samtheyank wrote:
Don't feel bad! I am fluent in both German and English. When they needed someone to speak the language, they always would give the job to another person. I worked as an intern for a major corporation. The first time around it was a great job that I enjoyed because I was really using my sk**ls. The second year the company wanted to prove they supported Civil Rights by allowing a young Black Man to work in the department who had two years of German in high school. He could not read or write German anymore than a First Grader. He could only say a few phrases like Fu$$ You or go to Hell. These were cutesy phrases that he learned from his friends. We found out later that he had gotten a D in his first semester class and flunked the second semester. Nobody ever checked his background nor did any of his teachers recommend him for the job. I had to do the work of two people and made sure that none of his screwups got past the department. He couldn't even covert pounds into metric equivalents and vice versa. He had no idea how to look at the values of other currencies and convert the values to equal dollars. We did this kind of stuff when I was in Elementary School. The department got through the summer w/o too many errors. The Third Year, if you were given a Senior Internship, you were usually offered a job and started in lower management with a nice starting salary. I kind of expected to get that position, but was denied and it was given to that Black Man. I was offered another year as an intern in the same department because my Boss knew he needed me to keep the lid from blowing off the pot. Since the Black Man was the Senior Intern, he was my boss. I took it all in stride. We were about two weeks into the Spring when we had to fix all the prices and get the invoices out to our foreign vendors. The Senior Intern pretty much was responsible for all the groundwork. B*****e could not speak, read or write German. He was in a boat load of manure and didn't even know it. Since he was my boss, I did pretty much everything he told me to do as his subordinate. I knew most of what he did was wrong. I carefully documented everything and made sure my butt was covered to the hilt. The first piece of crap that hit the fan was a memo and an invoice that was sent to one of our major suppliers. The memo was written in both English and German. Nothing was spelled correctly in German and half the English was written on the Third Grade Level. The main man from the supplier end of the company called The President of the Company and wanted to know what in the hell was going on this side of the pond. The financial calculations were all wrong. The next three weeks s**t really hit the fan. They tried to place the blame on me, but I didn't have the rank. I told the head boss I had all the documentation. All the arrows pointed to our Senior Intern. They didn't fire him, but they should have committed that act. He was demoted from a Senior Intern and placed in the Mailroom as a clerk. I came to find out that his Mom worked in Human Resources and was very instrumental in getting her son that position. This was the main reason why he got the job. She was later removed and fired from her job and her son was never heard from again. She tried to sue the company for discrimination, but it was to no avail. At the end of the summer, I was offered the Senior Clerk's position, but I told the boss to politely stick it up his ass. After I graduated from college, I worked at Sears and went on to join the Marine Corp. The best thing I ever did as a man.
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