The joys of being rehired

[KLin]

I dunno. I've never gone back to work for the same company after leaving.

 

[sdifox]

Wait until you get re-fired

 

[nakedfrog]

This time... from a cannon!

 

[IBMJunkman]

Wait until you get re-fired

Better than being refried

 

[BoomerD]

Working out of the union hall, there were several times I’d work for a company, get laid off, then a while later, get re-dispatched to them…sometimes the same job, sometimes a different one.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I left my county position one time to work for a small city and was so freakin bored I asked the county to rehire me after 3 months. Well when the small town hired me, they hired me at a higher class, so when the county offered me my position, I told them I'd take it if they matched the salary. The county matched and I stayed with the county for another 15 years!

 

[KLin]

I worked for the government once. IRS service center in Fresno as a data transcriber for the 1997 tax season. I only did it for one season. It sucked.

 

[Charmonium]

When I was in grad school, I worked the 1980 US Census. The thing that surprised me is how paranoid people were.

There were also racial overtones. Spanish-language people always wanted to be put down as "white" not Hispanic. It's not too hard to guess why - if the census showed white people in the neighborhood, that area might get better treatment.

I went along with it since they were probably right and I sort of considered it a distinction with only a de minimis difference. Most of the people I spoke with had fairly fair pigmentation.

My mom's family is Italian but they're from northern Italy so they're very fair - mom had auburn hair and freckles. She could easily pass for Irish.

But once you get down into southern Italy and Sicily, significant pigmentation is more the rule.

BTW, did you know that light-skinned humans only appeared about 3000 years ago?

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