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hugs and thanks you...vxoxo
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I've bookmarked the page, so that I can use it for further references.
*hugs*
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You've put a huge amount of work into this. It's made it so much easier to find specific caps. Well done!
(By the way, how's your job going?)
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How's the job? Good. And the wages are super (instead of getting a check for 70 dollars for my 13 hours of temp work I get nearly 400 for 37 and a half hours at "real worker" wages. However, it will in by or during September. Along with the rest of the "full time provisional" library technicians, I took the test and again did not get a high enough score to go on to the interviews. Oh, well. One of us provisional workers did score high enough this time, so that was something for us to cheer for. Last year none of the provisionals got to compete for the real jobs. I thought I had a sad story, but I heard a much sadder one this time around. One of the provisionals (who also did not get a high enough score on the test to make the cut) has worked at the library before in a similar capacity, having moved to another state for a few years before returning to Duluth a few months ago. I asked if she had been a temp when she had been at the library before, and for how long. Heavens! She had had the real job! For six whole years! But because she had quit she had to be considered along with everyone else all over again. Fewer people were competing for the library job ten years ago, so I guess it was less difficult to make the cut. Anyway, how depressing! To have done the job for six years and done it well, and then not get to be reinstated! It's all so stupid. What a waste of talented people, already trained and doing the jobs. Now the library is going to have to train a pile of new people, all over again, to fill all these positions.
And I mean a lot of positions. A new contract argument has been in the works this last year so a lot of the people nearing retirement all retired all at once, to make sure they'd be able to get the benefits they signed on for. 40% of the staff is going to be leaving this summer. Still, all the people they hired last time based on the test all worked out so I suppose it will be fine in the end. But I would have loved to have kept the job, no free time and achey fingers and all.
Well, that's more than you wanted to hear, I'm sure. Rachel's calling me to watch a movie with her so I have to go. It's a good thing I have so few email messages to look at these days; I wouldn't have time to read and respond to them!
I hope you are well, Maewyn, and that you are not as sad about your mum.
~ Mechtild
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I bet you're enjoying having Rachel home! How long is the summer break?
I'm doing OK. I still occasionally catch myself thinking about how I'll explain some news to Mum...
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I expect that's how I'll be, too. :) Rachel goes back to HI on Sept. 1. Next week we're going to California to visit my sister. We haven't been there for three years, Rachel for four. Glen is coming for five days; he hasn't been there since we left CA, back in 1999.
I'll post an LJ announcement before I go so that people will not think I'm ignoring their LJ's utterly if I don't reply. I'll be computerless. My sister has a computer but the connection is slow and her kids staying at the house will want to use it. I think I'd be a poor visitor to spend my social time trying to jockey for a spot on the Internet, so I've steeled myself for the fact of not being able to use it.
No, it's not that tough a test, although one can easily have forgotten how to do long division or percents if one hasn't used those skills since school. Younger people can be just as disadvantaged because they so rarely do math problems without using calculators. There are 90 questions: grammar, math, and a set of common sense how-to-deal-with-people questions, all multiple choice ("choose the best answer"). Technically, one only needs to be a high school graduate to qualify, and get a 70 on the test. But the competition for these jobs is very keen. Everyone passes and most do very well. I got an 87.5 last time, but everyone who would tell their score (who didn't qualify) said she or he got something in the 80's, some with the exact same scores. It's the people who scored above the rest that got the interviews.
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Ah, now I understand why it's so difficult! Most people will pass the test, but it's the highest score at the end that matters. I still think proven hands-on experience should count towards the chances of getting the job!
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~ Mechtild
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Have a great time!!!
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Do you mean you're going BACK????
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But it's HOT right now, and I have no A/C, so I have less productive time at the computer. I want to be out in a park or in a pool instead of combing my photo library. But that will change soon enough. Cheers!
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So off I go, and I'll be looking forward to your post sometime this year. *g*
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Have a great time with your family!
*waves good-bye with white handkerchief*
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Thank you, my dear!
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(thankyou, Julchen)