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I don't mind interviews.Yeah, I guess it does depend on the type of person you are. I wasn't a natural interviewer at all when I first got out of college and I had some awkward-as-fuck interviews. But after law school (which is basically a three-year gauntlet of formal and informal interviews) I became pretty solid.
In fact, I feel like I hit a home-run with the SLCO interview to the point that when I asked "hey, do I need an official transcript for this other posting (said posting was mentioned during my interview)" the main point of contact, IE, the head of the Paralegals/legal assistants seemed HAPPY I was asking about another position in their office. I feel good about it to the point that if I don't get the job it's because they somehow found some law school graduates willing to take the job.
The issue with the Pierce County job is I get that Pierce County is a far larger jurisdiction than Whatcom County where I am now. There's no question about that. There's also no question District Court will almost always generally be busier in the criminal realm because of it covering more subjects essentially.
However, when you're in a smaller jurisdiction like mine it means you have less staff/Judicial Officers to cover hearings and shit. As an example, we have 4 Judges and only 3 clerks in the Criminal Dept. I mentioned in response to a question about how I would deal with a high stress environment that we average 80 cases on our motions calendar a week which can be a struggle and one of the interviewers fucking openly laughed at my response. Like... I get District Court in Pierce County might have 200 cases a day... that's nice but you also have like 10-15 clerks and about 10 Commissioners and another 8 Judges to handle all this shit... We have... 3 Commissioners and 4 Judges and only 1 Judge does the Criminal rotation every month so it's not like you can spread shit out to alleviate the burden.
The openly laughing when I said "for us an 80 person calendar is large" really irked me. Like yeah, ok... 80 compared to your 200 is small but let's also note that say in places like Alaska where they only have like 2 cops in a small town that like 4 murders is high for them compared to the high numbers you see in like LA.
I'm not offbase feeling like this am I? That reaction to that question is what bothers me the most about the Pierce County interview and why I frankly want out of this state. Every time I have interviewed for King County, City of Seattle, or Pierce County I feel like the interviewers look down on me a bit cause "oh look, this small town kid doesn't know what real work is" completely ignoring that the smaller your town is the harder your job becomes when you have just one person in the office missing.
Pierce County and King County can recover fine when one person from a department is missing cause they got 10 people in each department.. Where I live? 1 person gone means the work goes from 3 people to 2 and if there are 3 different hearings your department is having it means... well, you're all going to Court today which means the over the counter shit gets backed up.
The asshole that sent me the "denial" also hasn't responded to my question.
FUcking pussy