OT: Letter from my cousin

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]My cousin sent me an article that had been written about her in the ]Pleasantton Weekly. East of Oakland and Berkeley. Near Livermore.

how cool!

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You found it. You're a very cool article yourself.

Tina

*blush* Aw shucks!!!!!

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Marisa Cappetta :

]I love to hear about woman pioneering in industry. Brook's mum was the ]first lady mayor of our city council.

my cousin was the first female chief of police in the whole state where she lives..

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Carol in SLC) :

]>my cousin was the first female chief of police in the whole state where she ]lives..< ] ]Awesome!!!!

well, we thought so! **grin**

if her officers take longer than 3 minutes to respond to a call, she personally calls and apologizes. what a concept!

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personally calls and apologizes. what a concept!<

And one, I daresay, that wouldn't have even occurred to a man!

Carol in SLC My eBay auctions:

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Marisa Cappetta :

]That's so cool!!

*grin* she and the whole family thought so. what she had to get the job - - unreal.

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]Sounds like an interesting story

oh - sorry about that. i've been out of town for the last 4+ days.

there were three applicants for the job. the other two were men, naturally. the Chief gave each person the job for three months. then gave the job permanently to her, because she proved she could do it better, to the satisfaction of most of the rest of the force. he had wanted to give her the job to start with, but there were several people who were leery about a female Chief of Police. she's had specialized training all over the country. but there were some diehards. she did SO much better a job, they finally had to give in.

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I wish we could all get our jobs this way: by proving how well we can do them, by actually *doing* them for a while.

Lots of people would never get hired for the job that wasn't right for them, and lots of people who *are* right for the job would get them in spite of being the wrong gender, color, or lacking paper credentials.

I love the way females finally broke into world-class orchestras not too many decades ago, btw. The only way the prejudice of the 'diehards' was overcome was through 'blind auditions' ... where the people making the hiring decisions couldn't see who was playing. They could only hear them play.

Suddenly some women were 'good enough' after all.

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.combuybeads (BeckiBead) :

]I did this with my medical transcription job.

i sort-of did, too. what i wanted was legal transcription. what i got was medical. but i'm a quick study.

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