Cultural Competence

Okay so RantWoman likes getting email answered on some finite time horizon. Okay, so even though RantWoman is happy to work with email, not everyone is and the job posting should list a phone number that gets an actual human, not just a job line, especially one that is going to chirp for half a millenium about how the organization strives to achieve "cultural competence."

When neither of these funny cultural fixations obtains, RantWoman would prefer not to have to dig through several layers of website to find the main get-in-the-door phone number. RantWoman also can always be annoyed by job postings which require a driver's license and by organizational representatives who find it unfathomable that anyone a. might not drive and b. might have the temerity to think he or she can meet the other demands of the job description without driving. Just watch!

On top of all this RantWoman is still crazy enough to want to work for this organization so she hopes SOMEONE calls back.


Cut! Cut! Cut!
A very chagrined RantWoman wishes to apologize: RantWoman sent the email inquiry to the WRONG email domain. RantWoman will now work more politely on her own cultural competence.

RantWoman will also reflect on the fact that this is the sort of mistake it is very easy for RantWoman to make. Unfortunately, it is easy for a couple other people RantWoman knows and would love to rely on to also make and it is a problem for them for the same reasons it is a problem for RantWoman: ill-behaving eyeballs.

RantWoman should know better than to expect her eyeballs to work. RantWoman should make the screen reader read her anything important just to make sure she gets all the details. Sure. This is SO tedious and the art of parsing details or stopping the screen reader and making it go letter by letter so interminable. Can anyone imagine why people would not do this?