Pissed off and a Feminist!

I've been looking for another job because my current employer refuses to pay me a decent wage. I think the writing's on the wall when they hire someone to be an accounting assistant who has never even had an office job before and they pay them a higher base salary than yours, and you've been a loyal employee for over 3 years. They've also been taking away the bonuses I depend on for much of my salary.

So far since I've sent out my resume, I've interviewed 3 times, twice at the same place. Both places turned me down with the same excuse: we need someone with more experience. I've tried to get hired at title companies before and unless you've actually worked at one before or own one it's damn near impossible to get a job at title company. I'm stumped at why title companies are such rarefied places to work; I clean up after them everyday. They obviously don't hire people who can read closing instructions or answer emails.

Both women who interviewed me told me all through each interview that I was "the perfect candidate for this job" and "you have exactly the qualifications we've been looking for for this position". So why didn't they hire me? I was told by one woman, who had told me that her previous employee (a woman in her 60s) had had a stroke and she didn't want to walk into her office and find her slumped over her keyboard again, that I wasn't "experienced enough" even though she told me otherwise earlier. Who did she hire? A woman in her 60s!

The second woman, who called me "perfect" and "just who she'd been looking for" said she hired someone for a "front-end assistant". Apparently, I was perfect for a "back end assistant", i.e. one who doesn't look good enough to meet with clients but can rustle papers in a hidden away cubicle. My current boss won't pay me what I'm worth, but he's not interested in the slightest about what I look like, other than I don't wear jeans except on Fridays. He only cares that I do my job well and I do. My only sin in his eyes is that I'm not male and I don't keep my mouth shut, therefore I don't deserve to get paid well.

Is this what feminism has come down to? Women won't hire you because you don't look like a model and men are still pissed that you're not at home barefoot and pregnant, so they won't pay you a fraction of what they'd pay a man for the same job? Unless of course, you DO look like a model and your pay mysteriously goes up commensurate with your level of attractiveness?

I get outraged when I hear younger women say that they're not feminists. Then in my eyes, they should be at home, pregnant, and they'd better fucking have dinner on the table when their man gets home at 6 or get a good beating. A woman not being a feminist is the stupidest fucking thing I've EVER heard. Being a feminist doesn't mean that you hate men. It just means that you think women deserve equal status (and equal pay) to men. In my opinion, women are equal to men. PERIOD.

I find it painfully depressing that young girls nowadays find it so easy to post pictures of themselves naked or scantily clad on the internet, or to fag it up before the camera, ala Girls Gone Wild. They're going to get a rough awakening one day 5 or so years down the line when they graduate and go looking for a job. Their prospective boss will Google their names and what do you think will pop up? "Oh, I was just a kid when I did that!" "Oh, I was drunk, I didn't know what I was doing!". Yeah, I wanna hire you, baby! I'm still wondering when this great "lesbian awakening" happened; when I was a teen or even in my 20s, I didn't want to make out or even kiss another girl. I have no problem with genuine lesbians, just the wannabes.

It's not only the girls that do stoopid shit either, not by any means. One of our LOs, a young guy in his early 20s showed me his MySpace page one day, which consisted of pics of him drinking, getting drunk, being drunk or passed out. I mentioned that he might not want to show his supervisor that webpage and he thought I was being alarmist. He told me later that he had changed it because he "was older now". ROFL

I'm still going to try to find another job. I have to. I can't afford this one anymore. On that note, I've joined Weight Watchers. I don't know what else I can do. I need more money and I guess I'll have to look better to get another job. At my age, being a good and loyal employee who knows their business isn't good enough anymore. That's really frightening to me.

Creepiness ensues.....

I went to the eye doctor today for the first time in 3 years. I wore hard gas permeable contact lenses for more than 20 years, but about 2 years ago, my eyes started drying out and the lenses wouldn't stick to my eyes anymore. So...I went back to the hated coke bottle glasses, the bane of my childhood, always having to push them up on the bridge of my nose.

The good news is I get to wear soft lenses now. My astigmatism isn't so bad anymore. I have to go back and get fitted for them.

The bad news? Apparently, I sleep with my eyes open, so I either need to put this thick, viscous ointment in my eyes at night before I go to bed OR I can......


tape my eyelids shut.


Yes, you read that right, he said I should TAPE MY EYELIDS SHUT. Now, it's creepy enough that I sleepwalk on occasion, but I sleep with my eyes open too and I need to TAPE MY EYES SHUT?? That's fucked up! No wonder I can't sleep at night, I'm too busy scaring myself!

Frat Boys and their Dawgs

We had a run-in with a couple of the finer examples of the University of Texas' fraternity culture last Saturday night. My brother-in-law is very protective of his yard; he's worked hard to keep it looking nice. He'd have no qualms about taking a baseball bat (or worse) to anyone's head who decided to mess it up.

We went to my in-laws' house to visit them, right about the time when said frat boys decided it was a good idea to walk up into my in-laws' yard and allow their pony-sized dog to take a dump. In Austin, walking into someone's yard without their permission is called trespassing and carries a $500 fine. Now, it's one thing to let doggie do it's bidness in the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street and then pick it up in a bag and dispose of it; that's what most of Austin's responsible dog owners do. It's entirely another concept to walk your horse, errrr, dog practically onto someone's front porch and leave a steaming pile of crap.

I informed these flowers of young Texas manhood that my bro-in-law would shoot them AND their dog if he saw them in the yard so they needed to vamoose. They didn't respond, so I yelled, "GIT THAT DAWG OUTTA THUH YARD! WHAT ARE YA, DEAF?" or mannerly words to that effect, telling them so for their own safety, of course. One of them muttered, "we're going" and they skulked on up the street in the dark (it was after 10pm) right as my bro-in law came out saying, "what's going on?". We went inside for a visit and stayed for about an hour.

When we came out to our truck, there was a lovely smelling bag of dog shit on the hood of the truck, and more dog shit was smeared on the passenger side door handle. Just great. But see.....I remember what they looked like and what their dog looked like. So does my brother-in-law. I hope they have bullet-proof vests......

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Nothing's going on AT ALL, she said with a wink and a nudge....so I'll leave you all with this from Canned Heat. Don't forget to boogie!



P.S. That's not Ron Jeremy on bass, by the way.....