So I rencently got a job. And about time!
It's nothing spectacular. In fact, it's probably the very opposite of spectacular ... unspectacular some might even say.
But the point is that I have finally got myself a job (so, hooray and all that for me!).
I'm now a door to door sales person for Austar ... ok, so the bossman calls it something else (can't remember what though), because the name door to door sales person really drags what we do through the mud ... but let's not get too concerned about nicties. Let's just call it what it is. I'm a damned door to door sales person.
I now get to annoy people in their homes, trying to get them to sign up to Austar.
At least I will once I get this stupid training out of the way.
The only thing worse than being a door to door sales person is training to be a door to door sales person. It is SOOOOOOOOOOOO fucking boring! I seriously hope that once I get out into the field things will start looking better ... or at least more interesting.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Yeah So ...
As you might, or possibly, not have guessed, I've decided to start writing about my day.
Ok, so it may not be all that new of an idea! In fact one of the most unoriginalists ideas ever! But I totally have my reasons.
Not that I'm going to share ... at least not at this point in time.
But if you've been paying attention to my FB, Twitter and EP posts then you'l be well aware that I had a job interview today ... if you can call it an interview ... since the door to door salesman, Chris, totally pulled some strings for me well after the first interview or two, I'm not sure it can be called that.
But Whatever.
I was at the "Open Day" thing for the job today, which detailed what it was about (surprise surprise, 100% commission based work). It doesn't sound too bad. In fact it sounds quite cushy; I only have to make a sale a day at the very least, and I'll be earning around about $400 a week (more than I'm getting from Centre Link).
And if I make 30 sale, I'll get free Austar.
So guess what my sales aim is for the next 4 weeks?
I'm hoping (and assuming!) that I don't really have to tell you.
My fingers are totally crossed for landing this job. I know it requires a lot more effort than I really want to exert. But I should be used to this kind of shit; I mean, I'm a writer, right?
But this job will also hopefully give me some more insight into how people work, think and talk ...
Ok, so it may not be all that new of an idea! In fact one of the most unoriginalists ideas ever! But I totally have my reasons.
Not that I'm going to share ... at least not at this point in time.
But if you've been paying attention to my FB, Twitter and EP posts then you'l be well aware that I had a job interview today ... if you can call it an interview ... since the door to door salesman, Chris, totally pulled some strings for me well after the first interview or two, I'm not sure it can be called that.
But Whatever.
I was at the "Open Day" thing for the job today, which detailed what it was about (surprise surprise, 100% commission based work). It doesn't sound too bad. In fact it sounds quite cushy; I only have to make a sale a day at the very least, and I'll be earning around about $400 a week (more than I'm getting from Centre Link).
And if I make 30 sale, I'll get free Austar.
So guess what my sales aim is for the next 4 weeks?
I'm hoping (and assuming!) that I don't really have to tell you.
My fingers are totally crossed for landing this job. I know it requires a lot more effort than I really want to exert. But I should be used to this kind of shit; I mean, I'm a writer, right?
But this job will also hopefully give me some more insight into how people work, think and talk ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Racist Acts
Yeah, so I was just out the back having a smoke (yeah, I know it's a dirty habit), when I heard the sound of glass smashing. I looked down the street, where the sound had come from, and saw a couple of kids kind of half running, half hiding. Evidently eager to get away as fast as possible while not being seen.
It really didn't take much (if anything) to figure out just which window they had smashed; the milkbar.
It's not the first time the milkbar window has been smashed. It has been smashed two or three time in the last six months ... probably why the owners have decided to leave the lights on all the time.
But what gets me, is that the milkbar was never targeted until six months ago, when the Asian couple took over.
So I'm thinking that people are targeting the milkbar for a very specific, ignorant reason. And I'm sure you do too.
I don't know why people have decided to do this crap to the new owners. They are the nicest people ever. They're always smiling and so happy whenever I go into the shop. They make me want to keep going back and buying stuff from there despite the priceness of a milkbar, because they're just so happy.
And that makes the window smashing even nastier and bigoted.
All these morons are proving is just how ignorant they really are.
It really didn't take much (if anything) to figure out just which window they had smashed; the milkbar.
It's not the first time the milkbar window has been smashed. It has been smashed two or three time in the last six months ... probably why the owners have decided to leave the lights on all the time.
But what gets me, is that the milkbar was never targeted until six months ago, when the Asian couple took over.
So I'm thinking that people are targeting the milkbar for a very specific, ignorant reason. And I'm sure you do too.
I don't know why people have decided to do this crap to the new owners. They are the nicest people ever. They're always smiling and so happy whenever I go into the shop. They make me want to keep going back and buying stuff from there despite the priceness of a milkbar, because they're just so happy.
And that makes the window smashing even nastier and bigoted.
All these morons are proving is just how ignorant they really are.
We Need to Take Care of Our Own
It's time our government closed our borders to immigrants. Or at the very least, drastically slash the number of immigrants allowed into the country, and completely stop letting in asylum seekers.
Sounds terrible, doesn't it?
But hear me out before you start condemning me.
As you're probably very unaware, Australia has one of the highest rates of poverty in the world (last time I looked we were like the third highest). This is actually quite alarming as we Aussies like to think of ourselves living in the "lucky country."
Evidently this is the case for a few of us.
So clearly the government started throwing money at this problem, and improve EVERYONE'S standard of living ... at least those living in poverty and squalor. The rich really don't need their living standards improved.
And the best way to get this much needed money?
Why, simply using all of the money that is poured into immigration, particuarly asylum seekers and detention centres ... which won't be needed once we stop asylum seekers entering the country.
And don't even get me started on the government's plan to give $4000 of taxpayer money to asylum seekers to go back home and get work and/or start up a business!
Clearly those people fled their home country because of political reasons, not because they had no money! And if they did come here seeking asylum because they're too poor back home, then why haven't the poverty stricken people here jumped into boats to seek asylum elsewhere?
That taxpayer money (and I mean all of it that's spent on immigration) would be better spent here, fixing up communities that desperately need it, that are just breeding poorer and poorer people with each generation.
How are we meant to help these asylum seekers when we're not even taking care of our own?
At the moment the government is trying to do both, and is doing a half arsed job at both.
If the government could just focus on our own, then we could bring the ENTIRE country up to scratch, and then (and only then!)can we think about helping these asylum seekers. But not before!
And then maybe all of those abused kids in foster care might also get the attention they desperately need to live full and healthy lives. At the moment, they're just languishing in depressing circemstances, overlooked by the system.
Again, not accepting the asylum seekers would mean that there would be more money to be spent on child welfare, which would mean there'd be a lot less deaths in the system.
And it's not like I'm suggesting that we stop accepting asylum seekers forever. I'm just saying that we only stop accepting them until there is no poverty in Australia, and that everyone has very similar living standards.
That way when we do finally start accepting asylum seekers again, we'd be better able to help them settle down here, instead of just handing them their papers and throwing them into an alien environment.
Sounds terrible, doesn't it?
But hear me out before you start condemning me.
As you're probably very unaware, Australia has one of the highest rates of poverty in the world (last time I looked we were like the third highest). This is actually quite alarming as we Aussies like to think of ourselves living in the "lucky country."
Evidently this is the case for a few of us.
So clearly the government started throwing money at this problem, and improve EVERYONE'S standard of living ... at least those living in poverty and squalor. The rich really don't need their living standards improved.
And the best way to get this much needed money?
Why, simply using all of the money that is poured into immigration, particuarly asylum seekers and detention centres ... which won't be needed once we stop asylum seekers entering the country.
And don't even get me started on the government's plan to give $4000 of taxpayer money to asylum seekers to go back home and get work and/or start up a business!
Clearly those people fled their home country because of political reasons, not because they had no money! And if they did come here seeking asylum because they're too poor back home, then why haven't the poverty stricken people here jumped into boats to seek asylum elsewhere?
That taxpayer money (and I mean all of it that's spent on immigration) would be better spent here, fixing up communities that desperately need it, that are just breeding poorer and poorer people with each generation.
How are we meant to help these asylum seekers when we're not even taking care of our own?
At the moment the government is trying to do both, and is doing a half arsed job at both.
If the government could just focus on our own, then we could bring the ENTIRE country up to scratch, and then (and only then!)can we think about helping these asylum seekers. But not before!
And then maybe all of those abused kids in foster care might also get the attention they desperately need to live full and healthy lives. At the moment, they're just languishing in depressing circemstances, overlooked by the system.
Again, not accepting the asylum seekers would mean that there would be more money to be spent on child welfare, which would mean there'd be a lot less deaths in the system.
And it's not like I'm suggesting that we stop accepting asylum seekers forever. I'm just saying that we only stop accepting them until there is no poverty in Australia, and that everyone has very similar living standards.
That way when we do finally start accepting asylum seekers again, we'd be better able to help them settle down here, instead of just handing them their papers and throwing them into an alien environment.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Norfolk Island Carbon Credit Scheme
Just read about some half cocked leftist plan, ok experiment, for Norfolk Island. And trust me, it’s completely moronic and makes you think of totalitarian rulers like Franco, Hitler and Stalin. I’m sure they all did something similar and with similar reasons; “the good of the people.”
You hear those five words and you automatically know that it’s not going to be good. Far, far, far from it.
The government has okayed this carbon rations experiment on Norfolk island. It’s supposed to help cut down green house gases and help prevent global warming (*laughs* what a joke!), and prevent and/or lower obesity.
Sounds fair enough … except for the bit about global warming. Those little words spell DISASTER! for any sane, logical person. You know, people who know that global warming is a massive CON!
Yeah.
That’s right.
I said it.
And you know I’m right.
Just look at the facts … or at least the most important fact; the planet is COOLING down … and I guess the other most important fact; the earth has natural cooling and heating periods.
Climate change is NATURAL, and to try and prevent that is even worse than the damn imagined disaster you’re trying to prevent … fools.
But I digress …
Norfolk Island …
They want to introduce carbon credit cards to the island, and the Norfolkians (is that what they’re called?) have a set amount to purchase their fuel, food, electricity, gas etc etc. I’m sure you get my drift.
And I’m also sure that you have already realized (since this is also to lower obesity) that fatty foods will cost more credits than healthy food.
Sounds good so far, doesn’t it?
But remember that things that have to be imported from the mainland will also cost more, because of all of those pesky green house emissions caused getting it there.
Not sounding so good now is it?
Healthy and fatty foods costing about the same and being grossly expensive.
But what about all of Norfolk’s natural produce, I hear you ask.
Good question. I’m glad you asked.
I’m pretty certain that Norfolk doesn’t have much of an agricultural industry. It’s only a small island. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be enough to provide for the entire island.
But wait! There’s more;
Each year the carbon credits will be cut down so that they become rarer and rarer and therefore more expensive for the poor suckers who blow all their carbon credits (maybe that’ll teach them not to eat).
So the carbon credits will most likely be worth more than their weight in gold, and the Norfolkians (I’m sticking with it now!) will all rush to leave the island when living there becomes outrageously expensive, and/or there’ll be a roaring black market for carbon credits (who needs to deal drugs when you can deal with carbon credits?).
And most likely, the government will see this experiment has a massive success, and the rest of Australia will be stuck with the same thing (and we won’ eased into it like the Norfolkians). So it may well be time to relocate to another, saner, country if this passes.
You hear those five words and you automatically know that it’s not going to be good. Far, far, far from it.
The government has okayed this carbon rations experiment on Norfolk island. It’s supposed to help cut down green house gases and help prevent global warming (*laughs* what a joke!), and prevent and/or lower obesity.
Sounds fair enough … except for the bit about global warming. Those little words spell DISASTER! for any sane, logical person. You know, people who know that global warming is a massive CON!
Yeah.
That’s right.
I said it.
And you know I’m right.
Just look at the facts … or at least the most important fact; the planet is COOLING down … and I guess the other most important fact; the earth has natural cooling and heating periods.
Climate change is NATURAL, and to try and prevent that is even worse than the damn imagined disaster you’re trying to prevent … fools.
But I digress …
Norfolk Island …
They want to introduce carbon credit cards to the island, and the Norfolkians (is that what they’re called?) have a set amount to purchase their fuel, food, electricity, gas etc etc. I’m sure you get my drift.
And I’m also sure that you have already realized (since this is also to lower obesity) that fatty foods will cost more credits than healthy food.
Sounds good so far, doesn’t it?
But remember that things that have to be imported from the mainland will also cost more, because of all of those pesky green house emissions caused getting it there.
Not sounding so good now is it?
Healthy and fatty foods costing about the same and being grossly expensive.
But what about all of Norfolk’s natural produce, I hear you ask.
Good question. I’m glad you asked.
I’m pretty certain that Norfolk doesn’t have much of an agricultural industry. It’s only a small island. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be enough to provide for the entire island.
But wait! There’s more;
Each year the carbon credits will be cut down so that they become rarer and rarer and therefore more expensive for the poor suckers who blow all their carbon credits (maybe that’ll teach them not to eat).
So the carbon credits will most likely be worth more than their weight in gold, and the Norfolkians (I’m sticking with it now!) will all rush to leave the island when living there becomes outrageously expensive, and/or there’ll be a roaring black market for carbon credits (who needs to deal drugs when you can deal with carbon credits?).
And most likely, the government will see this experiment has a massive success, and the rest of Australia will be stuck with the same thing (and we won’ eased into it like the Norfolkians). So it may well be time to relocate to another, saner, country if this passes.
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