I have done more than walked through 10 miles of snow. I have
suffered more than walking through 10 miles of snow. And I was treated like the
scum of the earth when I interviewed with the president of your company. I
encompass and embody every single quality you claim to admire in your employees.  Work ethic??? Work ethic is perseverance and
doing whatever it takes to reach your goals. Limitations are a lie. Being told
the position has already been filled is only a small obstacle; snow is only a
small obstacle. Nothing is impossible if you truly have the long term drive and
perseverance and passion to achieve your goals. I have experienced an endless
winter and risked everything and almost my life to reach my goals and fulfill
the purpose I am meant to fulfill.

And then one day I was given the opportunity to meet you in
Oklahoma City, Mr. Beck, and I inquired about a job. You stated very sincerely
that you were always looking for and needed writers and researchers.
After many months, I finally met with the president of Mercury One in Dallas.

I was resourceful enough to barter the use of my brother’s car
for house and dog sitting rather than walking to the studios in Irving from Fort
Worth. And here is what happened:

I was immediately talked down to and told there was no way I
could be hired except as an intern. And since I had recently finished grad
school, I could never qualify for the internship program. I was never asked
about my experience or writing or skills or talents or anything at all for that
matter. He did, however, advise that I could get involved in a program in which
I could do short write ups without compensation about interesting stories and
send those in via email, but I would have to be signed up for this program. I
expressed interest and was promised by the president of your company that I
would receive all the information via email in the next few days, but at the
same time he strongly advised me to stay in academia and get a PhD rather than
pursuing a job with your company. Afterwards, I was quickly ushered out the
doors and of course, never received any information about the “send us free stories”
program.

You want to speak the truth? You want to be an honest,
upstanding human being and own a company that upholds the values and ethics you
claim to uphold?  You need to be aware
that there are rare individuals who are incredibly talented and willing to do
any menial task in order to work on your team. Interns are not the way to go. Why
would you want hack writers with no experience and no knowledge of suffering
and hard work; no knowledge of  how much
it REALLY takes to actually earn something, truly value something, and do it at
any and all costs. Suffer to reach goals no matter what. Risk everything for
what they know is their passion and their purpose!!???

I do not and will never want to be on TV as you claim so
many people do who join your team.

I don’t care about so called ‘fame’ or excessive amounts of money
or any other trivial crap. What I do want is to be given the opportunity to do
what I do best and prove my ability and talent. If not that, then at the very least
I would like an apology for being treated like an inconvenience and like a
waste of time; an apology for NOT being who you claim to be. Not because I think I am entitled to
anything (I am not), but because I am a person. A person with a working,
thinking, resourceful mind who is calling you out on the hypocrisy within your
organization.

I was treated like a piece of crap and lied to by the
president of your company.  A dying
homeless man on the street probably would have been treated better and with
less disdain and spoken to in a nicer, more polite tone of voice rather than
one on condescension and irritation.

I have gone without every basic human luxury (heat, air
conditioning, food, clothing that is not riddled with holes). I am not riff-raff.

I am a writer and I am passionate about truth and research
and delivering that truth no matter what—no matter how much I have to struggle
and do crap grunt work in order to get to that position. I refuse to be in a
box which apparently you have to challenge the people on your staff to stay out
of. If you want the best, hire those who already live the life expressed by the
words you preach— resourcefulness, refusing to accept limitations, and impossibilities.

My God…run your company by practicing what you preach. Be
involved in hiring those truly rare
individuals who would be more resourceful and much cleverer than to actually
walk 10 miles in the snow. Hire the ones who would rent a bike or borrow a bike
or barter for the use of a bike or a car by doing something like shoveling snow.
Don’t hire the people who accept limited thinking. Hire the resourceful. Hire
those with a long established stance on no excuses, no limitations, and never
accepting “impossible.”

There are lots of people with degrees in “Child Development, psychology, ethnic studies, that the market of common sense won’t employ either; just like other professions economy is demanded for existence. Adam Smith figured this out with a still revered empirical observation of the “Wealth of Nations” over 210 years ago.

The only possible claim Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland) and Canada have advantage over the US & UK (So far though I argue it is changing) is since their existence as nations, they have different histories. To those who disagree, any diversity claim is similar to what I leave in a Chinese squat toilet. When in China or Taiwan, I speak and act accordingly

There are lots of people with degrees in “Child Development, psychology, ethnic studies, that the market of common sense won’t employ either; just like other professions economy is demanded for existence. Adam Smith figured this out with a still revered empirical observation of the “Wealth of Nations” over 210 years ago.

The only possible claim Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland) and Canada have advantage over the US & UK (So far though I argue it is changing) is since their existence as nations, they have different histories. To those who disagree, any diversity claim is similar to what I leave in a Chinese squat toilet. When in China or Taiwan, I speak and act accordingly