spoiled chinese girl

I'm on a bit of a “purge as much physical things from my possession as I can” kick right now.

Right now I'm going through burned cd & DVD backups marked “2002″ and “2005″ to try & reduce the sheer number of them by getting rid of redundancy (which unfortunately means pulling all the data off it, then tossing these out while burning whole new copies)

And a part of me finds it f***ing HILARIOUS that maybe at least one third have the label of “porno” somewhere on the disk. (I used to always make sure the discs were full by filling the remaining space with mp3's or porn. haha)

The interview last Thursday.  It went well I suppose.

I was warned that I would be quesitoned regarding my knowledge of large sized presses and layouts for these types of presses.  Which is nil.  I don’t have any knowledge other than what I learned in school.  And to be honest, in my professional opinion, it says so on my bloody resume.  That I graudated in school in 2005, and since then, the only printing place I worked at was an envelope printing company, which generally does not contain working with many large presses or with their layouts.

At the same time, I kept making these notes about how I learned this stuff they want me to know, in school, and while it’s been a few years, it’s something I would have to learn on the job, just like everyone else they interview unless they plan on only hiring people who have surprisingly already been working there.

Granted, I was hired at the same envelope company twice, so I guess that might actually be a consideration for them!

But yes, a part that frustrates me is when a company has these ideas of who they want to hire, read everyone’s resume, then bring in people that obviously don’t meet their crietria.  Oh how many times did I meet with companies fresh out of college, who demanded three to five years of experience.

I think at one point I even asked “You can plainly see I just graduated from school on my resume as well as my cover letter, why are you asking if I have five years of experience when I spent the last four years in school??”

They didn’t hire me 

So in an attempt to make sure I don’t miss any of the programs that I’d generally gotten to know, or ones that I have finally found again after years and seasons of not knowing where they have gone… here is the schedule I have come up with. 

It’s slightly ridiculous, so please bear with me.

Sunday 7am – 10am: Corination Street
Sunday 8pm – 10pm: Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad

Tuesday 8pm-9pm: House
Tuesday 10pm-11pm: Nip/Tuck

Wednesday 8pm-10pm: Bones, Criminal Minds

Thursday 9pm-11pm: ER, CSI

This TV watching schedule makes me remember why I enjoy, above all else, not working!  However, it has used up all 8 slots in my pre-programming of my VCR.  Because we don’t all live in the world of 1 terabyte harddrives installed into our TiVO boxes that can record 15 different channels at once!

Currently I am thanking the TV Scheduling gods that none of these shows conflict with each other!

the only reason I am considering going back to school is because I really loved living in downtown Toronto, and I have been unsuccessful in locating a job that would justify moving into the area. And I think spending the entire bloody afternoon today on a coffee date in the east end (even though I'd be looking at moving into the west end if my “no more work, school instead” plan goes into effect) really reinforced the idea.

Also I was surprised rush-hour was over at 6:30pm. Shocked even.

While the official reason for my lay-off is still “lack of work” apparently another deciding factor in my no longer being employed, as reported to me by to my former office co-worker, is the owner/boss of the company explaining “Whenever I talk to Angela, she made me feel small, and my blood pressure always felt like it was shooting through the roof.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I know I'm a sarcastic jerk at time and just too much of a smartass for my own good. But seriously. Only to those who deserve it. If she felt small & intimidated whenever she needed to talk to me, she should have been re-thinking how she talks to me. Not how to get rid of me. Already customers are complaining how I'm gone (AGAIN) from the company. It's a horrible tease to them just as they're getting used to dealing with me I'm gone again. Because none of them want to deal with her.

I just feel bad for my office-co-worker who now has to put up with her every bloody day.

And I'm somehow elated in the fact that at some point she should come to the realization the reason all the customers have been leaving is because she's making the staff act like assholes towards them.