[PRCo] Central PA Attractions

[The Grateful Fred]

Herb, 
Congrats on the new job.    Now try to detect the shiv's in the books before the get to the inmates.........
Fred


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>From: Herb Brannon via Pittsburgh-railways <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
>Sent: Mar 7, 2015 4:15 PM
>To: Western PA Trolley discussion <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Central PA Attractions
>
>Well, so it's not all farms and forest. I should be a able to get to a few
>places if I have any amount of free time.
>
>I guess I didn't tell The List that I changed jobs back on January 20. I
>had taken a lot of PA Civil Service tests last spring and did, of course,
>get hired by Allegheny County Government. They use PA tests to fill their
>Civil Service positions.
>
>In October or November I received an "Availability Notice" from the PA
>Department of Corrections for a job. I interviewed in December. I did not
>like the way the interview went and figured they would lock the door to the
>institution once I left so I could never get back in. However, I received a
>call on January 3 and was told I was the candidate selected for the job.
>
>On January 20 I began as the Assistant Librarian at the State Correctional
>Institution at Pittsburgh. For those who know "old" Pittsburgh this was, in
>the past, known as Western State Prison. My job is the administrative part
>of running the library at SCIP. The Librarian, a kindly lady with a Masters
>Degree, runs the library science end of things.
>
>My job is known as a "contact job" inasmuch as I have direct contact with
>the general inmate population. For this reason I have to attend the
>Department of Corrections Training Academy in Elizabethtown. Also, this is
>actually my second time working for the PA Department of Corrections. I was
>a Corrections Officer at the State Regional Correction Facility at
>Greensburg  in the early 1980s. Back then the Training Academy was located
>at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, near Harrisburg. In
>fact I was even given my former Commonwealth of PA Employee Number back. I
>always have remembered that number as Brookline/Frankstown/Homeville. Those
>six-digit numbers are now starting with 8.
>
>I enjoy this job very much. Much more than the Allegheny County job. I get
>paid a little more, have much better benefits and have excellent upward
>mobility. Hopefully I can maintain my good health to let all this play out.
>I'm hoping to make it to 100 so I may as well work and be happy. Sitting
>around is not for me.
>
>-- 
>*Herb Brannon*
>
>*In Pittsburgh...........A City and*
>*..........................A State of  Mind *
>
>
>*Let's Go Pens  *
>
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