Shitty jobs in Montreal September 1, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, development, recycling.Tags: anglo community, Bloc Que, Montreal, positive impact, recycling, shitty jobs
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The Montreal Anglo community represents to no one. Seriously alienated, the Bloc goes on the record stating that they shouldn’t shy from being labeled “intolerant” with regards to their demands for a French speaking community. Come on guys- even now? Yes, the common response resonates, relegating Anglophones to the service industry and strictly physical jobs (labor, landscaping, warehouse work).
Not a problem actually. Even with a crappy service job, if you out-sell everyone else, you’ll make the most money in tips guaranteed. Thank you sales skills. Crappy jobs pay the rent. If you’ll recall the move, The Devil Wears Prada, Anne Halthoway toasts to the “job that pays the rent.” My dad loves that line. Anne’s a good girl giving hope to all individuals in between big things ready for the next to begin and stuck in the staging ground…
While you’re in your shitty job, you might attempt to make the positive impact that you promise to all of your “real job” opportunities. For instance, if a restaurant doesn’t recycle anything, try to bring that to issue without being hated for attempting to add value to your shitty restaurant job. I’ve been told by SO MANY PEOPLE that the managers and owners of the shitty jobs just don’t give a shit about trying to do better/ be better… I, myself, have suffered the consequences of thinking big… As my wise grandmother tells me, “just shut up and do your job,” my roommate agrees, “nobody cares about your ideas.” Shitty jobs just kill me. I try to be the best at everything I do. I’ll out-maneuver you, out-sell you and then take your job because I’m more valuable. Maybe that’s why the shitty job sucks so much. They just don’t give a crap about what I can bring… Do you even know who you have busting for you? You seriously don’t even know…
Recycling is important, I don’t care what you say about it. As a mater of fact, I recycled 8 more bottles today than you ever did before. It required taking bottles and putting them in a bag and then walking that bag across the street… Seriously. Now shut up and stop making excuses.
VPs and recycling Montreal August 30, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, green living, politics, recycling.Tags: breakfast, green ideas, McCain, recycling, Sarah Palin, thinking big
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McCain’s VP choice- Governor Sarah Palin. Am I surprised he picked a woman? Nope. Called that already. Way to play on upset democrats’ female presidential candidate desires. What does a ridiculously old, set in his ways, Internet retard need to balance out his Presidential ticket? A young, malleable, connected wild card- a woman would be the only choice enabling McCain to stand a chance. Way to use the Democratic Party’s great idea and twist it. According to republicans, a woman in the supporting role to the male lead is appropriate- now that America has been sensitized to the possibility of a woman leading the country… It’s not at if they’re so forward thinking that they came up with that idea on their own…
Wait- is that Fox news update about McCain suffering a stroke? Damn…
New and equally important topic- Recycling: Breakfast joints in the village of Westmount (in Montreal) must pay $450 to get a recycling bin to use every month. So instead of coughing up the money to recycle, they throw out plastic bread bags, dozens of glass juice bottles, milk cartons of various sizes, pop cans, sausage boxes… the list goes on. Employees aren’t allowed to take home the recycling either. They can’t be returned for money, left out for homeless people to reclaim, or even separated to give some good sumaritan the oportunity to do anything about it.
*The restaurants on St Catherine could form a recycling consortium to jointly get the recycling box and use it as one entity.
*The employees, 7 or 8, could divide up the recyclables and each do a part.
*They could lobby the village of Westmount to create recycling incentives by removing the fee, giving a tax credit, counter balancing the garbage pickup fee.
Unfortunately, by making green suggestions, jobs go on the line… After one job disappeared for attempted unionization, I’m not going it alone. It’s become an organizing challenge, one to be approached with care… Business owners are such Neanderthals. What century do we live in again? Where does it say that bad ideas never change and good ideas might end in tragedy?
Shout out to employers everywhere- if you find an individual who thinks big, doesn’t believe in “we can’t” and is willing to put in the extra effort to make things happen- you’d better recognize.
