Random thoughts

Today is the eve of Good Friday, doesn't seem to be that good to me anyhow. I checked my payslip to realise my store manager hasn't approved my sick leave to be paid. Pity because that money was all I had to take me through to next week. For the last few weeks and many more come, the money I make on way week takes me to the next week. Should I miss a paycheck I will not be eating nor paying rent. I can't do without my paycheck for a while. Am back to Uni and my time is dedicated to making it through this session.
Back to my boss, my company recognises that we are prone to fall ill at least 8 days a year, they even pay us for it. Now my manager wants to be a total jack ass and not approve of my sick leave. What makes it worse is that I get the feeling that he may be after me. I don't why but he may be out to say wages as much as they can. My legal right is to get paid for those 8 days and to my knowledge I don't need a doctors letter if I miss one day of work. Now not mocking the medical profession, do I need a Dr. to tell me that I am sick or not feeling well? What my boss doesn't get is that I will go behind his back and get a transfer to a different store. That was what I die last year but later the same manager was transferred to my new haven. Then it was the same old routine, I work hard and carry the lazy team members. I can't gloat and claim to be the best worker, God knows I am not even close. I however do put in more than my fair share and the more I do it the more they expect of me. The lazier of the team still get to come o work as always, we all make the same regardless and I am expected to put in more? Well sir Glenn you may have just met your much, you have gone past my threshold. I can't take this bull^%$ anymore. The union can either back me or not but I will get my fair share of sick pay. Worse of all I might seize being nice and play into their game, I can't be the mule for life. Now all I need is enough anger to draft a resume and start job hunting. I have a short course to attend this April and am hoping that will land me a job on campus, maybe I can stop working for my company. Have weekends off for once, been 5 years before I had a weekend off. I do get occasional days off but that is only because I have exams and take these to study. Coles you just messed with the wrong employee, I will play by your rules and unfortunately someone will lose. It will not be me, that's for sure.
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How much $ is too much

For the last few years I have been trying to acquire an engineering degree to better my life at a future date. It seems to me like the degree will make my life better and to a certain extent I do believe this notion. However there is a part of me that wants to be like everybody else, not care in the world, even if for one day. What price have I to pay to hopefully secure a comfortable life 5 years from now? I have been told that education is the only true investment, something to fall back incase everything else fails. Study hard and you will be secure, safe and maybe make enough money for a comfortable life. People can take away your material possessions but the knowledge in my head is mine for eternity(might not seat well with some religious groups).
I don't want a secure life per say, I want a challenge not the daily routine that I have grown accustomed to.
University has taken a toll on my social life (if there ever was any) and I think I have developed a survival skill that few of my peers poses. So far I have escaped the addiction to caffeine or even worse the occassion cigarret. The ability to think as an individual steers me to want more than just a degree. I want to be able to leave a legacy, not some theory that I has been shoved down my throat. I for one have a hatred for the current education system, people are graded for their ability to memorize. For those of us whose memory skills are faltered we are forced to result in poor grades. I have classmates who have struggled to keep up with the 'good' grade mentallity and it seems almost hopeless. Does that mean that because I have a credit in a subject that I know less than the HD student, even worse the pass student? I think we should re-evaluate the way we grade university students, especially engineering students. I speak of them because I am in that group, aspiring engineering students. We all want to have our names tagged onto an invention, I know I do, that would explain the many times I sit in front of my notebook just thinking. Sad but true I could say that I have had my share of brilliance and most of all my share of deadly disappointments, we want to be great engineers but I fear to improving on grades maybe affecting my zeal to think outside the box.
Is there a student out there that can claim to have been taught anything other than memorizing in campus. I want to learn more than some theory conjured 50years ago, how can I use my knowledge to secure my future? Nobody seem to care that I can't manage my finances or that even with a brilliant mind I may lack the investment skills required to secure a financially hassle free life 20-30 years from now. I will dedicate the remaining 2years or so to learning about investing in my education and most importantly how invest in my knowledge of money and finances. True money can't buy happiness,joy or even love but imagine what a bright mind with money could do. Love wouldn't hindered by the need to always work trying to pay off that mortgage or car loan. Many of the problems we rather I face are because I don't have the dollars to back me up. With money I could focus on other matters of life love and maybe a family down the track. Not in the next 5 years though, well I hope not; that is kids of course.
20 years from now, I will not be yearning to work more and more just to survive but I will be living my life to the full. For now, I will get my act together,get myself ready and make up for the lost time. 1 year has been lost because of failing subjects I could have passed, love of money could be blamed for this but that would be plain naive. I screwed up and it's time I clean up and get back I should have been, ages ago.
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What an idiot, JACK ASS!!!!

Yet more proof why socialising with work mates isn't advised. Last week I attended a friends birthday celebration, to my surprise there was a bloke from work. To some extenct I felt at home and somewhat welcome, that was until this morning. The happenings after that Saturday night have left me with no doubt that my first question to an invitation is for the guest list. Anybody that I work with but have never hang with or ochestrated sickies together appears, I will not be attending. After the party was over I made my way home with full intent to be going to work the following morning. Somewhere between missing my bus and walking home i decided to pull a sickie. I called work late that night and gave my notice, way in advance or so I thought. Today I get to work only to realise that the 'colleague' I met there may have mentioned that I wasn't sick and that he had seen me. Who in God's name does he think he, mentioning that I was out with him and a few other people. What ever happened to see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing?
Simple ethical rules amongst workmates, I have sworn never to attend any work related party when I intend to skip work the next morning. I have been blessed such that I never get sick, yet I am entitled like everyone else 8 days a year;sick leave. My boss may now refuse to sign my sick leave request and hence I may will not receive pay for that missed day. I couldn't say I was sick because he knows, the jack #@* spilt the beans. There are numerous times that I have accompanied a workmate to a party or club, after which we pretend like I only see them at work. Don't mix the two, I work there and so do you. Beyond that what I do in my private life is of no ones business. Way to go you idiot and I could mention the squeller's name but that would be pushing it. What am thinking of is slashing his tyres, then again that might be too much.
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