Okay, I’m going here again.
Politics.
I’m seconding Allie Chilling’s view on how there are SO many unemployed people out there who are crying out for a job, and then those who have them, feel the need to strike because they didn’t get a X percentage payrise, they’ve only been offered Y. Ungrateful baaaastards, the lot of them.
The “People” (not everyone, I’m using the word as a label that all local folks will understand) demand housing allowances, travel allowances, social security disability benefits, free electricity, free water, free houses, and free FARKING everything! Maybe I should go and protest and wait for a new dishwasher to fall out of the sky.
What I’m grateful for? The means to send my kids to private school where they’ve had uninterrupted classes by all the striking workers (yes teachers are striking in some govt schools).
I’m grateful for enough money to feed my family.
Lastly? In true “Ness” fashion, I’m grateful for the means to get the hell out of here.
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Wow, talk about being hit with the tired stick!
Whack! Whack! Whack!
I could talk about the hideous political situation in which SA now finds itself, but I’d only depress myself.
I could talk about the fact that I had my hair done this morning (a few root foils and the GHD again) but I’m sure you’re not particularly interested in that either.
I could talk in code and say things like, “108R00723” and then have you all wonder if I’ve suddenly gone mad, need to be taken out back, and shot.
I could wail and rend my garments and ask the sky why folks put their children in a taxi (not the taxi like you overseas folks know it – a local, dangerous, lawless version) knowing the way they drive, and then ask again, why that stupid driver (stupid is not strong enough a word) tried to jump a railway line, and I could ask yet again, why he (and they subsequently) didn’t make it.
But I won’t. There’s too much negativity at the moment. Perhaps it’s the pendulum swinging the other way after the world cup, even JuliARSE has opened his big yap again with even more communist drivel.
Phew. Good news anyone? Anyone have good news to share?
I have good things going on now in my life, for which I’m INSANELY Grateful, so more on those a bit later okay?
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I had a setback these past two weeks that I really wasn’t expecting, but which hit me harder than I expected.
It was work related, and it knocked my confidence for a six. The thing is, it totally wasn’t my fault, but as the service provider, relying on an outsourced section of my work, I had to take responsibility for the outsourcee’s unexpected departure and subsequent lack of delivery. No amount of emailing, hand wringing, stressing out, consideration of hgh supplements or dancing around a fire pit nekkid with sticks could fix things.
It looks as though I might have the matter resolved as soon as this evening (fingers and toes crossed), so please send me happy thoughts okay? The service provider in question (the outsourcee) was someone I had used very reliably in the past. His work is impeccable, of a very high quality, and USUALLY on time (except this time). I honestly thought he’d done a runner. I wondered if the only reason he wasn’t busy coding some work for me, was because he was lying in hospital with both arms suspended from the ceiling in plaster casts.
My problem is that very often, I’m too nice. I forgive. I move on.
But this time, *I* had been made to look like an incompetent as*hole, and that, in my book, is NOT COOL.
So I opened up a paypal dispute to try and recoup my costs in order to send the work to a different service provider.
Lo and behold… either my timing was impeccable, or my work had been shelved in favour of more lucrative work, but the outsourcee contacted me within 3 hours of my dispute opening and apologised profusely for his lack of delivery and unavailability to answer my emails. His reasons, I won’t name here, but I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt, and since he’s promised me the completed work by close of business today, I still have time to remove the paypal disputes without them damaging his reputation.
For those of you wondering what I’m talking about with Paypal disputes, paypal has a handy way of trying to get a refund if for example you buy something off Etsy (for example) and the seller doesn’t send the goods, or grossly misrepresents the item, or the items sent are different to what you expected. The seller then has a negative report on their name (with paypal) until such time as the dispute is resolved. Once it’s resolved the dispute is canceled and everyone is happy, and there are no negative reports on either side. If there is no resolution (let’s say for example my person had still not responded to me within 2 weeks) then you can escalate the problem to a claim, and then paypal makes a call on whether or not you get your money back. In this case it would have been pretty cut and dried. Money paid, but goods not received.
Anyhoo, I have plenty to do today, in anticipation of receiving the work so I’m outtahere!!
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We cook.
We clean.
We wipe. (you know)
We tend.
We plan.
We chauffeur.
We bake.
We shop.
We dress.
We organize.
We negotiate peace.
We broker equal equity partners in toy related disputes.
We cook again.
We clean again.
We contemplate an investment in more rustic furniture in order to cope.
We wipe again.
We tend again.
We plan, again.
We chauffeur, again and again and again.
We bake again.
We re-organize.
We negotiate peace again.
We put our own hopes and dreams aside
and then…
We are not listened to, we are pointedly ignored, we are manipulated, we are yelled at, we have our sleep disturbed every night of forever, we are complained to, we have our new recipes scoffed at (even if they’re great), we are screamed at, we are flailed and tantrummed at, we are considered the ‘boring‘ parent. We are about as preferable to travel with on the morning school run as the bogeyman, and any attempts to be put in our car are met with more resistance than was present in western europe during WW II.
Yet, our capacity to love them is never diminished.
WTF.
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On the Flip Side
Robert Kiyosaki says, “There is always someone making money.” Whether there is an ‘up economy’ or a ‘down’ one, someone always knows how to a) weather the storm/ride the wave and there is b) someone else, who makes a lot of money no matter what.
What I’m asking myself, is WHO is making the money while these stupid strikes and demonstrations continue? Is that the question we should be asking ourselves to get the bottom of it?
Did you know that when workers strike, they still get full pay?
Is the government keeping more money, by not paying them out their demands?
Do they make money through some loophole if there are no social services that relate to hospitals etc?
I think a good entrepreneur right now would be starting a medical assistant school, in order to train up folks to help out right now during the demonstrations while there are staff shortages…
Who do you think is making the money while this is going on?
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