Check the first 6 pages, I was posting in that thread before it got reborn. I did miss your post (just saw it now) about being a firefighter on the bottom of page 8 (sometimes I do tend to skip over some posts).
I even defended you when someone said you made up the firefighters that were suing the city, but w/e. I don't think you will ever read my posts without trying to build an argument anyway. It is like when I was a kid and my dad would be yelling at me, I would be thinking of what I wanted to say, and not actually listen to what he was saying.
Luckily I had a great boss, that nailed me on it early on so I learned to curb that, because it is counterproductive. Now I try to always try to understand the P.O.V. of the person before I formulate my argument/decision.
Anyway, I still am of the mind that people that get passed up for jobs (even if your already working for a company as a 'worker' and try to get a 'management' position it is a different job imo) that they were not in contention for (be it because of racial qualifications, or the fact you are not a paramedic (before you fly off the handle I don't really know if you are not, but chances are you would have had a job in a suburb if you did), or high test scores, shouldn't complain about why they didn't get it, and should instead focus on how to become better and get it next time, or find a new career path.
Which you seem to have done, and I think that is great.