Editor:
I am writing this letter in response to Jon Whelan, and his letter Parks hiring practices in the Oct. 8 edition of the RMO.
While I cannot comment on the situation of the other 100 past employees of Banff National Park, nor can I comment on the firing of Dr. Wilmshurst, it is easy to tell why you are not being rehired by Parks Canadaf
In your letter, you are blaming federal public service, Parks Canada, the Harper government, but you forgot the person truly to blame: you. You claim it is bad hiring practices that such a glowing employee such as yourself isn’t being rehired, and that it is all their fault.
I can’t think of any job, government or private, where an employee can quit their job, protest and trash talk their former employer, and then walk in and get their job back.
It doesn’t work that way. Anywhere. What you did is known as “burning bridges.” Stop blaming Parks, Harper and Mickey Mouse. You lit the match, you burned the bridge. Of course they are not going to hire you back after that.
Besides, if you disagree with them to the extent that you would quit and protest against them, why would you want the job back anyway?
Jason Wilkinson,
Canmore
