[Aaron]

That said,

Check out this anecdote.

TACOMA, Wash. - It's a sign of the times that says it all - more than 1,600 people have applied for a single job as a Tacoma water meter reader.

Tacoma Public Utilities says the 1,600 applications were received when the position was advertised, and some 807 people showed up at the Tacoma Dome to take the test.

http://www.komonews.com/news/39498372.html

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

[Novus]

All this proves is how wasteful we are. It probably cost the utility company $100,000+ to process all the applications and tests for one job that pays less than $50,000. The company will never make that money back even if the new hire stays with the company for 40 years.

A real sign of the times was a large job fair that had 20 thousand people attend. The line to get in was 15 hours and wrapped around the stadium. It was very reminiscent of Katrina refugees going to the super dome as a shelter of last resort.

[Daniel_Plainview]

807 people showed up at the Tacoma Dome to take the test.

I've heard from friends that the water-meter reading test is a killer.

[Aaron]

807 people showed up at the Tacoma Dome to take the test.

I've heard from friends that the water-meter reading test is a killer.

[Pops]

anecdote |ˈanikˌdōt|
noun
a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person:

Isolated stories may sway some opinions - but mostly it's when the short story is one's own do behaviors change.


The question is: "Will what you read and research affect your behavior before the anecdote is about you?"

[ReverseEngineer]

anecdote |ˈanikˌdōt|
noun
a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person:

Isolated stories may sway some opinions - but mostly it's when the short story is one's own do behaviors change.


The question is: "Will what you read and research affect your behavior before the anecdote is about you?"

One man's Anecdote is another man's Suicide.

Reverse Engineer

[Tanada]

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

Tears for Fears? I didn't think you were that old Aaron

[Aaron]

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

Tears for Fears? I didn't think you were that old Aaron

And you would be very, very wrong...

I'm 44

There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone

[Tanada]

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

Tears for Fears? I didn't think you were that old Aaron

And you would be very, very wrong...

I'm 44

There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone

Wow that is old, I am only 41 years and 48 weeks

As for Anecdotal ecidence, to get back on topic, to my way of thinking anecdotal usually means embelished and retold eyewitness accounts. The closer you are to the eye/ear witness as your source the more likely the statement is to be near reallity. A lot of times over educated gas bags use the term anecdotal as a way of dismissing something they don't want to beleive, but I certainly don't put you in that catagory so post all the anecdotes you can find and let us evaluate them for ourselves .

[jdmartin]

And you would be very, very wrong...

I'm 44

There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone

Can't ever diss a man that knows the words to Ripple - "that's Otis"

[retiredguy]

I'm so old I bought that album when it first came out. On vinyl. Still have it. Listened to it last week.

[jdmartin]

I'm so old I bought that album when it first came out. On vinyl. Still have it. Listened to it last week.

<<<not quote that old (to buy it when it came out on vinyl!), but still have it on cassette. Never did upgrade to CD....something about that old hissing sound.

[lowem]

And I'd suppose that the proposed wirelessly-transmitted, fully-automatic electric metering system being trialed over here in Singapore is not going to help very much with the unemployment rate over at my side here, eh?

Goodness. 1600 applicants to 1 job. You'd have thought this was China or India or something. But accoding to Wikipedia, Tacoma is a "mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States". Hmph. I never did pick up US geography but as you can see Wikipedia is helping to fill some gaps