Work, Strikes, and other Oddness

Yay for last day of work for the week. Yay for my edition of the weekend, Thursday/Friday.

So, apparently the Ann Arbor store is striking (must be a lack of political movements over there). This strikes the majority of the Novi store as really really odd. Novi realizes that AA is full of slackers and people who just can't seem to leave their college life, clinging to the last vestige of youth that they can handle as they age well past their prime, preventing college kids from getting appropriate jobs that they deserve, but we, at Novi, still believe that making a living as a book seller is rather, um...how shall we say...loserish. Its like saying, "Hi, I want to make $20,000/yr working at a video store...and not as supervisor or manager."

The above paragraph is confirmed by this statement on the Protest Website: "After working at Borders for 18 years..." 18 freaking years. Jebus. Move on. Go become a manager somewhere. Get promoted. He must be some sort of bored slacker complainer type person.

I mean, fuck, we get a discount on everything, full timers get health and dental benefits, full timers get G.C.s for the store, the conditions aren't all that bad (unless you count the paranoia of employee shrinkage or the mandatory 1 hour unpaid break as bad), and the job is rather easy on the brain and the body. Its not rocket science people...trust me, I know. :-) This is meant to be a bridge job, not a permanent one.

To keep AA campus Borders functioning, they are recruiting workers from other stores, so I volunteered to go over there. Because I am rather new (3 weeks), I may not be able to, but we'll see. I think that a Border's union sucks since I'd have to pay dues. A few others agree with me. I'll be a strikebreaker, a scab, a bad person in the eyes of the liberal Ann Arborites. But, fuck, its AA, one of my favorite towns. Not that I'd ever work there permanently, I love working 10 minutes away from home, but it'd be fun for a week or two (how long they expect the strike to go on for).

In similar news, apparently it may be even less time before I move to DVDs, as they are expanding the DVD selection and moving it somewhere in the store. I will find out where, but when they're done, I will be part of the increase in size. YAY. I get to flex my vast cinematic knowledge. Now, if only they'd let me rent the obscure DVDs before I bought or recommended them.

In unrelated news, but really odd, I am finally in support of the Bush administration for something. Protection From Pornography week was last week. However, the SF Gate (a liberal mag) decided not to read the official release as they have a complete condemnation in their article. They think that the week is a protection from everybody from all forms of pornography. Instead, reading the statement, it is protecting children from child pornography and protecting them from viewing it especially without parental supervision. But, no, as liberals, they must denounce everything Bush. *sigh*

I'm becoming more and more conservative. Ugh. But, you see the silliness that these liberals are coming up with? Jeez.