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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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3:21 pm - This just in...
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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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2:01 pm - Words cannot express the awesome.
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current mood:  amused
current music: Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song"
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(Complain)
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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3:04 pm - Digital 9/11.
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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12:38 pm - Say what?
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So I discovered something interesting during the process of setting up my unemployment benefits today. It seems that my wages for the months of January, February, and March are missing. The unemployment office couldn't find them. This implies that my former employer is doing something very much illegal, because I know for a fact that I worked those months. Thus the office had me fax the last pay stub of March to the Tax Office where they can research what's going amiss here.
Seriously, I keep all my pay stubs for very important financial reasons such as this. If the Emerald Queen Casino is doing something mischievous with its employee wage records, it can get into serious trouble. But seeing as how corrupt that place is, nothing surprises me about it. I wonder if they thought I'd be fool enough to throw all that away. Nope, nope, nope.
Oh... it'd really cement my belief in karma if the Emerald Queen Casino wound up investigated for some manner of financial fraud because of this.
current mood:  contemplative
current music: Ministry - "Bad Blood"
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(Complain)
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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11:45 am - The justice system needs new management.
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$150 bucks and 10 hours of community service just to get a case dismissal in a year from now. Wtf? They punish you even without convicting you. It's just... wrong. There's no liberty in this. At all.
current mood:  pissed off
current music: Santana - "Persuasion"
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(1 complaint | Complain)
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| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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3:23 pm - It happens again and again.
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I understand that I can deliver some cold one-liners with a straight face or word it in a way where it seems like I have a straight face, but then isn't that the hallmark of a good comedian? I mean, would people rather me be like Jimmy Fallon who looks at the camera and laughs at the jokes he has to deliver? Wait... maybe I should back up.
What's the purpose of this journal entry?
Well, I seem to find that most of the time that I crack jokes (and it is quite frequently), I find that people have a tendency to take me seriously. And it frustrates me so much that they seem to think I'm actually trying to say that... for example, pigs only fly when no one's watching. My humor's very dry and dark most of the time, but it doesn't mean I actually believe zombies walk the streets of Tacoma's industrial area. It's just a humorous obserevation of the pollution it's infamous for.
It should be obvious right, since everyone knows pigs can't actually fly and zombies don't really exist? Yet I'm almost always taken seriously when spouting such one-liner nonsense. It's like either my face/wording (depending on RL or Internets delivery) is way too straight, or no one has a sense of humor.
Or maybe everyone's stupid and doesn't know what a "joke" is.
current mood: frustrated
current music: Helmet - "Milktoast"
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(1 complaint | Complain)
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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2:45 pm - lol @ teh press
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What's wrong with this article? Read carefully now, I'm sure you'll notice it like I did. That's right. Very little detail on the bill itself. Huh... who woulda thought?
current mood: annoyed
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(Complain)
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2:21 pm - Ah... smell that sweet fresh air.
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You know what that is? It's freedom. Freedom from an abusive "master" that wanted your complete and total subservience (like a slave). Good riddance, ya lousy casino. I'll be finding work elsewhere. I'm not going to let myself treated as subhuman by you anymore.
current mood: calm
current music: Rammstein - "Der Meister"
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(1 complaint | Complain)
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009
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2:27 pm - No turning back now.
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I mailed the letter off today. It should arrive there either tomorrow or the day that I don't show up like I'm suppose to. Either way, considering the HR office hours, they won't be able to read it until the latter. Mwahahahahaha.
current mood: calm
current music: Linkin Park - "Enth E Nd"
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(Complain)
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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5:49 pm - My letter to human resources.
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Human Resources
Emerald Queen Casino
5580 Pacific Highway E Suite B
Fife, WA 98424
Human Resources:
I am sending this letter to inform you that I am done. Through. Finished. To be clearer, I quit. I've had enough of your company's abusive behavior. The recent bogus 5-day suspension is the last straw. I have been extremely patient with your company, more so than you deserve. Allow me to illustrate why.
I have been taken advantage of, overwhelmed, bounced around, and disciplined with apparent bias. All of this in return for the quality work that I have supplied you in the F&B department. I've always gotten my work done, and done right. I've made sure that pots, pans, plates, and silverware were as clean as they possibly could be, and I made sure that I was finished as much as possible before my shifts were over. I kept pace with busy days in the Tatoosh kitchen at Fife where coworkers have failed to in similar volume. I washed my hands after every break, and changed gloves as often as possible. I did my best to ensure health protocol was followed to the letter. What I get in return is poor treatment.
I have been the victim of favoritism, poor scheduling, and draconian misuse of Employee Relations policies. It all began on 10/23/08 when I was physically attacked by a fellow employee who kicked rubber dishwashing trays at my legs and I merely called her a "bitch" in response. Both of us received 5-day suspensions and as far as I'm aware nothing more severe was given to my assailant, implying potential favoritism of that employee for whatever reason.
Throughout November and the rest of my work year I was the victim of poor scheduling. When I worked in the Pacific Rim Buffet, I would, each week, be scheduled one or two days to work alone for an hour or two. Seeing as how busy the buffet becomes, this was staggering and overwhelming. I constantly had impatient cooks asking for various items while I tried to keep up with an impossible mountain of dishes. This was felt harder during a week of bad snow when all of my day shift coworkers called in and I had to spend practically the entirety of three or four days washing the day's dishes by myself.
Poor scheduling continued when I was swapped from the Buffet to the Tatoosh when the deferring schedules met. I wound up working 8 days in a row with only one day off afterwards followed by a subsequent three days of work. It went on with scheduling me during the day on busy weekends. I was constantly tired and exhausted during all of this. But I worked, because working meant getting paid. Patience through to the end.
Then came an incident on 2/15/09 where once again by myself on a busy weekend day, I was requested to have my lunch as my first break of the day and I simply said "no," which a number of job classes from school and job advice experts assure me that I have the right to say. A month later, I was disciplined for "insubordination" and given a wasteful, unnecessary mandatory EAP referral. I was once again victimized and this time by abuse of power.
The poor scheduling continued to have its effects. During the month of April, I was written up for being late on various days, all notably weekend dates. This was of course due to the weekend bus schedules I had to endure to get to and from work. I was scheduled to come in at 10am each weekend, but the earliest that the buses allowed me to arrive was 11:12-20am. Lateness due to bus schedules was even addressed within my hiring file. Once again abuse of power and lack of understanding.
It was that same month that my schedule, during my days off, was changed from 10am - 5am to 12pm - 8pm and I was not notified of this change until I looked at the schedule again when returning to work. It was then that the poor scheduling got worse.
The 12pm - 7/8pm scheduling continued much to my dismay. It had me racing the scarcer evening buses in Tacoma in order to get home. It'd take me two hours, sometimes three to get home. This caused me large amounts of mental stress that I largely blame on you. This caused me to seek counseling through the EAP to regularly see a therapist. The scheduling led to an ugly chain of events where one Memorial Day Eve night I wound up stranded in Downtown Tacoma and ended it spending a night in jail and banned from using Pierce Transit for a year. All because I dared to complain. I had previously addressed my concerns to my Chef and he stated that there was nothing he could do, that his orders came from the Executive Chef, Jean-Andre.
Then, the following week I had the misfortune of being scheduled with a woman (possessing only what I can describe as a Napoleon Complex) of equal rank of my own, believing she could come in and just order me around. She immediately had an actual supervisor tell me to do what she wanted me to do. Under significant mental duress over the previous week and having to struggle with alternate forms of commute to get to and from work, I just tossed my gloves at the dishwashing machine and did what I was instructed to do. I later expressed my displeasure with an off-hand remark. This act of twisted favoritism led to my latest 5-day suspension. And so I have given you all my reasons for quitting.
Do not expect me to return on the 22nd of June. I am done with your abusive company. I am not going to give you a proper two week notice because, put quite frankly, you don't deserve one. I want to inconvenience you as much as you have inconvenienced me. I have no interest in working for you ever again and will actively advise others against it. I am certain that I am not the first you have treated poorly, and I am more than certain that I am not the last, because you lack a conscience and you actively make the working environment as unhealthy as possible. Good riddance to you.
Sincerely,
current mood:  determined
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(Complain)
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2:57 pm - lol wut?
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Anyone notice the LJ front page?
current mood: amused
current music: Wayne Static of Static-X - "Not Meant for Me"
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(3 complaints | Complain)
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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10:27 pm - I heard about this article.
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2:52 pm - Done.
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My employer just gave me a second bogus 5-day suspension. The last one was months ago. Between then and now they hit me with many inconveniencing schedules that caused me to race buses, leading to an event that had actually caused my arrest and banishment from said buses. I had to brainstorm various ways of getting there on time, the latest scheme, a neighbor, stating afterwards this latest "suspension" she's not driving me around anymore since it's "costing her too much." Fuck that. I bought her her stupid license tabs so she could drive her car again in the first place. I was buying her her fucking gas.
No. No job is worth this catastrophic stress and evil chain of events. Come the 22nd, I am just simply not showing up. They inconvenienced me over and over? Well... I'll just inconvenience them even more. Come next week, they'll be short THEIR BEST GOD DAMN DISHWASHER WHO ALWAYS FINISHED HIS HER HIS HER (whatever!) WORK AND FINISHED IT RIGHT! I worked hard for that stupid casino. Backed over backwards 'til my spine twisted. Did my work well. Did it right. Took it fucking seriously. AND THEY TREATED ME LIKE TRASH.
DONE DONE DONE DONE.
I did some thinking while I sat in the clink a few weeks ago. I'm tired of life making me its bitch. I don't care anymore. Somehow, some way, after all this crap is done. Finished. After my stupid court trial and I pay my lawyer off, I'm going to find a way to treat myself right. I'm going to buy the clothes I've always wanted to wear, stuck living with an unsupportive mother or not. I don't know how. My wallet's taken a pretty bad hit this month, but I swear I'll find a way.
current mood: infuriated
current music: Gorillaz - "Faust"
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(3 complaints | Complain)
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| Friday, June 5th, 2009
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9:12 pm - I've taken this test many times....
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| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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4:23 pm - Boo.
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I can't believe I never knew about this.
"im in ur money killin ur freedoms"
We are ruled by some seriously sick fucks.
current mood:  disgusted
current music: Korn - "Ball Tongue"
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(1 complaint | Complain)
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| Friday, May 29th, 2009
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9:36 pm - This looked amusing.
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| Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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2:51 pm - A whole month to wait.
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At least, for the real court action. Today was just the preliminary. July 1st. So far away.... I'm going to have to really get to know my neighbors. I have one who says he can take me to my place of work tomorrow. Very nice gent.
Oh man, I can't believe how messed up my life's suddenly gotten.
current mood:  drained
current music: Guns N' Roses - "Mr. Brownstone"
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(3 complaints | Complain)
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| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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3:30 pm - Never would have thought I'd need one....
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I have a lawyer as of today. I'm prepared for court tomorrow.
current mood: determined
current music: Guns N' Roses - "It's So Easy"
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(2 complaints | Complain)
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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1:01 pm - The world gone wrong.
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In Tacoma, it's illegal to make your complaints known to the public transportation. Complain, and you'll be seen as verbally assaulting a Pierce Transit employee. It's ridiculous how far PT's "customer service" has degenerated. I've watched its alarming down-slide over the years with its drivers and transit supervisors gradually growing more arrogant and callous.
Sunday night, I experienced how bad they've gotten.
I've been working really shitty late nights on the weekends lately, and thus the bus connections back home get a bit more iffier. The 500 is often running late on such nights, and thus I'm occasionally missing my connections I need to get home. Sunday this happened with extreme prejudice, as there would be no other bus that'd be able to take me home after a certain time. The last bus 10 of the night leaves TCC Transit Center at 9:50pm, and I wasn't going to make it there in time on route 1.
Tired of the 500 from Federal Way always being friggin' late in the nights, I approached a couple of supervisors. What followed was a farcical exchange that could only, you'd imagine, happen in a highly exaggerated comedy film or sitcom. I'm still trying to figure out what bugs could have crawled up everyone's asses. This will be almost word for word as best I can remember.
"When is the 500 ever going to be on time?" I ask.
"We don't have any control over that," one of the supervisors respond. I stare in confusion at the supervisor for a moment. They're supervisors right? That means they're placed in charge over the bus drivers. They could do just about anything disciplinary toward the bus drivers. Last I checked, that's what a supervisor in any company has an authority to do.
"Well because my bus was late, I missed my connection and I likely won't be able to get home tonight," I try to explain as clearly as I can.
"So?" the bus supervisor asks with the most cold and callous expression I had ever seen. My eyes go wide with shock and disbelief. I mean... WHAT THE FUCK??? "SO?" So I won't be getting home. That's SO!!! Jesus Christ! You're suppose to be making money off of us poor schmucks, getting a profit, and you treat us like this? Oh... but it's not over yet. It got worse.
I'm stammering now, completely confused and surprised at such a careless attitude toward a paying customer. "I... I... 'So?' So I won't be able to get ho--" At this point the supervisor starts talking to someone on her radio and the other supervisor interrupts me.
"Excuse me but she's talking to someone else right now." I turn a mere 30 degrees to face her to give my attention to her. I try to repeat myself, but she has a serious attitude malfunction and starts to just shout at me.
"STEP AWAY STEP AWAY YOU WON'T CHARGE ME STEP AWAY BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!!"
At this point I feel like I've wandered into a cartoon. I'm very confused and exasperated. I didn't "charge" anyone. I try to talk over her to get heard, as right now her voice is dominating everything.
"W-w-w-whatever happened to curtesy toward customers in th--"
"YOU ARE NOT A CUSTOMER RIGHT NOW CHARGING ME AND YELLING BLAH BLAH STEP AWAY AND GO BLAH BLAH!!!!"
I'm putting in a lot of "buts" and "missed connection" and "won't get home" at this point, but neither will hear any of it. According to them, I'm the one who's somehow misbehaving when they were the jerks who had the attitude problems from the getgo. They call in a cop on me.
"Well you can now tell that to the cop who's behind you." At this point I am very much beyond disbelief and confusion.
So the Gestapo officer comes in and he's "What seems to the problem" and they tell their overreactionary lies and exaggerations and then I try to tell him what I've been trying to tell the supervisors as calmly as I can.
"So what?" he asks. "They're not the bus drivers. They can't make them arrive in time." I'm in a cartoon planet of yahoos. This cop is yet another jerk in apparently a long string of very bizarre, unpleasant personalities that I've had the misfortune of running into in my life. I have an urge to scream and fight back that urge. And now, keep in mind that I instinctively gesticulate when I talk. I can't help it., I talk with my hands. So what?
" 'So what?' " I reply. "What do you mean? They're the super visors, that means that they're the drivers b--"
"YOU WILL NOT POINT AT ANYONE!"
Beyond annoyed at this point, I point at him and say. "Point point." I'm immediately arrested by the Nazi and I spend Sunday night in jail. Pierce Transit bans me from the buses for a year. Fortunately I'm able to get bailed out by my mother yesterday, and I've called in sick today as I continue to recuperate from the shock of the entire experience. I have a court date this Thursday, and I will do my best to get my banishment rescinded, because I was not at fault. I was poorly treated.
I cannot figure out how the hell these asshats keep their jobs, treating customers so terribly.
current mood: enraged
current music: Don Davis - "Spirit Of The Universe"
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(6 complaints | Complain)
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| Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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3:50 pm - Oh wow.
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