Dec. 22, 2024 Job interviews:
I attended this job interview in Sept. 2024.
The Hospital Food Services: This was on Kijijji.
I applied and got a call back on the same day.
This is to be a barista.
The woman S said I looked familiar and asked if I worked at the Royal Alex Hospital.
It turns out we used to work at a restaurant in 2018.
Pros:
1. The hours I can work any day. It starts at 8am and mainly daytime hours.
2. The pay is $15.55 /hr.
Full- time is 30 hrs or more a week. You get benefits after a month. Guaranteed hours.
Part- time doesn't have guaranteed hours.
3. There is a meal allowance like:
1 main course meal and a drink for $2.17.
Every shift I work, $2.17 is deducted from my paycheck.
That's like the school cafeteria job.
4. There is an immunization check: free.
Criminal record check. This costs $80. The company pays for half of it.
Cons: none.
My opinion: I would work here if I got hired.
I attended these job interviews in Oct. 2024.
Dec. 24, 2024 McDonald's: There are so many locations, you can't identify which location I attended the interview at. I applied on the company's website.
I have passed my resumes to other locations in-person. I attended interviews at this restaurant before in 2010 and 2015.
This a part- time cashier/ line cook.
Pros:
1. It was close by like a bus and an LRT to get there.
2. The hours are day time like start at 7am. I can get there by that time.
3. The pay is $15/ hr.
4. There is 50% off a meal.
5. The duties are where you take orders and prepare drinks.
Prep the food: set ingredients
-the grill
-cook the food
The orientation is 2 hrs long.
Cons: none.
My opinion: I would work there if I got hired because I like working at restaurants. They were going to hire 2 people.
The Hat Store: This is third key holder/ sales associate position. I applied on the company's website.
Pros:
1. It was close by like a bus and an LRT to get there.
2. The hours are evenings and weekends. This can be 25-35 hrs.
3. The pay is $15/hr.
4. I can do the job of cleaning, working the cash register.
5. The woman who interviewed was nice and good with the customers that came in.
Cons:
1. I will mostly be working alone. They aren't going to leave me without proper training.
2. There are lots of shoplifters and safety precautions.
3. The duty I haven't done before is working the embroidering machine for the hats.
My opinion: I would work there because I need a job, and not because I was really that interested in working there.
The Essentials Oil Store: This was a seasonal sales associate position. I applied on the company's website. I was interviewed with this East Indian guy in his early 20s.
Pros:
1. I have take 2 buses to get there (1 hr ride). The buses come frequently.
2. The hours are day time. 20-40 hrs/ week.
3. The pay is $15- 16/hr.
4. It doesn't take too long to close like 15 min. Or it could be 30 min. during the holidays.
5. I do like the products.
Cons: none.
My opinion: I would work there if I got hired because I would like working there.
I attended this interview in Nov. 2024.
The Men and Women's Clothing Store: I applied on the company's website. This is a sales associate position.
Pros:
1. It was 2 buses to get there.
2. The hours are part- time 15-25 hrs/ week.
3. The pay is $15-17/hr.
4. The duties are cleaning, putting the merchandise, and the cash register.
This will take 30 min. to close. The place closes at 9pm.
Cons: none.
My opinion: I would work there if I got hired. This is an average store.
Dec. 30, 2024 The Outlet Store: I was attending a job interview. I then went here afterwards to pass my resume to them in- person. I then got an email to come in for an interview.
Pros:
1. The place was easy to get to. 2 buses. It would be a 50 min. ride.
2. The hours are day time. They are open to 7pm the latest. 8pm for December.
3. The pay is $16.75.
4. The duties are working as a cashier.
There is lots of pricing and putting out the products. There is cleaning like sweeping and mopping.
Cons: none.
My opinion: I would work here.
Wal- Mart: There are so many locations, you can't identify which location I attended the interview at. I applied on the company's website.
This was for a self- checkout attendant. I was in a group interview with a 40 something yr old white woman and 20s-30s something yr old Filipino woman.
Pros:
1. It was close by like a bus and an LRT to get there.
2. The pay is $15. 15/ hr.
3. The discount is 10% off everything. The products there are pretty cheap already.
4. The hours are part- time.
I get my schedule 3 weeks in advance.
Cons:
1. They seem to want a big availability. They are open from 8am- 9pm.
I can get there by 8am.
This may take until 9:30pm to close.
I wrote down my availability of 8:30am -9:30pm.
My opinion: I would work there if I got hired. This is an average store.
There are 65 people who work there.
I have applied at Wal- Mart before, but this is the first time I attended a job interview here.
I attended these job interviews in Dec. 2024.
The Hat Store 2nd location: I applied on Kijiji. This is a kiosk.
Pros:
1. I have take 2 buses to get there (1 hr ride). The buses come frequently.
2. The pay is $15/hr. 3% commission after selling $500 in a day. If you work on the weekends when it's busy, you can achieve that.
3. The hours are part- time. They are mainly 5-9pm. Sundays.
4. The duties are to sell the hats.
Cons:
1. The duty I haven't done before is working the embroidering machine for the hats.
2. He did say you have to tell the customers "No refunds or exchanges" even when they embroidered the hat and the hat doesn't fit.
To prevent this: tell them about no refunds, and try on the hat.
My opinion: I would work there because I need a job, and not because I was really that interested in working there.
Jan. 1, 2024 The Investments Company: I found this on Kijiji. This a 2 day temporary job to be a brand ambassador.
Pros:
1. This is in downtown.
2. The pay is $25/hr and is through e- transfer. 2 hrs into the shift I will get the full 6 hrs pay.
The next day, the same thing will happen.
3. The hours are on Fri. 5-10pm.
Sat. 12pm-4pm and then 5:30-10pm.
4. The duties are that I and another worker will be at a booth and we'll be talking about these investments and passing out brochures.
The training is watching a 1 hr video. This isn't hard.
Cons:
1. I wasn't really that interested in working here and the duties doesn't sound that interesting.
2. I kind of dislike an e- transfer, though I have received payment through a few companies like this.
My opinion: I called the woman and I got hired. She said I was the first few people to reply to the ad.
However, a week later she emails me saying: "We decided to not hire you. We're going to assign 2 of our employees to do this job."
I wasn't hurt or offended because I wasn't really that interested in the job. Also, it's a good plan to get 2 of their own employees who know this info to do this assignment instead of hiring 2 new workers to train.
The Shoe Store: I applied on the company's website.
Pros:
1. The hours are part- time like 10-30 hrs/ week.
2. The pay is $20/hr. There is 4% commission on every 2 pairs of shoes you sell.
3. The duties are to sell shoes. There is a daily sales goal.
There is stocking, shipping, and helping customers. You have to change the pricing.
Cons:
1. It was kind of far away. I have to take 2 buses and it would be 1 hr.
My opinion: I would work here.
There would be a 2nd interview with the district manager over Zoom.
These are the other 2 blog posts:
"Employees are 'in the driver’s seat': How employers are trying to lure people back to the office"/ "Bosses are ordering staff back to the office — but those rules don't apply to them"
"'I miss remote work already': Workers are back in offices — and it's been very, very awkward"/ "The end of sick days: Working from home has made it harder to take time off"
My week:
Jan. 8, 2025 Leo opinion:
Jignesh B, North York, Ontario, would like to know:
Would you agree with Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States?
My opinion: No.
"Ricki's and Cleo to close stores while Frank and Oak seeks creditor protection": Today I found this article by Tara Deschamps on BNN Bloomberg:
Canada’s retail industry is starting the year with several brands seeking creditor protection and closing stores.
Women’s apparel company Comark Holdings Inc. says it will shutter all of the stores under its Ricki’s and Cleo banners as it files for creditor protection.
Court documents show the Ontario-headquartered company operates
and about 19 sites the brands split with Comark’s other banner Bootlegger.
A court-appointed monitor says Comark’s profitability has been negatively impacted by
a November 2021 ransomware attack,
more competition from ultra low-cost fashion retailers
and supply chain and vendor issues.
Meanwhile, UCG Canada Holdings Inc., which operates as apparel brand Frank and Oak, says it is seeking creditor protection while it explores options to restructure its business.
It says one of those options may be a sale of the Montreal-based company with 15 stores.
Court filings say the move is necessary because Frank and Oak has failed to recoup losses experienced during the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2025/01/08/rickis-and-cleo-to-close-stores-while-frank-and-oak-seeks-creditor-protection/
Jan. 9, 2025 "CBC investigation uncovers grocers overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat": Today I found this article by Sophia Harris on CBC:
The Loblaw grocery chain overcharged customers by selling underweighted meat across 80 stores for an undisclosed period that ended in December 2023, a CBC News investigation has found.
On top of that, over the past few months, CBC News visited seven major grocery stores in three different provinces and discovered packages of underweighted meat in four of them: two Loblaw stores and one Sobeys-owned location, plus a Walmart. Calculated overcharges per item ranged from four to 11 per cent.
The findings suggest grocers selling underweighted meat is a prevalent and ongoing problem, at a time when shoppers are struggling with high food prices that began rising during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"When you're seeing that they're not weighing meat product properly ... there's an extra hit there that the consumer is taking," said Iris Griffin, a shopper who blew the whistle on the 80-store Loblaw case.
In late November 2023, Griffin, who lives on Hecla Island in Manitoba's Lake Winnipeg, bought a package of ground beef at a Loblaw-owned Superstore in Winnipeg.
The beef's label stated that its net weight was 1.834 kilograms. But when Griffin weighed the meat in order to freeze equal portions, she said it turned out to be 1.7 kg — 134 grams short.
She said the weight of the beef's hard plastic tray made up for the missing weight, so she figures the meat had been incorrectly weighed with the packaging.
"I was angry," said Griffin, who calculated she'd been overcharged $1.27 (7.9 per cent) on the $17.35 price tag. "I'm being charged for this piece of plastic at the price of the ground beef."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocers-customers-meat-underweight-1.7405639
My opinion: This article is about exposing grocery stores of how they're overcharging customers and reminds me of this:
"#MeToo movement becomes #WeToo in in victim-blaming Japan"/ "Outrage as women in Japan told not wear glasses in the workplace"
Aug. 17, 2020 Saying: I found this on Facebook:
"You never look good when you are trying to make someone else look bad."- Unknown
Cham: Sometimes people need to be exposed for who they are hahah or maybe I should stop being petty
Tracy Au: There's a difference between trying to make someone look bad, and exposing them for who they are. It's like those #MeToo accusers and victims, they are plainly telling everybody about the perpetrators. They're not trying to make them look bad.
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2020/08/job-articles-wetoo-gender-gap-done.html
Jan. 5, 2024 West Edmonton mall: My parents and grandma went grocery shopping at T&T.
2 free Chinese calendars: My family got these as gifts with purchase. We got our calendars to put around our home. I put this on my Facebook status update and emailing my friends on Facebook.
I went to my old restaurant job and Jaelyn chose 1 and I offered the other one to Pepe.
Foreign currency: Jaelyn is Filipino so I offered her $2 Philippine currency for 5 cents Canadian. She gave me $1. I'll consider that 95 cents for the calendar.
Jan. 7, 2025 Quote: I found this in the Costco Connection Jan. 2025 issue:
"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."- Warren Buffet
Jan. 8, 2025: This Canadian show on CBC premiered this week. I got to watch the pilot 2 months earlier and get paid with Leo points. (The points can be redeemed for cash.)
Nov. 13, 2024 Saint Pierre: I was on Leo opinion and this survey came on.
"After exposing corruption, a Newfoundland cop is exiled to French islands where he teams up with a headstrong deputy to solve baffling crimes beyond the idyllic locale's facade."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33059905/?ref_=nm_flmg_knf_t_1
I got to watch the whole pilot.
I was to watch 10 min. video clips and answer some questions about it, like:
"I'm curious to know what happens next."
Do you:
strongly agree
somewhat agree
neutral
somewhat disagree
strongly disagree
At the end of the survey I said:
I'm looking forward to this show.
I'm happy and excited that I get to watch this new TV show before it premieres, and I get to give my opinions and comments that could shape the show.
Jan. 9, 2025 Doc: I was able to watch this TV show on Telus on Demand on the Global network. This TV show came out on Tues.
"It tells the story of Dr. Amy Larsen who loses her memory during a car accident. She must return to being an intern and somehow rebuild her life from the pieces that remain."
My opinion: I just finished watching the pilot. This was average. This is a medical drama and I don't usually watch these. I won't be watching this again.
If you like medical dramas and to watch a woman put her life together, then you might like this.
I heard about this show in the May 2024 upfronts:
May 13, 2024 "Fox Fall 2024 Schedule: ‘Lone Star’ Succeeds ‘9-1-1’, ‘The Floor’ Moves, ‘Family Guy’ Among 8 Scripted Series Held For Midseason": Today I found this article by Nellie Andreeva on Deadline:
https://deadline.com/2024/05/fox-fall-2024-schedule-9-1-1-lone-star-the-floor-family-guy-midseason-1235913421
Jan. 8, 2025 Community League meeting: I went there. I asked to get people's full names so I can add them on Linked In to network. I got a few names.
I also told them I have foreign currency to exchange. No one wanted the coins.
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