The Piss B-Rush off list

Hey everyone

Thought i'd put something out here, as I've got nothing else important to do.

I've been in a rather "gumpy" mood lately, so I thought I'd go through the list of things that's put me there. More of a rant and to vent than anything, no real reason for it, but here goes anyway:

Winter Weather:

Holy Bloody Heysoos Christy - WHY THE HELL DO I REMAIN LIVING IN CALGARY!?! It's cold, miserable, and dangerous to one's health. Kat (the girlfriend) and I were in England in June - did you know, that if they get so much as a centimeter of snow, they stay home from work? Here I was this-morning trudging through 4 inches of it downtown, of course no crews are awake yet to plow sidewalks. Kat 'sortof' wants to move to Manchester (England) - it's getting more and more tempting I tell ya.

Contract Employees:

I currently reside in 'contract' land, that means I'm not ACTUALLY considered an employee at my company. I've been here 9 months, now, and just signed a 6 month contract extension. ARG What a contract employee gets: NOTHING. If I want to take a day off? Sure - go ahead, but do I get paid for it, like the rest of these people? Nope. Sick days? wait - that's a whole new heading there...

The Flu Shot:

Now, Sick days - leading into the flu shot? Might seem weird, but gimme a chance. My company's having a flu clinic day - giving free flu shots to every employee in the building. Now, that wording seemed odd to me - so I emailed the contact woman and asked, "are contractors eligible for this shot aswell?" "Unfortunately contractors have to pay $20 for the shot, SEE YOU THERE!"

Now, seems to me, the company would want to keep EVERYONE in their employ healthy, so they don't have to pay out sick days. But wait... I DON'T GET SICK DAYS, so i'm of no threat to the company's $ - I get the flu and take a day off they don't pay me! So, my solution? No flu shot for B-Rush, and hopefully I get everyone I work with sicker than dogs. Not to get them sick, but to actually get the company to pay out some cash. mwahaha, yeah yeah, kinda petty - but I did say I was grumpy.

And the #1 thing;

Busy Work:

Seems most of what I've been working on lately is total and complete busy work. There's not much point to it, and it's more boring than watching your 90 year old grandma open a christmas present for 3 hours because she wants to save the paper, but it's given to me to do anyways. Now, I'm normally a hard worker - I could sit here working for 15 hours a day if I actually had something INTERESTING to work on. but jeeze, right now, I can't wait to get outta here every afternoon. I just can't focus on work when it bores the bejezuz outta me, it's just not fun. If I wanted a job that I didn't have to use my brain for, I wouldn't have paid for college, or even gone to high-school. But no, I paid for all that because I WANTED to use my brain, not stand on the road with a "slow" sign on it in a construction zone!



Alright, well, there's another long one... wow...

So there was my rant, *looks at clock* holy crap that killed almost an hour!

everyone be good this weekend!



EDIT:

And one more pissoff for the list:

People who THINK they know how others live their lives based on a short blurb talking about a few hours out of one's life. Don't assume you know anything about anyone, EVER. Don't tell somebody, "your favorite color is yellow because that's what you write in." It's not polite, appreciated, or respectful.

B-Rush's attempt at a quote of the day:

"You don't know shit about shit, and pull up your pants!"
Denis Leary