People never, ever fail to fascinate me. I love psychology and studied it for two years in college, not that I have much to show for it. Not that I'm saying I psychoanalyse every person I meet, but sometimes it is hard not to think, "Wow, that is such a product of evolution" so called "cradle snatchers" for example.
So, maybe I finally found a loose theme for my blog, people who fascinate me, and as I type this, the theme actually does seem a very good one. I often just see "odd" people on the bus that make me laugh, or make me angry, but they are still interesting, wow, do I sound like a total freak? Or does everyone actually do this secretly?
But anyway, my "People" blog theme could actually work, or be a recurring subject at least. I have lots of people who I would happily include in my blog, maybe even the two of you I known to have read this! Im hoping, deep down, that this will begin to reach other people. Though that could become riskay... but we shall see! I can always delete posts ;)
So, it's currently 16:53 on a Sunday afternoon, I've just got in from work, though in theory, I'm still meant to be there. However, as I start work at 6am tomorrow (6am!!!) they let me leave early.
The woman who broke this news to me, is one of my many bosses at work. And I'll be honest, she annoys the hell out of me, I was in genuine shock that she actually let us go early, and I am beginning to doubt if it was actually her decision at all...
I have a feeling she is just going to get worse and worse, she talks at me like I'm 7, and it's not just me, it's all the people in my department, and as I'm the youngest, I don't know the extent as to how they must feel being patronised that much, by someone who is actuallyyounger than them, but I find it degrading. I don't see her problem, but another guy at work, about my age is ready to smack her in the face, so that could be some entertinment one day!
So anyway, I don't think this post has much of a theme... maybe just a random rant, and insight yet again into my work life. Im trying to keep the blog up to date, so maybe its a good thing I have written this one, as it keeps me in the routine of it.
I'm off out for a family meal this evening! Ahh I do love my family! Maybe I will post a blog about the interesting goings on there tomorrow!
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Friday, 22 January 2010
The appeal of alcohol.
It seems a day doesn’t go past when the news isn’t reporting a story related to the effects of alcohol. And as I think, I can’t think of any in my memories history of one that has spun a positive light on alcohol, maybe just a local news report about someone’s successful local winery.
I understand, honestly, that people can be annoying when drunk, shouting in streets when people are trying to sleep and sometimes, yes, admittedly it can turn violent. Which of course I can’t condone, even I try and avoid town on a Saturday evening due to the sheer amounts of people and the possibility of lots of drunken behaviour, but hey, this is me, I’m a wimp.
But I for one, have had enough now, of people ripping into the young people of the country who supposedly drink excessively, I very much doubt that those who tend to do the claiming aren’t being just a little hypocritical.
One particular video being shown on the news at the moment, among reports that alcohol prices should be raised (good lord, please no!), shows CCTV images of a young woman falling over on a pavement, so what?? No one else is around, she’s not hurting anyone, and at the end of the day, it’s her own embarrassment she causing, she looks as if she’s had a good night, and that is what people are complaining about, us having fun, excellent.
Alcohol, for a person, let’s take myself for example, acts as a release, if this is a good thing or not? Who cares? Being tipsy is fun. After a long, stressful week at work, a couple of double vodka’s help you relax, they make me giggly, happy, hyper and more sociable. I look forward to a good night out, as I know Im going to chill out, open up and forget all about my full time rubbishy paid job.
This brings me back round to the subject of alcohol prices being raised. On the news report I saw they asked random people on the street if raising the price of alcohol would stop them drinking, the majority of which, said no. Myself? Im quite lucky, I live at home, I can withdraw £30 from the hole in the wall at 7pm and get home a good few hours later having a good night out. But still, it’s not something I could do every day, as going out is expensive, to me anyway, I earn just above minimum wage, working in a supermarket, it may be a rubbish job, but it’s an essential one to aid our country’s lifestyle choices. But even if the price was raised £30 would probably still buy me a fair few drinks... And I ask, seriously, what is the point? If it aims to do what the government want it to do, does it not means less tax for them? And that is a genuine question, as that is what I presume, but I could be wrong.
So all Im asking is for people to open their eyes, I admit there must be a few, but who hasn’t been on a night out, (or a day even) and been totally...(hmm what’s an appropriate word) catatonic, afterward? Maybe people have just forgotten how much fun they actually had. So let us have some fun, and leave us alone, you may find release in other ways, but all we ask is that you realise that you were young once to, and that all we are doing is trying to survive, sure we may be killing our livers while we’re doing it, but at least we’re not all in therapy as the 30th customer of the day has asked where the sugar is.
I understand, honestly, that people can be annoying when drunk, shouting in streets when people are trying to sleep and sometimes, yes, admittedly it can turn violent. Which of course I can’t condone, even I try and avoid town on a Saturday evening due to the sheer amounts of people and the possibility of lots of drunken behaviour, but hey, this is me, I’m a wimp.
But I for one, have had enough now, of people ripping into the young people of the country who supposedly drink excessively, I very much doubt that those who tend to do the claiming aren’t being just a little hypocritical.
One particular video being shown on the news at the moment, among reports that alcohol prices should be raised (good lord, please no!), shows CCTV images of a young woman falling over on a pavement, so what?? No one else is around, she’s not hurting anyone, and at the end of the day, it’s her own embarrassment she causing, she looks as if she’s had a good night, and that is what people are complaining about, us having fun, excellent.
Alcohol, for a person, let’s take myself for example, acts as a release, if this is a good thing or not? Who cares? Being tipsy is fun. After a long, stressful week at work, a couple of double vodka’s help you relax, they make me giggly, happy, hyper and more sociable. I look forward to a good night out, as I know Im going to chill out, open up and forget all about my full time rubbishy paid job.
This brings me back round to the subject of alcohol prices being raised. On the news report I saw they asked random people on the street if raising the price of alcohol would stop them drinking, the majority of which, said no. Myself? Im quite lucky, I live at home, I can withdraw £30 from the hole in the wall at 7pm and get home a good few hours later having a good night out. But still, it’s not something I could do every day, as going out is expensive, to me anyway, I earn just above minimum wage, working in a supermarket, it may be a rubbish job, but it’s an essential one to aid our country’s lifestyle choices. But even if the price was raised £30 would probably still buy me a fair few drinks... And I ask, seriously, what is the point? If it aims to do what the government want it to do, does it not means less tax for them? And that is a genuine question, as that is what I presume, but I could be wrong.
So all Im asking is for people to open their eyes, I admit there must be a few, but who hasn’t been on a night out, (or a day even) and been totally...(hmm what’s an appropriate word) catatonic, afterward? Maybe people have just forgotten how much fun they actually had. So let us have some fun, and leave us alone, you may find release in other ways, but all we ask is that you realise that you were young once to, and that all we are doing is trying to survive, sure we may be killing our livers while we’re doing it, but at least we’re not all in therapy as the 30th customer of the day has asked where the sugar is.
Monday, 18 January 2010
My first blog post.
So, welcome to my blog.
As this is my first post I feel obliged to make it a good one, so I shall try my best.
Potentially this could become an online diary for myself, which no one else ever actually reads, but if thats is the case, so be it, I'm fairly confident that ranting and venting to a webpage can, in some cases, be better than ranting to other people.
So, what to have in a blog? That is the question...according to a speedy Google search, "A blog is a website containing a diary or journal on a particular subject. " So, that brings me to the first question, what should be my "particular subject"?
I don't really have one subject I feel that I specialise in, or that I know enough about to write an entire blog on... my newest employeer, Morrisons, believe that my speciality is making sandwiches, fair play to them I guess... two and a half years working in a Subway store would sugest such talents...
So maybe, as a continuation on this post, I will write about my career history... well "career" may be a bit of an exageration.
I guess, my first job, was a paper round... I did this alongside school, and now I know, after earning minimum wage for a good couple of years, how truly ripped off I actually was by my employer.
The pay was based on a basic rate for the round, plus additional amounts of money for whichever leaflets you gave out with the papers, however you did not have a choice in this, some weeks you would have 5 sets of leaflets, and sometimes you would have 2, some were heavy, some were single pieces of paper... but trust me, though leaflets were hell to deal with, each paper was opened, leaflets inserted, paper closed and then paper folded, and with 257 papers to do... this took a fair while even before we had set out on the actual "round"!
I learnt to hate doors with dogs, mailboxes that snap at your fingers and black ice on driveways... However, any job, however rubbish.. has to have some perks. My paper round bought me the walks at chirstmas time with the lovely lights, and, the discount vouchers that accidently fell out of the papers into my huge luminescent yellow KM bag.
My next job was at the newly opened Subway store in Dover, I started in April 2007 and was there until mid December 2009, so a good two an a half years at the place, I worked there alongside studying for both my GCSE's and A Levels, the money was so great at first, £180! Thats more than I had ever had in my bank account! My first couple of pay packs went on GHD's (which I decided to buy during the middle of a GCSE Media Studies exam!) and an Nintendo Wii... generally now my wages seem to disappear to nights out...I absolutley love all my friends I made at Subway, and ended up hating a couple... but they were subject of many bitchy discussions which made for entertaining evening discussions.
Subway, definatley had it's ups and downs, and In the end I just wanted something new, a new challenge, and of course, more hours and money would have come in handy. This, is where Boots comes in. I applied for a christmas temp job at a Boots store in Folkestone, and if I'm honest, I really really loved it there, I was put on the photo counter, as this was upstairs, where the christmas stock was kept, photography and christmas... two things I really enjoy.
Before I started at Boots, I had also applied for a job at Morrisons, well orignially I applied for a supervisor position and had an interview for that way back in May time, but unfortunatly, though definatly understandably, I didn't a supervisor position, and to cut a long story short, I am now training in Morrisons on the Fresh To Go department as a sales assistant! Better money than Subway, 39 hours a week. Though, admitedly, though don't tell my boss... I prefere the work I did at Boots!
So, anyway. I feel like I have rambled a bit now, I hope, if you are reading the bottom of this blog it means you didn't fall asleep half way through! Maybe from now on, I will make my posts a little shorter and more magically worded.
As this is my first post I feel obliged to make it a good one, so I shall try my best.
Potentially this could become an online diary for myself, which no one else ever actually reads, but if thats is the case, so be it, I'm fairly confident that ranting and venting to a webpage can, in some cases, be better than ranting to other people.
So, what to have in a blog? That is the question...according to a speedy Google search, "A blog is a website containing a diary or journal on a particular subject. " So, that brings me to the first question, what should be my "particular subject"?
I don't really have one subject I feel that I specialise in, or that I know enough about to write an entire blog on... my newest employeer, Morrisons, believe that my speciality is making sandwiches, fair play to them I guess... two and a half years working in a Subway store would sugest such talents...
So maybe, as a continuation on this post, I will write about my career history... well "career" may be a bit of an exageration.
I guess, my first job, was a paper round... I did this alongside school, and now I know, after earning minimum wage for a good couple of years, how truly ripped off I actually was by my employer.
The pay was based on a basic rate for the round, plus additional amounts of money for whichever leaflets you gave out with the papers, however you did not have a choice in this, some weeks you would have 5 sets of leaflets, and sometimes you would have 2, some were heavy, some were single pieces of paper... but trust me, though leaflets were hell to deal with, each paper was opened, leaflets inserted, paper closed and then paper folded, and with 257 papers to do... this took a fair while even before we had set out on the actual "round"!
I learnt to hate doors with dogs, mailboxes that snap at your fingers and black ice on driveways... However, any job, however rubbish.. has to have some perks. My paper round bought me the walks at chirstmas time with the lovely lights, and, the discount vouchers that accidently fell out of the papers into my huge luminescent yellow KM bag.
My next job was at the newly opened Subway store in Dover, I started in April 2007 and was there until mid December 2009, so a good two an a half years at the place, I worked there alongside studying for both my GCSE's and A Levels, the money was so great at first, £180! Thats more than I had ever had in my bank account! My first couple of pay packs went on GHD's (which I decided to buy during the middle of a GCSE Media Studies exam!) and an Nintendo Wii... generally now my wages seem to disappear to nights out...I absolutley love all my friends I made at Subway, and ended up hating a couple... but they were subject of many bitchy discussions which made for entertaining evening discussions.
Subway, definatley had it's ups and downs, and In the end I just wanted something new, a new challenge, and of course, more hours and money would have come in handy. This, is where Boots comes in. I applied for a christmas temp job at a Boots store in Folkestone, and if I'm honest, I really really loved it there, I was put on the photo counter, as this was upstairs, where the christmas stock was kept, photography and christmas... two things I really enjoy.
Before I started at Boots, I had also applied for a job at Morrisons, well orignially I applied for a supervisor position and had an interview for that way back in May time, but unfortunatly, though definatly understandably, I didn't a supervisor position, and to cut a long story short, I am now training in Morrisons on the Fresh To Go department as a sales assistant! Better money than Subway, 39 hours a week. Though, admitedly, though don't tell my boss... I prefere the work I did at Boots!
So, anyway. I feel like I have rambled a bit now, I hope, if you are reading the bottom of this blog it means you didn't fall asleep half way through! Maybe from now on, I will make my posts a little shorter and more magically worded.
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