Just Like (a) Human

If you’ll excuse my cheesy, somewhat blatant rip and mash of a line from the failed “Father of the Pride” television series, you may have noticed something.

On my sidebar, I have this link to http://www.bloginspace.com. I never really mentioned it before, but that’s because I was being lazy. However, I’ve noticed that I blog a whole lot less when I’m not being a nerd. This said:

Blog In Space is a service that can be used to transmit the content of your blog and its posts into space, in the hopes that our words might reach intelligent life out there. Personally, I find that to be pretty cool — if we were to reach some supremely intelligent species that had advanced farther than us, and they were to suddenly pay us a visit, we might all benefit from that.

Or, at least, so I would hope. Given that the service provided is free, it’s worth playing around with for a bit, I’d say.

Just a quick post here, on my way to work.
I’m still alive, and struggling like mad with my bills.
I’m hoping to either earn more money, or get a better position here at work.
I also want to bring a couple of my projects together at work, and have them written out logically for presentation to my boss.
Perhaps they’ll think the ideas are worth Six Sigma involvement.
Can’t say what they are just yet, though.

Some of you may have noticed a little bar appearing at the bottom.
That would be my IndieKarma bar. It doesn’t earn me very much at all, but the idea is novel enough for me to be onboard at the beginning, and hopefully encourage the exploration of the service they offer. I see it growing, too: It’s a relatively seamless system.
You log in once at IndieKarma, deposit credits (You get 100 credits ($1) to start, if you’re one of the first five thousand), and go view sites that’re in the network. A little bar pops up at the bottom, thanks you for your donation, and takes a credit (a paltry penny, mind you) from you.

Anyhow.

Off to work myself into the ground.

So, I’m sitting here, doing job searches on Monster and HotJobs, since something tells me I will not get that promotion at work, and I noticed one disturbing thing about many employers:

A lot of them seem to do credit checks on prospective employees.

I’m thinking, how many of them will deny you the job if your credit score is too low?
I’m also thinking, “Why is this legal?”

Why are we letting people who are wanting to compensate us with cash for time worked delve into our personal lives on such a private level?
This makes me very uncomfortable, because it just might be a job that I’m better qualified for than a number of other candidates, but because those people have a credit score that might be two hundred points higher than mine, they get the position.

I’d rather give it to the people on the lower end — their predicament is often caused by a lack of money in the first place. They can’t pay back their debts, because their employer pays them so little, and this damages that person’s score.

I sometimes wish I could sue companies that paid me so little, while demanding that I do so much work (Sonic Drive-In is one of those businesses). Unfortunately, there’s always teenagers and others to fill the slots that those of us who refuse to tolerate such lack of pay have long since vacated.

Another thing that bugs me is, A lot of employers are hiring for part time only. WHY?! Is it so that you don’t have to offer full health benefits packages? Is it so that you don’t have to pay out so much, and yet have enough people to cover shifts? Or is it some other thing that I don’t understand? Please, enlighten me, because it’s something I, and perhaps a lot of people, would love to know!

Further, why is it that it seems temporary laborers get paid more per hour than part time or full time employees?
If temporary labor was more of a guaranteed thing, I’d just do that all the time, and rake in the cash.

Bah.

I have had it with idiots in front of me in drive-thru restaurants. Between yammering on cellular phones, taking forever to order THREE THINGS, and general asshattery… I figured I should lay down the hard seven. No particular order, of course.

Since no-one gets it when I’m nice about it… Let me be rather abrupt. Read the rest of this entry »