union/bureaucratic world (as explained to me by a very astute, very wise, and very accurate friend some years ago) ---

Competency and efficiency will NOT be tolerated.

I got fired some years ago because I had an issue with a temp worker who made a habit out of texting her boyfriend endlessly while on the job. She didn't like it when I called her on it and made her do shit she didn't want to do. At the end of this bullshit charade, I was the one who got canned -- not the young, nubile, very pretty chick who knew how to bat her eyes and work the system.

But, anyway, GOOD LUCK, GINA! Kick some ass and don't look back!!

I worked at Talbot's catalog center, years ago, before I went into real estate. Talbot's isn't unionized...but owned by the Japanese...which gives new meaning to "toeing the corporate line".

Our phone calls were monitored at least 3x's a month. One day I was called into the GM's office. My supervisor, who was black, and a very very nice woman, had turned me in for "racist comments" in a call that she had taped for monitoring.

I had told a woman from NYC, that Knoxville didn't have much ethnicity when it came to restaurants, we didn't have any Jewish or real Italian delis, and I missed being able to go to them. She had told me that she and her husband had visited here, and thought it was really pretty...they were thinking about retiring down here or in the Carolinas...and that evolved into a quick discussion about museums, cultural opportunities, shopping and restaurants.

I was told that my actions would be written up and put in my permanent file, this was my first warning, and that if I was overheard to make any more racist remarks, I would be fired. Yes, the GM had listened to the tape.

I took a 3 month leave of absence the next week and went to real estate school, got my license, signed up with an agency and then turned in my resignation. Again, I was called into the GM's office. "Why are you leaving? You have such a future here!"

I figured that telling someone who was making about 5 or 6x's the salary I was, that she needed to improve her vocabulary skills, was a waste of breath....
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Re: New interview
« Reply #30 on: May 12, 2011, 10:08:56 AM »
Quote from: debk on May 12, 2011, 10:03:50 AM
I worked at Talbot's catalog center, years ago, before I went into real estate. Talbot's isn't unionized...but owned by the Japanese...which gives new meaning to "toeing the corporate line".

Our phone calls were monitored at least 3x's a month. One day I was called into the GM's office. My supervisor, who was black, and a very very nice woman, had turned me in for "racist comments" in a call that she had taped for monitoring.

I had told a woman from NYC, that Knoxville didn't have much ethnicity when it came to restaurants, we didn't have any Jewish or real Italian delis, and I missed being able to go to them. She had told me that she and her husband had visited here, and thought it was really pretty...they were thinking about retiring down here or in the Carolinas...and that evolved into a quick discussion about museums, cultural opportunities, shopping and restaurants.

I was told that my actions would be written up and put in my permanent file, this was my first warning, and that if I was overheard to make any more racist remarks, I would be fired. Yes, the GM had listened to the tape.

I took a 3 month leave of absence the next week and went to real estate school, got my license, signed up with an agency and then turned in my resignation. Again, I was called into the GM's office. "Why are you leaving? You have such a future here!"

I figured that telling someone who was making about 5 or 6x's the salary I was, that she needed to improve her vocabulary skills, was a waste of breath....

Good on you, deb!

Still trying to figure out how describing a lack of ethnic deli's in Knoxville, and missing it, could possibly be construed as being racist....... :confused:
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Re: New interview
« Reply #31 on: May 12, 2011, 10:22:43 AM »
Quote from: Gina on May 12, 2011, 09:27:22 AM
Only negative and it didn't affect me before there but I had a dui when I was a teen and I hate always mentioning that on an interview.  I don't even think it shows up anymore but I always mention it.

Anyone know how long that stuff stays on your record?


Depends. In WI it used to be 10 years but I think they upped it to 20 for DUI.

We also have the ability to look up that kind of information using CCAPs. It is an online site for the state of WI to look up circuit court decisions. If you were living in WI would just type in your name (or anyone else) and it would spit out all the times you went to court or paid a traffic citation processed thru a circuit court.
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Re: New interview
« Reply #32 on: May 12, 2011, 10:28:37 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on May 12, 2011, 10:08:56 AM
Still trying to figure out how describing a lack of ethnic deli's in Knoxville, and missing it, could possibly be construed as being racist....... :confused:

Being a member of a "group" that has been trained to be hyper-sensitive to anything other than liberal guilt and overt ass kissing helps.
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Re: New interview
« Reply #33 on: May 12, 2011, 10:38:54 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on May 12, 2011, 10:08:56 AM
Good on you, deb!

Still trying to figure out how describing a lack of ethnic deli's in Knoxville, and missing it, could possibly be construed as being racist....... :confused:


Me neither. I was stunned when I got called in...but then when she told me why I was called in, I was speechless...something very unusual for me!

I figured that neither my supervisor, nor the GM(who was white) - who were both college graduates, and both younger than me - had any clue what "ethnicity" meant!  :thatsright:

I was also so angry, when she told me the "incident" would go into my permanent file...it really was best that I kept my mouth shut.

I had to go in on my "last" day, for an exit interview. One of the things I was asked....was why I was leaving? And I was asked to fill out a thing that asked a bunch of questions about my "experience working for Talbot's". I declined to fill it out, and just said that I was going in to real estate for a more flexible schedule. Thought it was better to take the "high road"....
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Re: New interview
« Reply #34 on: May 12, 2011, 11:53:39 AM »
Exit interviews -- I don't trust the bastards to do the right thing with the information.

I agree with you in principle -- just part ways in a faux amicable manner, because bitching about shit isn't going to fix things anyway.

Where are you with this kind of thing, Tots? You bein' in HR an' all.....
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Re: New interview
« Reply #35 on: May 12, 2011, 12:50:23 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on May 12, 2011, 11:53:39 AM
Exit interviews -- I don't trust the bastards to do the right thing with the information.

I agree with you in principle -- just part ways in a faux amicable manner, because bitching about shit isn't going to fix things anyway.

Where are you with this kind of thing, Tots? You bein' in HR an' all.....

It's a waste of time.  I have conducted some exit interviews, and have sent them out to be anonymously mailed.  No one that needs to takes them seriously at all.  Which is quite unfortunate.  I have never, ever seen anything addressed from one. 
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Re: New interview
« Reply #36 on: May 12, 2011, 08:28:42 PM »
Gina it sounds like it went well!! Crossing my fingers!!!
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Re: New interview
« Reply #37 on: May 12, 2011, 08:41:05 PM »
Thank you, Dixie.  I was hoping my old boss would call me this evening to let me know.  She hasn't so I am sitting here sulking. :bawl:  They said they might know tomorrow.
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Re: New interview
« Reply #38 on: May 12, 2011, 09:17:40 PM »
Ahh you'll be fine! I know it's torture to wait but I bet you'll find out soon!
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Re: New interview
« Reply #39 on: May 13, 2011, 10:24:43 AM »
I GOT THE JOB!
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Re: New interview
« Reply #40 on: May 13, 2011, 10:26:13 AM »
Quote from: Gina on May 13, 2011, 10:24:43 AM
I GOT THE JOB!

Congrats!   :cheersmate: :-* :2ndbase:

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Re: New interview
« Reply #41 on: May 13, 2011, 10:28:36 AM »
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Re: New interview
« Reply #42 on: May 13, 2011, 10:31:35 AM »
Thanks yall!    smacking that gov't ass  :lmao:
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Re: New interview
« Reply #43 on: May 13, 2011, 10:33:03 AM »
 :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

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Re: New interview
« Reply #44 on: May 13, 2011, 10:35:36 AM »
Quote from: Gina on May 13, 2011, 10:24:43 AM
I GOT THE JOB!

WONDERFUL!!!!!

Congratulations!!!!
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Re: New interview
« Reply #45 on: May 13, 2011, 10:35:58 AM »
Way to go!
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Re: New interview
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Re: New interview
« Reply #47 on: May 13, 2011, 11:27:33 AM »
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Re: New interview
« Reply #48 on: May 13, 2011, 11:47:42 AM »
Quote from: Gina on May 13, 2011, 10:24:43 AM
I GOT THE JOB!

Congrats Gina!  At least for an hour and forty-five minutes out of every two hours, Memphis 911 callers will be in good hands.  The other fifteen minutes, just the one will have to do...

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Re: New interview
« Reply #49 on: May 13, 2011, 11:50:29 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on May 13, 2011, 11:47:42 AM
Congrats Gina!  At least for an hour and forty-five minutes out of every two hours, Memphis 911 callers will be in good hands.  The other fifteen minutes, just the one will have to do...

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