I have come to the conclusion that both my brother and his Girlfriend need to hit upside the head.

They both need to grow up and view the world realistically and stop trying to drag everyone around them into their petty little squabbles

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well, like i had mentioned before I had an interview a week or 2 ago for a position with the company.

Well I got called today, went to work (on my day off) and I have a position with them. I signed the papers, so what do I get besides keeping my job? a $1.50/hr pay cut... 6 months probation after which I get paid benefits, I also get 35% discount on my home phone, cell phone, internet and Sat TV. but that is all 6 months away. I took the job for now but I am still looking and if I see something better I am going to take it.

Well, they had some issues at work. Seems to be sortign itself out but we shall see. They had originally had everyone who wanted to apply for some of the positions with the parent company at work fill out applications and they did some interviews. after a few days the director asked all the managers and supervisors if they thought anyone should have gotten an interview and didn't. well my name ended up on that short list. Now I have an interview on Monday! YAY! Still undecided if I will take the job if they offer it. We shall see. Well that is all for now.

Yeah so here is some news... some cool, some bad.

lets see... the last week has royally sucked. I was planning on trying to move up to a new position in my job, well that just got shot to shit. SHowed up to work last Tuesday, got an email at 10:30 to log into a conference call along with every other employee only to get a wonderful recorded message of thank you very much but we are going to outsource all your jobs so you are unemployed after June 30th.

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

There goes my plan to get rid of my room-mate and get my own place *sigh*

eh, I am sure I will find another job before then. They have offered us positions with the outsourcers in town but my response to my manager when discussing the situation was more along the lines of " you expect me to take a $7/hour pay cut and survive? you want me to drop 7K a year? and that is supposed to be positive?" BAH stupid shits. grrrrrr

They are offering a limited number of positions with the parent company... problem is that they are offering 350 positions which everyone can apply for... problem is there is something like 1600 people getting laid off. BAH!

About the only exciting thing that happend this week was we had a small earthquake Friday night. Only 4.5 on the reichter scale, but considering where I live that is kinda cool. Of course me all clueless... I though it was just a plan flying over head. I realize Courtney thinks a 4.5 is nothing... but that is cos where she lives.

So Job hunting time for me... not what i needed at Tax time *sigh*

Hopefully this means an improvement in my life.... we shall see.

well lets see...

it has been a loooooooooooooooooong time since I [posted in my LJ... either I have a boring life, been too busy to post or just haven't bothered lol

eh not much has changed really.

I recently changed departments at work. Much happier where I am right now. The stress level is almost non-existant now. I don't go home tired and stressed out anymore which is great for my health and state of mind. The pay is the same but the elimination of the stress is a god send.

I am looking at moving into my own place... my room mate is driving me up the freaking wall! SOme days I just want to beat his ass over the balcony grrr

but over all Iwould have to say my life is going well and I am steadliy moving to where i want to be.

Next step... find someone I want to be with hehehe

And no I am not taking applications I figure it will happen when it happens and not before.

The True You

You want your girlfriend or boyfriend to be more relaxed, calm, and composed.

With respect to money, you spend as little as possible.

You think good luck doesn't exist - reality is built on practicalities.

The hidden side of your personality tends to be a little selfish. You only do what interests you.

You are tend to think about others' feelings a lot, perhaps because you are so eager to be liked.

When it comes to finding a romantic partner, you will search and search until you find your perfect match.

hmmm pretty damn close...

So anyways... anyone who really knows me knows I have a habit of having things just fly outta my mind from left field. I think that is because usually I have lots of though trains going in different directions all at the same time. Eh... its the way I am deal with it :P


So anyways here is some ramblings that are going on in my head right now. Keep in mind intelligent conversation is hard to find so I usually talk to myself lol


My Room mate is un-employed AGAIN. what annoys me is that he knew this was coming and the bonehead could have had a job already lined up but doesn't. He is always quick to complain that he doesn't have money to do this or that but always settles for tzaking crap jobs that [pay just above minimum wage. I think his biggest problem is that he doesn't like the way the world is run, and instead of adapting to the world he would rather tell it all to go to hell and do things his way.... which of course doesn't work. i think he just likes being stubborn for the fun of it. Although he hasn't bitched about not being able to afford stuff lately cos last time I told him where he could shove his whining. He wants to take crap jobs... then he would have to deal with the pay that crap jobs get.

I think he is starting to get the hint. So far I was able to buy myself a laptop, a brand new TV and a fancy home theater system and still have money left over. Heck when my PC blew u[p a few months ago I just went and bought all new parts within a week. I think he might be just a lil jealous sometimes that I can afford to do that. I am sure he would be able to if he would get off his butt and actually do something with his life but eh... its his life to screw up.


Lets see what else... oh yeah work. YAY! It seems like every week its another day of "lets see what new stuff we can implement to make things that much harder for people to get ahead in the company or to even get a riase" Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a raise when they keep changing the raise requirements on ya every month? I just found out today too that they decided to implement some new requirement targets. My immediate bosses respionse to that was how the hell can you expect people to make those targets every months when no one has EVER made those targets consistently EVER without conciously screwing the system to do it? Managers response to that was oh well.. they have to do it now. I swear there is going to be a huge shit storm brewing over this one at work. Damn people who only look at numbers and not what goes on behind the numbers or what the actual job entails. I swear... they should all be dragged outside and shot.

hmm Vacation is coming soon... not sure what I am going to do. Was supposed to go visit a friend but those plans fell through. She had some family issues crop up and my friends whole month of june is more or less shot. The only thing she ain't chanign is the week with her friends she had already planned. I don't blame her for that. She is a single mother with 2 young boys. I know she needs a vacatuion from them and soon or else she is going to end up being commited. grrr now I am hungry. why is that? I just ate a decent sized supper just an hour ago and now I am hungry again like i had never eaten. good thing I got leftovers in the fridge at home. Only an hour and a half to go. I so can't wait.

They got me callign people at home to ask them why they haven't set-up their DSL service yet. Usually it is because either they are really busy and don't have the time or their PC is broken. Of Course thatis if I can reach them at all. I hate Voice Mail to begin with and you have no idea how fustrating it is to be talking to voice mails all day long!

its Mostly because the phone system is broken (again) so the calls are not being routed to my department like tey should be. ah well... lets look on the bright side.... I am being paid $16.50/hr to browse the internet and write this. How sweet is that?

hmmm is it 9pm yet? better yet is it sunday yet? cos SUnday I am supposed to go golfing. Damn golf clubs have been in the basement since last summer. my dad tore a muscle in his arm so that kinda cut the season short for us.. was cool going golfing with my dad almost every week I kinda miss it. No mother hen... just the two boys out on the course... smacking a white lil ball as far as we can then chasing after it in the golf cart. Did I mention they got some (sometimes) good looking girls driving around with a cart full of beer? nuttin like beer on the course lol Except when it is really hto then all I want is water not beer. You have no idea unless of course youactually play golf how hot it can get on the golf course. Thenm of course it is always fun to head back to my parts house after 18 holes and relax in the hot tub with a beer before a good BBQ dinner.

anyways what was I talking about? oh yeah Vacation. Not sure yet what I am gonna do.... would be kind of a waste to just spend 2 weeks gettign up at 4pm everyday lol I am sure I will figure something out. I always do. I just wanna get out of the damn city and have some time doing what i want to do. But I am smart... I'll figure somethign out ;)

wow that was a whole lot of rambling and I could ramble som more too but I won't... maybe later :P

Whatever comes to mind when you see the letter, is the answer/question at hand.

A - Age you lost your virginity? 19
B - Band listening to right now? None - duh I am at work
C - Dream car? Anythign with a giant engine and 4 wheel drive
D - Daddy's name? Marcel
E - Easiest person to make laugh? hmmm tough one
F - Food you miss most? my dad's chili
G - Any encounters with ghosts? Nio
H- Person most hated at the moment? I don't hate people.... but i got a long list of people I strongly dislike
I - Interesting unknown fact about yourself? define interesting?
J- The first letter of the last person who broke your heart? c
K - Kissing with eyes opend or closed? Closed
L - Last time you did LSD? LS what?
M - Most memorable moment you can think of in a minute? Tie between white Water Rafting in the rockies and standing on top of a mountail in the Columbia Ice fields.... still pissed that my camera froze
N - Nicknames? Arc and Zazoo - don't ask... not gonna tell
O - Whats the most valued possession? not sure
P - Poison of choice? Poison? ummm Boddingtons or Crown Royal
Q - The last quote you heard: "Too bad so sad"
R - What are you allergic to? Pennicilin, Bees, Wasps, Hornets
S - Song you sang last? ummm dunno... dun sing to much
T - Time you woke up? lol 9:45 cos I dun have to be at work till 11am :oP
U - Fav. pair of underwear? Any that are clean
V - Vegetable you hate most? Broccoli or Cauliflower
W - What are you the most afraid of? Opening Up
X - X-rated love life? Need a love life first
Y - Year you were born? 1978
Z - Zodiac sign? Taurus

well its been a while since I posted but here are some thoughts to ponder...


Today is November 11th. Rememberance Day. A day where many countries remember and celebrate those who died during the 2 great wars, during other wars and during peace keeping operations.

On November 11th during the 11th hour at the 11th minute all across Canada and many other countries there is a great silence as people take a minute to reflect and remember those who fell in duty to their country. We remember those who gave sacrificed their lives in order to safe guard our freedom. They are Fathers, Husbands, Mothers, daughters, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, cousins and friends.

They sacrified thier lives and a part of themselves in order for those of us that remain can be able to live the lives we do. There are those who died and those who survived those conflicts and bare the scars of their experiences protecting our freedom. Our freedom to choose what we want to think, say, buy and do. The freedom to look the way we want, the freedom to choose what we buy. The freedom to be who we want to be.

So the next time you go out and buy something whether it be food or a shirt you saw in the store and had to buy, try to remeber those who sacrificed everything they could so that you could have the freedom to choose what you do.

hmmm


haven't written in my LJ for far too long.

not much going on.. same shit different day lol

although i did recently purchase a laptop. i was quite impressed... almost 7 days exactly from the day I ordered it to delivery except for one problem. Purolator tried to deliver it exactly 20 minutes after I left for work! DOIEEE! (as Grener would say) So now I have to call them on my Lunch break to arrange a delivery appointment or see if they can re-try to deliver it today to my roommate.

The other bonus is that I managed to get a free Wireless Router through Work! YAY!! gotta love getting things free from work! hehehe

now all I gotta do is mail someone their big ass B-day present *wink* hopefully it won't cost too much or take too long to mail it :o)

Everything here is going ok I guess. Roomate is still aggravating me slightly.. not as bad as before but oh well. I am not gonna stress over it.

Everythign at home is ok too. My dad was on workers comp for about a week, he tore the muscle in his forearm at work. He is seeing the physiotherapist for it and is wearing a tensor bandage on it. He was wearing a sling for a day or two. He is really pissed about it though cos he was putting down an empty plastic container when it happend... but he is mostly pissed abotu it cos it has more or less killed the rest of his golf season though lol

My grandma isn't doing to well though. She had an angio-plasty done last week. They put 2 stents in cos her aorta was almost totally blocked in 2 places. so they did that last week and she went back home. Then Monday she wasn't feeling well, was really tired and looked plae so my aunt took her to the local clinic, they took one look at her and sent her to the local hospital. Local hospital stuck her in ICU, ran some tests, dosed her with all sorts of beta-blockers(to prevent a heart attack) and blood thinners (for clots) and decided to transfer her yesterday to a major hospital about 6 hours drive away.

Normally they would have flown her out but they didn't want to take a chance of the pressure changes fromt he flight causing issues, especially if it is a blood clot or the stent that moved. She is supposed to have another Angio-gram today or tomorrow to find out what is going on. My family isn't hoping for too much though cos she is 84 years old and all her sister kinda did the same thing my grandma is doing now right before they passed away. Their minds and health just went downhill really quick and then POOF that was it...

The sad part is My Aunt is going nuts cos she is working all day then trying to take car of my grandma and grandpa. And if my Grandma passes away then my grandpa is gonna pass away not much long after.

ugh it is so depressing in some ways. But I guess that is life

other than that I am doing good... got a raise at work, boss ius super happy with me. HE says I am one of the top performers on his team! YAY!

ok so yeah... this here be a rant about women.... or I should say WOMAN! since there is only one woman i wanna rant about right now..


that's right! you know it! I am gonna rant my heart out all about Devi!



damn freaking woman! grrr ya spend years being her friend busting yer ass trying to cheer her up and make her happy... and what do you get???

nuttin but hugs, friendship, a shoulder to cry on, the kinda trust you rarely find in life and the chance to get to know when of the best damn people you will ever meet.

Like COME ON!!! where is the sex?!?!?! is it too much to ask for a lil hand job here??? YEESH!!!

its like 5 years and i ain't got nuttin :o( not even a moon!!!!

yeah send her an email and half a dozen Pm's cos ya need a new mailing address so ya can send her the super awesome B-day present you got her cos ya know she is gonna love it.... and does she answer? noooooooooooooooooooo



so anyways i am done ranting now.


:P happy now Devi :o)


Luv ya Devi ;o)

hm seems like nobody reads my LJ no more... but oh well..

maybe it is cos I never write in it?

I know lately i haven't written in it not because there isn't stuff to write.. but I just haven't felt like spilling anything personal right now.

lots of stuff going on right now. got a raise at work YAY! but as I probably mentioned they might be moving the deopt so who knows. Lots of stress. on top of that I found out my grandmother ain't doing to well. She is being tyransferred to a mjor cardiac center because her blood tests are all messed and her heart rate jumps between 30 and 75 beatrs per minute which ain't good. She is going to get a pace maker but no one is really optimistic. Her health is starting to do the same stuff as all her siosters did shortly before they died :(

to top it all off lately i have been really tired.. dunno why. I sleep like 8-10 hours and still don't feel rested even when I can't sleep anymore. I get up and feel good then 15 min later i just feel BLAH and tired. not depressed really... just tired and hmmm unemotional?

I did go out and buy a new TV on friday.. Bought myself a 27inch Flat screen Sony. Thing looks awesome and got a good deal on it too.


so ummm that is about all the stuff I feel like hashing out right now. sopme stuff I just don't want to hash out in public or semi-public like this. I only talk about that kinda stuff with a few people.

sorry but if your not sure its you it probably isn't.

so ok I feel like ranting cos i got some stuff to rant about



my room mate is annoying me lately. The asswipe was working two jobs... ok fine. but the problem is he knows he has to get up the next day but would rather stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning drinking and watching TV and he never eats regularly so naturally he is always tired and lately he has been skipping work to sleep in. then he goes and bitches how he never has enough money etc etc etc WELL DUH!!! ya dumb fuck. He figured he was ok working with my dad... so the other week he tells them he is going to be leaving soon. well the moron goes and pulls a no-show on thursday, doesn't even call. he has sat off, then tuesday pulls another no show. Sho my dad calls him and tells him he can pick up his termination papers on friday. grrr


Then at work we find out that after getting dicked around by our call monitoring dept, long story but we have been given one set of procedures to use and the call monitoring was given another set. So all our monitoring scores are shit so far. Anyways, after all this BS we get told that now we are under really close scrutiny because they want to move our dept to another call center in a diff city because it would be cheaper there. First off why? I dunno... secondly the call center they do want to move it too has a habit of fucking things up! Its Tech support and all this other call center can do is sell. They can't fix shit! people call and get routed there 5 or 6 times before they hit my call center and have their issue fixed. So now they are checking all our stats over sept and OCt and if we do well the dept stays where it is. But with all this dicking around happening to us it ain't helping. grrrrrrrr


the only good news so far is that I got another raise on monday! WOOOHOOO!!!

not bad considering 10 months ago I was making $10 an hour and now I am making $16,50! YAY FOR ME!

ok enough ranting for now heheh

ugh... its a holiday and i am stuck at work and I am sooooooooooooo bored!!!


somebody please put me outta my misery

ok this is gonna be long but bear with me ok?

So I get this call from a lady who is a little upset/angry. She is asking me why she is getting billed $50 a month for the last 9 months for internet when her computer is broken and she doesn't even have the stuff connected.


so she tells me her whole story how it never worked balh blah blah. and she screams how she never received a bill and wouldn't have known that she was still paying for the internet if she hadn't gotten a call about a bounced check. So i Inform her that my company has never sent paper bills out ansd that the bills are available online. so she scream at me a little more sayin it is my fault. So I ask her if she receives a monthly statement from her bank and I ask her why she never called before when there is obviously a monthly withdrawl for internet services?


So I explain this to the memeber and she starts saying how she was promised a full refund of like a years worth and that the account wa supposed to be cancelled

i tell her umm i see no record of that and explain that the account was never cancelled because when she called she couldn't pass the security procedures in order for us to cancel the account at that time.

I tell her I can cancel and give her 3 months refund as that is all i am authorized for... she starts swearing at me and all screaming how she is gonna go to the newspapers and that how she watches Judy and knows how to beat our company in court (umm DUH!!! the company is HUGE and has a whole floor in a large office building full of lawyers... good luck) so anyways... she starts getting really rude and obscene and is getting ready to hang-up so i ask her this exactly " Do you want me to cancel the account because if it isn't cancelled you will continue to be billed for it" I have to ask that in order to prevent a false cancellation... its company proceudre. so she starts telling me off and screaming on the phone so i ask her several times if she wants me to cancel the account or it will stay account and she will be billed so she swears some more at me telling me i can take her account and all and shove it up my ass.

I tell her its a really simple question, do you want the account cancelled? YES or NO? or else she willcontinue to be billed. she swears even more really loud scraming in the phone at me and tells me i should learn to speak french because my english obviously sucks (note: she still hasn't told me that YES she wants the account cancelled). So me being me... I turn around and tell her the exact same thing but in french... to which she responds... FUCK OFF! and hangs-up. So because she hung-up and never answered the question... her account is still active, and still getting billed


People some time SHEESH! ah well... not my problem :o)

eh..

so yeah i had mentioned i was flirting with this one girl at work who is in a different department...

well looks like i won't be more than a friend/acquaintance with her...

she was really nice and funny and all... but she is already in a relationship

nuts :(


oh well... on to the next one.... just as soon as I find her lol

wtf?

eh... i been thinking about this a bit lately. And i just can't figure it out :(

How are you supposed to thank someone for being there when you needed them and for their caring enough for them to spend their time on you to make sure you are ok?

The reason I been wondering about this is that lately I have been thinking about where i want to go with my life and what I want. ANd in order to know where you want to go you have to know where you have been. Now personally I have been down some really dark and rough roads in my life, and a few of them were almost dead-ends.

As i was thinking about this I came to the conclusion that if it wasn't for one person in particular taking the time to listen to me rant and rave, listen to me babble and sometimes do nothing but listen and sometimes give me some simple advice or their own personal opinion, it is extremely possible that I wouldn't be typing this today.

there have been a few times where this person has made me promise not to do anything until i had thought about it or slept on it and talked to them again the next day. There were even a few times were this person stopped everything they were doing and just talked with me for a looooooooooooong time sometimes until the wee hours of the morning until i was exhausted and couldn't talk anymore.


So my point is... how do you thank someone for helping you when you needed them most and essentially making sure you are still alive today??


Thanks doesn't seem to be enough but it is all I can do right now.. but i know they will end up reading this eventually so...

THANK YOU!!!