Coveralls, dungarees, and Wrangler dad jeans are amazing.
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Yeah and yesterday too…
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Severe cervical spondylosis. Just found out. Apparently, my spine has already gone and fucked itself, or I would tell it to.
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My wonderful camera died. I had previously mentioned dropping it, and the shutter button got progressively harder to use, and it finally stopped functioning at all. I ordered a new shutter button assembly, but discovered today that the primary issue is bigger than that, and probably not a cost effective repair.
And I had taken this camera all over the world. I am the sort of person who always has a camera, and I have killed a spectacular number of them. Really nice ones, too.
So now, I either sell the lenses and buy a camera that I can actually afford, or spend too much on a replacement.
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Looks like I didn’t get the job after all. A lot of companies now run credit checks on prospective employees because credit is supposedly a good indicator of fortitude.
It’s not. It is only useful for revealing who is poor and desperate to work. This is in addition to most jobs - even goddamn McDonalds - requiring bondability and criminal record checks.
I’ve said it before: capitalism is not the best system. Socialism is. Look at Cuba: best healthcare in the world, very high literacy, and virtually no unemployment at all. Herr in capitalist Canada, for every job, no matter how lousy, there are upwards of 30 applicants… And this is in a small city.
Fuck capitalism. Fuck employers. Fuck my résumé. Fuck it all.
And fuck you, serving job that wants two years of experience in similar position for minimum wage. Get fucked.
Oh, and Barney. Stop bitching that kids these days don’t wanna work. You have never been in our position. Get fucked.
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A credit check for hiring seems really ridiculous to me. I wonder if applying at small businesses might be a way around that, since they are less likely to spend the money on checking, and more likely to hire based on meeting you.
Of course, I don’t know how easy that is for your situation.
I hope you find something soon.
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I think the idea is that those under financial duress may be more apt to defraud/steal from the company.
I really don’t think it is valid, but that seems to be the line of thought.
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I think it’s a way of looking down on poor people. You know, the “if you are poor, you deserve to be poor” people.
At one point my credit was absolute shit. Today it is stellar. In the intervening years, my desire to steal and my work ethic have not changed.
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My thought (wrt credit check for a job) also gave them an idea of how desperate you might be for a job and how much less they could pay you.
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The good news: I found out what happens if the sump pump in basement breaks and we get a boatload of rain
The good news part duh: it’s not broken, It was just unplugged for some reason
The bad news: The whole basement takes on an inch of water
The really good news: It’s not a finished basement
The shitty news: I know what I’m doing this weekend now
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You say all that like it’s a bad thing.
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Ugh… that sounds terrible! I’m so sorry! Are there treatments for it?
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A day after defending my dissertation, I’m going to the memorial service for the committee member who passed away. But at least there’ll be a blue grass reception after.
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Germany, fuck yeah!
Learn from the best!
(peaceful street blockade to stop a right-wing demonstration. the police did not order to clear the street but started without warning pepper-spraying, according to media reports)
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Ah darn, why? Not what I expected from our neighbours. 
[Insert other question swear] What’s wrong, what’s going wrong?
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Couldn’t help but notice that even when you take after us, you still don’t go all the way: your protestors’ faces are obscured – something about innocent until proven guilty, I presume – and the police faces are fully visible (thanks largely to not wearing riot gear to take down a handful of pedestrians)…whereas for us, the protestors (including in the background) are not blurred out (except by pepper spray) and it’s the police whose identities are protected by virtue of their required uniform.
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I know.
And see it coming. But see for further above.
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Also, the pepper sprayers haven sued for damages… yet.
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Ah, fuck!
(I’ll will be fine, always do, not now, later)
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The professor who died? Here was the project he was working on… bluegrass music in Japan:
It’s wonderful and interesting work…
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