fuck this job.com

I teach ESL - English as a Second Language - and I returned from Asia to hopefully support myself while continuing my education at my hometown uni. on a small, nacho-chip shaped island on the east coast of Canada.

My first move was, obviously, to apply to work at the university where I was to study, and I was treated like pure pond scum. It was the most belittling, infuriating job hunting experience I ever had.

First off, I called back from Europe where I was doing a backpacker's honeymoon with my wife of 2 months, and the response was decidedly ambiguous. The person in charge of the uni. ESL department was critical of my credentials (note - ESL credentials are largely unregulated, so there are TONS of different licencing outfits trying to cash in on Asian students with $$), and used terminology different from where I had picked up my ESL certificate to downplay my knowledge.

Fine enough - we set up an interview for when I was to return. THIS is where the hell started - the BITCH kept me waiting FOR AN ENTIRE hour, was discouraging and disparaging of my YEARS of experience, said she only takes a certain ESL certification, which even she doesn't have and which I found out later was bullshit, as she has hired friends who don't have it. Anyway, she was *nice* enough to put me on the waiting list for jobs.

I was SO ANGRY the whole weekend I couldn't relax, and actually called her Monday to say take me off the list, as I couldn't imagine working for someone so discouraging, negative, and just plain rude. It took all my willpower not to call her a cunty cunty cunt when she said she was sorry I has gotten that impression, though she couldn't figure out where.

Where do these people get off, thinking that by granting an interview they are doing us some big favor which gives them the right to act like arrogant pricks?? Part of the reason I stayed away from private industry (where my two brothers slave in a computer company) was in the hope of some maturity or humanity among 'enlightened' university types. Guess what - arseholes are arseholes, regardless of education.

I just had a funny experience - a WONDERFUL telephone job interview for a position I want at a different uni. where the people were kind, courteous, and actually called me fantastic!! I nearly cried with relief because it was so different from the horrendous experience I had before.

So there is hope out there. Good luck to you all, and don't be afraid to tell assholes off - there are better things out there if you don't give up hope and keep looking.