I'v been talking about the job I lost with a lot of people on the net, who 
also didn't get the job and are mad

When the announcement first came out, I finished the application at about 9 
pm Sunday.

The previous job that I lost I had to turn the application  15 in with very 
little time to do it.  I will in
part blame that for my failure to get the job.

other than the mugging

I took my sweet time doing this one.  For the other one, it was open only 
about a week, if I remember
correctly, maybe a few days more.  but I had to run 140 offices and I 
actually kicked
my boss out at 6 pm telling her that i had to work on the application.

This time, I goofed off, read and reread it, rewrote it several times, 
thought about,
spot checked, ran and reran the spellchecker.
talked to my office mate back in hila and we worked together and tried to 
see if
we could recall things about our career in the past that would help improve 
our chances.
talked about buzzwords and supported each other.
I gave her samples she gave me samples

we edited each others stuff

it was good

I hoped she would get the job she has been doing some incredible work over 
the last 20 years and deserves this

she's black with a hispanic surname

she's as good as anybody that  applies

probably better

when i pushed the button, my application  was not rejected.  i figured most 
everyone would
push the button that night, hedging bets that everyone had lives and that if 
someone
beat them to it over the weekend so be it.

anyway, i configured it \and so if it was rejected, i suspected
i won't find out til the morning.

but the process confirmed receipt and there was nothing on other sources
saying that people were getting errors.

incidentally i noticed they had a huge error on their screens and i mean to 
tell
them and I did.

 i had an appeal ready if i wanted

I did end up appealing because of how broken their online application was 
and it did end up rejecting me.  My friend lost ot because she didn't make 
the deadline because of how ridiculous the process was

they've adjudicated some of our apeals but not fairly or equitably as far as 
we can tell

mk5000


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 Barney Fife: [Andy and Barney are watching a sign painter] Ain't he got 
chicken spelled wrong?
Andy Taylor: No, it's right.
Barney Fife: You sure?
Andy Taylor: Yeah, it's "i before e except after c and e before n in 
chicken".
Barney Fife: [chuckles] Oh yeah, I always forget that rule.