. .termination
for cause on account of seven SmurFFs? Really? It must be a joke.
But Igor, casting out his informational net, discovered that
it wasn't. It was discrimination, pure and simple and he,
because of his race, knew discrimination when he came on it.
He remembered how close he had come to not landing his
present position. A man in his late forties, he had
impeccable credentials and years of experience in archival work.
He was also an African American. Strong, competent and unassuming,
he had applied for the posted position of senior archivist
and then waited for the decision from personnel.
Time passed. They told him they were still interviewing,
but he had learned from a contact he had made in the library
that they had reposted the advertisement for the job because
no qualified applicants had been sent from personnel.
That was how Igor's pool of informational sources began.
Then suddenly, he was called in for an interview. By now his
contacts had grown and he discovered that his name had won him the job.
Someone in the personnel department had inadvertently listed him
to the library as a viable candidate based on his last name.
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