It never hurts to suck up to the boss

Now that’s a ferengi phrase but it hold true to a recent experience ive had looking for some work in between band things. Now im all for marketing and even selling and making a bit of profit but a couple of things I cant stand are brainwashing, profiteering from exploitation and also no offence to Americans that annoying fake motivational attitude.

Ill give you an overview, Ok so the premise of this job was along the lines of if you sell a product (door to door) then you get 100% commission on that sale and you direct superior also gets a commission and so the continues until the top level. The obvious goal is to recruit, train and promote those below you in order to maximize your return. Now whilst this I’m sure works as a business model it strikes me as being barely legal

Now the astonishing thing is the amount of young people who have been suckered into this scheme working 10-12hour day 5days a week (which by the way isn’t legal) under the premise that of course they are self employed! On its own that’s all well and good, many people my age work long hours for what is consider low pay, but most aren’t sold and in my mind exploited with the promise that in 8-10months you can be a “manager” because you have successfully learned how to exploit those who aren’t quite their yet. Indeed much like the product sales man uses a disguise to get through the door and trick the customer the whole job was sold to me under the illusion of a management training program, which had little real value except for learning the skills needed to exploit those stupid enough to be brainwashed through annoying American motivational speeches and blinded by their own greed.

Needless to say, I feel sorry for the countless graduates like my self who no doubt will be sitting right now in an interview room like myself being convinced they are being interviewed for a potential management position, when in-fact they will form noting more than the profit basis for foolish people who have been filling that role for the ones who came before them!

i dont understand woman

well im really, really at a loss, this kinnda says it all (change a few words) its by brand new btw just incase anyone is intrested, song title: jude law and the semester abroad... enjoy cause im to srewed up right now to say much more

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Whatever poison's in this bottle will leave me broken sore and stiff.
But it's the genie at the bottom who I'm sucking at. He owes me one last wish.
So here's a present to let you know I still exist.
I hope the next boy that you kiss has something terribly contagious on his lips.

But I got a plan to Drink for forty days and forty nights.
A sip for every second-hand tick. And for every time you fed me the line,
"you mean so much to me...".

So tell all the English boys you meet,
about the American boy back in the states.
The American boy you used to date.
Who would do anything you say.

even if her plane crashes tonight she'll find some way to disappoint me,
by not burning in the wreckage,or drowning at the bottom of the sea
jess i still taste you, and thus reserve my right to hate you
and all this empty space that you create does nothing for my flawless sense of style
it's 8:45 the weather is getting better by the hour (hope rains all the time)
if you ever said you miss me then don't say you never lied

gonna get it right,
you're never gonna get it

okay no more songs about you.
after this one i am done.you're gone.

I'm in quite a reflective mode at the moment, I'm just thinking about things that I've done in the past and things that are changing and coming up in the future.... looking forward to this week a good friend of mine who means alot to me is coming back to England over the next 24hours and i cant wait to see her....

im not gonna go into much more detail that that but it makes me feel quite lucky and optimistic about making things work at the same time im conscious about changing some things and feeling a little spiritual at the same time....

ive heard that things come in 3's ive got at least 2 big things of note happening this week im looking for s symbol that will indicate the 3rd

gaz

got back from a long weekend, went to the glass barrel with Mr. Paul on Saturday night then ended up in a half dodgy pub was a good laugh and i got to hear some tunes i don't usually get to here out :) highlight of the night was Paul telling this random guy at his house that his landlord isn't his mum :D haha so funny!

we had an awesome time in derby this Sunday at the gig really impressed with Ellie playing Truth or Dare as she had never heard the song and had half hour to learn her part... thumbs up cause it sounded amazing on stage! go Ellie!

smoking ban kicked in Sunday, its such an odd thing to see groups of people outside every pub in the country i can only see it causing so much trouble around town centers on busy club nights drunks loitering outside ever club and bar...

went to the Ritz last night, again got Rather smashed to top of a long weekend highlight was seeing Squeak :) brings back a lot of fond memory's of a few years ago every Monday night... i miss those days!

gaz

i hope that, that you are happyi hope that at least you are having fun

gaz

hi first a quick update on things.. my finger is healing relatively well although i don't think it is ever going to be the right shape, that said I'm glad to have it back and a am just just about gaining full mobility, of my hand. as you can imagine having your hand stuck in 1 place for over a month, you loos a little bit of the mobility...

we also have started work on our demo, our Label "b-grade records" are being very supportive in this process and we are all please with the results so far.. we appreciate people are anxious about hearing the results and we apologise that this has taken so long to get started on as we have all had alot going on this past month with download and exams, moving houses and such.

on a personal note, im alright had a few changes going on in my life at the moment and im excited for the future, ive learnt alot about some things over the past couple of weeks and... im hoping to take things a bit slower, let the world fall into place around me and hope my missgivings about a few people, fade away into time...

gaz

a medical mystery

i was playing football last night and the worst thing that could possibly happen, happened! i was only in goal for 5mins and i must have made about 3 saves.. take the gloves off and my middle finger on my left hand is bend down (as if i was double jointed)... i didn't feel any pain but i couldn't close my hand, to be honest at the time, i was slightly confused about it as i dint even remember it happening but it visually looked broken.. i carried on playing as best i could, obviously a little distracted...

after the game i did the sensible thing and walked down to MRI to get it checked out spent next few hours with the drunks and the violent in the hospital.. had an x-ray or 2 and was seen by a doctor, strange thing tho, nothing... x-ray shows up as fine, well my hand visually doesn't look fine, no breaks or dislocations.. i cant understand it! my finger wasn't that shape before i went in net and i cant close my fist so obviously their must be something wrong with it! but according to the doctor it is fine!

gotta go next week and get it checked out again, right now its in a brace and hurting a tiny bit but its being kept straight, lets hope by next Wednesday it heals in that possession otherwise i don't know what we are going to do as we have a gig!

anyway its somewhat of a mystery as my finger just doesn't bend that way!

gaz