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Just a warning to my fellow laid off colleagues. I was sent for vocational skills assessment testing as a part of the process for TAA. I mentioned to the interviewer that MT had turned into a minimum wage job over the last year or so due to outshoring and scarcity of work, and I was really looking forward to retraining and a career change. The long and the short of it is that this was interpreted by the vocational assessment team as since I was working at a minimum wage job, so I did not qualify for TAA, as I could be placed in another minimum wage job.
So I am frantically looking for my hire papers from M-Modal to prove that I was not hired as an MT at min. wage. I hope I can find them but I fear that I threw them away when I moved recently, and I haven't found M-Modal HR's response to other questions I have had very timely.
So just be careful what you say at these interviews, I have just created a great big headache for myself.
However, if I do not qualify for TAA retraining because of my big mouth, I am not going to let that stop me. It is just going to be harder to do, but I do not consider myself a min. wage employee, I can do more than make hamburgers and I cannot begin to tell you how glad I am to be done with M-Modal, life is still better.