So I did get more unemployment. One day there was $0.00 left and the next day it was $4,620.00. Which is good as I was getting pretty worried as I watched the initial amount dwindle down to nothing. I applied at a brick and mortar video store. In my neck of the woods I guess there are poor souls who don’t have Netflix. No one has called me yet for any of the jobs I applied for. Which is a bit depressing.

Testing 1 2 3. Fuck I know it’s been a long time. A quick update is in order I suppose.

On January 18th of this year I was fired for the third time (which you may have guessed from the banners up top) from the hotel business. The reason was a flimsy bit of bullshit about me breaking hotel policy when I posted Work Bitch Post #2. Below is the unedited papers I was given on my exit:

Basically I was let go because I was full-time employee. On the 21st of January the hotel fired my boss. Almost all of the people who had been employed by the Holiday Inn Express of Janesville were either let go or had their hours cut. I was sad to see these american owners acting just like the douche bag foreigners who ruined the old worst hotel ever.

But in a lot of way I got to thank those cheap assholes (owners/managers) at the Holiday Inn Express of Janesville for showing me the hatch. The unemployment I had to fight for has been a nice extended paid vacation. It’s also made me realize my couple decades of working in this business have been a complete waste of time.

I’m currently a month behind on paying (I will catch up this month) my stellar web host and so I decided (with some help from a fellow blogger) to at least start using my site again. I’ll try to update more than once every sixth months.

I was watching Californication on  Netflix and had this exchange with Gawain which shows just how different we are musically:

[02:13] Turk: is cradle of filth real? the annoying voiced daughter mentioned them just now?
[02:13] Turk: I thought it crowd made that up
[02:13] Gawain: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[02:14] Gawain: yes, cradle of filth is a very very famous goth band. Everyone but you knows who they are. You kill me sometimes.

Honestly I thought it was a joke name made up by the IT Crowd writers. I looked at the wiki page and I just don’t care that I don’t know about a “very very” famous goth band.

So I got myself a new iPod Touch with my X-Mas money. It’s so awesome just having sound. The 4th gen is really something. You can go over here to see the Apple site describing the device. Below you can find some screens of Aralon and Rage HD.

Aralon is Oblivion and Morrowind mushed down into an iPod Touch game.

Rage is a little game from id Software. You may have heard of id before. Rage is an on the rails shooter. Despite that it’s still fun.

I will add more as I remember. Here are some shots of Infinity Blade, a game one should have at the least to be able to show off what a iPod Touch Generation 4 can do.

I gave the new girl her exit interview. Not official in any way of course. The main thing that stood out for me is the reason the young lady is quitting. It’s funny really. She said she has a degree in HR and that her experience here at this hotel has made her change what she thought was her career path.

See the poor thing was trained in a matter of days. I remember a time when people were trained for weeks or in some cases months. This hotel is taking the worst hotel ever approach as of late and gives all trainees balls to the wall training in just a few days. The girl who this was her last day said she felt like half the time she didn’t know what she was doing. It’s a shame.

She also confirmed my suspicion that they (they always equals management) don’t inform new people about this retarded you have to stay until your relief has counted their cash thing rule. A while ago this was put in place because someone stole money from the change drawer. To combat this evil theft they decided to treat their employees like children and enforced this fucking stupid you stay until the next shift counts their money rule. This will not stop stupid people from stealing from the workplace.

Even better when you realize they have cameras they are to lazy to move to watch all of us nasty employees.

I mean if they really wanted to make sure the money wasn’t being stolen from their own employees turn that camera a bit and the issue is resolved. But I suspect they are honestly to lazy to turn the camera or too cheap to buy a new camera.

After having to deal with the idiot for so long at the worst hotel ever I just may be a little crazy about wanting to leave at my scheduled time. This craziness was explained to my boss before he hired me at my interview with him. So now I have to call the wisconsin department of labor and find out if they can fire me for leaving at the time they scheduled me to leave. This is almost a worst hotel ever level of retardeness.

Memo Time! This shit gets thrown up on the back of the door into the front desk office. It’s not like they want to draw attention to this kind of news. The bits I like are below and the bolded stuff was done by me:

This hotel is in a transition period. With the loss of <Name Removed> and the slowdown in business travel, the guest service and overall value that we offer our customers must be better than ever. I am confident that <Name Removed> knowledge and experience will enable us to do just that.

So now I this read as we (the peons) have to do more work. For those of you not counting at home it’s about 2 years and 6 months since my last raise from this hotel. So they (the bosses) expect more work for no more pay. This hotel is slowly starting to get to me.

It’s finally X-Mas Eve. My Christmas fervor can almost come to an end. I get into Christmas mode about a week or two into November and start immediately playing Bing Crosby X-Mas tunes on my iPod non stop. But as soon as presents are open Christmas morning I snap out of it.

What’s the deal with the word Christmas anyway? Why is it a big deal? Supposedly Atheists don’t want the term Christmas used? Instead they throw around Happy Holidays. I don’t get it. I can’t say I’m a believer. But I do try to keep an open mind. But even if I don’t believe in Jesus Christ I dig Christmas.

And why would anyone be against it? It’s a holiday that brings happiness to children who want to believe in the idea that out there somewhere is this Santa guy who takes it upon himself to give away free shit to the people of this world. It’s a nice thing to want to believe in. I try to encourage my niece and nephew to hold onto that shit for as long as they can. The world will be more than happy to introduce them to it’s real nature soon enough.

Also Christmas isn’t about Christ. The kids I know don’t think shit it’s the birthday of Jesus let’s eat cake. Christmas to kids is the equivalent of getting good loot in World of Warcraft. Which I don’t think is a bad thing. You got to get the good loot while you can.