Personal Narrative: My Interview With A Rutherford County Elections Operator

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When I first contacted the Rutherford County Elections Coordinator, I talked to her boss, Alan Farley. I have known Alan since I started here at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the Elections Administrator. At the beginning, I believed that I was to interview him. He thought that it was odd because he is not employed by Rutherford County. He is employed by a board, and his job description is in a Tennessee State Handbook. When I arrived to my interview with him, he realized that I was to interview Rhonda McFerrin, the elections coordinator. This was not a problem. He even sat in on our interview. Rhonda McFerrin was a delightful lady, and I really enjoyed talking with her. She was very honest with me about her job, and I really enjoyed …show more content…

Richmond, I started out with the “Essential Functions” section of the Rutherford County job description. She agreed that all of the functions listed were still applicable to her position as the Elections Technical Specialist. However, she had one small change to the functions. There was one function that stated, “Prepares customized voter lists, labels, and diskettes for use within the office, sale to candidates, or other purposes”. Ms. Richmond pointed out that instead of diskettes, they now use CDs. I actually had to ask her what a diskette was while I was interviewing her. Continuing on with the interview, she agreed that the “Additional Functions”, “Minimum Qualifications”, and “Performance Aptitudes” sections applied to her position. When we reached the “Physical Demand Analysis” section of the interview, I realized there was a section for an election year and a section for a nonelection year. She said that the maximum continuous time of sitting during an election year is higher than 4 hours because she spends a lot of time answering phone calls to answer questions about the election. She also wanted to point out that during a nonelection year, she is exposed to noise daily because the office is slightly noisy with all of the phone calls and Rutherford County citizens coming in with

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