Lying is not nice

Perhaps given the situation it can't be classed as lying, merely, the removal of aspects of the truth that would lead the individual being lied to to establish an idea and consider the event to be different to what truely is the factual case.

Long winded, yes, but I likes me semantics.

I didn't get the Wellington Hospital job - that nursing new grad programme I applied for.

This doesn't piss me off in the slightest.

A societal lack of respect for the dignity of life is what rips the crotch right out of my undies. I"M LOOKING AT YOU VIRGINIA OR HOWEVER THE FUCK YOU SPELL YOUR CRUMMY STATE'S NAME!! YOU AND YOUR DIRTY PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION PROCEDURE WHICH YOU UNBANNED!!

Bastards.

Back to the job.

At the interview, I inquired as to the number of applicants and number of job placements. I was told that there were not enough applicants this time round and too many openings. In the reject letter I recieved today, soaked in the rain - perhaps an ominous sign, it said "sorry, too many applicants and not enough places".

Is it a lie? Or can employers get away with bending the truth?

I had a suspision i wouldn't be getting the job when I realised my referances hadn't been called.

I would like to know why I didn't get the job, given my grades are pretty decent, I've had 4 years part time experience in an elder hospital and unlike the influx of Asians with english as a second lanaugage, I can speak clearly, understand gramma and when writing nursing notes you wouldn't think I was at all dyslexic!

So I will be ringing these fellows and asking why not me, if only so I can know for next time what I did or didn't do right.

I am more annoyed that I blew $300 on my hair for that interview so I wouldn't look like some hobo bag lady.

Where to from now? I will apply to mental health jobs, and a few other hospitals I know in the greater Wellington area, and if I dont' get a job, I will go back to Uni and finish my Classics BA, which will only take me a term to do - so then I can apply for the new grad programmes at private hospitals next Jan.

What is of nusiance is the fact there is a huge nurses shortage. And yet, here I am, a person with a bachelors of nursing degree, and will be registered in July (my lectuerers have all said the rego exam is so easy, a homeless guy with a pick axe in his head could pass), and with good grades, a wide range of education, experience in elder hospitals and an all round love of the disturbingly bloody, you'd think I'd be first on the list of employer's perferances.

But hey, if they don't want me, well, that sucks for them. If I get knocked back too many times, well, why stay in NZL? I'll just leave.

One less nurse in NZL, right?

Hope you pay attention to our movements, Politicans. Most of the peeps in my class will be flying out the day they get their rego results.