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Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004 - 8:31 p.m. I forgot to mention yesterday that the big Mohall #1 lead worker interviews were yesterday. The applicants had to drive all the way to London (2+ hour drive) for the interviews, and then found out that the interviewer was teleconferencing the show via a television monitor. Where was she located? Springpatch, less than 30 minutes away from Mohall. Nothing like government efficiency, right? Each of the 8 �qualified applicants� was asked the same 12 questions. None related to job experience or qualifications. They were a hodge-podge of new age, feel good bullshit �How would you handle this situation?� sort of things. They all received the same speech about how only the most qualified person, no matter which sex/race/sexual preference/perversions/fetish/deformities/ that the person/thing who was most qualified had going for/against them. Silly speech, considering all 8 were white males between the ages of 42-58, don�t you think? No, I didn�t apply. No fuckin� way. Don�t need the aggravation that position gives you for the few extra dollars a day that it pays�. They recorded all the interviews. The interviewer must have nothing else to do but watch these q and a�s, over and over again. They also told each man that the decision would be made quickly, and we would have our first fulltime lead worker (over 12 months for any full time leads, and over 3 years since we had a full time #2) in �only� 2-8 MORE WEEKS! Like they don�t already know who it will be! All they have to do is check the voting records of the 8 to find out that only 2 of them have voted in past primary elections for the party of the present governor, Little Big Man. Then they have to decide which of those two did the most for the party, or which one donated the most money to that party�s candidates for the past couple of years. That will (in all likelihood) be the new Mohall #1! What, you thought BEING ABLE TO ACTUALLY LEAD PEOPLE, AND HAVING EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JOB MATTERS TO THESE POLITICAL CREATURES? If it did, the people in the interview room in London would have been state employees who have worked with all of these men in a supervisory position (you know- technicians and field engineers, district supervisors). Instead, the only person sitting in the room with the applicants was the �appointed� liaison to the governor�s office He happens to be the son of a politician in London, and is all of 23 years of age. Your taxpayer�s dollars at work! ARRRRGGGGHHHHH! Sorry about that. On to more pleasant subjects�� Sometimes, a story comes across the newswire that just seems too fitting: A 20-year-old woman died in a one-car collision in Bridgewater, Mass., in November; according to police, she lost control of her car while talking on a cell phone and crashed into the Cingular Wireless store on Route 106. [Boston Globe, 11-2-03] (Courtesy of the News of the Weird Website (Not that I find humor in someone�s death, but�) Maybe she didn�t know about the recent changes in the law that allow you to take your cell phone number with you to a new provider, and decided that she just couldn�t take Cingular�s bad service anymore�. The �check engine� light is off. Lease told me it went off about halfway to the parking lot where her carpool meets each morning. I called the local Pontiac service department, and the man I spoke to told me that Mohall has had a bunch of bad gas (insert pun here) for a couple of weeks now. This has caused an increase in the number of calls they have had with the same problem as mine (misfiring engines). He told me that a container of good fuel injector cleaner, put into the fuel tank, should clear up any lingering problem. I bought a container of their high-priced, gunk removing stuff after work tonight. It is now blended with the fuel in Lease�s gas tank. I took it for a drive, and it sounded like it was running fine to my untrained ears. We will soon see if that was the only problem�.. I tried calling my friend, Rick the Mechanic, before I called the Pontiac dealer. The man who answered the phone at his shop said, �Um�you see, Rick is no longer employed by this company�. I don�t know if he quit, was fired, is on permanent disability, or was abducted by aliens. I tried his home phone number, but it is disconnected. I think he told me last fall that he was dropping his home land-line phone, and going totally �cell phone only�. Now, if I can just figure out where I wrote his cell phone number down, I might be able to solve this mystery. If not, I will just have to drive out to his house (15 mile south of here) and see what is up��
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