I remembered today why I hate politics, even at the University level.

Today, I was appointed to a position on my School's Student Government....and I beat out 7 other applicants for it....only thing, is it was pending approval from the student senate....

The problem is, the runner up candidate happened to be a member of the senate....which means he got to talk while I was out of the room during the debate about my appointment....

And, being on Senate, everyone there knows him....while less than a dozen of them know me.

Result: Proof that it's not what you know, but who you know.

Further proof is in the fact that while I could have handled the position entirely on my own, immediately after the meeting, the person who got the position came up to me and asked me to be his assistant because there were aspects of it he couldn't do.

I got slammed for my 'possible' lack of PR experience (as a CS major, they weren't sure about it, so basically just assumed it was nonexistent) while he can barely turn on a computer....

The position is Legislative and Public Relations Director, and one of the primary jobs is the Student Government website...

So, instead of choosing someone with unknown PR skills, they chose someone with well known non-existent computer skills....

I'm just annoyed at the whole thing, especially the fact that since I'm not on senate, I never got to say a word, just sit there, while my opponent got to talk and comment the whole time.

I just really wish I would have at least had a chance to speak and defend myself....it's tough when you're competing against someone everyone there knows, and you don't have a real chance to tell them what you can do.

"It's not what you know, it's who you know."

I'm just not sure if I even want to bother now....there's another position open that has pretty much been given to me, if I want it....

I don't know how well I'd like working with people knowing that they play politics as much as they do...

It was funny, my appointment was about the only one that involved a person not already on senate...

And mine was the only one that the discussion lasted for more than 2 minutes (literally, including the time to count votes) on.

Everyone on senate who was up for approval of their appointment got it without disucssion, mine was debated for a half hour (without me there to defend myself) and then struck down in favor of one of the people who was on senate and could speak against me.....Ugh. I just don't know if I want to bother with it....

I'm really thinking I'm just going to move on and find something else to occupy my time.

Too much... ;-)

Okay, and now I'm really just ranting, and I'm gonna shut up. Hope you all enjoyed my midnight whining, and I hope I didn't bore anyone too much.

Have a nice evening. ;-)