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I need money. I asked work for extra hours, but it's all gotten very complicated. So, I'm basically sitting here, wishing illness on one of my coworkers so I get called in.

I worked out my entire finances all the way through to January, and I'd be fine with just three extra shifts, or with getting the three days off I requested as paid holiday, ( Read more... )

...I am highly opposed to being emotionally blackmailed, so let's rock this bitch.

Someone on my facebook posted this as a link, along with a dreadful picture of a toddler with a black eye and a split lip.

My name is Chris ,
I am three,
My eyes are swollen..
I cannot see.

That's awesome writing skills for a three-year-old.

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So, at the minute I'm reading The Long Walk, by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.  It's about a future world where every year, boys under eighteen sign up to do the Walk.  They all line up and start walking.  If they drop below 4mph, they get a warning.  If they walk for an hour without getting another, they lose it.  Their fourth warning is ( Read more... )

We've been having a lot of problems with our lights at work.  It started when they updated the system, so a few of our lobby lights, and the lights for the three toilets (male, female and disabled) would all go out when we closed the lobby.  The timing went a bit weird on those, so most evenings the managers had to go and manually turn them back on ( Read more... )

"Shush girl, hush your lips ( Read more... )

So, when I came into work yesterday, I noticed one of our wet floor signs out by the bins. It looked very unloved.


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Work will be giving me more hours, for the next month or so at least, because one of the other hostesses quit ( Read more... )

We won't have true equality until women can be charged with rape, and a woman who marries a King does not become a Queen.  The only reason she does now is because the office of Queen is less powerful than that of King (which is why Prince Philip isn't).

Bearing a child does not make you a mother.

That sentence involves playing around with definitions a bit. You know that phrase "Any man can be a father, but it takes a special man to be a daddy"? It's a little like that. The simple act of bearing a child does not a mother make, except in the strictest biological sense. There are many reasons why ( Read more... )