Re: Origin of Old Hickory

["Tom Harais" <tjhemh@domain.elided>]

John:

> Nowadays you
> would probably be required to pass a spelling test before being selected
to
> go on an expedition!


No! No! No!.

This was a government expedition. If it's civil service (as I currently am)
 you would be required to posess an MPA, submit your application on the
approved govenrmental unit's forms along with your resume' and a
supplmental questionaire. It would be at least four months before they
called you in for your first interview and they would act as judge, jury
and executioner never giving any thought as to whether you might want to
turn down the expedition after the interview.

After another four months, they would call you back for a second interview.
If they should select you at that point, they would have to send paperwork
for approval to the Affirmative Action office as well as to OMB. They'd
have some clerk call all your references and they'd have you go to their
approved doctor for a drug test. After the AA and OMB folks had stamped
their seals of approval, they would need the GM's signature for making you
the offer which would take at least six months from submission to return to
the hiring manager. Of course, you would still not know you'd been
selected, as they couldn't tell you until all the "paperwork" was out of
the way.

By then, the British would have already swarmed down from Canada and siezed
the territory and the expedition would have been called off.

Now, instead of offering the job to you to go on the expedition, the U.S.
Governement would take the "short cut" and draft you into the army so they
could send you off to fight for this Jeffersonian concept known as
"manifest destiny" against the British regulars, who would join forces with
the natives and send you off to meet your maker.

Tom H.