theweaselking | Aug. 21st, 2006

Aug. 21st, 2006

Watertown, NY sunday school teacher fired for being female.

Also,
Worst Theme Park Ever -and its closing was a triumph of the personal injury lawsuit in the USA, sadly enough, because the safety regulations insisted that the constant parade of injuries and deaths were perfectly normal.

Also,
For those who weren't clear on it before, the service to name a star after yourself? Not associated with the people who actually name stars, meaning the only people who'll ever use the name you bought are the company you bought it from.

Also,
American FDA approves bacteriophage viruses as food additive.

For the librarians reading.

AP study reveals that not only are the US Armed Forces so desperate for manpower that they're ignoring criminal records and not discharging rapists, but that they're giving the rapists jobs as recruiters

In the last YEAR, the combined armed forces have had to discipline more recruiters than in any previous DECADE.

For the record? Do that math, as one of the commenters did. One case of misconduct for every two recruiters.

EDIT: Yes, I got my stats crossed. Thanks, Kevin.

For the record: Anything in square brackets, I have edited to protect both myself and the guilty. Nothing *in* square brackets was present in the original, and all square brackets indicate something removed from the original. All spelling and grammar errors, however, are as appeared in the original email communications.

( A cut, wherein I am amused by bad recruiters, and attempt to politely make them dance for my amusement. )

Now, really, can you think of WORSE ways to try to hire a professional, or to come across as professionals yourselves?

Of course, they're not trying to hire professionals. They're trying to hire desperate kiddies who clean up well enough to go door-to-door and abuse the deregulation of energy in the province to the destriment of the consumer.

I'm hoping they don't think carefully enough, and email me back again.