Bevendre

A rant on whatever grinds my gears at the moment:
I’m rather livid at the state of my own job, and of common practices in the American job market, or at least the local job market.  Where I work, my department consists of my manager, me working full time, a friend working part time for 30 hrs/wk. one coworker working 10 hrs/wk, and one coworker working 24 hrs/wk. as well as two night stockers.  One of the two stockers quit after 1 day of work, leaving us without anyone between 9 PM and 6 AM 4 days a week.  My friend is leaving at the end of the month, and my manager is leaving at the end of the week.  My store’s HR is so terrible that the last 4 night stockers that were hired for my department quit within a week of being hired, so the likelihood of finding a new manager for the department soon is slim.

To avoid hiring a manager I am being made the interim manager of the department, despite saying repeatedly that I DO NOT WANT THE POSITION.  Until they find a new manager I will be doing my own job, and the manager’s for my current pay of $8.90/hr and that is unlikely to change for some time.  Because the department is so heavily understaffed, and will be made moreso by the end of the year, I can’t quit without having the action come off as a major ‘fuck you’ to the company and potentially losing them as a reference despite having worked there for 6.5 years.

I need a new job.  Badly.  Unfortunately I’m overqualified for most entry level positions, being a college graduate with a Bachelor’s in English, being conversational in Spanish and knowledgeable in French, German and Japanese with 6.5 years of experience in retail and customer service.  I’m also underqualified for most positions above what I have now, as I haven’t been working in those fields for years, and don’t have connections to just put me into a job.


Question from here

1. Selection of television programs I don’t care for: Walking Dead, I tried to get into it and watched the first few episodes but the characters were so dull and dry, their choices so stupid and the pacing so unbearably slow that I couldn’t stand any more than what I watched.  Sherlock, I don’t get the hype behind it and Bandersnatch Cumberbun’s face just looks weird to me.  Lost, I just never got into it and from what I’ve heard the whole series just gets so muddled towards the end just to end horribly.

4.  A hobby I don’t get: Sports, i guess.  I’ve never been ‘sporty’ and don’t much get the draw.  Also sports fanatics confound and annoy me, especially Husker fans.

10.  A sport I don’t like: Stemming from my general dislike of sports, i loathe American Football with a passion.

Questions from here

I know, I want him to be Timmy so bad but if not oh well.  

As with most movies people need to settle down about the choices in the movie until after they’ve already seen it.  I’ve already seen complaints that Raptors couldn’t be trained, and that the hybrid-dino idea is dumb, but both are rather moot points.

Raptors in Jurassic Park are social creatures with avian behavioral aspects.  It’s well within reason that a pack of what we can assume to be females (all raptors in the trailer had the coloration and lack of plumage indicative of females in the last movie) could imprint upon a person and be trained. Barring that, it could be that a clutch could have been manipulated into being less hostile as genetic engineering and modification have always been a major part of the series.

As for the hybrid dino, that fits with the Jurassic Park ideals as well.  The original movie explored the hubris of man, and of science.  It was about doing something because you could, but not considering whether or not you should.  This is that in a nut shell, and it’s something that we see in the real world with species with which we haven’t completely cracked the genome.

People need to settle until they’ve seen it.  The ideas are solid, and the presentation is beautiful.  The only complaint I have after seeing the trailer is that the park is open to the public after the events of the first film, but after 22 years (and without the events of the actual book) it’s not surprising that a company would want to capitalize on all the work done, especially when dinosaurs have been seen and acknowledged by the wider world.  It’s an amusement park now, but it’s also a natural preserve.

This is going to be the first entry in the series since Michael Crichton died, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be bad.  I’m as big a Crichton and Jurassic Park fanboy as anyone, and I’ll say now what I often say about movies.  Shut up and hold judgement until you’ve seen it.  Until then, enjoy the trailers and maybe even get hyped.