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Posted by buickanddeere on October 28, 2004 at 20:35:49 from (64.10.41.60):
In Reply to: A Comparison posted by Allan in NE on October 28, 2004 at 05:36:51:
The community I moved into 16 months ago, an hour north of were I grew up in the country is mostly warm and welcoming. However this past summer when the local volunteer fire dept needed to hire four more bodies, the old boy's club/ being a local was a factor. This village is 6 miles from a rural nuclear plant. I was a front runner according to a phone call from the chief as I have 10 years experience in a city nuclear plant, all the extra qualifications and passed the official provincial physical fitness tests. A volunteer captain who made the choices and who lives 3/8 of a mile away from myself. Is also a full time fireman at the nuclear plant where I also work. Asked him after the selections where made why I never even got an invitation to an interview. He did hire a 53 year old female co-worker from the power plant however? Told me I hadn't lived in the area long enough. Well heck, he knows I have a big bucks job for life here that I won't give up and own a farm across the road from him.I grew up on a working farm just like he did too. The only way he and his extended family was hired at the plant as janitors being they are mostly high school dropouts. Is that his Daddy was a General Manager there.
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