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| so i just got fired from my internship.
in retrospect i've learned three valuable lessons.
1) don't work for shitty companies. if you can see that the upper levels are managed an run inefficiently and by petty people, this most likely extends to all levels.
2) NEVER be afraid to voice your (work-related) concerns or uncomfortabilities, even if it leads to you getting fired, because in the end they will just get worse. if the company handles things professionally then things will get sorted out. if they dont, then you don't fucking want to work for them.
3) your friends at work are your strongest allies and backbone. they can help you through anything, including this.
i think i'm just in a huge amount of shock right now, considering i just got "terminated" about two hours ago. i know that what i did was right and that it was my intern lead's fault for mishandling things. but still, i've never been this: the trouble-maker, the disappointment, the scary intern story that will be passed around the industry for a good two years. i learned more in the past two days than i have in all of my internships. but the sad thing is i don't know if i want to work in the music industry anymore. while i'm determined to not let just one shitty experience blow my love for the industry, i can't help but realize that this IS the industry. the entertainment industry is probably one of the most frustrating industries to work in because success will not be based on how well you do your work or if you're even competent; it's based on how well you can suck up, how far up someone's ass you're willing to go. no joke, there was an intern who brought BROWNIES for our boss. yes, people, the brown noser actually brought brownies. can't miss the irony in that one.
moral of the story: DON'T WORK FOR THE FIRM. this is me effectively blackballing them and if you're smart, you won't want to work for a company that's on the downfall anyway. | | |
| where do i even begin? by now everyone has heard of what's been going on at VTech. everywhere i go i can't escape it: d.c. is in relative close proximity to it and it seems like all of a sudden everyone's a VTech alumn; i go in to work today and Nightline is, like all other shows, obsessively covering the topic. the thing is that we always try to cover stories from more human, personal viewpoints; unfortunately, in this case that means checking facebooks, myspace profiles and calling the gunman's high school friends to try to find out more about this appaent loner. it's just so....strange to think that we use facebook for fun and they're sitting here next to me using it to find what few friends the guy had. as more and more details about this unfolds, one fact keeps sticking in my mind: this kid was asian. As a matter of fact that's one of the first details i heard and - of course, aside from the fact that this was the biggest campus massacre in the history of the world - it's the thing that surprised me the most about this situation. it's weird cuz i talk to all my white friends and none of them understand why i am focused on the race of the killer. they keep telling me that race can't and shouldn't factor into the probability of someone losing it and going on a shooting rampage. i mean in the broader perspective they're right. hell, i've met asians who run the gamut of personality types - my own uncle was in multiple gangs in sf chinatown. but all caveats aside, is it wrong for me to be disturbed by the fact that he was asian? i'm sure white kids across america weren't thinking "damn, dylan klebold and eric harris were white" so why should i? i don't think it's because i fear repercussions from people around me; there should be no reason that anyone would blame the asian community as a whole for this. sadly enough, however, when we found out the kid was korean, my korean roommate's mom called her this morning to tell her to stay indoors. it made her so mad that her mom had to be worried about her safety like that. it's affected me, too, just a little, because last night Nightline had put out the rumor that the kid might have been chinese and this morning while walking to work i know i got some sideways glances. i wish i were making that up for dramatic effect, but sadly i'm not. maybe i'm just mad because the worst massacre in US history attributed to a single person turns out to be someone from my community. maybe it's because, no matter how many times stereotypes are broken, deep down inside i still ascribe to the asians-are-the-model-minority theory. my friend asked me, why make this an asian community issue? shouldn't it just be a community issue? but that's just it, isn't it? the asian community is always so tight-knit, no matter where you go, usually in some measure separated from the rest of the community around it. you can see it at cornell, how asians mainly keep to themselves and have built this whole self-contained community that few outsiders can get in on. what we do generally doesn't affect outsiders and vice versa. of course i'm not speaking for everyone, but i feel like as a consequence, many of us identify with not only the horror of what he did but also with who he was. i mean even mainland china got in on this. i read that the chinese media put particular and in-depth coverage on this because of the early rumors that the gunman might have been a chinese national. or maybe i'm just crazy. maybe i'm wrong to hold asians apart - but not at all above - from other people and to think that there are distinctive communities. maybe i shouldn't be flinching whenever i look at a newspaper or tv channel because the criminal face i see looking back at me is almost like my own. am i retarded for even thinking about the killer's race? i'd hate to come across as one of those people who are so race-oriented that they're blind about the larger picture. because don't get me wrong, i can fully appreciate the larger picture: that he killed 31 other people in cold blood and at random, that he inflicted so much more pain on the survivors, and that he has permanently changed a community for the worse. and maybe that's all i should be looking at. | | |
| ok so everyone who loves urban outfitters is going to love me, too! I JUST GOT A JOB THERE!!!!!!! seriously...best news ever because of the discounts!!!! and the first thing i'm going to buy is....  and...  and....
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so maybe there's more than one thing i'm getting. as you can tell, i'm going to be wayyy broke before i get my first pay check. BUT IM SO FRIGGIN EXCITED!!!! | | |
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yay for bahamas!!!!! i had so much fun with these girls. seriously, aside from all the hustler taxi cab drivers and over-priced chips, i had the friggin time of my life. this spring break was the best! i think i went 8 straight days of getting "wasty-face" as becks calls it. it didn't help that our hotel had free drinks whenever, wherever. and those suckers weren't weak. the bahama momma/poppa/goombay splash ripped me apart. clubs were meh (basically, only go to waterloo) but it never mattered cuz we were all together! a tan, the bestest friends, good weather, free drinks - i'm pretty sure that's the way life's supposed to be. THANK YOU GUYS for an awesome and much-needed break! p.s. here's how half of us spent our vacation: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ikH9ZRcF2Q "Holiday" Boys Like Girls When I was younger I used to be wild
As wild as an elephant's child
No one could hold me down
No one could keep me around
Now it's your turn, take a shot
Baby show me everything that you got
Maybe you can keep me alive
Maybe you can get in my mind
But it's only a matter of time
Before I run far away
I need to take a holiday
Maybe it's a fall from grace
I gotta find a new place
A holiday
I'll set off on a new chase
I gotta see a new face
I need to take a holiday ... i need to find my holiday. | | |
| my parents seriously don't have anything else to do with their lives. my dad forwarded these to me...heeeelarious. these are real answers students have given on tests. 
  
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