From ginlindzey@austin.rr.com Sat Feb 23 20:06:57 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1O46unJ067472 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:06:56 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Feb 23 20:06:55 2002 -0800 Received: from sm10.texas.rr.com (sm10.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.222]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1O46tek009273 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:06:55 -0800 Received: from Ginnyhome (cs6625160-42.austin.rr.com [66.25.160.42]) by sm10.texas.rr.com (8.12.0.Beta16/8.12.0.Beta16) with ESMTP id g1O45a16018035 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:05:45 -0600 From: "Ginny Lindzey" To: Subject: RE: classics majors and skills: a tale (was: persistence data) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:06:00 -0600 Message-ID: <002101c1bce8$97e02bd0$6601a8c0@Ginnyhome> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <00fb01c1bcde$cf9e3c60$0e02140a@stv203f> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > silence. No reaction at all. Then I heard her take a deep > breath, and she said, "I'm very sorry, we only hire people > with skills." !!!!!!! > Oh yes, I was told this by two employment agencies, one adding that a year of doing all the paperwork that teaching requires from gradebooks to making materials and tests did NOT count as secretarial skills. What the heck is so different? I type, I file, I prepare materials and letters, I proofread, and I keep accounts. Sheesh. The problem also is in battling with Human Resource administrators who have such a low level of education themselves that they don't know what they are looking at when they see a person with a decent education. ginnyL, due in the other room for some late night reading to her kids.... .