From JUNESAM@aol.com Sat Feb 23 20:32:19 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1O4WHnJ071566 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:32:18 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Feb 23 20:32:17 2002 -0800 Received: from imo-r08.mx.aol.com (imo-r08.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.104]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1O4WHfE025515 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:32:17 -0800 Received: from JUNESAM@aol.com by imo-r08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.5.) id d.168.9573e84 (4315) for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:32:12 -0500 (EST) From: JUNESAM@aol.com Message-ID: <168.9573e84.29a9c6cb@aol.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:32:11 EST Subject: Re: classics majors and skills: a tale (was: persistence data) To: classics@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 108 > 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." !!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------ Still true, you know - skills have NOTHING at all to do with knowledge in the eyes of employers. (outside of Academia, that is - where I have always ASSUMED knowledge has some value, even if not of a monetary nature ) I trained as a Librarian (needing skills + knowledge I assumed) only to see a position I was interested in go to a candidate who had never worked in a Library and had no Library qualifications or experience at all - but she WAS skilled (she had worked for the Parks & Recreation Dept.) and so had better skills in "Management". Then we had "Pay Equity" legislation that mandated (for female employees.So we had a job-evaluation excercise where all job descriptions and responsibilities were compared to male employees of the City. A colleague (with BA, MLS and a Masters in Education, Senior Manager of a Department ) was granted a very welcome pay raise - but was speechless to find that she was awarded this by being graded as equivalent to a male Manager of a Hockey Arena with a Grade 12 education and a certificate from a Community College. (She took the money though ) Her skills were rated by the (inadequate) number of employees allocated to her Department. June S. .