A rant.
Work is hard. Really hard. I get so disheartened and so angry sometimes.
"Hey! Chat about Greenpeace today?" "busy."
"Hey there! Do you like Greenpeace?" "Yes, I love them!" "Then you'd love to support us then!" "No." "Why not?!" "I just don't want to."
"How are you today?" "No. Shopping."
them: "It's Christmas!" me: "Yeah! It's CHRISTMAS!"
I stand on these high streets and have people tell me that it is more important to get a coffee than spend the two minutes and two pounds it takes to help save the planet. Or that it's too cold out (while I am outside all day). I start to dream of the buildings crumbling and the people screaming, so that they'll realise the harm that they could have prevented... but it won't happen like that. The developed world- the people who have the money and the leisure time to put things right, the people whose greed has caused the problems in the first place- the developed world will be the last to suffer. Sure we'll see the poor of the world die off on our t.v.s and we'll wring our hands and ask angrily why the governments are doing nothing, but not at the expense of two minutes. Not at the expense of £24 a year. £2 a month. Even in the tightest budgets one can afford that. I have had a homeless guy donate £10 a month, so don't fucking tell me that "things are too tight."
*sigh* This job would be so much easier if I didn't care. I want to work in a flower shop again.
"Hey! Chat about Greenpeace today?" "busy."
"Hey there! Do you like Greenpeace?" "Yes, I love them!" "Then you'd love to support us then!" "No." "Why not?!" "I just don't want to."
"How are you today?" "No. Shopping."
them: "It's Christmas!" me: "Yeah! It's CHRISTMAS!"
I stand on these high streets and have people tell me that it is more important to get a coffee than spend the two minutes and two pounds it takes to help save the planet. Or that it's too cold out (while I am outside all day). I start to dream of the buildings crumbling and the people screaming, so that they'll realise the harm that they could have prevented... but it won't happen like that. The developed world- the people who have the money and the leisure time to put things right, the people whose greed has caused the problems in the first place- the developed world will be the last to suffer. Sure we'll see the poor of the world die off on our t.v.s and we'll wring our hands and ask angrily why the governments are doing nothing, but not at the expense of two minutes. Not at the expense of £24 a year. £2 a month. Even in the tightest budgets one can afford that. I have had a homeless guy donate £10 a month, so don't fucking tell me that "things are too tight."
*sigh* This job would be so much easier if I didn't care. I want to work in a flower shop again.