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radiorahim
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posted 26 November 2005 01:25 AM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Its nice to see the Liberals are dedicated to improving the living standards of Canadians.

They're hiring Financial Administration Clerks (part-time of course!)

According to the website...the qualifications!

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Required qualifications include:

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Bilingualism, both oral and written
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Good eye for detail
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Excellent keyboarding skills
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Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Office based applications
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Excellent interpersonal skills
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Strong written communications skills

Recommended qualifications include:

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Ability to work with minimum supervision
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Ability to work flexible hours on an as needed basis
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Internet research skills
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Applied experience in an accounting environment


And now...the McWages....

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$9.00 to $11.00 per hour subject to skills and experience.

Wonder what kind of experience they want for that extra two bucks an hour? Does it include hauling wheel barrows full of cash off to Liberal friendly ad agencies?

the ad

[ 26 November 2005: Message edited by: radiorahim ]


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Fidel
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posted 26 November 2005 02:52 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
They can't seriously expect anyone to work downtown for less than $14 bucks an hour ?. Gawd, those bastards. They obviously don't intend the new clerks to afford taxi fare to any of their wild, blood-on-the-carpet parties.
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obscurantist
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posted 26 November 2005 03:43 AM      Profile for obscurantist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
My first paying job, following a three-day stint in door-to-door sales, was as a phone poller for the BC Liberals in the '96 provincial election. I don't know how commonly parties do this, but they basically hired just about anyone who applied to work at the job for minimum wage. The party contracted the work out to an ad agency, which hired the pollers, who worked on a floor of a Howe Street office building that was borrowed / rented from the forestry company Macmillan Bloedel.

The pollers were people from across the political spectrum. Some were apolitical, some supported the Liberals, some the NDP, some the Greens (I was leaning NDP but ended up voting Green), and some supported the PDA, the vanity party of former Liberal leader Gordon Wilson.

We called people across the province from this one central location. I suspect this might be a common practice, as last May I received a call asking if I was planning to vote for the NDP candidate in a riding on the other side of the province. But as a practice, it has its drawbacks. We appeared to be duplicating volunteer efforts that were taking place at the local level, we knew nothing about the candidates we were calling on behalf of, and many or even most of us didn't particularly want the Liberals to win.

There wasn't much in the way of supervision, either, so if I can put it tactfully, some people were perhaps not entirely diligent in doing their jobs professionally or recording information accurately (with motives ranging from simple laziness to reflexive rebelliousness to active subversion), although I did see one person get fired for using the phone too much for her own personal use.

As it was, the race turned out to be extremely close, with the BC Liberals getting 3% more of the popular vote than the NDP, but with the NDP winning several seats by a very narrow margin to end up with one seat more than a bare majority. In my more grandiose moments, I like to think that I played a role in the operation that (unintentionally) lost the Liberals the election. But then I think that (a) this doesn't reflect very well on my work skills, and (b) it means I'm indirectly responsible for Glen Clark's three-year reign of error, so I wisely keep quiet (most of the time).

It was a fascinating job. Mainly, I got a sense of the deep antipathy toward both the incumbent and opposition parties, and their leaders in particular, and of how evenly divided people were about who was the most odious. Still, if I were running an operation like that, I think I'd at least try to verify that the people I was hiring were party supporters.

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posted 26 November 2005 10:03 AM      Profile for Privateer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by obscurantist:
It was a fascinating job. Mainly, I got a sense of the deep antipathy toward both the incumbent and opposition parties, and their leaders in particular, and of how evenly divided people were about who was the most odious. Still, if I were running an operation like that, I think I'd at least try to verify that the people I was hiring were party supporters

Maybe not necessarily political supporters but at least the calls and data should be monitored. A good reason to keep things like this inhouse or at least with a very like-minded company.


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