2017 So Far...

Its almost been a full month into the new year.

I'm finding most nights I'm staying up really really late, I go to bed at around 5 or 6AM. It really doesn't help when I have shifts at work that start at 6AM lol but I manage.

Its not that I'm preoccupied with a lot of thoughts, I'm not even thinking about Steve anymore so I'm going to rule that out, I haven't even talked to him in a long time.

Although, I've been thinking about someone else that I work with a lot lately lol. I see his name EVERYWHERE and I didn't know that it was such a common name.. even various variations of that name and yes I have a major crush on this guy LOL, the thing is I barely see him at work and rarely get to talk to him since its been so busy. Everyone keeps telling me to ask him out but I'm SO SHY! -___-' plus I don't even know if he's single or not so until I know I'm not going to do anything about it.

My best friend seems to think I'm going to end up with him, only because he does tarot cards and has said that he's popped up in my readings a lot recently, and I don't even know what to make of what he said anyway so I'll just let it all play out and see but I am keeping my options open.

But! I hope he's right! This guy is like the TOTAL OPPOSITE of Steve. He's so nice! and not cocky at all (at least not right off the bat like Steve was) their personalities are very different, I think he suits being a nurse very well, a great bedside manner and can be tough with patients who are problematic, which is why I was attracted to him while I was still dating Steve (Steve on the other hand would just treat people like he was more superior than him, which he still does)

Some of my friends have been telling me to try online dating. But I know its not for me, honestly, a majority of my friends have dated someone online and it never ends well, mainly because the guy they've been seeing is SUPER FUCKED UP in some way or my friends would go crazy and end up treating them like shit.... plus I'm not one to talk to some stranger over the internet and then meet them, I've got paranoia about that...

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We have a new girl at work that NOBODY LIKES. She's brand new and just came out of school but she's worked in a different department in the hospital for a number of years so she has racked up quite the seniority and people are worried that she'll get a full time position ahead of some people who have been working in the lab for a number of years.

She's not that bad, I mean, I'm sure I was just as bad when I first started BUT there's a difference between the two of us. When mistakes are made, she doesn't learn from them, not only that, she has a terrible bedside manner, so a lot of people get nervous when she has to poke them... we've also had numerous complaints from patients... I doubt she'll get fired, I highly highly doubt it. Maybe she'll get better? But its been a while and she hasn't gotten much better...

I also screwed up my back recently, no idea how that happened but I almost had a week and a half off of work to nurse it back to work.

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I have two long vacations coming up this year, one in April and one in December. Depending on school in December I really would like to go to Asia or something.

I've been itching to go somewhere for a while but the problem is I want someone to go with! Ashley is busy with working and school and most of my friends are broke and I've got no boyfriend to go with lol! I'll think about where I want to go in April.... if anywhere...

So far this year... is confusing LOL

Will update again at the end of next month!

It Has Begun

OK Steve's mom is starting to piss me off now lol.

How fucking dependent are you going to be when you have kids AND a husband!?

Ok so... Steve's mom had like a job for two weeks at a sushi restaurant as a waitress and then she quit because she said it was "too overwhelming" I get that it could be for someone who hasn't worked in like 30 years but wtf you know your financial situation and she's got nothing else going on here! Does she really think that one day of not cleaning the house will result in the apocalypse? She only worked 4 hour shifts 3 times a week!

She also expects to be a care aid which is like 100x harder than being a waitress! wtf! I have a feeling that she's going to go to school, get her certificate or whatever and then quit because it'll be too stressful for her -__-'

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We went to the car dealership today because she's been pissing us off the past few weeks because she wanted Steve to find her a new car but HOLY CRAP she is so fucking picky! We found so many good options but she either didn't like the color or the mats in the car or some other stupid cosmetic reason. We test drove a 2010 Toyota Corolla S yesterday that was like BRAND NEW it looked so good, had low kilometers and like a small accident that only damaged the bumper (so nothing major) and it was priced at $14,800 (at the Mazda dealership in North Vancouver) so after tax and documentation fees and all that it was close to $17,000. The smart cookie that she is she offered $15,000 with tax included and everything. Even I knew that the manager wouldn't shave off like $2000 off of that like REALLY, they can easily sell that vehicle for the asking price! WTF

Today we went to the Toyota dealership because she wanted to take a look at some of the used cars there. Ok so she refused to buy mazda 2, mazda 3, honda civic because she didn't want to pay a lot for car maintenance and fuel and then what does she get? a fucking 2002 Audi A4.

My old manager's mom had one and something happened to the engine (the belt or something?) and then it messed up the whole engine so it was either buy a new car or get a new engine that was worth a new car, you tell me what he chose. Yet his mom was smart enough to get one, not only that maintenance on this car I expect will be expensive as well as gas.

Anyways after they buy the car she doesn't even fucking drive it! She makes Steve do it! like WTF!

Are you not getting a car for yourself? Why make your son do it? What's the point in having two vehicles if you aren't going to drive it? Are you that dependent on someone to do it for you?! Or are you just lazy?

I'm so frustrated! Such a lazy dependent woman! I blame Steve and his dad for enabling her to do all this crap!

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Here's something juicy but its a theory not fact but the puzzle pieces fit, I'll just have to wait and see how this plays out.

Steve's mom apparently told him some sob story about her getting abused by her dad right before she came here. Which may or may not have happened, I know its common in Asia especially old fashioned families like his. From what I've heard he's never raised his hand at her before but there's got to be a reason for him to do it. Even so Dr. Phil always says "a man should never raise their hand to a woman, its not a fair/equal fight"

However! If there was any reason for his dad to do it and the reason why she came here, I think, was because his mom was stealing money from his dad and secretly stashing it somewhere and he found out and then she fled the country.

So apparently his dad had full access to her bank accounts previously. Because well she didn't work and she needs money to spend right? What's the point in giving her cash all the time when he can just transfer it online straight into her bank account so she can withdraw it whenever she wants. But months before she came she changed all her passwords so he couldn't get access to them to see how much she was spending he was only allowed to deposit and she cancelled her smartphone too O_O Hmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since she came here her sister has been secretly sending her money. I thought to myself "If I knew Ashley had kids and a husband I wouldn't want her to send me money because well her family should come first even if they were super wealthy" I'm thinking that her sister has access to his mom's bank account and that his mom has actually been secretly stealing money from their dad these past few months which would make sense because she keeps shit talking about him to Steve (to which Steve believes his mom of course since they have a better relationship) she said that "he's been acting strange" but It strikes me odd that she came here for no reason and now she's doing absolutely nothing... no work, no school just nothing! Take care of her son? pfft yeah right more like alienate and dictate >.<

Not only that Steve is so stupid for enabling her he thinks she's going to just work and live on her own and be independent? He needs to get real.

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Retail Sucks

This is for all of you who shop (who doesn't?) and for those who potentially want to work in retail.

I ran into an old co-worker of mine that I haven’t seen in a few months. We chatted a bit and I asked him if he quit Future Shop (equivalent of Best Buy and owned by Best Buy) he said hell yes lol he quit a few months ago and he’s so glad he did.

He told me how pissed off the customer service girls were at me and how I “betrayed their trust” because I left and I was like wtf? I told them I was leaving. Right before I left for Korea I told them that my last shift was that one and that I wasn’t going to come back and work, I guess they thought I was being sarcastic... wtf.

Even before I left, everyone knew how much I hated working there, seriously, I don’t know how many times I wanted to quit. When the temporary store opened during the renovations I HATED WORKING THERE SO MUCH. There was nothing to do, ever! even before the renovations too. They made me read SOP’s everyday about the same crap everyday and I don’t know how obvious I made it but I made it clear that I did not have an interest whatsoever in learning about the company and its policies. A lot of the girls weren't comfortable giving out their names over the phone to random customers and I was one of them, some people would say its "good customer service" but to me I seriously just don't want to give my name over the phone to strangers plus some random customer can come in and say that I gave them some false promises wtf.

When I worked there I really think the management was really shitty. I honestly think the management is made up of people who had no life goals or failed school and had no other options because of their lack of leadership skills and logic when it comes to handling employees and customers. Which most of it is true because most people who have a bachelor's degree don't think to themselves "I wanna work at future shop after I finish school" wtf lol. The management is made up of people who used to work as sales associates and customer service reps and from what I hear its quite easy to move up in the company. Basically if you are a high school student you can become management one day because having a college degree doesn't matter.

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My heart really goes out for those people who work in retail, people who have never worked in retail just think that they can get away with anything (late returns/ridiculous exchanges) because "the customer is always right" that just pisses me off. I don't go to your business and freak out about your policies.

Plus I love the "I'm better than you" attitude customers give you and the "I spend lots of money here all the time!" its like well fuck I'm not forcing you to buy from here and its your choice where you spend your money. I really think people are fucking lazy assholes lol, seriously most places will be ok with you returning things a few days after the 14/30 day policy but not more than a week if your really nice enough (its still irritating though) but if you are a super big asshole then what do you expect? everyone has the same amount of time to return shit, its just ridiculous.

Also when your laptop breaks after a year of having it do you really fucking think ANY store will exchange it for you? or fix it for free? NO! even if you dropped/dented your laptop after a day of having it. Unless you get a extended warranty but even then they don't even cover everything.

I remember my first shift at Future Shop (in Vancouver), someone comes up to me and asks me where a hauppauge (a computer video recorder thing?) is and I have never heard of this thing before and didn't know this thing existed lol and I asked the customer (who is an older gentleman with like a 13 year old son) what it does and the guys son tells me what it does (he said he wanted to use it to record himself playing video games and then put it on youtube) so I figured it would be in the computer section but the salesman didn't know wtf it was either so he brought him back to me WTF didn't even try >.< and I try to search it on the computer and didn't know how the fuck to spell it and asked him and the guy freaks out and says "I DON'T LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE, IF YOU DON'T KNOW I'LL FIND SOMEONE ELSE WHO DOES" and I'm like WTF, I'm trying to fucking help you and you're not even putting any effort to help me help you! fucking asshole! GRARRRGH!! I hope karma got him and he's homeless now with his hauppauge lol.

Work in retail? whats the most ridiculous thing someone has said to you?

PS. what is with the font on this? o_O wtf lol

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