[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Look harder. There’s GOT to be drugs and rock and roll in there, too! ;)

I worked the 2000 census on third shift. I came away with the absolute belief that the regional organization was run on local political networking.

The first interview made it perfectly clear that preferential hiring would hold jobs open for Veterans (no problem), women (?), disabled, and "people of color". I got a call back about a month later. Apparently they ran out of people who were willing to work...

I wound up teaching seminars on IT subjects to the management level types who were supposed to already know the subject. The regional manager was a "big gun" Realtor. He sat in his office and diddled away eight hours and then went home.

Regards,
GtG

[kearnyirish2]

I had hoped that this Greater Depression would lead to elimination of government waste (here in NJ a lot of the most recently-hired cops & teachers lost their jobs because there was no money left); apparently this isn’t happening on a national or federal level. The strain is really showing here in NJ, where the infrastructure is falling apart and there is no money left to fix (and each day less & less people to tax for the repairs). The people making money are those that align wheels and repair windshields; it is like driving in Mogadishu...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I came away with the absolute belief that the regional organization was run on local political networking.”

BUMP! :)