Reddit reviews Call Centre : Life on the Line

I think I'd better apologize to the moderator for the tone of my post - as a lifelong Albertan transplanted here, I'ver found people here to be good-hearted and resilient, and genuine as friends. Of which I've been happy to make many; I can respect now what they have to deal with living here every day, and that's essentially the opposite of every stereotype you hear back home.

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My venom is directed mainly at government here - if you can call it that, even on a good day - and the very few big corporate employers, particularly here where I live in Saint John.

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They're backwards, stupid AND corrupt. The government is on par with some creepy central Asian Islamic republic for honesty. I just got turned down for a job as a supply teacher by ASD-S (Anglophone School Distrct - South) because they said they 'were worried I couldn't handle rowdy students'. Nevermind that I'm better educated than 90% of the people they have, and the fact they're crying for ppl with math and sciences training (I have a STEM degree, from an actual top-tier university).

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Oh, and there's the small matter of an ASD-S Transport Manager having used government expense money to bring along someone I know here in town to Kitchener-Waterloo for a week long sex holiday. Then promptly returning and securing that persona job and immediate promotion with ASD-S, no open competition. The HR person okayed it, and her boss signed off on it. The girl in question came to me in tears after Mr T strung her along and (surprise) didn't leave his wife for her, that's how I found out. He and Ms Ryan know I know all about their crime - Likely what lost me the teaching job.

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How's THAT for 'backwards'..?

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After being laid off from my last career-level job - as an oil company Exploration Manager in Calgary -my wife, who's from here, convinced me that we should move here so she could be closer to her aging mother. The only work I could get was at a series of call centres (the growth field in this sh!thole Saint John). I NEVER thought things I've seen here would exist in Canada.

So, I wrote a book and put it on Kobo. The CRTC asked me to give testimony at their recent inquiry into the crooked practices of call centres like Nordia. Not sure if any of it'll help....

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Anyhow, here's the link to the ebook - Call Centre: Life on the Line, if anyone wants to give it a look. I'm thinking that maybe someday when they're in college far from here, they'll read it and have a window into that part of their dad's life, and the part of life here we worked hard to ensure they never saw. There's a lot more than just 'Sex scandal at public school board' that I have to tell, anyone who wants to hear it can feel free to pvt message me.

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https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/call-centre-2

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https://www.amazon.com/Call-Centre-Life-J-R-Wellman-ebook/dp/B07FSQLNRD/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1542808271&sr=8-2&keywords=call+centre+life