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2006/5/29 YumI am like, turning into my hamster..
My sister brought this cereal thing, its just seeds, grains and granola type stuff, and I am liking it. I share food with my hammie all the time anyway so who cares. Let me re-cap because Erica seems to have thought that working at Chapters is horrible. It's not... It's alright, and I suppose it is one of the nicer jobs out there. God, when will i finish my book, have it sell fabulously, and become a billionaire? 2006/5/26 MUA HA HAFinally. Met up with teacher and school board dude. Tried to do the big eyes innocent thing Nina said I can do, but then my eyes started stinging real bad and I stopped abruptly. Yeah, they made a big mistake because its not me who went to class and the teacher agreed, but it was ANOTHER Annie, and they stayed to figure it out while my mom and I left, because it's not my problem. Its amazing though, the one time in my life I get good grades and had a decent relationship and reputation with a teacher, it paid off as she saved me from this big misunderstanding a year later... They are giving us a refund, and it is like, IN YOUR FACE, thank you very much. My story writing is still lagging, pretty damn long lag. Must focus soon. Like, whenever I suddenly mature. 2006/5/22 Music SourceIts so sad, I basically catch up on music while I am at work..
Well... whenever the music isn't on the Irish or Dutch channels.. But once in a while it's on a decent station, and it makes working quite pleasant... Like when we are supposedly shelving, but mouth the lyrics at each other and pretend to jam on air guitars along to the music while shaking our heads in sync... Except that's usually when customers are slightly hesitant to approach us and ask questions... LOL, especially when someone accidently sings out loud, but then we all spread out and drop to our knees really quickly and stare at a book seriously on a bottom shelf. So you hear loud singing, and then you look up, but there is nobody there... It is quite funny.
One of my MODs is rather pissy, must be because she is starting to realize that her life is almost over and everyone hates her.
Not that being spazzy helps, but I tell myself to excuse her due to her sufferings. I will not elaborate on how mean she is. I just wont. Because I am nicer than that. ... But she didn't let me take out a book because she was "too busy". None of the MODs ever do that. They always make time because they are nice. But that's all, I won't say anything more behind her back. No more. ... And she is so controling! She has this, need to control people, like she can't lay off anyone... Every hates her... But yes, I will not talk about her anymore because I am not that type of a person. I am dignified and forgiving.
It is of the past, hardly worth mentioning... ... God, she is so mean. 2006/5/17 LaggingMy story-writing progress is lagging..
Lol, more like, it froze, and I restarted it and now it's virused.. BOOOO..!! Except now I want to change like a whole bunch of plot and its all screwed up and I'm reluctant to figure things out... =( On the bright side, kinda getting the hang of working at Chapters.. It's pretty nice I guess... As of now my hammie is sitting in the backyard in its cage because I want it to get some sun... but there is no sun... Poo. 2006/5/12 Fibbity Fab FabOkay, so the Chapters orientation wasn't as boring as I thought it would be.. haha ~ They had cookies and juice and prizes and contests and everything..
YEY! On the way back to Richmond we went to Red Robin (my first time ever) and their food was pretty good. Well, chicken fingers, anyway, and it's almost impossible to make chicken fingers not yummy. Everytime I go to a new place I get chicken fingers... yum yum. Well even if its NOT a new place... well.... ARGHHHHHH... I like chicken fingers. Let's move on. I have work in a bit, a 8.5 hours shift. Nooooooooo.... >< (Sigh) When I do a closing shift, I get home at like, 11pm, which sucks. The school board dude finally got back to me yesterday and after 5 days his conclusion was "The teacher confirms that you went to class"... How efficient. So now this guy, the teacher, and I are gonna have to meet up and work things out. I even know the teacher, from a summer school class. This had better be good. In truth, I am kind of nervous, because that means it's two against one, kind of a, them against me thing. And evil does not always lose. But I will still say, in a hopeful way, TRUTH WILL PREVAIL! 2006/5/9 Work orientationGoing to a 4 hour orientation for Chapters on Thursday..
I forgot to ask, but I wonder if I need to dress formally... Lalala... Need to get back on track in life.. Am slacking off everything... A complete Guild Wars junkie these days, but i have even managed to screw up on that too.. I left my guild, and I miss them already.. =( I joined 2 new guilds within 5 hours, but they both seem blagh and kinda cold.. They even have formal guild announcements.. About forums and new members and stuff.. My old guild had guild announcements like "Cody is a douchebag"... Which is, yes, gross... but we had fun...
and in the middle of missions, we turn on CAP LOCK and sing lyrics from Postal Service while we are killing things... and our leader promoted people who like the guild song.. == Sighhhhhhhhhh.... I am in Guild-happynessless... =( 2006/5/6 Laa dee dah ~Officially a Guild Wars - Factions Junkie!
Fun fun fun... Still zippity zip on Darren, damn. Definately slacking off on the story bit.. Am sooooooo lazy....! Getting the hang of everything at work.. Must say the new shoes are vair comfortable. However, shelving is the most boring thing ever, and I am falling asleeping while going "...h, i, j, k, l..." in my head, according to author's last name... Finally reading the Artemis Fowl books, it is like, vair vair acceptable so far.. Although I am starting on "The Opal Deception" (not the first book) because it is a hardcover... Funny thing, though...
Started the book last night, and this morning when I logged onto Guild Wars just to see how my Guildies are doing, the first local player's name I see is Opal Doboi. Which is one of the characters from Artemis Fowl. Just goes to show the ignorance I have been under before. Artemis Fowl is everywhere. No news yet on school board stuff...
They haven't gotten back to me. I almost wish they wouldn't, as I am tired of dealing with rude people.. Sigh... 2006/5/4 What is going on?Everyone, please read this post from beginning to end, carefully.
It's important that I spread the word. I know it's a bit long but please bare with me. I applied for nightschool back in September 2005 for Writing 12.
The night before the classes started, I phoned. Twice. And the lady said "no we don't have enough people." So that's it then, classes are cancelled. Fine. Off the the states I went, troadtrip to Reno and back. Now, they give me back 44$ which is the deposit for textbook fees, and that's it. I phone them to ask wtf happened to the 375$ course fee, and they are telling me "um, you went. And you failed the course." Uhhh, run that by me again, how could I have gone to class if I didn't know there were classes? "Well here are the teacher's records of attendence. You did go, and you failed the course." "I didn't go." "Well then, somebody's been impersonating you, and it would be one of your friends." (That is the exact words of the school board lady.) I got so mad, but then I decided that she is one of those people who just doesn't give a shit and wants to go off and have coffee, but I am on the phone with her and in her way. So I said, "Thankyou anyways." FOR NOTHING! and she says "Uh huh. Bye." I dont know what I expected, "You're welcome?" Well, I got "Uh huh. Bye." When you charge somebody, and you provide a service, it becomes your responsibility to make sure that the person gets the service. Telling me that someone impersonated me only shows me how crap you are. You don't ask for ID when they take the exams? You don't ask for course reciept on the first day of class? Either that, or you're not thinking, and am telling me that because you think I have bad friends, you can take my money. Yesterday morning, we decided to drive to the school board and talk with them in person. First of all, we stood in front of the desk where the lady was sitting, she was busy typing away. She must has noticed us, because the elevator went "DING" as we got out, right in front of her face. We stood there while she was typing on her computer, and she ignored us. Finally I said "Excuse me, hi. If I had a problem concerning night school, would I talk to you? Or should I be on a different floor?" Without looking up she says. "Uh huh." And she keeps typing. I explained my problem to her. She didn't even know what I looked like until I was done talking, because the whole time she was typing and look at her screen, looking at her papers, and then she looked up at me, FINALLY. It was after about 3 or 4 minutes after I started talking. I can't explain how crap I felt as I was talking to the top of her head. Next. Everyone properly Chinese knows. You speak with your parents in Chinese, right?
So I'm talking with my parents while the lady behind the counter is writing down a note to talk to other people about our issue, when she looks up and cuts us off in the middle of our conversation and says, "Why speak in Chinese if you can speak in English?" Meaning we are trying to hide something from her.
As we were driving away, my dada says, "Even if that were the true case, what kind of manners and professionalism would allow her to say that to us?" NO MANNERS AND NO PROFESSIONALISM is the answer. My parents are infuriated, not because of the 400$, but because of the school board people's attitude.
Their stance the whole time is "I am fed up with my job, I wish you people would go away. You are all dumb Chinese people, fuck off." Nice service. Tha last time my dad was so determined to screw people over was when Air Canada oversold tickets, and left the 20 people unable to board, and sitting in the lobby for three hours without any explanation. Then they sent down an Air Canada representative who said "I only have 5 minutes before I have to go. Do you guys have any questions?" Uhhhh YEAH, like "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR COMPANY?" Thank GOD a reasonable person who was actually a YVR representative, came and apoligized and said a bunch of empathetic stuff, and calmed everyone down, even though he wasn't even working for Air Canada. Anyhow, I am going to copy and paste this bit about my experience with the school board, and post it everywhere I can. Even Chapters has an Employee Chat board, and there this will go. I want to print hundreds of copies and scatter them on the streets. But I will only do that AFTER, if they phone me back and say "Too bad. You're money is gone because we say so." In which case my dad will sue them. It sounds big, like "OOOOOHHH you're gonna sue them." But it is a tiny room in the "Richmond Public Court" with like 20 seats, and the fee is what, 5 dollars? Anyway, yeah, it is not that big of a deal, it is only to show people who think they can get away with everything, that they CAN'T. Even if it is a tiny room with twenty fold-up plastic chairs from Ikea. Right now, about half an hour ago, I phone a man named Mr. Khoo, who called me back yesterday while I was out. I'm naming him not because he was a bigger bitch then the other two school board people I spoke to. In fact, he was the most acceptable one. But I'm naming him because I am finally fed up with their attitude. I called him and told him my name, and I told him that in September they claimed the class was cancelled. I was halfway through about my third sentence when he loudly cuts me off and says "Annie, so you didn't attend the classes at all?" And I say "No. I was told it was canceled, and then-" And he cuts me off again and says "Well, but it wasn't." So I say, "Yes, back in September-" and he again interupts and says "Look, I'm going to have to speak to some people, the teacher, and see what they say." So I said "Well, okay..." He jumps in and says "I'll talk to the teacher and get back to you." I never was any good with education. I don't expect good marks for my lack of effort. What I do expect is at least professional if not nice people representing the school board. You're getting paid to deal with me, so guess what? Deal with me. Don't like it? Then quit. Come to Chapters if you want while I am working, and speak in a weird language. Give me big problems. Do it while I am thirsty for coffee. I will NOT tell you that you are hiding something, I will NOT look impatient and pissed off from the moment I see you, I will NOT interupt you over and over when I know you have something to say, and I will NOT refuse to deal with you because I don't feel like solving your problem. It's not my fault you have a crap job that you hate.
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