Posts Tagged ‘employment’
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Pizza Vending Machine!
Are you sick of eating the same crap out of vending machines? Does your cafeteria have…less then appetizing menus? You need to install a Wonder Pizza vending machine!This first-of-it’s-kind machine will serve you 9″ pizzas in 2 minutes flat. Is that amazing? You betcha! Not only am I going to file it as a suggestion at my place of employment, I might have installed in my apartment (seriously I will, don’t question me)!
Check out the video here, it’ll make you hungry or you’re money back.
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Am I really blogging for apples?
In case it hasn’t become completely apparent, I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on improving not only ShirtNinja.net’s layout but the content as well. It does have a lot to do with having more ‘free time’ on my hands and people not wanting me to spam them with random links and messages anymore, but it also has to do with my love of blogging and the thought of people reading it.
I’ve come across a few articles mentioning that blogging has become a new extension of a resume and I have to agree with them to some extent. Those who are hardcore into blogging and have a large audience are easily making a living off ads. But as for bloggers such as myself who have little to no audience I wouldn’t say this would prove to be much of a resume. It’s a fabulous concept though, and if I ever get into a position where I’m seen as anything more than a numbered customer service agent or retail clerk I’d like to think my writing abilities would count for something positive.
The articles discuss some of the characteristics that most bloggers possess that are often viewed as good qualities by employers. So if you’re a blogger and unable to fill up your resume, check out these articles.
“Blogging Skills To Add To Your Resume” @ Rich Minx
“The Blog is the New Resume” @ Bokardo
“Blogging to Get A Job” @ The Gospel According to Rhys -
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I’m browsing Workopolis for jobs and I come across one for Telus.The first thing that pops into my mind is “Hey, I can sell cell phones, that’s not too bad. And hell, I’m a Telus customer too”. So I continue reading expecting to see that it requires previous experience (which it does) but it also requires “Post secondary education – College diploma or University degree”. At this point my mind completely swings around, because honestly most of the Telus employees don’t know a cell phone from a hole in the ground (as you can see if you check out some of my earlier posts). I could totally confuse a cell phone for a hole in the ground twice as good as most of them can. Bastards. Maybe I need to go back to school and take something easy. Like knitting. I’ll get a degree in Yawnology, that’ll show em.
I could always get a job at 7-Eleven instead. I have to say, for such a dumbed down job, this ad makes it sound pretty good. They could have simply put “Free Slurpies!” though and I’d have been impressed.
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I Quit. Damn.
Well, I’m a big quitter. Yep, I quit my job after 1 five hour shift, I just couldn’t do it. I honestly felt like I was killing babies or something. All I really had to do was call up and say “Hello my name is Jeff calling on behalf of CMHC, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. May I ask you two minutes worth of questions?” and it SUCKED. Do you know how hard it is to say to some random person on the phone and not get hung up on? It’s not like saying “Hi I’m calling from Wendy’s” or something short and to the point. If I just said “CMHC” that might be ok, but then they wouldn’t know what it was. If you hear the word ‘Canada’ that’s OK, but when you have ‘Mortgage’, ‘Housing’ and ‘Corporation’ you’re going to assume they’re trying to sell you something. It would be a lot easier if they used something shorter, because there is no easy way to get through that intro without sounding like a telemarketer.
As far as the actual calls go, about 1/5 of my calls were ‘busy circuits’ so it just said “This number is not available, please try again later” so I had to set it to put the number back into the sample for +1 day. I can do that. 1/5 was no answer, easy. 1/5 was an answering machine/voice mail so again that’s not too bad.
That leaves 2/5 left; those are the 2/5 that had real people on the line. In 5 hours time, only six (yes 6) people actually allowed me to complete the survey. It’s not even a long survey, it really only does take like 2 minutes. The longest the survey can be is 7 questions long and they’re all multiple choice. Six is horrible when you take into account that I called over 300 people. So being hung up on by 294 people really makes you feel like shit. Yes I know I shouldn’t be taking it personally, but here is the catch: They are comparing you to the other remote agents and you can see it.
On the left side of the screen at all times there are 2 bars with green at one and and red at the other with a marker on it. Your goal is to keep your bar in the green. The bar is based on how quick you dial, how quick you input the status, completed surveys and how quick you pick up the next call. Well my little marker was in red the WHOLE time. I thought I was doing well, less than 5 seconds between calls and had my macros going, so was at a pretty steady pace. Wrong, it was in red. The other bar is how all of the other remote agents are doing and of coursed it’s in green.
In short, I was doing horrible and I knew it. Not only was my bar in the crapper, but sitting hunched over the keyboard with one hand on the headset earphone left my back and neck hurting like a bitch. Add the headache of knowing that I’m completely blowing it on my first shift and I don’t feel too well to say the least.
I thought this was going to be easier than telemarketing would be, but I really don’t think it is. People don’t hate people trying to sell them stuff on the phone, they hate being called period. I know I sure as hell hate when somebody calls me trying to get me do anything, be it buying or answering a survey or even just annoying chit-chat in some cases. I really didn’t feel my heart was in this job, and I’ve never been a fan of phones at all really so I have no idea why I even took it. Suppose because it was the first people that called me back.
Oh well, already sent in my resignation and feel better about it. It’s said that after every long relationship the best thing to get you to move on is a one night stand. Why can’t it work with jobs too? Two and a half years at a job, a quickie being a phone prick and now I can move on. I noticed a few help wanted signs around the other day, so I have more places to apply to. Once I put those out and with the other ones that are already floating around I’ll have around 37 or so out there. Wish me luck.
And remember that if you happen to see anything I might be interested in (be it customer service, maybe a tech job or hell even blogging or something) let me know. In fact, anything that’s not going to ask me to pay cash out to make money let me know and I’ll take a look at it. Or you can just send me money, I accept all major credit cards, Debit transfers, Linden dollars and PayPal…can’t say I didn’t try. .I wonder if the local university has any interesting science experiments going that I can sign up for… >:D
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Pays me funny monies plz
So as I mentioned before, I got a new job. And it uses the phone, which scares the flippin’ hell out of me since I suck at talking on the phone. Not to mention I think my hearing is going. In short what I have to do is call up people and get them to do surveys, which I enter the answer into a system using an interface with radio buttons. The whole thing is pretty simple for those who have used any real chat client/site before (which I obviously have too much experience with). It’s definitely not the most complicated job in the world.
However, it’s not so simple. Well OK it is. So a run through of my training today (I did some online quizzes the other day, simple memorize and answer multiple choice things). Today I had a conference call that started at 5pm. Well it started off shaky when Naomi called my cell instead of my home phone (When asked to give a contact number, I gave my cell solely because it’s better to reach me. I assumed they’d ask for a number for work after, they didn’t. Oh well). So that threw me off a little, then she called my home phone and we were all set. In the call there were 4 other people being trained, all women. So of course since women always sound better on the phone, my confidence shrunk to the size of a gay man’s junk at a Dyke Hike.
The call was planned for 5-6 hours. Which given that there was 5 people being trained, would mean an hour each were you not teaching them at the same time. Really, I have to question the other ladies’ experience with computers beforehand because it seemed really limited. Naomi obviously knew her stuff really well, but I’d think I could have blown through everything in 30 minutes or less were it just myself. A lot of time would have been cut off if they had just down what was requested in the emails we had received before, but they didn’t. Naomi: “If you click the schedule tab, it will take you to a list where the schedule docs are listed” Woman: “Are we supposed to be in the ‘General’ tab?” Naomi: “No, click the ‘schedule’ tab”. Needless to say, I had to click the mute button a lot to keep from both laughing and swearing at them. Oh well.
There was one girl though, think her name was Xani or Angle, she had a good grasp on it. So wasn’t completely alone in knowing what I was doing. Eventually when we got done the mock-calls we went off and did some real calls. My first call was an answering machine. My second call was an answering machine. My third call was a “This number is currently unavailable. Please try again later” so I had to ask if that was a busy circuit or # not available code. My next 3 calls I got hung up on before I got 1/2 way through the intro (Got through about “Hello my name is Jeff and I am” before they hung up). The next dozen calls I got the same previous things, didn’t actually get to do 1 survey so kinda sucked.
The job sounds easy, and honestly as long as I can memorize the script/questions and add smile to my voice they’re going to pay me to get hung up on. I’ve been doing that for free for years. I’m totally going to the labor board about back pay issues, so watch your back Mags!
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Washingtonienne
So have you heard? There is another public sex scandal, and it involves blogs. What do you mean you haven’t heard of it? Ok, well sit down and I’ll tell you about it then.
It all started with a woman named Jessica Cutler. She worked in more ways then one for Mike DeWine, the conservative GOP senator from Ohio. Her legal profession was sorting mail for $25K a year. However, this little one kept a blog.
In this blog she talked about having sexual relations with people of high power for money. Yes, this is known as prostitution. So, her blog was found, and she lost her job. Now she didn’t lose her job for sleeping with the boss, we all know that is common practice now a days, she got fired for misusing a government computer to publish in this blog.So how that the shit has hit the fan about her sleeping with men of higher power, the press is eating this up like candy-flavored condoms. She is appearing on TV shows, the news in on the radio and she is simply becoming the next Monica Lewinski. And from what I read in an article from the New York Post, she has already been offered to have her story published.
So what does this show? Well, “To beat the man, you have to sleep with the man” seems to fit for me.
For more on this, check out some of these links
Washingtonienne Archives
New York Post
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Ho Hum
Imported from recordabledisc.org archives
Well there hasn’t been that much new since my last post. I have some projects due the next few days, that sucks. Tomorrow I have a presentation to do. We’re in group group of 3 people, there is 7 things to do and I’ve done 3. I have no clue if the others have done their things, but they better have something for tomarrow.
I have 2 other projects due Friday. I have a book review due in English on Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. It won’t be as bad as I thought since the teacher said it only needed to be about a page or so; not too long. My other project is a magazine review. Out of 168 pages, 130 of them are ads, think about that.Also, I went up to apply for another job today. I went up and gave them my resume at Sessions Cafe, which is a coffee house. She that she would give it to the manager. Then she was saying that I looked like I was qualified. She then said “Oh, it says you were born in 1986, is that a typo?” I replied no of course. She then said “Well I’m sorry to say that we can’t hire anybody under the age of 19.” How fair is that?! I finally find a decent place to work that’s hiring and my age restricts me. Stupid age, why couldn’t I be 2 years older. Oh well.
And other then that, I’ haven’t been doing too much at all.
Yep.
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