job interviews/ romance scams/ crazy car accident story

Sept. 4, 2023 Job interviews: All these these interviews were in May 2019.

Cleaning company phone job interview:  I have never applied to be a cleaner before, so I tried it.

Pros:

1. The pay was $18-20/hr.

2. The duties would be cleaning at senior homes and hotels.

Cons: 

1. I don't know, this may be hard.

The questions were:

How do you clean granite counters?

How do you clean hardwood floors?

My opinion: You need a smartphone.  I told them I didn't have a car.  I could be paired up with a worker who drives and has a car.  I didn't get hired, but that's okay because I wasn't that interested.

A Cultural Association: There are quite a lot of cultural associations in Edmonton.  

Pros:

1. It was 2 buses and 45 min to get there.

2. The hours are Fri. and Sat.  from 4pm-8pm.  It's not that late.

3. $15/ hr.  As a busser, you get 10% of tips off the server's tips.

4. Free meal on shift.

5. The duties was to be a busser.  There are lunch and dinner times.  There are 2 servers at a time.  Put dishware out.  Learn alcohol.

Cons:

1. I don't know if this may be too hard.

My opinion: I was neutral about this job.  If I get hired, I may last.  When I attended the interview, the woman said: "Oh you're here.  There were a couple of people who were supposed to come by for an interview and they didn't show up."

I had bosses say that to me when I come in for an interview at a health equipment store and a café.

Oct. 2, 2023 Asian full- service restaurant: I probably applied to be a server or busser.

Pros:

1. It was in downtown.

2. The hours are 11:30am-9pm.  I can work in the daytime.

3. The pay is $15/hr and there are tips.

Cons: None.

My opinion: I would work there if I got hired.  The place is still open.

Maid services: I attended the interview and it was really far away like 2 buses and an hour to get there.

Pros:

1. One of the employees will pick me at my house and we'll drive to clean the houses.

2. We work in teams of 2 or 3 people.  There are 5-8 hr shifts a day.

3. The pay is $16/hr.

4. There is 1 week of training.

Cons:

1. The boss told me the job was physically hard.

My opinion: I was neutral about the job.  I didn't really care if I got hired or not.

Older women's clothing store: 

Pros:

1. It was close by like 1 bus to get there.

2. 3 or 4 days a week.  The hours on weekdays are 1:15-9:15 pm.  Sun. are 11:45am-5:15 pm.  10-20 hrs a week.

3. The pay is $15/ hr.  No commission.

4. There are daily sales goals for the whole store.  

Cons: 

1. You work alone on Sun.  Also from 4:30-9pm.

The store is in a mall and it's safe.

My opinion: I would work there if I got hired.

Oct. 3, 2023 Car dealership: 

Pros: 

1. This will take 2 buses and 50 min. to get there.  

2. The hours are Mon. - Fri- 9am- 6pm.  There may be a Saturday.

3. The pay is $15-17/hr.

4. The duties: answer phones, take payments, set appointments.  There will be 2 days and 8 hr training each day.

Get a driver's license to advance and I will pay for it.

Cons:

1. It may be too hard for me.

My opinion: I didn't get hired.  I was neutral because I have never worked a car dealership before.

Full- service bistro:

Pros:

1. It was 2 buses to get there.

2. They are open day to night.  I can work in the day time.

3. I can work as a server.

4. They sell delicious food.

Cons: None.

My opinion: I would work there if I got hired.  The restaurant is still open.

Pizza and steak house: The position was a kitchen helper or cook.

Pros: 

1. It was close by.  I can walk there.

2. The hours are full- time like 11 am- 7 or 8pm.  Tues.- Sat.

3. The pay is $15/ hr.  The tips vary.  There is a free meal when you work.

4. I will be chopping veggies and met.  I will cook burgers, fries, pizza, and donairs.

Cons:

1. It may be too hard for me, but I can try.

My opinion:  I would work there if I got hired.  The restaurant is still open.

Bench: I can write about the company name because the store closed down and I'm not writing anything negative. 

Pros:

1. I can take 1 bus to get there.  It will be 1 hr long.  

2. They're hiring for part- time and full- time.

3. There will be sales goals and individual goals.  Selling clothes.  I would learn how to use the till.

4. The discount on clothes is 40% off.

Cons: None.

My opinion: I would work there if I got hired.  

Here are the other 2 blog posts:

creative industry jobs- Art Gallery of Alberta

https://badcb.blogspot.com/2023/10/creative-industry-jobs-art-gallery-of.html

creative industry jobs- Royal Alberta Museum/ Edmonton Arts Council

https://badcb.blogspot.com/2023/10/creative-industry-jobs-royal-alberta.html

Fri. Oct. 20, 2023 "Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Have the Most Hilarious Guideline for Their Daughter’s Halloween Costume": Today I found this article by Averi Baudler on Yahoo: 

Ryan Reynolds isn’t about to let his and Blake Lively’s 8-year-old daughter, James, cross the SAG-AFTRA strike picket line — not even on Halloween.

After the union advised its members to “celebrate Halloween this year while also staying in solidarity” with SAG-AFTRA amid the ongoing strike by “[dressing] up as characters from non-struck content, like an animated TV show,” according to Variety, Ryan was sure to let the world know that he fully understood the assignment.

“I look forward to screaming 'scab' at my 8 year old all night,” Reynolds tweeted shortly after the news broke. “She's not in the union but she needs to learn.”

Although the actor was quick to poke fun at the union’s statement, his tweet comes just months after he and Blake donated a notable $1 million to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in August to help provide emergency financial assistance to performers on strike.

https://ca.yahoo.com/style/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-most-182351940.html

Wed. Oct. 25, 2023 "Food Banks Canada report paints dire picture of Canada-wide affordability crisis": Today I found this article by Darryl Greer on BNN Bloomberg:

"We're not talking about a small investment in the future of this country," she said. "What really drives political courage, to be honest, is everyday folks like you and I getting mad enough to make this a ballot issue, to make this an issue at the election, to not let our elected officials at every level of government off the hook anymore."

Even as the report paints a grim picture, Beardsley said food banks remain places of "hope," where communities come together to lift up those in need. 

For those in the food bank sector to be ultimately successful would mean no more need for them, and they're essentially hoping to work themselves "out of a job," she said. 

Until then, Beardsley said, "there's no choice but to keep raising our voices, telling our stories, sharing the data, and if we've got a whole country behind us, I don't think we can be ignored."

 Food Banks Canada report paints dire picture of Canada-wide affordability crisis - BNN Bloomberg

Henry's party: Henry made nachos with cheese, red, orange, and yellow peppers in there.  Duc bought garlic bread.  I brought BBQ chips.  I was there from 7:30-11:30pm.

Henry

Denny

Samuel

Abbas

Duc

Anne

Duc drove me there and home when this ended at 11:30pm.

We played Bingo, a game that Duc brought.  I called the numbers.  Anne won, and got the rest of the Korean BBQ dried meat.

Israel: We talked about Hamas attacking Israel news.

My opinion: Mark Twain said: "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."  Last year was Russia attacking Ukraine.  This year is Hamas attacking Israel.

Romance scams: Anne told us about her friend who got caught up in a romance scam.  Her friend lived in Canada and her internet boyfriend lived in the US.  They only talked in email and text.  They never talked on the phone or video chat.

He asked her for money because he needed it, and his money is like tied to the house mortgage and not a liquid asset.  She worked overtime to pay and then asked her dad for money.  The dad said:  "I need to talk to him and he has to ask me for money."

The boyfriend wouldn't go on the phone or video chat with the dad.  She got scammed out of $5000 and maybe more.  She reported it to the police. 

I then told them about how I got into a job scam:

This is from my Jul. 2017 blog post: This is where the CSR and manager at the bank explain to me that this is a job scam:

Scream 4/ Southgate Construction scam

https://badcb.blogspot.com/2017/07/scream-4-southgate-construction-scam.html

Crazy car accident story: On the ride home, the radio station was on 91.7 Kiss.  Pepper and Dylan was talking to this woman who had a near death experience.  

Woman: I went on a date with this guy and he had a muscle car and the seat belts were on the waist (and not on the chest or something like that.)  I didn't really feel comfortable.  After dinner, he drove and then made this turn.  All I saw was headlights and thought: "Is this how I'm going to die?"

I then woke up and a firefighter yelled: "She's alive!  She's alive!"  My date was apologizing frantically and he got some bumps and bruises.

I was in the ER and my dad was there.  He found out my date was driving and was yelling and calling his name so he could go and fight him.  My date ran off.

The doctor said that I may not walk again, and when someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to prove them wrong.  I was in physical therapy, and then after 6 weeks I took my first step.

After the date, it turns out he wasn't 24, he was 19.  If I knew he was the age of my kid brother, I wouldn't go out with him.

Pepper or Dylan said: I thought you were going to say: "He was with me everyday during physical therapy and then we got married."

My opinion: The lesson is to listen to your intuition.  She did say she was uncomfortable with the car and seatbelts.  How was she to predict she was going to be in a car accident?

The woman didn't say anything about suing the date for getting in the car accident.

This was triggering for me.  This reminds me of the time when this girl Sarah Mroz in gr. 12 at my high school passed away because of a car accident.  

I cut out the article when she passed away.  A year later, I cut out another article about her family did sue the driver/ guy she was dating for negligent driving.

I wrote about this in my Aug. 2022 blog post:

"Give yourself some breathing space" comments/ Glenda Rigon's death/ Sarah Mroz's death

https://badcb.blogspot.com/2022/08/give-yourself-some-breathing-space.html

Please be careful driving.

Sun. Oct. 22, 2023 Alert: Missing Persons Unit: I was watching season 1 last week.

"Follows Nikki Batista after she joins the Philadelphia Police Department's Missing Person's Unit to help other people find their loved ones at the same time that she is looking for her missing son."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18699118/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

My opinion: This show is average.  I like the action.  I mainly wanted to watch this because in the pilot, Nikki and Jason's son Keith who went missing 6 years ago is found.  However, they have to do a DNA test to make sure if it really is him and know what happened to him.

Is Keith who he says he is?

The Family: This show reminds me of this show:

"A community is rattled when a politician's son, who was presumed murdered years ago, returns home."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4428038/?ref_=fn_al_tt_12

My opinion: This is a different show, but I like The Family a lot more.  This is really good writing and the story is more dark and twisted.

Mon. Oct. 23, 2023 Winter: It started snowing in Edmonton.  It's officially winter here.

Snack reviews: I bought these at Wal- Mart.

Lay's Roast Chicken: This does taste like Roast Chicken, but I didn't really like it.

Lay's Fries and Gravy: This tastes like Fries and Gravy.  I like it.  It's for a limited time only.  However, this is 220 g and the other Lays are 235 g.

In 2015, President's Choice had poutine chips and they were good.

These are chocolate covered marshmallow cookies.

Whippet Strawberry: Average.

Whippet Maple: Average.

Whippet Black forest: Average.

creative industry jobs- Royal Alberta Museum/ Edmonton Arts Council

Oct. 2, 2023 Royal Alberta Museum:

Careers

Content

Join a team that will go down in history! Careers at the Royal Alberta Museum range from 

curatorial and research roles to administration and front of house and more!

Positions at RAM are hired through the Government of Alberta - Jobs 
 

Current openings:

There are no current openings at this time.

Please ensure you apply via the appropriate method of each hiring stream. We are unable to 

accept resumes sent directly to the Royal Alberta Museum.

Please note: if you are interested in a job at the museum, you must be a Canadian citizen, 

permanent resident or have a valid work permit issued by the Government of Canada.

https://royalalbertamuseum.ca/about/join-our-team/careers

I went on Google: "art gallery jobs Edmonton"

This lead to Edmonton Arts Council: There are 9 job postings:

https://www.edmontonarts.ca/classified-category/jobs

Gallery Attendant

Apply now »

Posting Date: Sep 26, 2023

Location: Edmonton, AB

Company: Government of Alberta

The Government of Alberta is committed to a diverse and inclusive public service that reflects 

the population we serve to best meet the needs of Albertans. Consider joining a team where

diversity, inclusion and innovation are valued and supported. For more information on diversity

and inclusion, please visit: https://www.alberta.ca/diversity-inclusion-policy.aspx

 

The Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) is the largest museum in western Canada and one of the 

top museums in Canada. Located in the Arts District in downtown Edmonton, we 

collect, 

preserve, 

research, 

interpret, 

and exhibit objects and specimens related to the heritage of Alberta's people and 

natural environment. 
 

For more information about the Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) please visit our website at: 

https://royalalbertamuseum.ca/
 

 

Job Information

Job Title: Gallery Attendant 
Job Requisition ID: 48651
Ministry: Arts, Culture and Status of Women
Location: Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full-time temporary
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Regular/Temporary: Temporary
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: Open until suitable candidate(s) selected
Classifcation: Subsidiary 01B 3625 Administrative Support 2
Salary: ​$20.05 to $24.22 per hour

Role Responsibilities

The Royal Alberta Museum is seeking an enthusiastic team player with experience with a 

museum or science centre to help ensure our galleries are tidy, operating properly, and ready 

for visitors. 

 

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

 

Gallery set-up and operations
Drawing on experience with maintaining public displays, the incumbent will implement 

procedures to prepare the galleries for opening. This will predominantly include setting up 

interactives and programing materials, and cleaning and sanitizing high-touch surfaces 

and programing materials. This will be done as per operating procedures.

 

Drawing on experience maintaining a neat and inviting gallery, science centre or display 

space, the incumbent will monitor all of the museum galleries and identify issues with 

interactives and other exhibit elements. The incumbent will resolve any well-defined minor/

recurring issues themselves (as per operating procedures) and will provide a detailed report 

regarding complex/undefined deficiencies to a senior team member for resolution.

 

Treat visitors and colleagues in a friendly and positive manner in providing courteous, 

professional and solutions-focused services.

 

Support delivery of self-directed programming.
The incumbent will set up self-directed programing activities in galleries, and tidy these spaces

 throughout the day and replenish supplies as required. The incumbent will also monitor an 

inventory of resources / consumables for interactives, programs and activities, and may 

be tasked with ordering more as required. Incumbent may also be required to deliver simple, 

pre-defined programs to visitors as required.

Qualifications

High school diploma.

 

Required:

• Ability to multi-task and operate in a changing environment, demonstrate good problem
• solving skills, and the ability to perform with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills and critical thinking skills demonstrated by an ability to 
• process and retain information (both verbally and in writing) and follow detailed 
• instructions.
• Ability to work with the public, maintaining a positive, patient, welcoming, cooperative, 
• and engaging manner are essential.

 

Assets:

• Post secondary education in a field related to museum operations (e.g. a two year 
• diploma in Art, Business, Early Childhood Education, Museum Studies, Theatre Studies, 
• etc.)..
• Experience in program delivery, ideally at a museum or science centre.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We 

encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this 

opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

 

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf

https://jobpostings.alberta.ca/job/Edmonton-Gallery-Attendant/574395217/

Explore Edmonton – Vice President, Shared Services

ID# 23-2327  Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Reporting to the President and CEO, the Vice President, Shared Services is a key member of 

the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) who plays a critical and active role in setting the strategic

 direction for the organization, demonstrating behaviours and decision-making aligned to our core values, and 

effectively leading operations and overall fiduciary accountability. Specifically, this role provides SLT

 with the financial expertise, analysis and guidance to make sound, strategic decisions to 

advance the organization in its mandate. As an executive leader, this position requires an empathetic,

 ethical, inspiring, results-oriented people leader. In addition, this role also plays a crucial role in 

reporting progress to Explore Edmonton’s Board of Directors, the shareholder (City of Edmonton) and 

our community.

Leading a team of up to six direct reports, this role is accountable for providing strategic oversight and

leadership to the following business units: Finance; Business Systems, including business planning 

and risk management; People & Culture, Strategic Communications & Partnerships; and Technology.

 The Business Administration Manager reports to and works directly with the Vice President, Shared 

Services. Alongside the SLT, this Vice President is crucial to supporting the executive team’s focus on 

ensuring the financial health and sustainability of the organization and supporting the other critical

 shared services.

Click here to read further details about this career opportunity.

https://leadersinternational.com/explore-edmonton-vice-president-shared-services/

City of Edmonton Downtown Music Venues

Applications are open for the City of Edmonton's downtown music venues grant. This program 

is designed to assist live music venues located in or adjacent to downtown with funding to 

support operations (grants of up to $5000).

Art Gallery of Alberta hiring Manager/Curator, Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX)

Reporting to the Executive Director/Chief Curator, the Manager/Curator of the Travelling 

Exhibition Program (TREX) will manage the Art Gallery of Alberta's provincial travelling 

exhibition program. Apply by October 2.

Arts Habitat Edmonton Employment Opportunity: Communications Manager

Arts Habitat Edmonton is hiring a Communications Manager. This position plays a vital role in 

conveying the organization’s mission and objectives to stakeholders, including artists, property 

developers, the arts community

Citadel: Director of Fund Development

The Citadel Theatre, one of Canada’s largest and busiest professional, not-for-profit theatre 

companies and facilities, has an opening for the Director of Fund Development. We are 

looking for an ambitious, creative, organized, flexible leader

Job Opportunities at CKUA

CKUA is seeking applicants for two key managerial positions in the Community Relations 

department: Manager – Communications & Marketing and Manager –Sales & Partnership 

Development. 

Job Opportunity: Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society - Executive Director

The Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society is seeking a new Executive Director. Working with the 

provincial media arts community, this is an opportunity to grow, learn, and take a hands-on role 

in media arts advocacy, education

Job opportunity: Education Assistant - Grindstone Theatre School

Grindstone Theatre is seeking an Education Assistant for 20 - 30 hours per week. They are 

looking for someone with administration and education experience. Apply by October 13.