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Ok, I’ll be quick & straight forward here, boys n’ girls. I mean, even conservative readers should be smart enough to get this. Once more, with feeling. Sara Landriault: not qualified for civil service; must start at the bottom of the ladder like the rest of us mere mortals, be they black, white, aboriginal, woman, man, able bodied, disabled, yellow with purple polka dots.
Now she’s pulling a Steve and doing photo-ops. She’s complaining that media interviews are taking up her time. Here’s a tip, Sara, stop giving interviews to the media , stop crying on Brian Lilley-white’s shoulder and spend more time looking for a job; just might be crazy enough to work: stores, fast food and coffee shops ALWAYS looking for people. I know! How’s about being a Nanny? You said you liked kids. Or is that too good for your lilly whiteness?? Who the hell do you think you are that someone clearly uneducated, unskilled and inexperienced should be hired over someone else (no matter what colour they are) who is qualified? You’re a fine one to talk, princess! Go back to school; take a training program. Upgrade your skills & stop your fucking snivelling!!!!!!! There, that was easy.
Once again, with feeling. Wanna know when affirmative action will end? When shrieking conbots and princesses like you stop bitching about it and rednecks like Brian Lilley-white and Redneck Ryan Doyle stop bitching about it in the media!
Hopefully, I won’t have to post about you anymore, unless more stupidity comes out of your camp again. Start by applying at fast food, stores, coffee shop or domestic, or is your whiteness too above those jobs?
Here’s a job for Sara, altho, it is in Iceland, where everything is white as snow. But first the face that sold Iceland’s frozen foods is gone, because she was caught “snorting drugs”. *snerk* Here’s her face:
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/iceland-severs-contract-with-kerry-katona/3003535.article
“That’s why Moms go to Iceland!”
Here’s the new ad: Iceland looks for ordinary customers to front ads
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/iceland-looks-for-ordinary-customers-to-front-ads/3009682.article
Of course the uncanny resemblance to Sawa may be a whole nother challenge. Hee.
I live near Ottawa and several of my neighbours work for the federal government. They have made it quite clear that the public service commission will not hire anyone who does not have some sort of post-secondary education.
ck Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Thank you Jeff! I was waiting for a commenter to explain qualifications to the civil service to all those crying reverse racism
Or to look at it another way…
Regardless of where one stands on affirmative action quotas, just from a self-marketing point of view what Sara is doing is actually pretty savvy. She’s combined a political issue with her own personal narrative, and by doing so has gotten the media interested in something as mundane as the story of a job search. She’ll get more networking mileage out of this in one day than she would grinding out resumes for weeks on end. I don’t know if it was done by design or if she just stumbled into the situation, but I admire her chutzpah for running with it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she had a job out of this little manoeuvre within the month. Employers like people who aren’t afraid to go for the gusto.
ck Reply:
July 24th, 2010 at 8:59 AM
JJ, you’re probably right. I was thinking the same thing. Just unfair though. I don’t she would get a job in the federal civil service though. Honestly, she wouldn’t be smart enough to pass the skills tests and like commenter Jeff says, post secondary education of some kind is required.
I’m a civil servant, as you know, for the Quebec Government; dept. of Health and social services. I had to present diplomas and certificates to prove my accreditations. I had to pass skills tests to be admin agent. Two software and one typing speed. And that’s just to be what they call a replacement work (although, this replacement job has lasted longer than some of my permanent positions). If I want to apply for a permanent position (when one opens I think I’m qualified for, I will apply, naturally), I will have to pass a French written, which I hear is quite difficult. But will I whine and go to the media about it? No, I am going to hire a tutor to help me improve for advanced grammar and such that I would need to successfully pass the test.
But you’re right, she’ll more than likely land herself a job from some employer who shares the same ideology as she and Brian Lilley.
Jeff is mostly right. There are some fed. gov. jobs that require only high school, but of those, most demand you pass several skill tests. Then there are often language requirements. Then there’s usually a judgemental test (situational test).
Then, of course, there’s the interview, usually three people firing questions at you, and they sure as hell won’t be asking you which diaper stays dry longest.
Departments don’t just randomly decide to hire certain groups. They are under a lot of pressure to meet employment equity standards, standards set in legislation by Parliament. Departments are accountable to Parliament. Every year, the Public Service Commission audits departments on their hiring practices and reports their findings to Parliament. Then Parliament, through committees, kicks ass and says, guys, you’ve come short, do something about it before next year.
So Landriault it bitching at the wrong people. If she really believes having a representative workforce is discriminatory, she should write to the Senate Committee on Human Rights and tell them they should change legislation.
One last thing – competions all have multiple criteria. Some can have language considerations (hey, can I scream discrimination because DFAIT had a psoting for people who speak Arabic?), writing skills of different levels, various education requirements, various types of experience including how many years were spent doing a certain type of job…so for these jobs designated for vis. mins, that’s just one criteria and it is necessary in order to give a more representative public service. Much as we like to think all people are treated equally, they aren’t, so the fed. gov. had to take that into account, which is why Parliament passed legislation implementing EE in the public service employment act.
If Landriault wasn’t so dumb-ass lazy, she could read that for herself on the PSC site.