Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 6, 2016
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Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
Thursday, July 7, 1966
Illinois Valley News
Out of Work
Desk workers and minor officials have
a definite place in our society; in fact, they’re
indispensable. Besides filling the intermediary
niches that lie between the top and bottom
strata of our social structure, the majority of
them are efficient friendly, and are appreciated
assets of their respective communities,
attributes that we reasonably expect of any
well-educated, intelligent public servant.
But occasionally you’ll run across one
who is a disgrace to his fraternity, and that
makes you wonder about the efficiency of
an organization that permits these partially-
decayed apples to remain in the barrel with the
good ones, where their stench and decay are
bound to affect the others.
It has been my misfortune to encounter
a number of these social lepers, not enough
of them to cause me to lose faith in humanity
or to condemn the respective groups to which
they belong; but enough to give me a terrific
pain, and not in the heart.
In some cases it’s obvious that the
hormone, gland, or whatever it is that
controls the culprit’s ego, has got out of
whack. The importance of his newly-acquired
position balloons to superman proportions
in his off-center mind; he becomes a petty
Hitler, a wizened little dictator with nothing
in his apparently empty skull except a
few hallucinations rattling around. Law
enforcement organizations, as anyone knows
who can read or turn a knob, often find
these misfits in their ranks. Some mistake
or weakness, probably in the prospective
officer’s qualification examination, allows
him to assume a responsible and honorable
position for which he’s utterly unfit. When the
shiny badge of authority is pinned on his new
uniform and a wonderful, powerful revolver is
allowed to dangle ostentatiously from his hip,
like a pouter pigeon he begins to swell, and to
envision himself as the tough herder of a flock
of human sheep.
Eventually these wolves in official
clothing are caught up with, and given
appropriate treatment, either by their own
department or by an indignant and long-
suffering public. The itchy trigger finger and
unreasoning club-swinging propensity have no
place in a community whose intelligent leaders
aspire to helping it become civilized.
The open sesame to an office job is
usually some sort of diploma. Now and
then one of these beautifully-engraved
passports is issued to an individual who is
a whiz at accounting, secretarial work, or
some such important occupation, but who
has a personality and disposition that should
guarantee him a long and well-deserved
vacation in Antarctica.
A number of years ago I found myself
honorably occupied as a mill worker. Then
one day my shift was suddenly discontinued
and, along with dozens of other workers, I
was forced to join the army of unemployed.
No other jobs being available, savings being
rapidly sucked down the drain, and my
appetite undiminishing, I joined the gang at the
employment office to pick up the small weekly
check the law and my insurance allowed me.
The female clerk I contacted was one of
the characters I’ve been complaining about.
She evidentially used a stereotyped set of
questions which, when well memorized,
relieved her of the necessity of using her
alleged brain. She asked, in a manner of
indicating that she couldn’t care less, if I tried
to find employment in my area. I explained
that I had, naming every possible place of
employment in the Valley, and, in order to
impress her favorably, even adding a few
fictitious ones.
The lady listened to my stirring
recitation. Then, her gaze fixed on some
imaginary object two feet above my left
shoulder, probably a vision of the handsome
brute who was taking her out to dinner that
night; she relieved herself of this masterpiece
of inanity: “Well, we expect you to try more
diligently.” The “well” was smartly clipped;
the “diligently” rolled around her tongue like
it was something too nice to swallow and that
she almost hated to spit out.
And after me just telling her I had
tried every possible - - !
I was so mad I was half tempted to get
a job and go to work.
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