Social Life- gone the way of the buffalo
Working me raw to the bone; figuratively, unless you count the paper cuts. It’s ironic how patients charts documenting their injuries can injure me. I haven’t had a day off in a while and I’ve been pulling double shifts: ie. 8 hours at the hospital (plus 1hour 30min driving time there and back) then a closer at the movie store from 6:30 to close. I don’t get home until 12:00am or 1 depending on the closing shift. It’s like a 16 hour working day. I put my two week notice in at the movie store. Soon the chaos will be over.
Last week I had my beauty marks removed from my face. I had originally gone in just to get one removed from the corner of my eye cause it bothered me when I was tired. The doctor told me the others were “distractions” and convinced me that I might as well get all of them removed since I was getting the one done. It’s strange looking in a mirror and not seeing something. Mirrors are for observations, seeing things. It’s the lack of what I see that I am drawn to now.
Good things can take away from my time spent at the movie store? I am even more disillusioned with entertainment and this experience has completely convinced me that our society no longer genuinely desires to provide services because they want to benefit/aid society- They only want your money. The motives of the corporate/capitalist systems suck! As a worker, when I tried to genuinely help my customers by telling the truth, giving them credits, and not selling them things they did not need/want- I was punished, discouraged, belittled and was given warnings. A workers allotted hours for the next week would even be diminished if their “metrics” (sales) were low. ie. The greater your % of customer to upselling, the more hours you could work.
Boy am I glad to be getting out of there.
Last week I had my beauty marks removed from my face. I had originally gone in just to get one removed from the corner of my eye cause it bothered me when I was tired. The doctor told me the others were “distractions” and convinced me that I might as well get all of them removed since I was getting the one done. It’s strange looking in a mirror and not seeing something. Mirrors are for observations, seeing things. It’s the lack of what I see that I am drawn to now.
Good things can take away from my time spent at the movie store? I am even more disillusioned with entertainment and this experience has completely convinced me that our society no longer genuinely desires to provide services because they want to benefit/aid society- They only want your money. The motives of the corporate/capitalist systems suck! As a worker, when I tried to genuinely help my customers by telling the truth, giving them credits, and not selling them things they did not need/want- I was punished, discouraged, belittled and was given warnings. A workers allotted hours for the next week would even be diminished if their “metrics” (sales) were low. ie. The greater your % of customer to upselling, the more hours you could work.
Boy am I glad to be getting out of there.
posted by June-Star at 11:38 PM
4 Comments:
I think it has been a long time since workers worked for society. Everybody is working for something else (for themselves). I don't like pushing paper, but if it finances my hobbies, trips and enjoyments I guess I'll do it. If you don't like it you'll have to leave North America, er...Planet earth. Communism doesn't work. People aren't going to commit themselves to volunteering for the greater good. I wouldn't. Sometimes it sucks, but I get a lot of enjoyment out of my life and I'm working towards doing something that might be enjoyable. If you're bummed out, you should get a job on a cruise ship and travel. Get a working visa for australia and go pick fruit.
I know. People have a tendency to use work as a means to an end and this causes them not to take pleasure in the work itself. It's always about selfish ambition/what comes after the work. The problem is the attitute. I'm not really suggesting communism as a solution, I thinkg that work should be about desiring to serving others and finding joy in your accomplishments. No way this can be done on a massive scale but individualy it's possible. Self pleasure is a great reward from work but it shouldn't be the only reward. To get to the root of the problem, the work itself needs to be seen within a different conception.
ie. if we genuinely desire to help/aid others our work will become worthwhile, enjoyable. If someone with these values could enter into an upperlevel positions within a corporation/buisness, money would become only a perk for them and the real pleasure would be in making others happy; like it was christmas.
That sounds like a lot of talk without any action. I hate ideal nonsense. That's all anyone ever does. Re-spin old news. It makes my eyeballs drown in the back of my head.
It transforms into action when your motives are to serve rather than to recieve.
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