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December 28th, 2003
December 27th, 2003 Click "reload" a dozen times :) Yesterday I worked Future Shop for Boxing Day. All of the salesmen had to be there at 4:30am so we could be ready for the "door crashers" when we opened at 6am. It was madness... but then...after a while.... it wasn't "that" busy any more. In fact, it was more like a really busy Saturday. Turned out, The Star Phoenix was suppost to put in an 8 page color flyer and instead there was only a 1 page black and white...ouch! It was still super busy though. What's sad is how stupid crazy people are on boxing day. Pushing each other over for "the deals". In fact, 95% of the stuff in stores usually isn't on sale, but people buy it anyways. Here in Canada we always have "boxing day sales" but last week I was on the phone with a girl for tech support and she said to call back "the day after Christmas". I was like "Ok, I'll call back Boxing Day then".... she didn't understand what I was talking about! She had never heard of "boxing day", I guess where she lived (in the states) they didn't have huge sales or anything "the day after Christmas"....its just another day. December 25th, 2003
December 24th, 2003
December 22nd, 2003
December 21st, 2003 As the greed sets in..... I type this in exhaustion as I stood on my feet from 9am till 1am 16 hours today. My HP job is just hourly pay which I like because I don't have as much pressure to sell as the normal Future Shop salesmen do. However, today as I was working as a Future Shop salesman and an HP rep (8 hours each) I had my first true FS Salesmen moment when I got angry when a customer didn't buy the extended warrantee (which I would have made money on). Of course I didn't get angry at the customer, but after I was like "What the hell were they thinking?! Why wouldn't they get that!" Then it hit me, that normally if I was just on hourly I wouldn't care if they got the warrantee or not because it wouldn't matter to me, but today it did, and I got a taste of what its like to be on commission like that. Some guys really like commission, they do well. I do well too, but I would rather be on hourly. Not because of the money, but because I find there are two types of salesmen: The ones who check their numbers every hour to see what they are at, and the ones who check at the end of the week. The ones who check all the time are usually a lot more stressed out as the numbers go up and down, and are big one day, and nothing the next. I like getting my "numbers" every 2 weeks in the mail.... December 20th, 2003
December 18th, 2003
December 17th, 2003
What the hell is with those Duracell commercials? Do they think we are idiots, or are they idiots? Of course I am talking about the "Well Consider This" commercials. You know, when they are like "More Hospitals trust Duracell for their heart monitors than any other brand...or...."The Rocky Mountain Rescue Crew uses Duracell Batteries in their flashlights to save lives"... now when I first saw those commercials I thought it was a little lame but I let it slide however now the new commercial is "Well Conceder this....On the set of The Lord of The Rings, they trusted Duracell batteries for their light meters" What the hell does it matter?! Why the hell would they say that? I am never buying copper tops again, or at least until I forget about their ridicules false advertising that only acts as fuel for stupid people....which will probably be next Tuesday or something.... Voyd, Junior Panthers, and Dyno Wars THURSDAY NIGHT @ The Bassment @ 7:30pm be there or b2 December 15th, 2003
December 12th, 2003
December 9th, 2003 "As Always" I am in finals so I wont be updating much till next week but I'll leave you with a link to a hilarious short film simply entitled Farm Sluts Wish Me Luck! December 6th, 2003 Procrastination Its not just something that applies to doing your homework, or a project to build something. It is something much larger that you can unfortunately do with your life and not notice it. We all push away the small things, but fail to see the larger things in our life that we procrastinate. Life choices, deciding to go to school, deciding to change work, learning that instrument, or asking that girl out. "Procrastination may lead to problems later, but gives satisfaction now." So true, but when you are procrastinating the larger things in life that isn't bringing satisfaction. I worked at McDonalds for 4 years. There were many other, better jobs that I could have worked but instead I just complied with the clown, knowing there was something better for me, but procrastinating the act of writing a resume and taking some initiative to better myself. (Not to say McDonalds is a bad job, but I could have worked a more fulfilling job). In conjunction with my last rant, open your eyes and see what your doing. Think of what you want to do in your life, and think of what you can do to make that happen. If your happy with the way things are, then feel confident in that you love the way your life is. If there is something in your life bugging you, or holding you back, deal with it. Think of the options in your life, and the doors that you can open yourself, if you can stop procrastinating. Procrastination doesn't always give satisfaction now, it may be the holding you back now, and will do worse later. December 5th, 2003 Think of all of the people throughout your life who you at one time thought were stubborn and stupid, and then it ended up that you were the one being stubborn, being unenlightened. That's a part of growing up, but still... Open your eyes Think of yourself from a third perspective, a year from now. Of course you can't go into the future, but we can all look at ourselves a year, 2, 3, 4 ago and think "what the hell was I thinking? I had no idea" It would be nice to be able to go into the future and see what we are doing wrong now, but then again. Stop for a minute and think... If I was looking at myself a year from now, what do I think I would shake my head at? What is something I've been doing, or a way I have been acting, thinking, living which come to think of it, I'll probably think of as childish and stubborn. People who you think are stupid are probably smarter than you, you just haven't realized it yet. Think into the future and try to figure out what you could improve in yourself so that a year from now you wont look back and shake your head, you will be glad you had opened your eyes. December 4th, 2003
I feel bad for not thinking to advertise the Engineers Without Borders show at Amigos but when I got there, judging by the packed'ed'ness I would say it was a huge success! I only caught Good What Good unfortunately, but I was very impressed by them. So... the next time they play YOU should go see them too! December 2nd, 2003
Edovarus ( "somewhere between Boy Sets Fire and Filter" )
is having a $5 beer night at Great Western and then playing a show at
Lydia's on December 9th. Click Below to See my past rants and ramblings....
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