12-29-15 14:12 NANCY BACKUS wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Overqualified (was: R
Howdy! Nancy,

 NB> {at}MSGID: 
 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to Joe Mackey on 12-24-15  20:14 <=-

 EV> I haven't been to college, but what Mark wrote reminded me of one
 EV> place I went to see if they had any work available.
 EV> It was a hot summer day and my wife stayed in the car while I went in
 EV> to see about getting a job, btw the car didn't have Air Conditioning.

 NB> Did she forgive you for it taking so long... and not getting the job
 NB> even so...?

She did.
BTW that wasn't the first place I applied for a job and didn't get hired
at.

 EV> Besides the Application Form, I was given a Questionair to complete.
 EV> I sat at a table in an Air Conditioned Room for 45 minutes or so and
 EV> then gave the papers to someone.
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 EV> The owner told me by what He saw on the questionaire showed to Him
 EV> that I should look for a better type of job than jist loading trucks by
 EV> hand. He didn't have any openings for me at His company.

 NB> That's kinda how my sister wasn't able to get into a training program
 NB> for Practical Nursing... she let on that she was more intelligent than
 NB> the average student there, and wasn't let into the program... even
 NB> though all she was after was adding a skill to her 'toolbox'...
 NB> Apparently some think that Brains and Brawn can't exist in one body...
 NB> I would have thought that the owner might have considered that having
 NB> someone intelligent loading his trucks by hand might have produced
 NB> better results than someone that didn't think... ;)

I think He worried that after hiring me and then I joining the Union that
I might be a trouble maker.
He didn't know all my Smarts are Alecks.

 EV> It was a Food Delivery Service company and after I drove away, I
 EV> decided not to eat at any place that I saw His trucks delivering to.

 NB> Just denying him some income...?  or worried that the food might not
 NB> have been safe to eat...?   ;)

Denying that company any $'s that eventually I'd have after I found a job.

Ed


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