I'm in a bit of a quandry about how to feel about a recent event.
THE BACK STORY
So I work at a Roger's Video. For you non-Canadians, Rogers basically controlls half of everything communications related (internet, cable television, wireless phones, stadiums for some reason) while Bell Canada controlls the rest. Some genius in an office figured that Rogers also needed to have video rental stores, and that is why I'm not unemployed, or locked overnight inside a Wal*mart.
Times have been rough for us at our little store. Blockbuster kinda pulled the rug out from under us when their ads for "No Late Fees" started airing a couple months ago. And that is when the hours started getting cut back, to almost nothing. I was about to crawl back to wal*mart on my hands and knees (or you know, print out a couple resumes and actually try to find a REAL job), when BAM! out of no where my co-workers start quitting.
THE STORY
One of 'em (a full-timer no-less) decided to up and move to Vancouver and attend some Film School. I rather enjoyed working with this hollywood hopeful, but then I started getting more shifts... erg... I felt kinda weird, but at least he wanted to leave and had a new job lined up in Cracktown.
Then the person (yet another full-timer) I enjoyed working with most was thoroughly clusterfucked (in the non literal sense) by head office and its corporate shananigans ( I don't intend to say what happened, it's not mine to share). Long story short, another one bites the dust.
THE CONCLUSION
Now I'm getting full-time hours. I get to work five shifts a week, and to me that is great, but it's at someone elses expense. So I don't know if I should be happy, or sad. Yeah I know that I'm treating this situation as black and white, but I'm not good with things that aren't clear. So if you feel so inclined, leave a comment with directions on how I should be emoting, cause I really don't know.
Keep on Trangling,
Anthony
13 comments:
you're not a sell-out, not by any stretch of the imagination; just remember that tarentino of famed "kill bill" worked in a video store for many years.
unless you were holding a gun to their heads and made them quit (i don't know you that well, so it is a scenario i'm willing to entertain), then you are the recipient of the universe's seemingly random gifts. don't waste it, you do get free movie rentals for yourself, non?
if not you, then it would have been someone else. what a fun place to work: you meet semi-decent people (unlike walmart with the desperate housewives and kids-in-tow), low stress (the rash of 80's video-store robbery is at an all-time low), casual clothing (i don't think i've ever, ever! seen the local blockbuster guys with a tie, much less a shirt with collar) and, finally, you can put 'rogers communications' on your resume.
i'm not sure what you're studying, but 'media company' opens lots more doors than 'retail giant' - just a thought. i can't imagine what the benefits are at walmart - neat blue vests?
Neat blue vests, 10% off, and you get to meet everyone in town that is missing front teeth.
I hadn't thought of the situation quite that way. That is perhaps a more enlightened perspective. I guess I was taking the Catholic viewpoint that if something good happens to me I should probably feel bad about it for some reason.
I've been trying to give up the guilt, but denouncing the church seems to be a lot easier than denouncing the personality traits my parents passed on to me.
you're catholic? i never hold that against anyone, really. i was raised, partially, catholic as well .. so i can sorta relate, but only to a degree. i was also partically raised buddhist .. but i'm not messed up, honestly. i'll give you the numbers to my therapists if you don't believe me; reminds me, i need to call them to get my refill of zoloft, ritalin and prozac -- you need anything while i'm on the phone with them?
oh, click here for something you might enjoy and appreciate.
btw: it's ok to feel depressed at times .. so my therapists tell me .. depression is a way of knowing that we're actually alive, and counterpoints the stuff we care and get excited about.
"This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy." ~Romy and Michele Highschool Reunion
and just for the record: some of those desperate housewives with kids-in-tow are my friends; sorry if i sound like i was dissing on y'all should you find your way here.
Good stuff can only ever happen at someone else's expense, so live it up!
thanks to you i was just introduced to Strongbad Email - the funniest thing in a long long time. I don't know, am I supposed to give you more props?
Yeah, you should probably give me more props. I'd definetly say that more props are, in fact, in order.
j/k you can actually give the props to the Brother's Chaps, the young Atlanta lads that created Strong Bad and his entourage.
BTW
My regular post-script "Keep on Trangling" is actually from a Strong Bad Email. I can't remember which one anymore, but it's in there somewhere.
I was wondering about the trangling - I was trying to keep doing it but I wasn't sure I was doing it right to begin with.
PROPS PROPS PROPS!
How should you be emoting?
I say be happy... and if you can't be happy, be drunk! It works wonders for me!
(Loz - 'Props'? I haven't been out of the country for two months yet and already you're becoming less and less Australian!!!)
burin-atin' the country...burin-atin' the peasants!
Trogdor comes in the NIIIIGHT!
Nam: I really enjoyed your post about the Pope's Will. While I agree with the points personally I don't really think the Church should be altering it's teachings in an attempt to be more modern. I'd probably have even less respect for the Vatican in that case.
Kallun: Mmm... drunkeness... Also... I'm fairly certain that accepting props doesn't just make me less Canadian but actually entitles me to an American passport. Has Australia decided to hop on the National Identity Crisis band wagon with Canada? It's fun. You get to define your nation by saying nasty things about Americans all the while hoping that a)The rest of the world will stop thinking you're an American and b) The Americans wont re-enact the war of 1812. Althought I'm not exactly sure those would apply for Australians being as you don't sound like Americans, nor do you share the worlds longest undefended border... meh... too much thinking
i actually got busted by one of the sisters at the catholic school where one of my younger sisters attend.
that's why i had to post that stupid disclaimer. either that or take the post down.
I went to Catholic school myself. Although Catholic education in much of Canada, esp. Ontario is much different than in the US. Thanks to the British North America Act (and a whole bunch after it) Catholics are entitled to equal education. So I went to publicly funded Catholic Schools my whole life and only ran into one member of the Clergy. In high school we were actually encouraged to discuss our differing religious and moral viewpoints. The quality of the education was certainly a lot better than is available in many Church run Catholic schools, but I must admit, I went through without a lot of the "Catholicness" I'm sure my grandparents must assume I have.
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