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Post by YoshiAgent on Sept 29, 2009 13:40:51 GMT -5
Fluory, that's intense. LEVEL UP ! !
Why don't you just do it in your previous style, Toshi?
As for me, I'm currently juggling between making my sc comic, school, track, and the PA district orchestra audition piece, which btw is quite nice.
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Post by Toshi on Sept 29, 2009 14:09:38 GMT -5
Why don't you just do it in your previous style, Toshi? I want a change. |
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Post by Blitzzoshi on Sept 29, 2009 20:12:55 GMT -5
College feels really weird so far. Half the time I can't tell whether or not it's necessary for me to be doing homework for each class. I guess I'm used to the strict regulation that high school had.
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Post by Shoe on Sept 29, 2009 21:03:28 GMT -5
My Horticulture course is exactly like that. I keep saying I'm "slacking," but only in my personal schedule. The assignment instructions are very vague. In fact, I know I'm missing something about what I'm doing, but it's something that can be done in one sitting, so I'm not going to worry about it right now. We don't have any real deadlines, and some plant identification worksheets weren't even mandatory. Without them, I still flawlessly aced my plant ID quizzes. We looked at a picture of a plant and decided what it was, and I usually memorized them all the very day the test was handed out. I still probably remember at least half of them. It would probably be in my best interest to find out tomorrow when I'm supposed to have this textbook read. We don't have deadlines for each individual unit or even each chapter. Meanwhile, the weather around here is starting to cool down and I was finally able to physically work with plants, today. Left myself with a nasty headache, too. Could have been when my eye got stabbed by that foot-long leaf.  |
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Post by Blitzzoshi on Sept 29, 2009 21:28:05 GMT -5
Weather starting to cool down? I actually liked having the warm weather. What I didn't like was all the rain. Great when you're indoors, awful when you're outside. With a laptop. I think part of the confusion for me is with Chemistry. We've only just gotten off the ground in our lecture, and my class must unfortunately lead a double life in that we have homework assignments from two sources. Long story short, our prof wanted just to give us some light homework in the form of question sheets, with short, frequent quizzes. The higher ups wanted an online homework system with infrequent, heavier tests. We have to do both of these. Intro to Computer Science is fun so far. I got to build myself a portfolio site, and we are being introduced to Python. It feels really weird compared to C/C++, which is what I've been used to. With C/C++, you have a simple code library system, but compilation can be time consuming and sometimes even confusing. In Python, you get results immediately (no need for compilation, as it's an interpreted language), but the code library system and distribution doesn't make any sense at all. I think much of my disdain for interpreted languages has stemmed from the fact that I don't really feel like I'm writing a program, so much as a small script that is being run by a program someone else wrote. The language itself, however, looks decently interesting. It'll be nice to experiment with computations without having to worry about things like memory micromanagement. |
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Post by Shoe on Sept 29, 2009 22:52:11 GMT -5
I forgot to mention something fairly important. I noticed a book about Bonsai growing, and almost didn't pick it up. When I looked through it, I was immensely astonished, impressed, and intriqued, all at once. I thought Bonsai was its own Genus of the plant kingdom, but, apparently, one can train other plants to grow extremely small. I'm particularly impressed that every aspect of the plant, from the roots to the leaves on the branches, can be trained to be small. The thought of growing a miniature forest made me come to this conclusion: as well as writing, I'm going to grow and market Bonsai plants. Example pictures:    Top: English Oak Bottom Left: Japanese Maple Bonsai Glade Bottom Right: Catlin Elm |
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Post by Lazo on Sept 30, 2009 13:15:51 GMT -5
It's international blasphemy day. Happy doing what you do anyway YC.
The troops are not heroes.
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Post by Graedius on Sept 30, 2009 18:33:38 GMT -5
It's international blasphemy day. Happy doing what you do anyway Yoshi's Corner. Every day is blasphemy day for me. >3 |
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Post by Rainbow Yoshi on Sept 30, 2009 21:01:50 GMT -5
I have no school tomorrow or Friday. =D No school is sweet. I wish every day could be like that.
I'm also trying to get a job. Not having much luck with that. >_>
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Post by Anjil on Sept 30, 2009 22:14:33 GMT -5
I'm also trying to get a job. Not having much luck with that. >_> Not many people are, apparently :c |
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Post by Shoe on Oct 1, 2009 10:49:57 GMT -5
Owwwwwwwwww...  I just got the Flu shot. It huuuuuurrts. Feels like my whole arm is asleep. But, thankfully, it's my left arm, and I'm not feeling any noticeable symptoms, yet, so it could be worse.  |
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Post by Sanjo on Oct 1, 2009 13:03:38 GMT -5
Owwwwwwwwww... I just got the Flu shot. It huuuuuurrts. Feels like my whole arm is asleep. But, thankfully, it's my left arm, and I'm not feeling any noticeable symptoms, yet, so it could be worse. Try rubbing the area that got the shot. Usually when I get shots, this helps. But then again, other people have said it just hurts more, so I guess it's just something that could be better or worse. If I haven't been as active (especially on the fanfic front... sorry guys!), there's a perfectly good reason for that, and is also a reason why I many not be so active right now. Not only was this past monday the death anniversary of my grandfather (and this being the first year I can't be home for it), but I've been fighting off different illnesses for the past three weeks. Also, I learned that my father had just lost his job. So, with barely any money to support me through college this year, I am extremely stressed just being in school. I need to work hard on my grades, and I may even have to leave college so I can work until my father gets a new job (which given the current economy, may take a long while). It's all taking an enormous toll on me right now, but I am getting better step by step. |
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Post by Lazo on Oct 2, 2009 15:35:11 GMT -5
Sarah Palin's new book is being ghostwritten by a White Supremacist. Hilarity gonna ensue.
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Post by Toshi on Oct 9, 2009 10:43:47 GMT -5
What a day.
This morning, I was out on my delivery when I got a call off my mother. She told me my boss was trying to get into contact with me, and couldn't. They demanded that I'd turn up tomorrow to work an extra shift. Displeased with this, I gave them a call.
Before I delve deeper, I'll give you the background story. Beginning of summer, my round was picked for "summer lapsing", which is where postmen are given a specific area on the designated delivery to post. The bundles they receive should take them twenty minutes max (they do this to force postmen to work the hours they're given, thus nobody goes home earlier than they should). Since it was my round, I was left without a delivery to do, so I had to get used to being a preparation worker for the three months that this went on, as well as be asked to deliver a bundle or two on other rounds which need help. I was happy with this, and I had a specific day off, which was different to my rota from when I was on my own delivery, but regardless, at least I knew of a day off, minus the fact that I was disallowed a Saturday off work due to the fact that the postmen do not have to deliver it on these days. As the weeks went by, stuff regarding my day off changed, now I was working days off when they felt like it was necessary, since the previous plan wasn't turning out as they had hoped, so now every week, I had to ask when my day off was going to be.
This continued until last month, which I was back on deliveries again, except we were in the "winter lapsing" phase, which the postal workers only had to deliver my round on Mondays and Tuesdays, rather than through the whole week, which is where I come in. Before my holiday, one of my line managers at the time discussed that I would be getting permanent days off while winter lapsing was going on. I would get Mondays AND Tuesdays off every week since I was, apparently, not needed for those days, and to make up for this time I owe from the extra day off, I'd come on Wednesday to Saturday, working an extra hour. That sounded like a brilliant deal to me, until the line manager who told me this had left, so I returned to work after my holiday to be told this wasn't going to happen, which I was fine about really.
For the past three weeks, I had been told that I would be getting my round's specified days off work. Last week, I was off Friday, the week before, I was off Thursday, etc, so this week it would of worked out that I'd get my long awaited "long weekend" which I've not had in months, which consists of three days off, being Saturday, Sunday AND Monday. However, this had been denied today.
When I called them to ask about tomorrow, I explained that I would not be available since I already had plans. However, while on the phone, my boss had told me that I had no choice in the matter, and was being forced to come to work tomorrow. Their reason for this is that it is "not my day off", but at the office, we have a duty rota sheet which indicates our days off, and it clearly stated that it is, indeed, my day off work tomorrow. I delved further into it, asking him that it was generally unfair that I am being forced into work, when I had already been in the whole week and not had my day off yet, though here's the killer, apparently my round (over the winter lapsing) does not get a Saturday off at all. This is news to me which I made a point to say, but he continued to tell me that it had been discussed in which he immediately called me a liar. I do remember having such a conversation with him and my line manager about days off, but it was about the Mondays and Tuesdays off every week, which was never confirmed, and not once was I ever told that Saturdays were not to be my day off. Upon mentioning that I never knew, I was being lectured, and according to my boss, it is apparently MY duty to go to them and ask when my day off is, to clarify that this was, indeed, my day off. Why have a duty rota sheet then? Those were put up there for a reason, so we could all check our days of so they wouldn't have to run around seeing to 115 people to tell them when our days off are. If there was to be a change in it, they should come and see us, we shouldn't have to see them. This was my argument, but all I could get from my stubborn manager was that it wasn't his problem and that it is MY job to ask.
Not only that though, the conversation itself was a disgrace, he really showed a very bad side to him today. An ongoing issue I have with my boss is that he likes to belittle me due to the fact my mother is also working in the same office, and whenever I have a problem, whether it's overtime, work load, or something else, he likes to make remarks that refers to me being a "mummy's boy", just because my mother works in the same office (in all honesty, it stemmed off the fact that my mother called in sick for me once when I was ill a while ago). There was a part of the conversation where it heated up and I was raising my voice, in which he'd responded "Grow up, you're not a boy any more, you're talking to your boss, not your mother", and that set me to tears because I'd had enough of him indicating this. How dare he say such a thing?
When I arrive to work tomorrow, I'm going to see my Union representative, and I will be making a report about it, and I will make sure every detail is said. I shouldn't have to put up with this bullying, and I shouldn't have to be forced to work especially when the duty sheet says I have a day off on the day they want me in.
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Post by YoshiAgent on Oct 9, 2009 15:27:02 GMT -5
Toshi, your post makes me glad I don't have a job yet, and I don't have to take crap from an employer.
Yay.
My day was fine. Had a fine game of starcraft to end my school day too. Ah, the happiness of being in School.
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Post by Fluory on Oct 10, 2009 13:52:24 GMT -5
Wow, Toshi, good luck. I hate employers like that - just cuz they're higher up than someone they think they're always right and infallible. It's awful.
In other news, the Asian American Association had a club night last night. It was like a dream come true. Good night, good night~
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Post by Toshi on Oct 10, 2009 14:27:03 GMT -5
Got into work this morning, my boss pulled me aside to his office to give me a lecture, which he basically repeated from yesterday. Once again, he was cocky about it.
As he was mentioning how I don't get a day off on Saturdays anymore, I had to make a point in showing him the "sign in" sheet, which shows my name, and in block capitals in the slot where you sign your name, DAY OFF.
He lost it big time, calling me a smartass, and blah blah. I laughed when I left the office. Didn't see my Union rep, but I caught him just before he left to mention that I desire a word with him when I'm back in on Wednesday, and after today, I might just file a complaint rather than not take it further.
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Post by plebanshiren on Oct 11, 2009 12:53:32 GMT -5
I went on an art trip to London, yesterday. We spent 6 hours on a bus going there and coming back D: We visited the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert art museum to look at some exhibits there about story telling. The National Gallery one was kind of boring, but the Victoria and Albert one was amazing. Between each Museum we had an hour to walk around London. I went to Picadilly Circus with some friends and then ate McDonald's food in Oxford Street  I also went to Harrods, which is a HUGE posh department store, it's where the rich and famouse from all over the world go to shop (kind of like Macies in New York city) Here, you have to be well dressed, if you look like a punk, they won't let you in xD It was so posh, the pet shop section had a dog bakery! The had cakes and cookies and deserts all made specially for dogs! I couldn't believe it xD Me and my friend were acting all posh while walking around, going "oh yes we'll buy 400 of these" We made people in there laugh at our poshness LEVEL UP ! !Sadly I forgot my camera, but here are some photos of the places I visited: Harrods: www.london-sightseeing.net/harrods-london.jpgPicadilly Circus: www.mapseeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/map-c7bd9d4c299b.jpgmedia-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/1e/b7/dc/piccadilly-circus.jpgAlso, we drove past Trafalgar Square, there was a man in a dog suit wearing a pair of Union Jack shorts, dancing and pelvic thrusting on a stand there xD Anyone know who he might be? Also, in a week or so (24th of October) I leave to spend a week in NEW YORK CITY! It's my all time favourite city, and this will be the first time for me Double-scoop ice cream |
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Post by Toshi on Oct 15, 2009 2:06:48 GMT -5
I managed to see my Union representative yesterday, and despite feeling a little off while speaking with him, he's given me some piece of mind and I feel a lot better from it. His advice to me was to either;
A) Go and see my boss along with him
B) Keep a log book and monitor the behaviour for whenever there is a next time
C) Put forward an HR1, which is a Bullying & Harassment form
However, there are problems regarding these options;
A) If I bring the problem to his face, it may stem off into something worse and it could be a long term issue.
B) Nothing may happen any more, so my chance to do something about it can be stopped here.
C) This form would only cover the harassment and bullying side, not the other issue regarding their mismanagement which was a point I made.
I'm leaning towards placing in a complaint, but advice from various others would be to log it and see what happens. Maybe I should do both? Your thoughts would be helpful right now if you can spare any.
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Post by YoshiAgent on Oct 15, 2009 21:14:21 GMT -5
Hm, you could do both.
You could get more evidence of the harassment on paper in a log near the times you were actually harassed, which would reflect on your scope at the moment and provide a more trustworthy documentation of the event (not to say your not trustworthy.)
If you file a complain right there without the log, it would be like retelling a story from memory; for all they know, you could be exaggerating. They would probably still believe you, but there is a chance they would want some examples. That's why it would be nice if you could retell an example of the harrassment with clarity like:
"There was this one time on November 4th 2009 when bla bla."
So yeah, B and C go together nicely.
Option two is you can take that person down to the boss and hope it goes well.
Or, oh oh, here one. Get into really nice shape and beat the cr@p outa him. Yeah! I believe this may just be the best answer to your dilemma.
EDIT: This is about your job right?
As for me, my school day was normal. It's school spirit week this week. Didn't do much, did wear pink on breast cancer awareness day though. Was nice.
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