SenatorJPO Prepares for Scholarly Rumble; WPR Rebuttal Takes One-Week Hiatus

SenatorJPO, host of WPR Rebuttal, takes a week off to fully prepare for his debate with the final-ever winners of the UW System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (UWSAGLA) Essay Scholarship Competition -- and to inform those putative "rhetoricians" they're being challenged to an open, public debate!

Having caught up on a backlog of note-taking regarding current events (congrats to the U.K. for its courageous, anti-globalist BrExit); job vacancy archival; and some graphical design (interspersed in future AJV Blog articles), SenatorJPO girds himself for the debate of a lifetime:

One versus many, as our helpful host takes on anyone who wishes to debate him about the relative lack of merit for a liberal arts education!

SenatorJPO has begun reading the essays -- writing rejoinders where opportune -- and has finished analyzing the cost, ground rules, and mission of the now-defunct SLAE scholarship program to determine why the UW System decided to pull the plug on that once-touted contest.

WPR Rebuttal is hereby sending notification, to the soon-to-be-P'WNED scholarship recipients, of this forthcoming debate:

SenatorJPO vs. SAGLA Scholarship Winners: The Realist vs. the Essayists
Date: Friday, July 1, 2016
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time*
Access line: (929) 477-3965

*Although BlogTalkRadio permits only half an hour per day on its freemium plan, SenatorJPO will make a rain check for continued discussion -- at a time mutually agreeable to both him and the SAGLA scholarship recipient who calls in -- if time is running low during the debate. However, a caller who schedules more debate time, but fails to call in at that mutually-agreed time, forfeits the debate.

Midwest Workers' Compensation Rates Lowest in Wisconsin; Plus a Farewell to Monday Shows

Having safely worked a strenuous palletizing job the last 20 months or so (including -every- Saturday and Sunday!), host SenatorJPO segues from his exploration of high-adrenaline jobs into the similarities and differences amongst workers' compensation insurance premiums...

...As provided by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. That makes the WI DWD a guest star! (You knew that agency had to be useful for -something-, right?)

Exploring Jobs With Adrenaline; Plus a Work-Related Dream

SenatorJPO knows the gamut of backbreaking jobs -- he's worked a few, in addition to interviewing his fellow temps as to the most difficult jobs they held!

Herein, our host relates the after-effects of his adrenaline-pumping day job to the perniciously-yet-predictably oversized podcast workload that is WPR Rebuttal.

As added interest, SenatorJPO shares a work-related dream which transpired that very morning of the podcast! What kind of workflow is this?!?

Deviously Designed Deltek Talent System Throws Tantrums

This episode was inspired by SenatorJPO spending more time than he would have liked -- than anyone should need -- on attempting to send a job application online! (You thought he retired as a job seeker? Then, who would review these crummy-crumb applicant tracking systems?!?)

The Absurd Job Vacancies (AJV) Blog makes a guest appearance because reviewing asinine job boards and the application portals that feed them is what AJV Blog is all about. The screen captures used in this article are, of course, used -with the express permission- of Absurd Job Vacancies.

The poorly designed Deltek Talent System throws quite a few unpredictable errors. In fact, one could argue it was -deviously designed-, i.e. intelligently but maliciously designed.

[Screen captures were already made during application, but need to be uploaded.]

SenatorJPO's Workaround for Deltek Talent System Validation Errors

Having described the erratic behavior of the Deltek Talent System, SenatorJPO shows you how to circumvent via a time-tested trick. Make the otherwise super-formidable SNAFUs seem SAWFT with this surefire workaround!

The key lies in -not- uploading your resume; then -entering only one- position title in your work history; and then -pasting- your resume into the text area. The complete walkthrough is in the podcast.