Alert: This post contains strong language.
If you look up the word "jackass" in the dictionary, it will be defined as "The hiring personel of businesses in West Virginia." I thought I'd come across every level of ignorance, but once again the well proves to be deeper still.
Back in May I put in three job applications, the one to Holiday Inn, one to another hotel, and the last to Bob Evans, Since I've told the Holiday Inn tale, and Bob Evans called me, but didn't leave a message so they must have realized "this is the guy we didn't hire last year", I won't waste time with telling those ones again. To get the the point, the other hotel I applied to, the local Travelodge, gave me call on Monday. This call was to set up an interview for the housekeeping job I applied for two months ago, but the person I was speaking with wanted me to go in for the interview on Monday. Like I had no plans to do a damned thing for the holiday at all that I could drop everything for an interview, like I had been sitting around for two months just to get their call. That's not all though, when I asked if Wednesday would be good for me to come in for the interview instead of Monday, I got this reply: "Well, I might have already hired somebody by then." Tuesday was Independance Day, and I had plans for both Monday and Tuesday that I couldn't break. What in seven Hells kind of employer threatens to hire someone else if an applicant can't make a same day interview, the day before nationel holiday? What on earth made this employer think I would cave to the threat of not getting the job? I've been out of work for six years, so not getting a minimum wage housekeeping job damned well won't bug me one bit. I don't cave to strong-arm bully tactics and empty threats like that, and I sure as Hell am not going to work for someone who thinks that's how you get peope to do what you want.
Since I promised to call back on Wednesday, I made that call this morning, and was not at all surprised to hear "That position was filled." I just hope that by making my call this morning, I showed the Travelodge that they lost out through their impatience, because when I say I'll do something, when I say I'll follow through with something, I do it. I guess not even the holidays are sacred here in ass-backwards West Virginia.
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Caprice
Let's see if I cover everything: Same here, as well as can be expected, and to be polite, thre phrase "Hell on earth" is too tame for it. I posted a while back about my last interview at Holiday Inn. I don't know why they even called me for an interview, I didn't have experience in the field (Job was a busser), I have no professional references, and after the first interview, my timid nature was an issue, but I was called in for the second one anyway. Is it normal for Employers to do that? Is it normal for them to read an application, see a person doesn't have what they want and call them in for an interview anyway? Do employers get their jollies from humiliating applicants that way?
We knew it was going to happen with our computer, it was just a matter of when. My brother had the same problem with his identical model desktop computer a couple months before ours did it. It's a $20 fix (If what he told me is accurate), a couple new fans and maybe 30 minutes to put them in, but since I have no money to take care of the problem myself, I have to wait till someone else needs to use that computer before the problem will be taken as seriously as it should be. I don't like using my laptop for internet related things, but I have to keep on top of my obligations so I do what I can with what I've got. It would be nice to be able to see Howl's on my computer, because my laptop is wide screen format, so I can see the 16:9 ratio at it's best. I watch the films in letterbox on my TV (a 13" screen does not do Studio Ghibli justice). I did watch the movie through once on my TV and was going to watch it again in Japanese, but Disney wants to "check the disc" so I have to pack it up and ship it to them. I just hope they get the message that it's a serious problem for me when they read the page long list of time indexes where the problem occurs, and it only occurs in three scenes (12, 13, and 14 if anyone else wants to check their DVDs in their computer, it may not be a localized thing). I want them to find a defect on the disc too, because they will replace it if that's the case, but I hope they check the replacement first. I won't know till I hear from them.
I caught that post the other night, and my hand slipped before I could finish typing my comment so if it looks cut off (Adam really needs to think about an edit feature) just ignore that and have a laugh about it. I was saying that I use templates to make formatting up this page right hear a painless proceedure, and I'm working on a couple for my real website, but I still need to get the CSS thing down, I have a great resource page bookmarked, on my desktop computer (the one with problems), so that's going to have to wait till I can get to it again which means my web site, and this page will be bleh till then. I was going to mention some stuff about working and all that, but I think my opinions would be jaded by my lack of experience, and the inherent levels of employer ignorance here in West Virginia, so I'll just say congrats on "moving on up" and leave it at that for the sake of not being offesively rude.
kout3uka
I investigate because it gives me a sense of community with the spirits if you will, they tend to like to "talk" to me. I've learned that being afraid of something unknown because of what it "might do" is far worse that learning about it, and finding out what it "will do". People used to scare me all the time with ghost stories, and elaborate "haunting" practical jokes, maybe I got tired of being pushed around that way and chose instead to face those fears rather than let them control me. I know the people who used to scare me aren't amused so much anymore when I blast them with the whole string of things they've done wrong to make an "authentic" haunt. It depends on the type of investigation I'm doing, sometimes, I'll get a bit of a vibe from an area that's really something, sometimes I don't get anything, and sometimes the feeling is a false hit, but when it's a real gut hunch that there's more people there than you brought in to investigate with, it can be unsettling, and exhilarating all at once.
All right, let's see what we can do about a voice:
Here is the unedited, unenhanced wave file (Best bet is a right click and "Save target as" then listen offline if it don't pop in your default player), and
This is after amplifying and running it through a couple filters. The wave file terribly quiet, so use headphones, you'll hear it a lot better, and remember to back the volume down again before giving the other one a listen, it's a little louder.
The story behind this particular EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) is very interesting. Myself, my sister, and my mother were in this cemetary at the end of my block, and no one else was there either. It's a local historical site so we were there in the moning and had done a complete walk-around (it's a very small cemetary, about the size of an average lot in a small town) and were getting to more specific things when my sister and I stopped to get a look at an older stone that is actually sticking out of a tree root. The stone is so faded, none of the text is readable, but the outline of a shield shape is still visible. My sister had just commented that it looks like a shield or something to that effect and in the silent moment that followed, I got this voice. My mother was further off looking at another stone, and I didn't say anything, my voice isn't that smooth in a whisper anyway. I started the clip just after my sister's comment so you won't hear it, she thinks I'm weird enough without my asking if I can put the audio clip with her talking in it online. You get a good listen to the spirit's voice though.
A technical note on those sound files, they're being hosted on a limited bandwidth free site (My geocities space) so if you get errors about them not loading up, try in another hour, or send me an e-mail and I'll get them to you that way, neither file is really that big so that wouldn't be a problem. If I knew how to embed a player on my page here, I would have done that for you so you wouldn't have to do things the hard way, but I think this will work.
I figure one is about 8 hours away if not more (Indiana), the other is probably six (Kentucky), that's about how far they are from me. I know in my head what I need to do, it's just a matter of being able to do it in reality. I can't do anything in reality until I get an income to do it.
Anime Dreams!
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