I have finally come to terms with the truth that no matter where I go, whether the sexual harassment policy is taken seriously or not, I will always have some 50-something year old fat pig making sexual and derogatory statements about me and to me.
I am suicidal.
I was so hopeful.
Okay, so really I'm a big fan of people. I love watching them, interacting with them, etc. I love it. However, when I'm at work, that boat sometimes flips over completely. Every now and then I get customers that make rude remarks, throw things at me, and are just total grumps.
I received the dreaded phone call on Monday, the one I was hoping I would not get this time, but I guess it was inevitable. The temp service I have been working with informed me that Friday will be my last day. The project is over, leaving me, once again, terrified wondering if I am going to be able to keep a roof over my head and food in my belly.
Spring is here everywhere I turn in Montana. We have a corny old axiom for those of you who cannot visualize the weather we're eternally captivated by. "Wait five minutes or drive five miles and you'll see different weather," we say. Likewise with my mind. I mean, it seems the same is true of my spring-y ambitions.
I'm going to call and see what if any assistance might be available to me today. Food stamps if necessary?
This is Day three of "We don't need you to come in today."
I just back from filling out some paper work today for my new job as a lifeguard, and my new boss mentioned that part of the reason she hired me had to do with a previous theft of my personal belongings. No, it wasn’t a pity hire, it was because she liked the way I had handled myself. Let me give you some back story.
I live in Michigan, to be a little more exact, the edge of southern Metropolitan Detroit. As many of you know the Michigan economy is rapidly declining.
Generally when people think about raising the minimum wage they think about the amount of money more that there will be had and the benefit there will be to the poor people. Well unfortunately - as pointed out by Art Carden (Economics professor at Rhodes College) - almost every time the government enacts an economic policy, that policy actually hurts the people it was meant to help.
