Vent [7]

[Big Damn Hero]

Another forum I'm on has a thread about the credit crunch.

& some girl on there, who is from an upper middle class family, who has her student loan and gets another £50 a week from mum&dad as well as them buying all her equipment is wondering "why everyone's panicking".

Here's why: I have been looking for a job for the last 3 months. I spend at least an hour a day just looking on the internet for new vacancies, and another hour filling out applications. That doesn't sound a lot but only about 5 more jobs a day in my area that I can do are posted, tops. I have made babysitting flyers, and left them at local nurseries & in shop windows. I have gone to all the shops in town and given them a copy of my CV. And nothing.

So I have to live on £47.95 a week. And guess what? If I DO do any work it's deducted from that £1 for £1, so I'm no better off for covering shifts for friends or whatever (I mean, you'd think they'd let me keep even £5 of what I earn, before they start deducting!).

On this (£48) I have to buy food (which is getting more and more expensive); pay bills; pay my bus fare to get into town to go to the jobcentre (would take me 1 1/2 hours to walk). And then if I've got a few quid left over I'll go out with my friends, and have A drink, or get the bus and have people over.

I'm lucky in the fact that I do some odd jobs for my dad when I go home, and then he gives me an extra £5 or £10 if he can afford it.

So don't YOU lecture ME about how the credit crunch isn't affecting anybody. Or about how I'm too lazy to re-train for a job (because that ****ing costs money too!).

I hate my life sometimes.

 

[Bluebird]

This annoying woman came into my work today, asking about colours. Sure, I'm meant to help, but she was saying things like 'I want a blue that doesn't look like blue'. What the hell does that mean?! And it was 10 minutes before we closed (we usually leave at 4.55 though) so she was keeping us back, asking us our opinion on colours, even though I'd already told her we were closing. When I'm putting on my jacket, that's a hint that you have to leave the shop.

 

[JenniferAlice]

No, you should have smeared her face with "blue" paint..

I wish I was drunk, got a sore throat, so I'm tanning this bottle of vodka as fast as I can!

 

[white avenger]

So I have to live on £47.95 a week. And guess what? If I DO do any work it's deducted from that £1 for £1, so I'm no better off for covering shifts for friends or whatever (I mean, you'd think they'd let me keep even £5 of what I earn, before they start deducting!).

On this (£48) I have to buy food (which is getting more and more expensive); pay bills; pay my bus fare to get into town to go to the jobcentre (would take me 1 1/2 hours to walk). And then if I've got a few quid left over I'll go out with my friends, and have A drink, or get the bus and have people over.

I have about the same problem with my insurance company. I've been out of work since last January because of a sleep condition, and my employer says that I can't come back to work while taking the medication that the doctor prescribed. Unfortunately, if I DON'T take it, I can't drive an automobile or be around moving machinery, which, of course, is what my job requires, so I have to live on my Disability Insurance.

The insurance compant requires me to apply for Federal Social Security Disability, which, after a 7 month delay, I get. Now, the insurance company not only reduces their payment dollar for dollar by what Social Security pays me, but they also say that, since I got a retroactive payment from SS for the last 8 months, that amounts to an overpayment by the insurance company, and I can either give them the total amount that I received, or they will withhold even their reduced payment for 14 months, until what I "owe" them is made up.

Oh, and if we can't live on what money I do draw from Social Security and try to compensate that with even a part time job, I have to immediately repay the full amount to Met-Life AND my Social Security payment stops.

I'm living the American nightmare.

 

[Bluebird]

This person I know implied my boyfriend was a paedophile and called my sister a junkie.

Yet he wonders why no one wants to talk to him?

Not really a vent, it's kinda funny how someone can be so blind. ::huh1::

 

[Tueuse de Vampires]

Is no TV show able to bring in German without everything going crappy? I don't know if it's jsut German or if German is the one I'm most tuned to, but everytime anyone speaks German on an American show I just want to kill myself, it's that bad. This goes for Buffy/Angel, and I just noticed it in the X-Files. When it's that bad I, as a native German speaker, can't understand it, the show should DEFINITELY have put more money into proper language specialists.

EDIT: Though I must say they still did it WORLDS better on the X-Files than on Buffy. On Buffy they couldn't even manage to get the grammar right. It wasn't even close.

 

[VisionGuy]

I'm so effing bored and sick and stuck at work for another hour and fifteen minutes.

 

[JenniferAlice]

I'm ragin'. My sister won't give me a can of Irn Bru so I can mix it with my vodka, come on Christine, please, be nice, just this once.

 

[Bluebird]

Jennifer .

 

[Aly Fan]

Why does long hair take so long to dry!! It's rediculous...maybe i should try the bald look, i wouldn't have to buy shampoo as often that's for sure..hmm....nah maybe not.

 

[luckystar]

Stupid laptop, have to wait a week for it to be collected for repair and until then i have to suffer with the damn flashy screen, next time i am going mac and that's that.

 

[entropy]

My moods are all over not just tired and inda sad but also very irritated at the moment all coz Mr. stupid voice all over... SHUT UP!!!! or buy a good voice one that is not so darn annoying!!!

 

[atticus]

I feel strange. A woman at work realized that I was in the same class as her son at school. She's a lovely woman, so of course I had to tell her what a nice guy he was. When in fact, he was an arrogant tool, who used to beat the crap out of kids, and bully pretty much everyone. I feel odd about it. But how do you tell someone their son was a douchebag.

 

[Airam]

I hate working! I wish I could win the lottery so that I wouldn't have to, ha, but don't we all. I've been working so much lately my poor little feet hurt and I'm so freaking exhausted when I get home I hardly have the energy to get on here and get my post on 🙁 Man I CAN'T wait till Monday and Tuesday, 2 whole days off in a row!!!

Also, my roommate has really annoying friends over and they are being so insanely loud in the living room which is on the other wall of my bedroom I just want to go out there and smack them all silly! Thats all. 😛

 

[Edmund Blackadder]

Youtube is REALLY pissing me off.
Why does it have videos that I can't watch 'in my country'?
Its not like the one directly underneath it won't let me play.

I'm beginning to hate Youtube and more so the music companies that are doing this.

My friend got an email from Youtube telling her that she was illegally using a song on a video of her family outing (it was Mellow Yellow!) BUT they wouldn't be removing it, instead they will be tracking the people who use her video as a means to see what people view!

 

[Mazikeen]

RE:

You know, I really do NOT understand men. In fact I've given some serious thought to just swearing off them all together. I just don't get how a guy can be totally into you, and then hear the word "child" and HOLY S***...He's gone. No more talkie for you. *deep breaths* Family board...family board...family board.

 

[anyatara]

My vent goes back to Friday; as I haven't been on since to talk about it. I'm just really sick and tired of people in a general sense. I got called so many names on Friday it was surreal; a boy backed into me and I whacked my arm against the wall and he told me to watch where I was going. I spent most of the day in a really bad mood and most of my friends ignored me 'cause of it and didn't bother trying to find out what was wrong. People are just so blahh.

 

[Fusions2]

I hate it when links die when your about to watch something online or they just won't load, not happy when that happens one bit!

 

[Aly Fan]

Urgh i hate my dad!! We get on like...erm like...well i'm angry and i can't think of two things but that's what we are!! I was studying and had Buffy on at the same time, i was half way through Bargaining and really getting into it...when he came in shouting at me for something my brother did and then turned it off...chucked all my Buffy dvds on the floor and now the boxes are all ruined!! Urgh i hate that man!! 🙁

AND even once i had proved it was my brother he still wouldn't appologise AND STILL won't let me have buffy on...i hate him!!

 

[Tueuse de Vampires]

My lightbulb in my only working lamp just totally died on me. And what great timing, I might add, now that I have to study for my exams again, I can really do with tota darkness.