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Omg, reading this thread on CFH (customers from hell) brought back so many unfortunate memories.

 

I'm currently on my 4th job- all the service industry. From working in the food court (making sandwhiches and smoothies etc), Coles, Cotton On and now the Workplace Infoline.

Points to be made:

1) If the supermarket is busy/understaffed for that day, and there are literally 20 people behind you to be served, please STFU and not tell me about your goddamn day in minute detail. "Hi How are you" Does not translate "Tell me the story of your life because I enjoy being inconvienced, and so do others".

2) I dont have magic powers, really. So dont say "I really loooveee this top, but its abit short. So do you have it longer? Maybe in purple, with pockets and bigger buttons?" NO you fucking idiot. The shirt is as you see it. Thats how we made it, if you dont like it dont buy it. This is not bloody make to fit, haute couture.

3) Trying to be my friend to fish out a discount will not work. This is a huge chain store, our prices are set by the head office in a far away place. I am just one sales assistant, I dont have the authority to bloody give you a discount. Buying 2 items, does not entitle you to a discount. Buying 3 $10 shirts does not entitle you to a free scarf. You're shopping at Cotton On, its not Chanel, so you'll hardly bankrupt yourself if I dont give you a discount.

4) Being really rude and demanding I give you a discount does not work either.

5) Demanding I refund an item that you have obviously worn/washed multiple times and is so old its no longer stocked is ridiculous. Sell if on Ebay or something.

6) The law is the law. I didnt set the bloody law, and it doesnt change for you. Dont tell me your sob story, that doesnt change the law either. I'm sorry you were a casual, working for 15 years then got a sack for no reason. No entitlements. Telling me your boss was a bastard and sleeping with the secretary doesnt change the law either. "But he was really dodgy", still doesnt change the law.

7) Dont call me, and argue that I am wrong, and you are right. If you were so familiar with employment legislation, why are you calling the free infoline? Retard. Dont tell me "Oh I work in IR so I know all about this", because then why are you wasting my time?

8) I'm sorry you are stupid and did not register our disclaimer "We do not provide legal advice". So dont ask me if you should sign the contract that you were given. Dont ask me "but the contract says he has to do this, and he didnt. Does that mean its void?". We cant enforce the $3000 bonus your boss supposedly promised you. Lawyers exist for a reason. And yelling at me that "Dont you know how expensive that is? Whats the fucking point then?" doesnt mean I can transform into your lawyer. Oh and dont say "but can't you just ring him up and tell him to pay me?". LOL.... no.

9) When I answer, I clearly state "welcome to the Workplace Infoline". We are not the ACCC or fair trading. So I cant help you with the vet that over charged you $600 to fix your cat. I cannot calculate your tax for you. I am not the yellow pages/telstra directory, so dont call and ask "Can I have the number for XYZ department?". I dont know who the hell XYZ is. The best I can do is Google it for you, and obviously you're too stupid to do this yourself.

10) I am also not the bloody receptionist. Dont call saying "Transfer me to *insert persons name*" and then getting irrate and call me useless when I can't.

11) I'm sorry you've been given the run around all day, and you've had to call 16 different numbers. I cant help you. Its not that I'm being a pain, or dont feel like helping you. I just cant. Esp, if I dont have the answer to your question, since its not something I advise on... I dont have the magic book of answers.

12) Please dont call me and ask to speak to Julia Gillard.. LOOL Or whinge about the government. Or how you heard something on the radio, the news, the paper, ACA or TT. Its not law until parliament passes it. I'm no lying I promise. But I'm sure the media knows so much more than we do. 

13) Whinging that its "so unfair" or "thats not right" is pointless. You think fair is covered by law? Ohhhh sorry, thats so unfair, let me send them to jail. Is that better? Grow thicker skin, and shut up. If you hate your job, get a new one.

 

 

This isnt to say I dont like my current job. Its still the best job I've ever had. Most of the time its pleasant and people are thankful... Plus, its all over the phone so its not like they can come and attack me.

 

Retail is totally different story. Maybe it was because I worked in North Ryde/Epping with a massive population of international students and bogans. That place was the end of me...

1. Madison - Since graduating from 4 years of study with a B. of Cosmopolitan (a teen girls bible), I have been searching for a more grown up mag to devot to. Almost of a year of searching, I have my bible for the 20-somethings. It has all my great loves - social/political issues, editorials, fashion (economic and high end), beauty, travel, 'real life' reads. But in addition to what Cosmo didnt have - international flare, cooking, and HOME. I love reading about homes, and people who have made a great success of family, life and career.

2. Sex and the City - the movie was so great. I cried all the way through. It was like a reunion with my favourite four girlfriends. From when the theme song played, and just seeing all of them together, oh memories. Yeah I cried a mini river.. It meant oh so much to me.. And the fact the story line was perfect, they really tied up all the loose ends. Everything in the cosmos was back to the way its meant to be. All the charaters were at peace. Best movie of this year.

3. Good books - this is an obvious one. I love reading. I'm an addict, feeding off information. Really, I read everything and anything, from cereal boxes to cheese burger wrappers. My modern day favourite author is Sue Townsend, comic writing is of the hardest and she does it so well. Plus I LOVE satire, she does it fucking brilliant. Growing up, it was Judy Bloom and Roald Dahl. But Ms. Bloom and her novels probaly changed my life. It taught me everything about boys, younger siblings, bras and periods. Things that are universally important to a 12 year old. Adeline Yen Mah/Jung Chang are important authors for all Chinese girls. They helped me understand my culture, myself and make sense of the cultural conflicts. There is a line in Falling Leaves, spoken by Aunt Baba "everyone is the victim of history". I will never forget that line. 

4. ABC/SBS - I'm discovering all these great shows! Where have I been all these years? Like Spicks & Specs, Enough Rope, and their countless documentaries/foreign films. Today I watched my first episode of Top Gear, it was soo funny yet informative. Plus it was on cars, which I have zero interest in.. I watched it all the way through and had good fun. Who would have thought?  

5. Lush - recently discovered the best thing invented in the world of beauty. 'Buffy' exfoliating bar from Lush is my new skin saver/secret. So yummy! It has crushed rice that exfoliates the skin, so you rub it all over for a good scrub down to get those new skin cells kicking, and it leaves this lovely oil on your skin which you pat down. It saves from actually moisturizing. I felt so sexy afterwards! Skin was moist and had this deliciously oily sheen. I felt like a goddess. I cant wait to use it tonight.  

 

Oh I feel better now. I just booked my airfares for the second half of my Thailand trip- Bangkok. My original airfares only go from Syd-Phuket.. so I had to buy some Phuket-Bangkok tickets via Thai Airways.

Nothing like spending $400 to make me feel better :)

OMG. I fucking hate my stupid mobile service. Go die in a fire Three, fucking piece of shit. Over charge me.. every fucking month. EVERY MONTH I have to make these stupid phone calls to your contact centre in fucking Mumbai. I nice the first three times I called okay.. I'm so over it now.

Get this, I was made to sign up to some stupid subscribtion to an internet usage pack for an extra $5 a month on top of my cap. I cancelled that in JANUARY. And I'm STILL being charged for it every month.. Ive had to call 4 times to get that shit credited back to me. But I'm just so sick of speaking to these over seas people. Fucking inefficient. Who is in charge of this shit? Technical error my ass.

And they charged me $0.35 to have that billed to my credit card. OMG I did a direct debit as a FAVOUR to them fucking assholes, and now they charge me 35cents? I can Bpay and they can go deal with the stupid paper work. BLAAAHHHH, what the fuck!??!?!?

If this doesnt get fixed by next month, I'm going to open a can of whoop ass to the next person I have to speak to in Mumbai.... So, fangry. Not pleasant. Bad customer service. Ugggggghhhh.... Fucking moles.

 

 

 

 

Anyways. I went to Glebe markets today Julian and his friend Matt. Everything is wayyy overpriced. No, stupid girl with proxide blonde hair. I went not pay $50 for that belt you bought for $5 from the Salvos. 'Vintage' can kiss my ass. Paying ten-fold of the actual value for second hand goods is against my culture/religion- Chinese-ism. And after we went to Paddy's markets and found pretty much all the 'fashion' stuff they were selling at Glebe for $20 less. Phhts

Then I hung out with Nadia and we watched SATC the movie. SO GOOD. SATC is like a religion for us 20-somethings. It really really made me appreciate the great friends I have and Chi. I loooovvveee you guys. Oh so much. BFF! The movie was sooo satisfying, and screw the critics.. its what every SATC addict needs. I cried so much and laughed and was ever so jealous of their numerous LV, Prada and Chanels.

Oh, I also bought myself a very pretty ring. Stirling silver and a blue stone. It's not quite the white gold and sapphire I wanted, but for $40 (and not $900) I'll take it.

 

 

P.S Why is every time I check my bank balance, it ends up being $200 less than I expect it? Hmm... Maybe I should stop shopping.....

 

 

I always wondered what would happen if Ice Age 2 (not the cute animated movie) came around. Too bad we dont have anymore mammoths to kill for food, and warmth. Is lack of forethought a human trait? Our ancestors didn't think we would need mammoth hide to keep us warm if another ice age came. So why should we care about the next generation? No one saved any species for us. What the Dodo is not useful?

Maybe that'll explain why we didnt get a summer this year. I'm still pissed off about that. Are you listening God? Tim Bailey? Where's my Aussie summer tan? Or are we still blaming El Nino? Yeah, it's always the foreign one isnt it. Why does everything have to run on a cycle and constantly change. Mother Nature is the ultimate PMS-y bitch, but instead of chucking a tantrum, she'll just tsumani your ass.

Science, like all other theories are always 100% subjective. No matter how objectively they present their information. Remember that. But its good to get some discussion and thinking going then talk like we know what we're talking about because soon we'll find out the earth is a cube shape, or the Matrix is real. And all 'modern' day scientific theory will be poo poo'd on, but its nice to try anyway. Just because you can see it, touch it, hear it, smell it or put it on a cool fucking graph, dont mean its real.

I did my first and only exam today. So I'm officially on intra-semester break until August. YAY.

 

 

 

Pity I still have to work 37.5hours a week, everyweek. No rest for the wicked.

Sorry for being all depressing in the last post. But some things are important to me. :)

Friday night was Laura's 21st birthday at Starbar. Yes the dress up one, where I did not dress up. We (Nadia and I) met alot of her friends, most of them were quite nice. Cept for this one person who was bogan to the core of bogan in the middle of Cambletown type. He may have had 'uneducated working class ignoramous' tattooed to his head. I dont mind the working class, the blue collars or whatever. But this kid... was so in your face. I dont get that, can you not like advertise your chav-ness to the world?

They were having a conversation about getting totally shit faced on schnapps. Nadia commented that, well its more a dessert liquor and you're not meant to drink 20 shots at one time. His response? "well you dont know how to drink then" in the most patronising manner. Well excuse me. Have fun with your liver failure at 45. Oh and he kept showing off his chest hair.. it was disgusting. Get it waxed, seriously.

Anyways we just danced heaps to mediocre early 2000's RnB. LOL and watched really old guys on riods crack on slightly chubby girls in tight short dresses. This one guy started humping the floor, like literally on his hands and knees. Classic.

We left around 11p.m. Chi picked us up and drove us home. I zonked out.

Saturday night was David Morcos' 21st birthday at Novotel, where they hired out the private function room. We had our own seafood buffet. It was really yummy and alot of fun. Mainly because there was alooottt of food. And Jimmy wrote this whole speech for David and it was like a high school presentation. Very sweet. I love good birthday speeches, its good to be surrounded by love. "Yo, this is from the family". Rofl.

Again, we had to leave early because Chi is working the grave yard shift that starts at 12.30a.m.

Sunday I went SWIMMING. Shit, I havent done that for so long. I sucked. I think I tried to swim like 4 laps but died. Back in the year 12 days, I'd go swimming at least once a fortnight and I could swim 20+ laps in one session (yes when I was skinny, tanned and fabulous). This intra-semester break I will go back to the pools and get fit. Plus Nadia and I are going to City2Surf, so thats half the movitation to go running.

Then we went to Leighs apartment and had a massive Sex and the City session. Meaning we went to a Japanese restaurant, ate alot of food then locked ourselves in her bedroom with a pot of tea and dissected our sex lives. Well it goes like this: 1) What do boys do wrong in the bedroom?, 2) Why do they do it?, 3) How can we fix them?

With quotes like "Uggh, I hate his ex. She broke his spirit. His man-spirit". "O.M.G Is that a douche?". "And where is this applicator meant to go?" "You think I should make him stop touching it for a week?"

So here is what we figured out:

a) Its a clitoris, not a scratch-and-sniff. You dont need to try and rub it off. That is really fucking unpleasant.

b) "Fingering" becomes redundant in the bedroom after age 15. This is not the back of the cinemas, be more creative. And its really not that fun either especially if it goes on for too long. What, are you trying to find a pot of gold up there? 

c) Having too much "happy time" then not being able to perform to us is the biggest no-no. Our vejay will hate you and your penis for a long long time.

d) Everything you ever learnt in pornos is a LIE. We are ladies. Plus, you dont pay us big bucks to fake it. So please, learn to be nice to us and our lady bits.

 

 

P.S These are the conclusions we came to after general observation. This is not a reflection on our current partners.

 

Chi and I at David's birthday. It took me 5mins of coaxing to get this photo.

Just once in awhile I read, hear or see something so compelling I need to share it.

 

Here is a blog on rape that every person should read. The disapointing thing is most women will relate to this, when they shouldn't. It's not something that should happen, but it does, and frequently.

 

Personally, I have never been in that situation to that extent. But that doesn't mean I cant relate, because it doesnt always have to been intercourse. There is a whole entire scale where violation can occour.

 

It is not just sex. Maybe the victim did not wish to be touched there, or kissed, or be alone with the predator. They wanted to say no, but they did not know how because they were at a position of weakened power. Not having objection or rejection does not equal consent.

 

Alot of the times consent will be forced. Predators can be very persistant. The victim will say no once, twice, or three times. The victim does not want the attention from the predator and it causes negative emotions. Because the objection are not heard, the victim believes the only way to stop the unwanted attention is to give in. "If I do want he askes, he will go away and I will be able to get on in peace".

 

I know how that feels.

 

A real man will always hear the first 'no' and will stop instantly because it is never there interest or their intention to hurt someone. Their desire is to love and protect. I know this now, and I have learnt how to read people enough to divide those who will hurt or nurture me.

 

If you hear a no and you ignore it. You are a predator, and you have raped that person of their free will. You deserve nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

I once dated this boy for maybe a month when I was fourteen. He was convinced he was in love with me. I really want to believe that he had my best interests at heart, and he just did not know better. But that was the first, and only abusive relationship I was ever in. Not that he ever beat me or sexually assualted me. My no's were never heard and I was completely stripped of my free will.

And years later when he believed the past was done and dusted, he tried to forge a friendship with me. I completely ignored his existance. And til this day, I bet he wonders why I hate him so much and why I can't let go of the past. I dont think he even realises what he did was just that wrong, and I will never forget or forgive.

Its that feeling of knowing it's wrong and undesired, but not knowing how to say no. Its not the paradox of, its so wrong but so right either. The powerlessness, fear and not having a full understanding of what is going on. You put me in that situation, and you disgust me.

 

 

 

Today I am with someone who loves me within the true meaning of the word. My best interests are served, and power reinstated. My voice is always heard.

I went to my dress up party. Didn't wear the fake eyelashes because I fail at life. :)

Really, its because I forgot them at home.

I didn't dress up either, well I did curl my hair and put on some red lipstick so thats enough effort. A lot of other people did, and I was deeply disturbed, but lets not go there.

It was good fun though. 1/2 a glass of "champagne", butt loads of fruit eating (Nadia and I demolished the fruit, cheese and crackers platter), 45mins of dancing and I was ready to call it a night.

The original plan was to go to a dirty shop and look at things (it's one of our many past times). But we just got some nice iced tea and went home.

It was fun.

 

Quote of the night:

[in reference to the guy that got on our nerves from the word go]

Nadia: I think I dont like him because of his chest hair.

Anita: No, I think its more like the penis growing out of his head

 

OMG GO ME! I got photos. But this is be a very rare occourance. I left my lap top on all night so it would load.. I never ever do that okay. It would have wasted so much energy and my ecological footprint just kicked me in the face. Here are the things I bought, because thats apparently exciting for people to read.

 

Purchaces of last pay week (fornight)..

Sass & Bide skirt (worn with Kookai tank and French Connection belt)

 

 

Tigerlily dress

 

Tigerlily bikini - I didnt model this because its seriously skimpy. So I saved you from going blind ;)

 

Mollini Boots 

Just Jeans 'Vintage Leather Bomber'

Scooter flats