1. STEPHEN COLBERT: Happy 'You' Day, Mr. Colbert. Don't make a special trip to Oshawa just because our Mayor is hosting a day at our brand new entertainment centre just for you as a show of good faith after losing a bet. We're not that important, after all...
2. MY JOB: Many of the temporary staff we work with are by and large humongous losers and trailer park bottom feeders that have no integrity or character whatsoever, and I am embarrassed to say that I grew up in the same town they did.
3. QUEBEC MUSLIMS: Look...if you don't like pork, don't have the frikkin' beans!!! Bring your own Halal foods and eat that instead! No one is saying you aren't welcome to take part in the festivities, but the beans are made with salt pork and that is the tradition...period. If you have a problem with this just don't go to the Sugar Shack at all and spare everyone the drama. We have bent over backwards trying to accommodate your every little rule. Now it's just getting ridiculous. Get over it already.
4. MY JOB: Job candidates - don't worry about reading the ads that we post on our website in full. Just click APPLY on any and all job ads that you think 'might' be of interest to you, and allow me to spend hours prescreening you over the phone and explaining to you what the ad actually says. I have lots of time in a day and live to talk to people on the phone who really aren't suited to the jobs I am looking to fill.
5. NELLIE FURTADO: The boys on the Dean Blundell Show call her "Smelly Fur Taco". She certainly is taking this "I-know-I'm-a-mom-but-I'm-still-hot-OK-so-I'm-gonna-act-like -a-hooch-now-to-prove-it" act to the furthest possible limit. Give it up Smelly. You're almost as ridiculous as the Quebec Muslims.
6. MY JOB: Temps - by all means, don't feel that you have to actually COMMIT to the jobs to which we assign you. We are just your Plan B in case something better doesn't come along. If something better does come along, please pull off our assignment at the last possible minute, and don't give us a chance to replace you...we are here because we owe YOU a living...not for any other purpose. We love having to call the customers back and tell them that we actually DON'T have temp help for them after all. It keeps us on our toes trying to salvage our company's integrity.
7. C.U.P.E: Unions had their place in the 1920's and 1930's, but now you exist only because greed is alive and well in the blue collar sector. Everyone makes a stupid amount of money and can screw up on the job seventeen ways from Sunday and they are protected as if they were an endangered species. It enrages me beyond belief how many union workers just rape the system silly.
8. MY JOB: Yes Mr. Customer - go ahead and take our employees and call them into work for you without involving us. We are just whores for you to take advantage of. We have no purpose other than to stand on our heads and spit nickels for you. Our rules and policies mean nothing, and you don't need to pay any attention to them. In fact we'll give you the lowest bill rate possible so that we don't make a dime on doing business with you. We will continue to work our asses off to service your company for free.
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- Bizzy Girl
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- I am... the mother of two amazing sons; an auntie of three nieces and a nephew; an upwardly mobile professional; a reunited adoptee; a loyal friend, sister, daughter and merry bachelorette; tirelessly pursuing happiness; evolving as we speak.
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3 comments:
That is a VERY good vent. :-)
Hmm...lemme guess...union steward, right?
As irritating as it is to have people barge in on your blog and berate you for having opinions, I'm going to waste the time and energy explaining (not that I have anything whatsoever to justify to you) how things are on The Other Side - the side who has no one to wipe their butts for them but themselves.
I have studied the whole union movement from the era of Mackenzie King to today, and you will be hard-pressed to convince me that they hold any useful purpose whatsoever in the 21st century. Yes, there were once very deplorable working conditions: child labour...16 hour workdays...physical abuse from employers, etc. and the labour movement definitely initialized some much-needed change on the labour front. It gave birth to other legislations such as the Employment Standards Act, which now dictates how everything from break times to bereavement leave is handled in the average workplace.
Unions today are less focused on workplace issues and more so on the almighty dollar: most strikes and lockouts are due to collective agreement issues such as getting that extra vacation day or 50-cent per hour wage increase, not on poor working conditions or oppressive management. From my experience in the field the term "union worker" is an oxymoron: most union employees spend more time complaining about something than doing their jobs (I'll bet you typed that comment while you were on the job, didn't you???). In one unionized workplace where I place temporary staff, the union people do nothing while the temps (who are getting paid 1/2 the wage the union folks are) do twice the work. What the hell is up with THAT I ask you!
Seriously dude...gimme a friggin' break already...and get back to work!
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