...today is New Year's Eve. Amateur Night for the commoners.
In an ongoing saga that is the 2010 Captain's Test we have now entered the boggy ground of speculation. There has been lawsuits, game-changes, the decimation of the world supply of sodium bicarb in the form of Tum's, complaints (well... that is day to day firefighter homeostasis so nothing to judge this by, in reality), changes to the test, inaccurate materials to study, the requirement for me to figure out what a cockloft was without actually using the word "cock" at work (It is an attic.). A review that is a two-part review that requires you to make an appointment with a person that doesn't answer their phone and separated by a major highway and the requirement to feed a meter to challenge a question.
And now cheating. If we can fit a murder in there and a high speed car chase it would make a fairly entertaining novel. No. No, it wouldn't....
Sitting in the comfortable spot I am in on the list I am still subjected to torture. Everywhere I go I hear in various phrasing, "Wow! Congrats! You did great!!! I hear they are going to throw the test out." Then the discussions begin and I am forced to smile politely and graciously pretend that I am not speeding toward the Insanity Event Horizon.
A friend sent this to me as an interesting read by the usually pleasingly liberal Village Voice.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-12-15/news/fdny-extrance-exam-non-white-hiring/
6 page read. Nothing else going on until it is time to start reading for the re-take of this Captain's Exam.
Next on the blog list is How Can You Be In Charge If You Can't Run The Dictionary?
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