As if I didn't have enough to do today, I tried to put in for that new job, found out it wouldn't let me...according to the computer I don't have the right job experience for the position.
WHAT?!!!
Called HR and found out that they don't have at typing test score for me and they have to make certain that I can type 15...yes, FIFTEEN words a minute in order to be okayed for the job.
That's just plain laughable. I'm a SLOW typist at 55 wpm. But now I have to haul my butt downtown and take a typing test to appease their bloody little souls.
And, even if I could find the all-important paper that showed the results of my test before I landed my last job at the U, (which, btw, required a typing speed of 20 wpm) it would be out of date and I'd still have to take the thing again. I'll be so pissed when I take it, I'll be lucky to get 30 wpm.
It's asinine. There's no problem that I can stick people of all ages with needles, have the knowledge to collect tests that will help them get well, or diagnose what has made them ill; I can teach phlebotomy to other people at the college level and train new staff.
But I have to prove I can type as fast as someone should be typing after week two in Typing I?
Fucking ridiculous.
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What does typing have to do with being a good vamp? I know i'm not the brightest bulb in the box but i'm not making that connection....
Fifteen words a minute? Geez.
At least you don't have to worry about passing.
Maybe they're really long words. ;~)
I hate stuff like this, too, Kate.
xoxo
Trace - We have a certain amount of computer work that we must know in order to get by. Most of it is a "by rote" sort of system to cancel tests for various reasons. It involves some three letter codes, and the ability to type a nurse's name in a space. Duhhhhh.
Robin - like, for example, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
(Is that stuck in your head now? *grin*)
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