Word For The Day, Monday, 1/21/02, Third Annual Day of Repudiation

The Verbivores | 1/21/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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repudiate \re*pyoo"dee*ate\ transitive verb
repudiated, repudiating, repudiates
repudiative; adjective
repudiation; noun
repudiator; noun

1. To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
4a. To disown (a child, for example).
4b. To refuse to have any dealings with.
5. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. --Prynne.
6. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. --Bolingbroke.
7. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Etymology: Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudEre to shame. Date: 1545

[Dan from Michigan]

You mean I'm driving back Super Bowl Sunday? Aw SH**. That means I have to get up about 8AM to make it back to Lansing for kickoff.

[Gabz]

Is that blood I smell in the water? The sharks are starting to circle.

If that had something to do with it ---- you better believe it.

[NeoCaveman]

Kick off is 6:30

I'm hoping for no flight delays, I'm cutting it close.

Later all.

[Gabz]

It smells funny to me - because I have no child care issues. The hours of the job coincided exactly with the hours she would be in school. But without the job, I can't afford to put her in school 5 days a week. Of course I didn't tell them that - they think she is already in school that much.

[xsmommy]

did they ask you about whether you had children or is it something you brought up in conversation?

[CholeraJoe]

You can ask questions without asking them but you have to relate any rejection to their answers. EX: "This job involves irregular hours and some travel. Are there any reasons why you couldn't accomodate such a schedule?" If they volunteer that they have to be available every day at 4pm to take little Trixie to her ballet lessons, they brought it up not you.

[xsmommy]

and the answer you would have to give would have to cite to their inavailability and NOT the reason for that unavailability. If the job requires XYZ hours and you can't be there then, that is a legit reason to not be offered the job. Managers/Employers are often very dumb and will say completely ridiculous things. i am sure i had an actionable comment made to me when i spoke to a boss about needing a maternity leave, but of course, i am not the litigious sort.

[Gabz]

The child care situation came up during the course of the discussion about the hours. It wasn't that i was asked about it, per se. And I know that the woman interviewer (who I spoke with initially and again today) would have no problems with it - she's a grandmother who has custody of her 2 grandchildren.

[maxwell]

It's the Thursday and Friday before the Super Bowl.

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh... Why didn't she just say that?

[xsmommy]

ummm...my life does not revolve around football, i had NO idea....

[Dan from Michigan]

Leave at 9 - That will give me 9 1/2 hours to make it without Rush Hour.

Cutting it close, but I can make it.

[Dan from Michigan]

Football...I learned everything about life through football....

That's actually not much of an exaggeration.

[CholeraJoe]

I was in an interview with another physician for a medical assistant we would be sharing. He asked her, "Darling, do you have someone to look after your kids while you're at work?"

I was immediately seized with a coughing fit that I needed his help in getting to the water fountain outside. I recovered instantly as we left the room and succintly explained to him what the problem was. He was clueless.

[Dan from Michigan]

Cutting it close only because of those GD planes and choppers lookin' for speeders with Michigan plates in Ohio...GRRRRRRRr.

Then there is Pennsylvania driving....go too fast there and I go off the cliff.

[xsmommy]

football is actually ok. i was at the U of Pittsburgh when Tony Dorsett was there. i know a little bit about football. : )

[Gabz]

If the job requires XYZ hours and you can't be there then, that is a legit reason to not be offered the job.

I agree completely. We're talking here about a job that was only going to be 20 hours a week - and they wanted consistent hours - and they liked my suggestion of 9a-1p. childcare is not a problem for me - which is why I wonder why it was inferred as being part of the reason someone else was preferred.

I am also not the litigious type. and would never want a job (or anything) that had to be obtained through those means.

[xsmommy]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! darling yet??

when i was a law student interviewing with a solo practitioner in a Capital Hill rowhouse office, he complimented me on my suit. i was creeped out and turned down the job offer.

[xsmommy]

gotta love the omnipresent construction on the PA turnpike.

[Gabz]

Why not save yourself the aggravation and leaver EARLIER????

[Dan from Michigan]

I need my sleep on Sundays.... ;)