With the start of the NFL draft just about a month away, people are starting to get psyched for the season. Even Sportscenter has been doing a segment called 'On the clock' basically outlining how each team did the previous season and who they should draft and why and blah blah blah and so on and so on.
They are missing one big thing though: OPENING DAY IS TOMORROW! The first game of major league baseball is tomorrow night as the new york mets take on the world series champion st. louis cardinals. That is the only game slated for tomorrow, but the next day all hell breaks loose as practically every team in the league is playing. I know that a lot of people find the sport boring and have a hard time watching it...mainly because nothing exciting is happening every fifteen or twenty seconds. Baseball is about appreciation. Appreciate the men who can throw a ball around 100 miles an hour, and appreciate even more the men who can stand in a box and swing at said pitch. But what is more impressive are the guys who have wicked awesome control over their pitches. How they can get a ball to break and drop out on the strike zone making some million dollar players look like goofs swinging their bats.
I know that the average person just wants to see a four hundred foot home run, or a close play at the plate and you need to appreciate those plays, those are exciting. But to love baseball, the national past time, is to appreciate the little things about the game. The fundamentals.
31 March 2007
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26 March 2007
I sure am glad...
I realize that I work in retail and that turn over is really high. But in all honesty, how can you just quit? Especially when everything seems to be working out so well? I had one guy who worked for me for about three weeks who just decided that it was okay to leave half way through a shift. Didn't even wait until the end of the day. What possessed him to think 'gee, I think I'll quit'? What has happened to responsibility? I know who's fault this is...the governments. Why? Because I said so.
Okay, maybe not the government, but close enough. I feel that if someone doesn't put in a two weeks notice to quit their jobs...they shouldn't get paid for the week that they quit. I know that making just seven dollars and change an hour isn't much. But if you were to quit on, say, a Friday (like this douche bag did), that's a weeks worth of pay. He was working thirty hours a week. Times that by just seven, and you have over two hundred dollars, pre tax. After tax, you're looking about around lets say one hundred fifty dollars. Hold that over someones head...they may think twice about quitting without giving their two weeks. So that is team member number one....let me tell you about team member number two.
He struts into Target right around Christmas time. Thinking he is hot shit and all. Thinking that the world is just going to fall apart if he isn't everywhere at once trying to do something for everyone trying to get approval from all the team leads and executives. Here is the problem. Stretching yourself around the whole store leads to a problem...you piss people off because you are just running around and not really doing anything. So when he started working for me, he was talking about how Target wanted to hire him for a team lead position right out of the gate and he turned them down because he didn't want the responsibility right away. So after working with the company for a couple of months, he starts talking about how he is interviewing at different target stores for team positions almost every other week. Funny story about that, he had one of these interviews and they supposedly told him he did real well, but called up my store executive...the head honcho (funny word) and told her that he just fell flat on his face during the interview. It made us all smile and laugh. The arrogant fucker.
Well, after he doesn't get that job he's in applying for another different position, this time building maintenance. That, of course, fell through. And all the while, he is just pissing people off because he doesn't do jack shit when he works. He worked with me this past Saturday and worked on stocking shelves in the dry grocery department. He worked on the same flat bed for two and a half hours. That's right two and a half HOURS. It shouldn't have taken an hour, at the most. So I'm witnessing this as are my bosses and he wondered why he fell out of the graces of the Target company. So he finally found a different job...but it wasn't even with Target. He is driving trucks, supposedly, down in Texas and started his training today. Good riddance to worthlessness.
Okay, maybe not the government, but close enough. I feel that if someone doesn't put in a two weeks notice to quit their jobs...they shouldn't get paid for the week that they quit. I know that making just seven dollars and change an hour isn't much. But if you were to quit on, say, a Friday (like this douche bag did), that's a weeks worth of pay. He was working thirty hours a week. Times that by just seven, and you have over two hundred dollars, pre tax. After tax, you're looking about around lets say one hundred fifty dollars. Hold that over someones head...they may think twice about quitting without giving their two weeks. So that is team member number one....let me tell you about team member number two.
He struts into Target right around Christmas time. Thinking he is hot shit and all. Thinking that the world is just going to fall apart if he isn't everywhere at once trying to do something for everyone trying to get approval from all the team leads and executives. Here is the problem. Stretching yourself around the whole store leads to a problem...you piss people off because you are just running around and not really doing anything. So when he started working for me, he was talking about how Target wanted to hire him for a team lead position right out of the gate and he turned them down because he didn't want the responsibility right away. So after working with the company for a couple of months, he starts talking about how he is interviewing at different target stores for team positions almost every other week. Funny story about that, he had one of these interviews and they supposedly told him he did real well, but called up my store executive...the head honcho (funny word) and told her that he just fell flat on his face during the interview. It made us all smile and laugh. The arrogant fucker.
Well, after he doesn't get that job he's in applying for another different position, this time building maintenance. That, of course, fell through. And all the while, he is just pissing people off because he doesn't do jack shit when he works. He worked with me this past Saturday and worked on stocking shelves in the dry grocery department. He worked on the same flat bed for two and a half hours. That's right two and a half HOURS. It shouldn't have taken an hour, at the most. So I'm witnessing this as are my bosses and he wondered why he fell out of the graces of the Target company. So he finally found a different job...but it wasn't even with Target. He is driving trucks, supposedly, down in Texas and started his training today. Good riddance to worthlessness.
13 March 2007
Too sensitive
I just finished reading an article off of MSN's website that stated that the movie '300' was basically racist against the Iranian people. Okay, for anyone who doesn't know the premise...you know...all of you who have been living under a rock and have no connection to the television or the internet...this is basically it: 300 hundred Spartans (and to be historically accurate, about 1500 more Greek warriors) try to fend off an invading force of tens of thousands of Persians who are hell bent on burning Sparta to the ground. Got it? Pretty simple plot line. This is based on an actual battle that took place in history: The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 B.C. The Iranian government are saying that the U.S. (which is where the movie was produced) are giving the Persians a bad name and making them look evil.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but this movie is, first off a work of historical fiction, and secondly, based through the eyes of the Spartan army and Sparta which looked upon the invading Persian army as bad and evil and all of that. This honestly is a case and point for being too sensitive about stupid shit. Honestly, it's a fucking movie. This article makes me want to go slap someone. People watching this movie aren't going to come out thinking...my God. Those Persian invaders were so mean....I HATE THE MODERN DAY IRANIAN PEOPLE! No kids, it isn't like that. If anything, people are going to leave the theatre thinking about sacrifice for the greater good of one's country. Think about it...those last thousand men (give or take a few hundred) sacrificed themselves so that those who wanted to leave, could go warn Sparta and the rest of the Greek city-states to prepare for defense.
And, I got this from watching the History Channels program on this battle, this led to great democracies. It was one of the first times you see a bunch of smaller city-states put aside their differences and ally themselves against one force. This in turn led to these city-states working more and more with each other and forming bigger city-states until the end product: one big happy democratic country.
So, for all of you out there that think that this movie is some western world propaganda to show how the modern day Iranian people are mean and savage and don't like democracy and all that other bullshit, just blow it out your ass and toughen up. You people are too sensitive about stupid things.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but this movie is, first off a work of historical fiction, and secondly, based through the eyes of the Spartan army and Sparta which looked upon the invading Persian army as bad and evil and all of that. This honestly is a case and point for being too sensitive about stupid shit. Honestly, it's a fucking movie. This article makes me want to go slap someone. People watching this movie aren't going to come out thinking...my God. Those Persian invaders were so mean....I HATE THE MODERN DAY IRANIAN PEOPLE! No kids, it isn't like that. If anything, people are going to leave the theatre thinking about sacrifice for the greater good of one's country. Think about it...those last thousand men (give or take a few hundred) sacrificed themselves so that those who wanted to leave, could go warn Sparta and the rest of the Greek city-states to prepare for defense.
And, I got this from watching the History Channels program on this battle, this led to great democracies. It was one of the first times you see a bunch of smaller city-states put aside their differences and ally themselves against one force. This in turn led to these city-states working more and more with each other and forming bigger city-states until the end product: one big happy democratic country.
So, for all of you out there that think that this movie is some western world propaganda to show how the modern day Iranian people are mean and savage and don't like democracy and all that other bullshit, just blow it out your ass and toughen up. You people are too sensitive about stupid things.
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