I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

alexandria58

It's official.  Just got the letter,  Thank you for your interest, but we're not pursuing your application any further.  Couldn't be a colder rejection letter.

Novel's going well at the moment.  That's something, but I need to start hustling some business.

pupmom

So sorry, alexandria. Job hunting is the pits. 

gardengumby

aahhh - I'm sorry Alexandria.  Now that it's officially over at least you aren't hung out "wondering" anymore. Nasty of 'em to leave you hanging 'til the very last damn minute, though.

QuinnCat

Athena - I echo your feelings on this false equivalency!  CNN goes to the ridiculous with it.   The blatent example, but not inconceivable for CNN, if someone said the earth was round, they'd have to do a segment on the earth is flat.  It carries into the Evolution argument - what argument?  Now we have to give equal time to Creative Design.

And, btw, where are those pesky questions for Romney "Do you believe in Evolution?"  Have they been thrown out because Williard woud have to lie again?

I don't have a problem with bias in news, but I do have a problem with the lack of facts in news.  MSNBC may be biased, but they count on facts.  Faux news is what it is....fraudulent. 

Sorry Alexandria - they couldn't have passed over a more talented woman.

alexandria58

Thanks Garden, Kam, and Yorkie.  What sucks is that it's a job I did- and did well.  Sigh. 

Bren-2007

Alexandria .. I'm sorry you got such a cold hearted letter.  I know how hard it is to drum up new business.  It can get so discouraging at times.  I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that you get lots of new clients.

hugs,

Bren

1Athena1

Oh, Alexandria. (

Kam: CNN especially infuriated me in its online version the day after the 47 percent comments (silly me for reading, I know...) It posted critical quotes from democrats, then quotes from republicans. It deliberately sliced up a quote from one conservative (I think it was Peggy Noonan) to make it look as though she was supporting Romney, when she wasn't, and, in fact an honest reporter would have recorded a variety of quotes from people across the spectrum being critical. But, no, they think "everything has TWO sides."

Actually, everything has about fifty sides. Number two, they did a tremendous disservice to the republicans who criticized Romney.

CNN is so easy for pundits to manipulate because of their simplistic views. I can't stand their pea-brained anchors, either. No wonder their ratings are going down.

The funny thing is, a lot of conservatives are beginning to dislike Fox News too, so Riley's mother and sister are not alone. The reason is because Fox has fairly predictably hued to the Romney campaign line. As we all know, many conservatives say they will vote for Romney but with little enthusiasm. They prefer him to Obama, and they backed him as the main GOP candidate because they believed he was the most electable of the primary contenders. Many Fox News contributors also work for the Romney campaign. To the extent that they follow whatever messaging the campaign may have, they appear less Tea Party-ish and also perhaps less passionate.

1Athena1

Remember what I said about the Christian Coalition? Well, Ralph Reed, mr casino helper and friend of Jack Abramoff himself, is now trying to help the Romney campaign:

Just six years ago, the man who turned the Christian Coalition into such a powerful political force that he was called "God's right-hand man" was all but written off, tarnished by his ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, then trounced in his campaign to become Georgia's lieutenant governor.

But after several years in political purgatory, Mr. Reed has found his way back.

At the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., he was sought after by party luminaries and afforded the ultimate status accommodation, a room in the same hotel as Mitt Romney. And soon he plans to unleash a sophisticated, microtargeted get-out-the-evangelical-vote operation that he believes could nudge open a margin of victory if Mr. Romney can keep the race close.

The other day, sitting in an office lined with framed photographs from back in the heyday - here with President George W. Bush at a White House Christmas party, there with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican - the preternaturally youthful evangelical operative, 51, propped his black ostrich cowboy boots on a coffee table and made what he admits seems an audacious prediction: that record numbers of socially conservative evangelical Protestants will turn out for the first presidential election in history without a Protestant on the Republican ticket.

"God," he said with a laugh, "has a sense of humor."

(GULP!)

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/us/politics/ralph-reed-hopes-to-nudge-mitt-romney-to-a-victory.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Anonymous

Alexandria - that is a NASTY letter - and I'll bet there's some JEALOUSY in it - that you left and managed on your own as you have.  Doesn't sound like the type of people you'd want to be around every day - and NO EMPATHY either for what you've been thru.

SOMETHING BETTER ON THE HORIZON.  My opinion, and I'm a stickin' to it!  But it sucks in the interim..

Happy Novel writing - 

RetiredLibby

Alexandria, I'm so sorry about the job. It may be the best thing in the end -- better for you than for them. It may have not been the best place for you now -- that has happened to me in the past.



As far as your question about medical care in the ER, you are correct. ERs are only required to stabilize you if you arrive with a life-threatening condition. Forget about getting routine or preventative care -- they just don't do that in ERs. And the care isn't free - they bill you. They send the bills to collection agencies if you don't pay. They can ruin your credit, garnishee your wages, or, in some states, arrest you for unpaid medical bills:


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12006617-breast-cancer-survivor-jailed-over-unpaid-medical-bill


http://www.wifr.com/news/headlines/241_People_Arrested_in_Illinois_in_2011_over_Debt_135696863.html





In some states, they have bill collectors dressed in scrubs in ERs to get you to pay up by implying that you have to pay to be treated, even in an emergency:



http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/June/01/minnesota-ER-al-franken.aspx





Or they just let you die:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19207050/ns/health-health_care/t/woman-dies-er-lobby-refuses-help/



http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-01/us/waiting.room.death_1_hospital-staff-hospital-employee-kings-county-hospital-center?_s=PM:US

RetiredLibby

I had to hurry up and post without too much more commentary because I am on the iPad and toggling between windows -- and I have already lost one post.



So, that is the system we have now and the system that Romney thinks is fine -- we send an ambulance to pick you up at your apartment (for which you will be billed) and take you to the ER where you might or might not be seen before you die or you might be bullied by a bill collector before you are seen ... And assuming you survive the ER, you face at the very least years of debt collectors, ruined credit, and garnisheement of your wages -- and potential arrest. Way to keep the serfs in line, Mittens!



And there are rightwingers who will tell you with a perfectly straight face that all the instances above are either (a) made up by the liberal media; (b) they weren't really that sick; or (c) the people are just lying. Or all three, depending on what set of talking points they happen to be reading from.



Disgusting.

Enjoyful

Athena - That is from The Onion? Please?

1Athena1

Oh, E. I wish I could say this whole election was dreamed up by The Onion and we were merely dreamlets who could look forward to an awakening at some time....

alexandria58

There's such a heartlessness is so many of the positions taken by the far right.  I do find it hard to understand.

Anyway, thanks everyone for the sympathetic words.  I actually probably missed a bullet - in a lot of ways it's a bad place to be.  Still, feels lousy.   

Anonymous

Alexandria - better short term "lousy" than long term AWFUL PLACE TO BE.  What HL said....I shrivel when frriends use the P word ( patience!) with me, but along with those notself d-e-e-p b-r-e-a-t-h-i-n-g words of great advice,  I hear the P word can be good for us

1Athena1

Alexandria, I bet we all have job rejection stories that made us feel terrible but that we know say nothing about us.

I once got a letter saying something to the effect of "no, we would never hire someone like you."

( scratching head....is it the tuft on my tail??)

What I currently do is about 100 times better than what those people could have ever offered me.

RetiredLibby

Alexandria, in 1996, I applied for a job I thought was PERFECT. It combined both of my areas of interest and was in my career field. They interviewed me twice -- I was a finalist. They picked the other person. I laughed when she became pregnant a month after they hired her ... I laughed harder when she quit, because by then I was happily ensconced in the best job I have ever had, where I ultimately met my husband. I am not one for "It was meant to be," but I think I dodged a bullet. At the level of job I was applying for, everyone had the same skill sets. It wasn't a qualification thing - it came down to a "fit" thing. There is a better fit somewhere else. (((((Alexandria)))))

ananda8

43 days to go:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/09/obama_leads_in_ohio_day_43_ray_of_hope_for_obama_.html

Today's Good News for Obama: Both the Obama and Romney campaigns continue to hit Ohio hard, crisscrossing the state this week. And for good reason: If Obama wins the Buckeye State, he can lose Virginia and Florida and still win the election. If Romney wins Ohio, his path to 270 electoral votes becomes much clearer. (No Republican president has moved into the White House without moving Ohio into the win column.) But as Election Day draws closer, Obama's lead there has remained small but consistent, standing today at about 5 points. It may not seem like much, but that 51 to 46 margin may be the one that matters most.

suzieq60

Alexandria - those people don't deserve you - you'll find somethng much better ((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))

crazy4carrots

Call me gobsmacked!  The guy doesn't know why windows don't open in jet aircraft!

 

Courtesy of the LA Times:   

Romney’s wife, Ann, was in attendance, and the candidate spoke of the concern he had for her when her plane had to make an emergency landing Friday en route to Santa Monica because of an electrical malfunction. 

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”

Or maybe it's simply that he just chatters away to the little people and pays no attention to what he's actually saying, as in "The trees are the right height".  

 

1Athena1

rofl!!!

pupmom

Maybe he talks to the squirrels, like ME! 

Belinda44

Enjoyful

Was he joking? Sounds like he could be...like when he was joking about being unemployed.

riley702

Love that, Belinda!

RetiredLibby

BTW, just wanted to point out that the new research on breast cancer was funded by th U.S. Government: From the press release - "The study, a collaborative effort funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both part of NIH, was published online Sept. 23, 2012, and in print Oct. 4, 2012, in the journal Nature."



http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/newsfromnci/2012/TCGAbreast



Funded by the tax dollars that some do not want to pay.



L

1Athena1

HL - You're reminding me of republican congressman Denny Rehberg's recent "brilliant' idea to de-fund the Health and Human Service Department's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, whose name should say it all....Even he had to do a walk-back.

RetiredLibby

Oh yes, Rehberg. Mmm hmmmm. Pillar of brilliance, isn't he? (long, slow eyeroll)

L

suzieq60

Totally unbelievable - why don't windows on a plane open???? How did he ever get picked to run. Also, which number wife was it that was on that plane?

suzieq60

Totally unbelievable - why don't windows on a plane open???? How did he ever get picked to run. Also, which number wife was it that was on that plane?