Got some very bad news today

[Trevor]

I admit that my mentor looked a little shocked when I said I will be taking early retirement in three years.

While we all know you are one heckuva historian, did they really expect you to (figuratively) "lie back and think of England" as they screwed you?

   Apologies Trevor: I am presuming to be incensed on your behalf.

 

They also said I did not answer the questions in the manner that would lead them to think I was a good candidate for the job? One of the questions they asked was "Name the stages of film production" which I challenged, saying that has nothing to to with film archiving but the stages are pre-production, production, post production and release (and we all know that)

No, this was all total BS and my interview was just a box check, nothing more.

[Trevor]

So it's reverse racism? They are over compensating?

Pretty much.  Tit for tat.

I have had it explained to me in recent times that it is not racism unless it is expressed by members of the group in power.  And here it is.   

It is so, unfortunately.

My mentor did tell me that the Chief Director - part of the panel - was very impressed with my knowledge: being impressed by someone's knowledge doesn't put money in my wallet or food on my table.

[RCMerchant]

Are you sure? That's why they did what they did?
Trevor- your my buddy. But I think your reading too much into it.
All jobs want new blood. I worked at a factory for 30 years- I was a foreman too. But they go for young blood.

Not reading too much into it at all: in 1996, all the Caucasian staff members at my work got called in as a group and we were told to our faces that we were, as so called pale males, "undesirable elements" now that apartheid had gone and were told that we either needed to get with the program or leave. I was raised in a non racial household and this made me very angry. I told the senior staffer to go f*** herself as she didn't know me. She ended up leaving "because of work related stress" and I was the only one who stayed.

Some Americans find it hard to accept that the very thing that they want to happen in the United States of America, land of the "free", is considered as racist in other countries. But then again, most uncultured Americans that have never set foot outside of the country except for maybe a trip to Canada to score some stronger beer are even aware of the laws of other countries in the first place.

Your so wise Alaska boy! 

[zelmo73]

Are you sure? That's why they did what they did?
Trevor- your my buddy. But I think your reading too much into it.
All jobs want new blood. I worked at a factory for 30 years- I was a foreman too. But they go for young blood.

Not reading too much into it at all: in 1996, all the Caucasian staff members at my work got called in as a group and we were told to our faces that we were, as so called pale males, "undesirable elements" now that apartheid had gone and were told that we either needed to get with the program or leave. I was raised in a non racial household and this made me very angry. I told the senior staffer to go f*** herself as she didn't know me. She ended up leaving "because of work related stress" and I was the only one who stayed.

Some Americans find it hard to accept that the very thing that they want to happen in the United States of America, land of the "free", is considered as racist in other countries. But then again, most uncultured Americans that have never set foot outside of the country except for maybe a trip to Canada to score some stronger beer are even aware of the laws of other countries in the first place.

Your so wise Alaska boy! 

I have actually traveled to other countries around the world, and not just Canada either.