Nov. 4 Plow and Harvest: I was reading the Metro on
Nov.1, 2013. The article was called
“American Billionare’s Local Venture a Mysterious Failure” by Omar
Mouallem. This restaurant opened for 2
months in west Edmonton. It was 200 seats. I don’t remember hearing that it opened.
In the article it said that it charged $20 for a sandwich,
pickle, and drink and it wasn’t even full service. Someone on Yelper said: “This place seems to
be only open for some financial technicality…like the owner needs it to fail
miserably to reap the tax benefit or something.”
The $20 hot dogs were supposed to be a “marketing
experiment.” I went to the internet and
found some bad reviews here. There were
a few good ones.
That’s the thing with restaurants, they are hard to
get to open and stay open.
Nov. 6 The internet and your job: I was reading in the Metro on Nov. 5,
2013 and
it said: “1 in 3 employers rejected candidates based on something they found
about them online.”
On Nov. 6, 2013, I read in Metro about newly
–elected school trustee James Andre in rural Alberta for sending racist,
homophopic, and sexist tweets. He says:
“I’m deeply sorry for what happened. I
don’t want people to get an impression of me, because that’s not really
me. They’re offensive. There’s no doubt about it and it’s something
that I should have thought of.”
Some of them were his own, but some of them were
retweets from other people. He disses
black people, make reference to Auschwitz, and gay sex.
My
opinion: That guy is so
stupid. Don’t you know that anything you
write about race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and politics are going to
be offensive? That’s why I hardly ever
write about that. It did make me think:
“What about all those times I copy and pasted those snarky comments about Dateline:
To Catch a Predator? Those are
offensive. However, I did always say:
‘This is going to be offensive so I’m forewarning you.’”
I always say that before I tell you what I saw on MADtv,
Family Guy, and Tosh.O. I
did stop watching Tosh.O because I didn’t find it funny. I only found 1 or 2 jokes that are good. I occasionally watch Family Guy if I
have time. MADtv got cancelled
years ago, but I do write about it here and there.
Jessica
Sutta: She’s from the girl
group the Pussycat Dolls. I’m listening
to her talk in the Male Room while I’m researching companies. She talks about how she went to a performing
arts high school, and she got on a soap opera where Transformers star
Meghan Fox played her sister.
I’m going to put this on my inspirational
quotes. She said at the end of this Part
1 clip:
“You have to be on top of your game, that’s how you
become successful, you don’t give up.
People are going to say no to you, and you’re going to say thank you
very much. But you move on to the next
opportunity. Things happen for a reason,
hard work pays off.”
Here’s Part 2 where she talks about her passion
being singing and dancing, but now she’s focused on acting:
Here’s Part 3.
It’s where she talks about wanting to inspire girls from 12-17yrs old
with her music who wants to be a singer like she is, because when she was that
age, she was inspired by Paula Abdual and Madonna. She also sings a little bit acapella at the
end. She sounds good.
My
opinion: This could have been
put into my fun email of the week, but this feels inspirational about one
person following and achieving her passion.
So I put it in my job email.
Hollis
Jane: This is a Yahoo article
I found where “Backup Dancer Hollis Jane on Why she Turned Down the Miley Cyrus
tour.” Jane describes the job as
degrading and she did leave in tears. She
is a midget and here’s some of her own words:
She
felt during the performance she was "being stared and laughed at for all
of the wrong reasons. I was being looked at as a prop…as something less than
human."
She wrote, "For the first time I felt truly ashamed of being a little
person. We were being used simply because we were little. It felt like society
still saw us as a joke, despite the fact there is literally nothing different
about me other than the fact I am small." Until Jane got to rehearsals,
she was left in the dark as far as what kind of role she was taking in the
performance.
Cyrus's VMAs performance was heavily influenced by her obsession with the
outrageous live variety show "Beacher's Madhouse," which combines
burlesque dancers, fire-breathers, people in animal costumes, a host of
imitators, dancers and performers who are little people, and "The Tallest
Burlesque Dancer in the World," Amazon Ashley, who was recruited for
Cyrus's live shows. Cyrus has been a frequent attendee of Beacher's since 2011,
throwing her 19th birthday there. Hollis stated in her AMA
that
Beacher's was just as degrading, given that the show
included a "Midget Bar" and little people dressed as Oompa-Loompas
who "fly through the air" for bottle service.
My
opinion: I feel sorry for
Jane. It does give me some perspective
like though I’ve had jobs I hated, I never felt degraded.
Feelings: Yesterday I worked the whole day, and I was
tired. I didn’t do my job search at all,
and only read the newspaper. Today I
worked the whole day and am tired. I got
off work a little bit earlier than yesterday though. However, since yesterday I didn’t do my job
search, I was feeling really motivated to do it today.
Social
work: I was reading the Metro
and there’s an article about social work.
I did talk to one of my co-workers and she said she did a 2 yr program
of it. She worked as one for 6 months and
didn’t really like it. After work, she
felt depressed and couldn’t really separate herself from her work. She felt sorry for the people she was
helping.
Social work doesn’t really pay well, but if you have
a passion for helping people with mental health, addictions, etc., then go into
it.
Nov. 10 Job fact: Metro started putting “Random biz fact of the day”
in their newspaper. On Nov. 6,
2013 it
said:” 250 CVs are received on average for each position” by Behiring/Nexcarer.
I think it’s the average like the highest sought
after job to the lowest sought after job all combined together.
Starbucks: On Nov. 7, 2013 the Metro said that Starbucks plans to hire 10,000
veteran and military spouses in the next 5 yrs.
Amazon: They’re now starting to deliver groceries that are
non-perishable. That’s convenient.
Wal-mart: On Nov. 1, 2013, in Metro “Disabled Walmart greeter gets job back
after outcry.” Matt Wood in Colorado is disabled and got his back because he was fired
after clocking in late after lunches. He
suffered a brain injury in a car crash and worked in Walmart since 2008. “His wife says new managers complained about
his time management.”
Well at least he got his job back. He’s been there for 5 yrs, that’s good.
