#job hunting is an offense against human dignity as all of us know

[girderednerve]

senseless witterings of a confused bird

okay i had a job interview today for a job that i am not sure i want (it is part-time, has no benefits & the commute is over an hour one-way; the actual day-to-day work sounds good & before taxes i'd be making $52k/yr.), which seemed to go more or less fine although the vibes were not incredible. mostly it seemed like the people interviewing me were desperate to hire someone. more than halfway through the interview one of the committee members signed onto the zoom call because she'd forgotten that there was an interview and asked me three (3) questions: when was the last time you helped someone; have you worked with struggling students before [had already addressed before her arrival]; do you know how bad the weather here is. i will not lie i did not particularly enjoy this exchange

an hour after the interview, the library director called me to arrange a campus visit (very fast!). she asked me carefully if i'd be able to get there in time, because she wasn't sure if i was still in florida; this was an exciting question on her part, because they were emphatically not offering to cover my travel to interview for, i cannot emphasize this enough, a part-time job with no benefits. anyway! i will be doing a campus visit fairly soon, in which i must offer a database demo. it's at a community college with a good number of healthcare students so i am planning to do medline (will be a good time to demonstrate a little technical expertise when i mention MeSH/abruptly become very nerdy about dust disease terms).

i am feeling spiteful & conflicted. they are clearly desperate to hire someone; i do not like being unemployed; i am interested in this kind of work even if i do not think that this job is a particularly good deal (it isn't; they want instruction, outreach, desk staffing, & collection management with no health insurance or paid time off). if they did offer it to me & i said yes i would continue looking & applying elsewhere, possibly at something of an advantage. the committee made no particular effort to pitch me on the job, did a very bad job actually arranging the interview (sent me the wrong zoom code), struggled to answer basic questions ("what would an average week in this position look like?"), and also really got my back up with the "when was the last time you helped someone" question. i do not love this approach to library work! i actively reject it, in fact! it was weird & like, matronly. oh must i kindly tend to the unfortunate? because of my compassionate & womanly nature? do your patrons find that condescending approach useful?

i haven't heard back from the youth services job i interviewed for, so maybe the real issue here is that my expectations & assessment of my own skills are inaccurate

[ceciliayoder1992]

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[quakerjoe]

CUPPA JOE – FREE SPEECH – 24 APRIL 2017

 Free Speech Isn’t As Free As You Think

 In recent news, Anne Coulter was booked to speak at Berkeley, but student protests shafted that temporarily before Coulter’s shindig was on yet again. There’s been an outpouring of opinions from all angles on this, so I may as well throw my asshole (I mean, “opinion”) in the ring as well. You see, I have rather mixed feelings on this, but in the end, I am pretty set in how I feel about this overall.

 In a recent article for “Forward Progressives”, writer Allen Clifton, one of my faves, wrote the following:

 “Sad to say, but the story right now isn’t about how terrible Ann Coulter is, it’s about how ridiculous the people at Berkeley are behaving. And this isn’t just Berkeley. There’s an epidemic plaguing the left all across this country where college campuses are becoming less and less tolerant of one of the cornerstones of what makes this country great: Free Speech. This idea that we have to somehow shelter ourselves from hateful or offensive things is unrealistic. That’s not life nor is it any way to live. A large part of our development as humans is being able to deal with a rather harsh world that’s not always fair, tolerant, sensitive, or worried about how someone feels. Being educated isn’t just about learning what’s inside of a book, it’s also about preparing yourself for life — real life. Often our successes come from the experiences we learned overcoming failure, adversity, and some of the tougher moments in our lives. If you want to live in a bubble and pretend the world isn’t what it really is, that’s fine, go right ahead. However, once that bubble bursts, you’re going to be in a whole lot of trouble. Life’s going to knock you down, walk all over you, and there’s not going to be someone there to rush to your side, pick you up, tell you that you’re amazing, and give you a participation trophy.”

 Clifton’s article goes on about a lot more, and his points are spot on and valid. However, on this particular slice of it, I find myself a bit annoyed. On the one hand, I agree with this completely. Earlier in the article, Clifton points out that nothing exposes Coulter’s utter fuckery better than letting her speak. However, here is where I tend to disagree. Clifton is missing one of the important parts of Free Speech. It doesn’t exist. The First Amendment protects all from the GOVERNMENT for whatever we write or say, most often in protest, but it does NOT protect us from the repercussions of those around us when we run our mouths or write things that’ll piss someone off. If you were to run through Harlem shouting “Nigger! Nigger! Nigger!” the First Amendment isn’t going to protect you from a sound ass-beating or worse. If you went into a biker bar and starting calling them all “Faggots!” I can guarantee you that you’re not going to have a good time of it, and there’s not going to be a lawyer there to keep your body from never being seen again. If you call a woman “Cunt!” to her face, there’s likely going to be a lightning-fast slap to yours in the immediate future. There are repercussions for everything you say or write, especially at a college campus.

 So how does this apply to Coulter? The fine line here, as mentioned by Clifton, is the word “Tolerance”. Sure, Coulter exposes her ignorance every single time she opens her pie hole. Will letting her speak at Berkeley make a difference? Not really. Her reputation is firm, and it has preceded her. That is also precisely why students wanted her gone. If you’re a famous talking head known for shitting out of your mouth, the likelihood that you’re going to be welcomed there is pretty slim, and if you find the place blockaded by people who don’t want you even NEAR their campus, well, what the hell did you expect? You want to be heard in that area, then rent a hall nearby, and have your beer hall putsch someplace that’ll either take your money or backs your cause. A college campus is not the place for lies to be spread and delusions to be pawned off for facts. We’re not talking snowflakes here; we’re talking about young people who already know how much of an idiot Coulter and her ilk are. The bottom line is, THEY used THEIR “right of free speech” to protest her presence at their campus and attempted to shut her down. They’re tired of all the “participation trophies” that Generation X and back have given out. If you try talking to the Millennials, they’re actually offended by such a notion. What this up-and-coming generation is trying to get across, is that the time for “Tolerance” is over. WHY must we tolerate such ignorance to be heard? What’s wrong with standing up for truth and good sense, facts and logic, by saying “Shut the fuck up and get the fuck out!” to Coulter?

 It’s not like people want Coulter silenced just because of a different view or opinion. This is becoming about chronic and delusional liars and people on the take from rich donors trying to spread misinformation being allowed to craft their “Alternative Facts” and spread them around. This is about taking a stand against BULLSHIT. This is all about saying “No More!” Screw this misconception of Free Speech and Tolerance. The political Right NEVER gives the Left the same courtesy EVER. So why continue to demonstrate tolerance for them? As Clifton brings up, this brings into the equation the preparations needed for life in one’s future. What about standing up for yourself? What about taking a stand against those who’d rather do harm to our nation for a buck or two, as opposed to “tolerating” what it is that they’re doing? What about protecting what YOU hold dear; things like truth in reporting, truth in representation instead of representing corporate interests? What about doing anything you can, peacefully, to stamp out the hateful and ignorant rhetoric of those who undermine our nation’s rapidly fading democracy?

 Shafting Coulter, in my view, is a great way to begin. Shutting down bullshit “news” shows like FOX Noise and the like and holding pundits and media accountable for accuracy and factual reporting is a must, while keeping the liars and nut-jobs from getting their voices heard on public campuses and on public media. I’m all for letting these assholes have their say, but they can go out of their way and work for it. Let them start their own private YouTube accounts and start a Facebook page or, as is more “presidential” it seems, go with Twitter. They’ll have their followers, no matter what is done, but by sending the message that their vitriol and utter fuckery will no longer be tolerated in institutions of LEARNING, where FACTS are important and under constant scrutiny, this is a key factor if we’re going to recover and get out of the deep hole we’ve dug ourselves into as a nation. Exercising our right to declare that we WILL NOT TOLERATE such behavior to me seems like a rational and mature approach to people like Coulter. We certainly treat children that way, why not adults? We reprimand children when they spread lies and do bad things. Why do adults get a pass? You know damn well that the GOP condemns and witch hunts anything the Left does. It’s time to do a little “back atcha!” and deal with them in ways they’ll understand. If that means exercising OUR right to shut them down, then let’s DO that. Let’s do it with dignity and respect, yet with passion and fury. Let’s stop being so fucking polite, and certainly let’s stop the “politically correct” approach. It isn’t working. Enough with worrying about offending everyone. 

You’re offended? So fucking what? Enough with the “snowflake” attitudes and safe spaces. Those who are shit-canning the Republic, Democracy, and the Constitution itself certainly are NOT afraid of offending anyone. In fact, they’re reveling in it every time some spineless Leftist cries about something the Right does, yet that’s all they do- cry about it. This is why Trump and his supporters laugh at Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives. It’s because all they do is bitch and moan. Perhaps if they showed up at the polls last November, we wouldn’t be in a rapidly sinking ship where only 1st Class passengers get lifeboats lined with gold while the rest of us are left to drown. Enough with TOLERATING bullshit. It’s time to call it out, and call it what it is. BULLSHIT.

 The paradox to all of this is that you can’t reason with the likes of Coulter or Trump’s supporters. If you do NOTHING, they’ll continue on doing all sorts of damage and they’ll think it’s perfectly accepted, normal, and just fine. It’s like you’re giving them permission.

 If you attempt to interact with them on some level (like debate, present them with facts and evidence to support why they’re so wrong etc.) then these vermin double down like a tick. They become combative and even violent.

 So paradoxically, if we want this kind of woman (the Anne Coulters, the Kellyann Conways, the Sarah Palins, the Michelle Bachmanns) and this kind of man (the Trumps, the Spicers, the Bill O’Reillys, the Alex Joneses, the Pat Robertsons and the Ken Hams) to get the message that we’re done with them creating a harmful environment, both mentally and physically, then what we’re left with is the option of putting things in THEIR terms. If that means cock-blocking them at the gates, slamming doors in their faces, and shouting at them to shut the fuck up, then so be it. We have to speak THEIR language to get the message through that we will NOT TOLERATE their ignorance, their racism, their misogyny, their homophobia, their xenophobia, their bigotry, their just being an all around selfish piece of shit. We DO have to stoop to their level to get them to understand, because not unlike talking to little children, you HAVE to. Children don’t understand things that get too complicated for them, so you have to dumb down things for them in simple, “A, B, C, D…” sorts of ways. This doesn’t make you a child, but you have to think and act like one to interact with them and get your point across to them. If acting out like these ignorant and belligerent “conservatives” is what gets them to shut up and perhaps, just maybe, LEARN something, then that’s all we’re left with, ESPECIALLY when it comes to the sanctity of our institutions of learning. 

These asshats my have the liberty of spewing their mental venom in a church, calling it some message of Jesus, but they DO NOT get to push their propaganda off as dogma in SCHOOLS. Picketing and barring these jerksocks from the doors of education should be a major priority, and I support the students who barred Coulter from Berkeley. Freedom of Speech is NOT a right that extends past the government versus the citizen. As far as I can tell, the students spoke. They got off their asses and charged to the gates to protect their institution from the infection of what can only be seen as “anti-education” and I applaud them for it. 

Moreover, it’s time to stop treating Millennials as if THEY are the problem here. They are reacting to a world left to them by Generation X and the Baby Boomers. This token-trophy world they’ve been handed has only conveyed that there’s no point in trying because no matter how much effort you apply, everyone gets the same reward. They DO NOT LIKE IT. They’re fighting back the best they can, and what makes the Gen-Xers and the Boomers talk smack about them is the simple fact that they’re the ones the Millennials are protesting against for handing them a world much shittier than the one they had before them. They KNOW that the way things are going now it’s only a matter of time before they experience their own KENT STATE MASSACRE.