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- From: larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings)
- Subject: Re: nkill
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.173942.6030@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph
- References: <thurlow.720993030@convex.convex.com> <MARTINC.92Nov16111544@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:39:42 GMT
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- In article <MARTINC.92Nov16111544@grover.cs.unc.edu>, martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- >
- > Okay, I see what you're saying ...but one can't be surprized then that
- > after being in a system that *claims* that the precise numerical score
- > is the sole criterion, people who find themselves at a numerical
- > disadvantage because of some other criterion resent the hell out of it.
-
- This is a little off the subject of minorities but I must agree with Charles
- about the resentment. While I was in the Navy, I was what is refered to as
- a Rate-Climber (Basically that is someone who gets promoted every time they
- take the test) and in two years I made Second Class (E-5). With all advantages
- added in that is about the earliest you can make E-5 and the policy was: You
- had to have a certain time in pay grade for advancement and time in service
- was not a factor. To make paygrade E-6 I needed 2 years as an E-5, but just
- as I became elligibile for E-6 they decided that they had too many E-6's that
- were too young, so they changed the rules to make it more difficult for young
- E-5's to make E-6. First they prevented us from taking the test until we
- had 6 years time in service, then when I was again elligible to take the test
- they added a new feature:
- If A has over 8 years TIS (time in service) he must make test score X.
- If B has less that 8 years TIS but qualifies by TIR (time in rate) then
- he must make test score X + Y.
-
- I took the test 3 times under these new rules, and every time made X+
- but not X + Y, then on the fourth time I did make X + Y, but didn't have the
- time left in service to recieve my promotion (I missed by one month). That
- was one of the reasons I got out of the Navy.
-
- BTW, the test covered every aspect of the job requirements, the problem was
- they had too many people who had been in ten years and could not make the
- rate, and were getting too many young people in positions of power, and we
- had ideas on ways to improve things. We had not been in long enough to be
- brainwashed, or decide "it's just not worth the effort to attempt change".
-
-
- > --
- > Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
-
- Larry Billings
-