Fuck Dillard's

So this summer while I was off from the pursuit of the elusive BA in English I decided to get a second job at Dillards in the men's department. (This also helped ETP purchase the flaming red asshole car that I look really good in but that is beside the point.) Anyway, so this weekend was inventory and it royally sucked ass. I worked on Saturday from 7pm to 3:30am and then Sunday from 4pm to 7:15am. That's kinda a lot of hours. Now we had to stay late because the managers fucked up and had morons scanning departments that had high dollar values and that were potentially difficult with complicated tables and fixtures...ie china and Mens Polo and Nautica. When the scans are fucked up and have a high difference things go into a third audit or rescan and you keep scanning until you get it right. Your numbers must match the hand counted numbers of the auditors for the items on the fixture. The managers pissed off the auditors and in turn they made their lives a living hell. God I want to be an auditor. The managers would not let us take breaks and gave us crap for food. We were literally held hostage there for the night until I made a big stink and some of us left. By this point some of the people, myself included, were becoming ill from lack of food and sleep deprivation. As we were preparing for the third audit in housewares I told the Assistant Store Manager that he might want to let some of the people go home who were going to be ill before it got to the point where they could not drive anymore. He got all snippy and said well no one wants to be here but we have to get this done. He then said if you don't want to be here then leave, doing so in a manner meant to humiliate us and make us feel bad and guilty, and so the four of us that were standing there grabbed our bags and left. I think that he was expecting us to be contrite little employees and feel bad and stay but not me! I say Fuck you Dillards! Fuck you in the ear with a big rubber dick, break it off and beat you upside the head senseless with it!!!!!

Now I have contacted the Department of Labor in my state and asked them if you work a shift that is longer than 12 hours regardless of whether it spans one or two days, as long as it is continuous, you are required to pay overtime. The store Managers were saying that they would not be paying any overtime because it was technically a shift spanning 2 days. I will be filing a complaint and they will pay me my overtime!! Don't ever mess with little people because they can be mean and bitchy when they have to be.

Opps!

So I don't know why the link wasn't working but now it works!

Mary Poppins

So let me start off this particular rant by stating that I am a nanny and I have been for a couple of years now. I ran across this article and thought I would share my thoughts. First of all isn't this common sense stuff that should be expected of a nanny. Anyone that you employ should show up on time and be prepared for the job. If this is the sign of a great nanny then I am Mary Poppins! These are your kids and if you went to all the trouble to have them shouldn't you demand the best out of those who you choose to take care of them. Maybe I am expecting too much of parents because there a quite a few out there who do not pay attention to their kids and are just looking for someone else to do the dirty work of raising their kids. The whole problem with the barometer used in this senario is that it greatly depends upon the parent playing an active role in the child's life. If the parent doesn't care it is highly unlikely that the nanny will care about the kids either. I have nannied for both types of families and I know that I hold myself to a higher standard when I know that the parents are truly responsive and deeply care about their kids. Anyway this pisses me off and if I go any further I will have to launch into a post about the tests that I think you should have to pass in order to become a parent and I don't have time because I have to go and be Mary Poppins soon! I'll have to save that for another day!

Lists Lists Lists

So the wonderful department of Homeland Security
has decided that the airport screening system that they were working on
is not viable. Now they want to create one that checks names
against an expanded list of suspected terrorists. I'm sure that
the Republicans won't fuck this one up like they did in Florida.
Convicted felon's lists are extreamly accurate so I would have to say
that the terror lists are probably correct also! Wouldn't you?

Convenience store terrorists!!

So I found this a bit amusing. Now, apparently if you walk around in a ski mask and try to buy a pack of gum you are a terrorist. Now I am not sure when wearing a ski mask became a terror threat but apparently now bank robbers and any other robber who wears a ski mask is a terrorist. I think that it is discrimination based on apparel and the ski mask industry should sue. I mean come on what about the guys who wear the panty hose over their heads or the masks, how do they get off so easy. Did those industries contribute to the Republican party? I guess this is why the terror threat warning was issued. I hate it when the terrorists get a hold of our Wrigley gum. They hate us for our gum!!

Keg Stands For Freedom!

So is this the fate of nation? Is this the intellectual pinnacle of our society? CNN highlights college students, specifically frat boys, deciding who to vote for based on who they think would do a good job holding their feet in a keg stand. I'm so glad we got that out of the way and now we can move on to more pressing issues like who would an asset to the fraternity when Greek Week comes around!

Interesting Article

So now there is a coffin museum complete with a fish coffin. If you are going to go to all the trouble to make this cool coffin why would you then want to put a rotting corpse in there and bury it in the ground. Just my opinion, but it kinda seems like a fucking waste!!!

Ok so let's stop it with the name dropping

Ok so what is with the designer purse fetish? This summer I have been working retail and I have noticed the large masses of purses and handbags emblazoned with various designers trademarks all over them. Why must you pay $200 for a purse and then complain that you are broke and don't have any money. Maybe you would, if you hadn't blown it on your stupid purse that screams, "I want you to think that I have money but I really don't!!" And last but not least, if you are going to buy one of these things please don't buy one for your eleven year old daughter. (You laugh but I have seen it happen!) She doesn't fucking need it! She is eleven! This will just help turn her into a spoiled brat no one wants to be around. Good, now I am glad we have that straight.

Lets Reverse That Shit Please

So last night I had the wonderful pleasure of watching the movie Irreversible which is a French film. Holy shit, where do I begin? This had to be the most pretentious piece of crap that I have seen in a long time. I must preface the rest of this post with a warning: I will be giving away elements of plot if you desire to see this work of "art". The director, Gaspar Noe, is trying desperately to be profound in his discovery that there are choices that you make in life that you cannot undo. No Shit, Sherlock! The story is told backwards, like Memento, and there are various camps out there who beleive that it was a dream sequence which is really irrelevant. From what I can tell, the director really didn't have anything in particular that he wanted to say other than "choices are irreversible." There is a thread of women's issues (such as relationships, dating, pregnancy and rape) interwoven, but there is no clear underlying message to complete the arc and tie it together.

In the movie there is also a nine minute rape scene that is, let's say, not so fun to watch! I almost walked out of the room. Of course, I almost walked out of the room in the beginning of the movie because the director decided that he wanted to spin the camera around and see if he could nauseate the audience before he started inidating them with the rest of this crap that he called a movie. Complete and utter pretension!!!! The film was filled with gruesome violence and sex. Now normallly I am one that is all for violence in movies and sex and killing and shit like that. Some of my favorite movies are filled with it, ie. Kill Bill, Battle Royale, Reservoir Dogs, Mulholland Drive. In this film there was no point to it and it did not really serve a purpose as far as plot development (maybe because there is no point to the movie in the first place) I'm pretty sure the director made the movie on a dare and not because there was a story that needed to be told here.

To make matters worse, in the other corner of the room as we are viewing this atrocity, people are laughing and having a great time watching this Korean movie called Sex is Zero. I will have to watch that some other time.

Lastly, why must people be suckered into beleiving that just because the film is foreign or that the director is doing something "different" that the film is good? Sometimes people make bad films. This is not art! This is pretentious... learn to tell the difference. It doesn't matter where the shit comes from, it is still Shit! It doesn't matter if it is filmed upside down or if the scene is shot in one take or 52 billion takes, Crap is still Crap! God dammit I hate Pretentious Assholes. Stop that! Stop Being Stupid!

Hello

Well at least the site is functional at this point...it is a work in progress and it shall get better I promise. (at least looks wise I am making no promises on the content) So as I was saying earlier I have been bullshitting around saying that I was going to start a blog here for about a year and I have now finally done it. Whoopee! I guess now I can join the ranks of those that are admonished for not updating their blogs or I could be the rebel who actually does update regularly, but lets face it who am I kidding.

So I fucking did it!

Yes I have now started a blog. So for all of those who have been listening to me bullshit about starting a blog can all now shut up because here it is. So I will end this now as I have other shit to do and I will be back to clean this mess up later.