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That just about covers it except for one
small item you might still be wondering about: the mysterious eighth paragraph.
I have said already that in seven paragraphs out of eight I am accused of not
following the curriculum. What about the eighth paragraph?
In this paragraph Henning describes my very
first day of work, going over how I was shown filing cabinets full of material
including worksheets, old tests, blueprints, etc. It happens to be the longest
paragraph of the entire letter, and yet it doesn’t include any particular
complaints against me. So what is it
doing in my letter of rejection?
The eighth paragraph purports to show that
the College provided me with all the resources I needed to do my job: which is
to say, they basically shoved me in front of a filing cabinet and said “Knock
yourself out”. But oddly enough, in the long itenerary of resource materials
listed by Henning, there is one item conspicuously absent: a copy of the
apprenticeship curriculum! I became aware of this deficiency in November and
immediately wrote my supervisor requesting that one be provided. Selwin ignored
my request; or to be more precise, he first said that he would get it for me,
later said there were complications (what happened is that Murray actually
freaked out when he heard I was asking after the curriculum!), and finally never followed up at all, which
was typical behavior on his part. (Everyone who has ever worked with Selwin
knows this is true.) The ultimate irony is that the very curriculum which I am
accused of not following is a curriculum which the College wouldn’t give me.
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