{"id":8618,"date":"2007-12-09T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/12\/09\/job-interview-tips-from-schenectad"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:36","slug":"job-interview-tips-from-schenectady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/12\/09\/job-interview-tips-from-schenectady\/","title":{"rendered":"job interview tips from Schenectady"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jailNeg\"<\/font> H<\/em><\/strong>ere’s another entry for our Only In Schenectady [We Hope] File<\/em>. Unlike prior entries in this series (such as the Spidey Tale<\/a> and the Musty Money Mob<\/a>), Sheriff Harry Buffardi<\/a> and the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> come out looking pretty good. As with many of these tales, there are important lessons to be learned from the mistakes and mis-steps of others, and — as with the best of those tales — we don’t have to say a word to make our point. As Capital News 9 in Albany noted: (“Police make an easy arrest<\/a>,” Dec. 8, 2007), “It might be one of its easiest arrests in the history of the Schenectady County Sheriff’s office.” According to the Albany Times Union<\/em>, in “Schenectady deputies arrest job hopeful<\/a>” (Dec. 7, 2007):<\/p>\n

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SCHENECTADY – Gina Marie Barbagallo interviewed today for a job at the Schenectady County Correctional facility. She ended up behind bars instead of employed.<\/p>\n

Barbagallo, 26, of Hamburg Street, Rotterdam, had applied for a corrections officer job and came into the sheriff’s department today for an initial interview, Sheriff Harry Buffardi said in a press release. Buffardi said a background check showed Barbagallo had outstanding warrants for harassment and criminal mischief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also see “Applicant for jail job arrested<\/a>” (WCAX.com\/AP, Dec. 8, 2007).\u00a0 Further explanation comes from the Schenectady Gazette<\/em> (“Woman at jail for job arrested,” Dec. 8, 2007).\u00a0 Shortly after she took the Civil Service Exam to become a Corrections Officer:<\/p>\n

“Barbagallo allegedly got into a fight with a friend, kicked her friend and broke the windshield of the friend’s vehicle with a hammer, said Rotterdam Police Lt. Mike Brown.<\/p>\n

“… Brown said Rotterdam issued the warrants after Barbagallo failed to respond to summons mailed to her flast known address.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms. Barbagallo did get invited back to the Schenectady County jail, after her arraignment in Rotterdam Town Court on Friday, as a defendant, rather than an employee.<\/p>\n

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job interview —
\nthe candidate’s cufflinks
\ntap on wood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

an old cv
\nmy son colours in
\na rainbow<\/p>\n

\n

shortlisting . . .
\na hint of perfume
\non the resume\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026……..\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. by Matt Morden<\/a>
\n“job interview” – Morden Haiku<\/a><\/em>
\n\u201can old resume\u201d – Snapshots #7 2000; Stumbles in Clover<\/a><\/em> (Snapshot Press<\/a> 2007)
\n\u201cshortlisting . . .\u201d – the loose thread<\/em>: rma 2001; tundra<\/em> 2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"BuffardiH\"<\/font> The Times Union<\/em> reported that “Deputies took her into custody but waited until after her interview with the Professional Standards Office to do so. Buffardi was not immediately available to say why his office waited until after the interview to make the arrest.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe Michael Fox, over at Jottings of an Employer’s Lawyer<\/em><\/a> weblog, or George Lenard, at George’s Employment Blawg<\/em><\/a>, will let us know if any legal issues were raised by the Sheriff’s Office decision to put Barbagallo through the interview before arresting her.\u00a0 Perhaps, since an arrest or warrant is not sufficient for a person to be rejected for the job, they had to go through with the interview.\u00a0 As Buffardi noted, “If a person is found innocent there is nothing to preclude him or her from employment.”<\/p>\n

surprising the worker
\nin the field\u2026
\nout-of-season blooms<\/p>\n

…………………….. by Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

butterfly,
\nI hate
\nmy job<\/p>\n

…………… by John Stevenson – from Upstate Dim Sum<\/em> (2005\/I)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another entry for our Only In Schenectady [We Hope] File. Unlike prior entries in this series (such as the Spidey Tale and the Musty Money Mob), Sheriff Harry Buffardi and the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office come out looking pretty good. As with many of these tales, there are important lessons to be learned from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555,1414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-qs-quickies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2f0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12388,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions\/12388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}