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The Library => The SGA => Topic started by: Kaos on September 12, 2008, 11:19:33 AM

Title: 143 Days
Post by: Kaos on September 12, 2008, 11:19:33 AM
Nice email I just got:

 

The first time I  read this quote, I thought it was dangerously true. Then  I really started pondering it  and thought how would this apply to our own lives/careers?   Let's look at it  again to see how absurd it is.

 


*   You couldn't get a job at McDonalds and become district  manager after 143 days of experience.

*   You couldn't   become chief of  surgery after 143  days of experience of being a surgeon.

*   You couldn't get a job as  a teacher and be the  superintendent after
143 days of experience.

*   You couldn't join  the military and become a colonel after a 143 days of  experience.

* You couldn't start work at a Fortune 500 company as an account executive and be promoted to CEO after 143 days of experience

*   You couldn't get a job as a reporter and become the nightly  news anchor after 143 days of experience. BUT....

*   'From the time Barack  Obama was sworn  in as a United  State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential    exploratory committee, he  logged 143 days of experience in the Senate.

*   That's how many days the  Senate was actually in session and working.

*   After 143 days of work  experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader  of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln,FDR, JFK and Ronald  Reagan. 143 days?

We all have to start  somewhere. The senate is a good start, but after 143 days, that's all it  is - a  start.

AND, strangely, a large  sector of the American public seems to feel comfortable with this and  are campaigning for him.

We wouldn't accept this in  our own line of work, yet some are OK with this for the President  of the  United States of America?

Come on folks, we are not voting for the  next American  Idol.
 
Title: Re: 143 Days
Post by: Tarheel on September 12, 2008, 05:20:30 PM
Well...well...well...The Obama is all about change and hope...and hope and change!  Who cares about experience?


Great post Kaos; I'll have to forward that as an email to some folk.
Title: Re: 143 Days
Post by: Townhallsavoy on September 12, 2008, 05:54:25 PM
Well, it's time we change that. 

Why shouldn't a teacher become superintendent after 143 days?  That's discrimination.

Why shouldn't a new employee become CEO after 143 days?  That's not right. 

It's time for a change. 
Title: Re: 143 Days
Post by: Tarheel on September 12, 2008, 05:55:13 PM
Well, it's time we change that. 

Why shouldn't a teacher become superintendent after 143 days?  That's discrimination.

Why shouldn't a new employee become CEO after 143 days?  That's not right. 

It's time for a change. 

And hope.