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Reminds me of my electrician entrance exam in California. Literally 1 ofn2 white dudes in a room of 50+ spics. Finished first high score. Never got a call.
Oh shit. I hadn't thought about this in years. I took a GED course at the age of 16 to graduate. Didn't want to just drop out, right?
I got THE highest score in the entire city. I know because at the graduation ceremony, the guy on stage mentions the highest score. It was my exact score. 676/800 (I sucked at social studies). I thought they were going to bring me on stage after announcing it, but then they immediately brought up a middle aged black lady instead... to commend her on trying (and failing) to pass the test three times. "Hang in there, Shaniqua! Everybody give her a hand!"
It was kind of a kick in the balls for my welcome into adulthood! lol
Also took GED at 16. After being failed twice in two years in HS. 93rd precentile. Yea I wasnt an idiot. I just hated public school.
I remember the last year I attended a full year of school. Grade 8. New kid in class 2/3 of the way through the year in a school that was better than the ones I was going to, and I wasn't really paying attention anymore. I got the highest mark in my math class, an 86%.
I was in the top of my LPN class and they gave honor graduate to a chick that had a lower grade point than me that cried after every test. The state certification left me in shock and awe. She must have lost it.
Well, duh. Nurses crying on command are what they're looking for. She's probably a better dancer too! https://files.catbox.moe/dsguox.jpeg
I dropped out of school a week before my 16th birthday. I took 2 years off from school, worked at a grocery store etc, and moved to a different state. I took the GED and scored better than 70-80% of high school grads, and I was fucking awful at math. I didn't even have classes at school for some of the math on the test, so I'd just guess.
I didn't know whether to feel proud and smug at scoring higher than most grads, or feel sad and a bit scared that most of them scored so low.
LOL. Same! I was really surprised rather than proud I scored the highest. GED, otherwise known as the "good enough diploma".
It was just surreal how juxtaposed their focus was as they immediately shifted from "best score? nah." to "congratulate this dummy, folks!".
Maybe that's white privilege they talk about? Are they mad that some of us are faster learners?
It's sad.
mex cant read or do math. You probably scored 30 points higher than them.
Let me guess and that despite that those tests came in Spanish too.
Fuck soon the only version will be Spanish, and you will be forbidden to learn the language because muh appropriation and still get more points than them.
They are not sending their best.
not in 1987 it didnt, yet
They don't pick the highest because you are "over qualified". Which officially means they think you will move on after a short while because you have more options open to your employment. We all know that is not really why.
Employers also don't want an employee that can show them up, they also assume you will no be relatable to future colleagues in their employ.
These days you are better off leaving your country, renouncing citizenship, and coming back in an illegal, self-identifying as a nigger faggot.
once adjusted with affirmative action you in fact got the lowest score, you white supremacist
yuuup
Do you have to get selected in order to become an electrician? Is it not possible for anyone who wants to become one?
Some states you havento be licensed. Some states you have to be hired by a union.
Only a certain amount of spots for apprentices. I didnt get in. So I ended up going to college.
Every journeyman license I've taken will only tell you your score if you fail. Can't have any electrical contractors hiring based on merit. It works out well for me though, I have test anxiety and choke when I'm trying to card up in a new state. I'm stupid good at electrical work, I'm about to get a promotion from foreman of almost 30 guys to project manager but I've failed some journeyman tests and had to take the masters 4 times.
I miss using my tools, I got stuffed in an office with an iPad and computer, this shit is annoying.
Can't have any electrical contractors hiring based on merit
Gods I hate unions.
They were a good thing once upon a time but they've outlived their usefulness
managing people is a bitch. I used to hire a new helper every week. Fucking guys cant show up every day and when they do they think its a right to get high before work. On two different occasions some asshole wanted to fight me because I wouldnt let them get high in my van! Another guy got pissed because I drove right by his dealers house on the way home and wouldnt stop. I told him to score drugs in his car on his time.
I got a call last week from one of the other trade's foreman who told me he went into a unit and it stank like weed. He's cool and didn't bring it up to anyone else. Called the little bastards up to my office trailer and sure as shit they smelled like a Cypress Hill concert. Tell them to go home and one is so stoned he thinks I'm firing him. I explained that I'm not firing them but they aren't welcome on site like that. They've been super productive, apologetic and thankful since.
It's like the late ones that keep pushing it, about once a month I randomly pick a day and send everyone home who's even 1 minute late. Little fuckers always confuse kindness with weakness.
Holy shit, how did they not get fired from shit like that?
Just be careful you don't end up being promoted into a position you suck at and can't get back down to where you were last useful.
I'm going back to contracting hopefully, I was happier in my life working for myself. I need to see what happens with our new communist dictator before I make my next move.
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