Posted by
Christine Gates on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:01:52 AM
Note: I now know why everyone everywhere calls their state Employment Securities Commission (ESC), or Employment Development Commission (EDC), or whatever it is called in your state THE UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE! Because you can't find a job through those idiot gate keepers of the nearly minimum wage job applications! Here's my experience this morning.
OMG! I was in the ESC office (otherwise known as
the unemployment office) for a whopping 10 minutes. Apparently, that is all
that is necessary for career counceling when "they" think you are not really
looking for a job. This yahoo job councelor told me that I had fill out a 130
question online survey first, then I could fill out the application and bring it
back. ESC will then forward the application to Caldwell Memorial Hospital on my
behalf. OMG! The inefficiency of that system is astounding! So, I'll be in
that stupid office, possibly 3 days in a row to apply for a 20-hour per week, $10.35/hr job that
only requires a HS diploma!!!!!!! And yet they guard that stack of blank
applications with all the security of Fort Knox. Oh, what a joy! :D (Today was as
pleasant as yesterday's experience waiting in line and then being told
I requiring an appointment to pickup an application. -- I can't just walk in off
the street for an application. How dare I have such nerve! Really, Christine. As my mother told me yesterday, "You need to learn to get along with people.")
The guy, with whom I had to make the sacred
ESC appointment with, asked me not one question about my job history,
experience, or education, since I filled out the last application with them
nearly 4-years ago. He didn't read my history either, since my visit was soooo
brief and he brought up my records while I was sitting there in front of him.
When the ESC job councelor guy, obviously promoted
to complete incompetancy, was all done with me and trying to send me on my way,
I asked, "How do you know I am qualified for this job?"
He said, "Oh, huhmm, because you have a year of
college."
I smiled and said, "No, [smiling through my teeth]
I have a Bachelor's Degree now." I batted my eyes at him.
He looked surprised, "I guess I'll update your
records." blah, blah, blah, blah for another entertaining 3 minutes or so.
Why the heck did I have to come back to the ESC office? The
*&^$^%- lady at the front desk yesterday was looking at the same screen as
the yahoo-incompetent job councelor, why couldn't she see that I had a HS
diploma and 1-year of college to know I was "qualified" and just hand me the
(*^&^$ application!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arrrgh!
Help! Being the delicate and fragile flower that I am, I just can't cope in this world. How do sane people operate in a system like this?