spoiled chinese girl

I can’t help it.  I realize not everyone has the same priorities as me and many people don’t see the world the same way as I do.  But even though I’m obviously extremely biased in how I think since it’s how I think, I often wonder what goes through other people’s heads to come to conclusions that are so different from my own.

Here’s a story.  This woman at work is new.  Her daughter is going into her 4th year of university, and it’s the summer time so she went and got a job last week for the summer.  So she’s around the 21-22 years of age mark.

Well she got a job, that was working in some aluminum plant, apparently doing testing for quality control or something.  At least that’s what the job description described when she had applied for the job.  And whatever she’s going into school for, this was somehow going to relate so she thought “Awesome.  I am working in the industry for the summer and it will look great on my resume.”

And as with many jobs, all is not what it seems.  While the job description listed many fancy shmancy technology and industry related topics, it also listed “other administrative duties as required.”  And apparently this company took that to heart.  She was being asked to look for quotes for cars for the boss, to drive the car to the dealership for it’s checkup or something, or to deliver packages to downtown Toronto (from the suburb area) to clean out the kitchen or to tidy various parts of the office.

She walked out a week after she was hired when she confronted her bosses about when she would begin the duties as described in the job description, and their reply was “We’re not sure yet.”

Now see, I would be just as irritated with the whole idea of a bait and switch in terms of the job description.  But it’s only been a bloody week.  Why someone is uncomfortable driving in the Toronto area is beyond me.  But she refused that task on the grounds that she didn’t want to drive around Toronto because she wasn’t comfortable.  I digress.

Mom is obviously happy with her daughter’s decision and is proud of it too.  It’s good to stick to your guns.  The fact that she wasn’t doing as what was described, sure.

But no one seems to see the point I tried to get across, that while she wasn’t doing what she expected, she was still working in the industry.  She still would have had a great 3 or 4 months of “industry related work” on her resume.  When she leaves school she’s going to realize that the 4 months she could have sweated it out in an “industry-related job” would have pushed her career so much easier, because it would have put her into a great market.  “Yes I did lots of admin stuff for a company in the industry.  But now I understand how the administrative side of that company works”

Mom was going on about how her pay was really low, and she could make the same, or more, in retail.

This of course, assuming one can get a job in retail when everyone is hitting their slow season, as well as the absoloute hordes of students all looking for jobs for the summer.

And what’s better. 4 months working in an industry-related company doing non-industry related tasks… or 4 months working retail like everyone else on the face of the planet?

Ah well, ain’t my kid.  Ain’t my future.

my date for modprom knows more Chinese than I do.

So some time in the past week there was an unfortunate school shooting in/around the area that I live in.  Not like my town or anything like that, but it’s in the general vicinity of Toronto which means it’s still “my area”  And I was watching it sort of unfold live on TV because at the time it was at the school, and they had locked the school down while riot police and everything was going inside, lots of people confused and concerned obviously.   And the victim was a 14 year old who had already passed away from the gunshot wound he had suffered.

At the time I was watching the news they couldn’t figure out who had done it.  They had suspected that the person was hiding within all the students at the school, or they were otherwise still in the school since they were bringing in dogs and sledgehammers and what (at the time) was reported to “look like tear gas”

After watching a few minutes of it, I had to change the channel to something that wasn’t broadcasting the news because it was too depressing for me.  I can’t handle stuff like that very well.

The next day I’m just chatting in the break room, and go figure I always end up taking my break at the same time as the girl I horridly dislike (and everyone I’m sure knows I dislike her.  I’m not so throughly convinced anymore she knows, but that’s another story.  Maybe we just make nice-nice in front of each other and she’s got her own blog where she bashes me all day long) so I mention it to her to see if she’s heard anything about it.

So she let me in on the news.  They ended up arresting a 15 year old for the shooting.  And the cause of it was the fact that the 14 year old had at some point lit some fireworks around the 15 year old, scared them.  Then the 15 year old somehow found a gun, and shot the 14 year old.

That’s… “cool” I suppose, I now know what the outcome of the situation was, even though I was horrified that a 14 year old was now dead and a 15 year old is to blame.

But then she twisted my head to the point that I wasn’t sure if up was down anymore.  She suddenly said after that “It was just a black guy shooting another black guy.”  WHAT?  I figured that in this society we wouldn’t still be having outward expressions of racism.  Apparently not.

Maybe she saw something I didn’t see, but considering the Young Offender’s act in Canada I’m pretty sure that the shooter’s name and picture weren’t released to the public.   I just scouered the internet to see if there were pictures of the victim but I haven’t found anything (although there is apparently a lot of tributes on Facebook) but I haven’t been able to confirm the ethnicity of the victim either.

What a way to live your life.  A shooting? Must be black people shooting black people.  Damn those black people.  (This last paragraph was written in sarcasm.)

I seriously could *NOT* believe my ears.  Then again, I’ve got them pierced.  Lord knows what she’ll say about me and my “freakish” nature.

If I ever had to leave Canada for the majority of the rest of my life, I wouldn't want it to end any other way. Sitting on the loading dock at Badur's with a handful of people I barely know.