One amazing job interview!!!Hello Good morning , may I take your coat
(How nice I thought) Thanks I said , slipping off my coat .
Please have a seat ill be with you in a minute
Okay…take your time.( I did not like that the work place was like a home environment , but I would not be working from out here I consoled myself. I was hoping to be hired as an online instructor coaching students for the NewYork Insurance Licensing examinations. I am a teacher alongside my nursing program.)
Finally the boss came over and sat with me . So how much experience do you have with online coaching?
Never coached online but I am computech savy, build websites, run a few online businesses, besides as a student I have utilized a lot of interactive internet coaching, Black Board, Medspub, and all kinds of student resources.
Did you need to have a BSc to get in the nursing program,
No but I do have a Bachelors in Biology, an active NYS Insurance license, I am a substitute teacher with the Board of Ed, but as you know everything is kind of slow right now .
What would you like to be doing five years from now
Become an RN and a nurse educator,
Good , you know there would be avenues here to establish an internet outreach for your nursing education programs if you so wish….on and on went the interview at the end of the day it was obvious the boss was looking for an office assistant to answer phones on a part time basis and he offered me the job for about 10/12 per hour .
Thank you Sir but I was hoping to be an online instructor and as a sub, I earn about $150 each day I teach .
Yes but to be an instructor with us you need to have passed your NY insurance exams with an 85 passing grade, ( which I did) and you needed to have passed it at first shot( which I did) .So you could fax me your result sheet and we would take it from there
Okay. Till then you could start with us on Wednesday ……..blah blah blah…
Its just sad the way the country is headed right now
How so Sir ? Obama is here , everything is going to be alright.
(Rueful smile) There is a movement to fight for our freedoms. We will not stand by and watch America become a socialist state with socialist agenda’s. This is an undercover economic 911 by the current government of America in cahoots with socialists’ nations to impose the socialist agenda on this great nation and we will not stand for it . The capitalist America was built on rewards for hard work. If some companies are not doing well, let the system correct itself
But Sir that would have had catastrophic impacts on too many American families and countries around the world dependent on AIG for instance.
How can you tell? You could never know what would have been if you did not let it? Who’s to say options like Chapter 11 or even 10 would not have lead to a restructuring of the system?
At what cost?
At whatever cost it takes to get it right.
Look at the welfare system rewarding laziness and slovenliness. If you, if you lost your job or your business failed, would you lie down on the road side and give up the ghost? No, you would cry a little, and then get up and about setting things right, but what do we have today. The government doles out funds to encourage laziness at the tax payer’s expense and so a whole group of people choose to become laggards, drug dealers, and generally an unproductive bunch. Can any good come from that?
Did you consider how hard it is for some to get jobs (good jobs) despite their qualifications for it (trying to hint at the black experience?)
If you meant to you wouldn’t let a few negatives hold you back (I thought make that a few thousand negatives…..)
I was not always a rich fellow , I cant even say I’m a rich fellow am just comfortable, I am a disciplined Christian who by Gods grace is principled and hard working ….I work really hard , scrimp and save along the way , manage to earn at least $250 000 and that’s before I pay overheads and bills , by the time I’m done id be lucky to keep 100 000 the follows mortgages , taxes, school fees etc, then Uncle Sam , no Obama now tells me Ill have to pay huge taxes on the 250 000 …that is not right. That kills the spirit of enterprise.
All our rights are being trampled on; you cannot express yourself without being called racist? Now they are talking about not owning a gun?
Gun control Sir,
Who is anyone to make that determination over anybody?
Have you ever wondered why the founding fathers put in the clause of Fire Arms?
The right to defend one self?
Because they were passionate about protecting the individuals rights –
Sir, I thought the founding fathers were distrustful of democracy and that why the bill of rights was the last to be put in thanks to TJ
Not exactly, it was so that the citizenry could rise up and fight against any impositions or taking away their rights.
Sounds like Anarchy? Is that what you are suggesting?
No, I’m trying to paint a picture here. America was built on the foundation of personal freedom, which today is a sorry picture loose moral, lack of discipline, no pride in hard work, corruption and what have you. You must have been surprised when I talked about God, the waywardness in every aspect of American life in sad.
Families today are shredded. Women can up and go get a divorce and the first curve ball, There are so many agencies seeking to help her just walk awa/.Whatever happened to working it out, what happened to helping the man in the picture, what happened to family values, we forget that the family unit is the bed rock of any society. Enough fragmented families would make a fragmented society, look around.
What about domestic abuse?
I do not advocate for a woman staying where her life is at stake but more effort has to go in at saving the situation counseling etc and saving the family unit
And where that does not work?
Then we need to recognize that we have a crisis on our hands and set about getting things done right.
Look at our prison systems, overflowing all at the tax payer’s expense. When people err they should be punished, but what do they do in there, they go to school, watch cable and all what not. Is that punishment?
It is reform
Which is not working?
You are very distraught Sir, who would you have liked to see win at this election, Mc Cain?
Why not? Even though to a certain extent he was muzzled. Anyone who tries to speak out against the insensibility going on is muzzled ( a few names) That is why that Sarah Palin was such a breath of fresh air, she told it as it was
Or as she was told to tell? Because I don’t see how someone who couldn’t tell which papers she read would know anything about what was going on besides several other gaffes
She had no terrorist friends
She had no experience
She was more experienced than Obama, negotiating oil deals for Alaska and in the office of the governor
Of course with huge projects to nowhere.
If that is all she was guilty of then we would have had a better deal with her at the helms of affairs.
Obama rose too fast in the corrupt Chicago political arena, He owes too many people to be clean. He now has to repay favors which he tried to cleverly hide by denying any knowledge of million dollar settlements at AIG, who by the way co sponsored his campaign. We have not heard the last of Acorn let me tell you.
Sir, I just love the silver tongue President
Well have you seen him without a teleprompter, I was embarrassed for him
Okay,
Anyway this is supposed to be a job interview and this conversation is out of the loop. Next time we will stick to the job at hand
Thank you Sir, I appreciate.
Cheers
I drove home wondering if the boss mistook my brillo African hair and flashing tiger eyes for a Caucasian that he would comfortably say those damning things about black folks to my face? Either he was color blind or he just didn’t care whose ox was gored provided he told it as it was. Did that make him a courageous fellow? How about me. How was I as a would be employee expected to receive this? Was I to become the OBAMA rep in there to be verbally bashed each time the real OBAMA made political deceisions that irked a few? Were the issues he raised true…..well there was some truth to it but what caused these black folks to be this way? The boss obviously had a poor image of black folks how would that rub off? If he was to later discover that I am a recent African Imigrant ,enjoying some government largesse would he get enraged and sic his movement on me? Oh wow !! The office assistant position was out of my consideration ( the boss obviously did not think I was overqualified for that, I should be happy to be offered this right? I think I deserve better) and right now the online teaching angle was fading from my psyche. I want to be happy where I work so I had to pass up this opportunity……
There is so much food for thought in this exchange. Please watch Michelle Obama Interview on the legacies of racism and share your thoughts. Welcome to America
