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Community Chest: Recruitment And Technology
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In this episode of Community Chest, Dominik hosts several segments covering local employment and technology. Gussie Alamein discusses recruitment for First Eastern Counties buses, while Scott Emerson explains the community work of Football in the Community (FITC). Additionally, Dominik and Annie Trehearn discuss technology, including the risks of social engineering and historical Apple product failures.
Dominik hosts a series of segments featuring Gussie Alamein, who discusses recruitment for First Eastern Counties buses, noting a 99% reliability rate and the suitability of the role for women due to power steering and automatic gearboxes. The programme also includes a discussion with Scott Emerson regarding Football in the Community (FITC) and its various youth courses. In later segments, Dominik and Annie Trehearn talk about technology, covering the risks of social engineering, the frustrations of iTunes DRM, and failed Apple products like the Newton. Annie also shares a humorous anecdote about playing Princess Diana in a radio advert for a shopping mall in Nova Scotia.
Topics
- Recruitment of bus drivers for First Eastern Counties
- Gender diversity and customer service in bus driving
- Employee benefits and training
- Childhood career aspirations
- Grassroots football development and pathways to professional academies
- Football in the Community (FITC) courses and facilities
- Personal experiences with radio and voiceover work
- Computer security and the Mac vs PC debate
- Cybersecurity and social engineering
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) and music distribution
- Failed technology and gadgets
Participants
- Dominik
- Gussie Alamein
- Debbie
- Scott Emerson
- Annie Trehearn
- Annie
Names are taken from the archive as written and may include spelling variants.
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Targeting women as well, because obviously buses—you no longer need to be a big, a big, big chunk of a man to drive a bus. You know, buses are power, buses, buses, buses of power steering and they have automatic, they have automatic gearbox. So now, now is very much a role that suits women too.
Right. So I went to a talent agency, and they said, "Yeah, we've got some work, you know, lined up for you to do an advert playing Princess Diana." So it was advertising Dartmouth Shopping Mall. Dartmouth is just across the harbour from Halifax.
Mouse, the minute you put your hand on it, basically gave you our you know the repetitive stress stress injury after the first time you used it, and you know it looked kind of snazzy, but it was awful to use. But the biggest failure probably of all time—that's usually when you have like lists of biggest technology failures ever—was Apple's Newton.
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