Daily Mood Quote
Day 88 – July 30, 2011
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
~Les Brown
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
~Marsha Sinetar
Another disappointing week, on Thursday my husband received an e-mail, not a phone call (cowards) saying he was no longer a candidate for a job he had an in-person interview for, a week earlier. Yes, this was the job he had to “sign-off” on for a credit check, to get the interview. Yes, this was also the job that “claimed” they wouldn’t “do” a credit check, unless they offered him a job. No job offer, a credit check was done... typical...immoral, unethical, but typical. Shame on you, because you just lost the hardest working, most honest, educated, intelligent and talented person you could ever find to work for your company. I wonder if Warren Buffet would approve of these hiring practices? I have also wondered if Donald Trump, a man who has filed bankruptcy himself-several times, has ever turned away a good employee candidate, because they have had hard, or unfortunate times? Just a question.
I can tell you when someone in the family suffers a disappointment, it affects everyone in the family and it takes sometime to get over it. Especially when you have the education, experience, intelligence, talent and drive, but you can't catch a break because of your credit score. Hard to believe that our society has found a way to pre-judge people, make assumptions (we all know what a-s-s-u-m-e means) and use irrelevant personal information against someone. Studies have shown repeatedly, credit rating cannot predict job performance. Yet, it continues to be a HR screening tool. If I didn't know better, I would think we were all back in high school. Wow, what a flashback .. “not happy Bob, not happy at all” (thanks The Incredibles). In my personal opinion human resources people - departments are just about the worst thing to ever happen to the business world. The first, depends on who you are and your situation. For us, the worst are small minded, business people who lie, or claim to be experts (accountants) and then sell you a bill of goods and Famuzzled (fa-muzz-l-ed, my husband has stronger words,but we won't use them) up your taxes. Don't even get me started....
All right, maybe I am being a little harsh, but everybody needs to vent, this is me venting, or hopefully making enough of a point to change things. I really don't like the way businesses do business anymore. Yesterday, on the CBS News with Scott Pelley (Bob Schieffer was filling in) there was a news report on the four newly elected politicians from South Carolina, discussing their votes on the debt plan. I found myself having respect for these four “Renegade Republicans” for standing their ground and not letting Washington get away with “business as usual” “the wheeling and dealing for a vote.” Maybe some companies can follow the examples of these Renegade Republicans and hire the right people and not “paper-perfect”, or worthless relatives for the job. Bad things happen to good people all the time. Why would someone want to continue to cause bad things to happen to others by not giving them a opportunity? What have we previously said about the universe? “What goes around, comes around!” Look out.
In the movie Major League, Ricky Vaughn (played by Charlie Sheen) said to Lou Brown (James Gammon), “I got news for you Mr. Brown, you haven't heard the last of me. You may think I'm shit now, but someday you're gonna be sorry you cut me. I'm gonna catch on somewhere else and every time that I pitch against you I'm gonna stick it up you're f@#$%^' a**!” OK, you get the point. In the movie Dave, President “Dave” (played by Kevin Kline) says to a room full of press reporters, “If you've ever seen the look on somebody's face the day they finally get a job, I've had some experience with this, they look like they could fly. And its not about the paycheck, it's about respect, it's about looking in the mirror and knowing that you've done something valuable with your day. And if one person could start to feel this way, and then another person, and then another person, soon all these other problems may not seem so impossible. You don't really know how much you can do until you, stand up and decide to try.” People are trying, now companies and organizations need to try too.
Who will you give a “second chance” to today?
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