I miss having a bike.
the woes of being unemployed.
Posted by KatieTagged As: !bullshit, !life, !unemployment, ( rant ) | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
So, I’ve been unemployed on and off for the past few years. Whenever I get a job, it always ends, through no fault of my own. The latest one was T-Bar, now they’re owned by Cotton On, which pretty much means they’re a shit company who sell shitty quality clothes for exorbitant prices. They also happen to employ only on a casual basis, which means that they can also never contact you, or give you any work. This is what happened to me. I contacted my manager, and she said that the reason I was getting no work is because “only the good people are getting shifts” which is totally discriminatory, and yet, there’s nothing I can do about it. I don’t know what I did to make them think I deserve no work, but it just can’t be right. I’ve even called up a government hotline to ask what my rights are, and if I have a legal leg to stand on. It turns out that I don’t. Thanks to new laws that were passed on January 1st, I can’t do anything at all about it, and it means that employers can do this to people and get away with it. Thanks, Kevin Rudd.
Speaking of politics, I will be voting for Kevin Rudd. Only because the alternative (Tony Abbott) scares the crap out of me. He’s an extremely right wing religious asshole who thinks women’s rights are a joke, that divorces should be harder to get, & that abortion should be illegial. Oh, fuck. If he gets elected, I’m moving to anywhere else. I just can’t believe that women’s rights are even debated anymore. I, for one, blame religion.
Can you imagine what the world would be like without it? Our technology & science would be far more advanced, there would be less war, less death, no more suicide bombers & less stupidity.
The world would be a far better place if we were all Athiest. I recommend watching Bill Maher’s Religulous.
Perth.
Posted February 15, 2010 by KatieTagged As: ( music ), ( rant ) | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
It seems that the only good music in Australia is coming out of Perth, has anyone noticed this? Sugar Army, The Harlequin Leauge, & Young Revelry to name a few. Maybe there are too many bands on the east coast that all sound the same? I know it’s not really that common for bands to tour the other side of the county, so maybe WA is unaffected by the crap music that the rest of the country is making? Something to think about.
wow.
Posted February 3, 2010 by KatieTagged As: ( 2010 ), ( rant ) | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
The fact that Mumford & Sons got # 1 on the Hottest 100 just proves how much the music industry sucks right now.
With bands like this, how is anything that ISN’T folk going to get through? Fuck you Australia. Stop it with the acoustic bullshit already.
I HATE IT.
hello, 2010
Posted January 4, 2010 by KatieTagged As: !gigs | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
Fuck, I am so glad that 2009 is over. What a piece of shit year that was, both personally for me, and in music releases. There were maybe 3 good albums released, in my opinion. And three of those bands I’m seeing this month:
FUTURE OF THE LEFT, January 7th ( Travels With Myself And Another, 2009)
THE MARS VOLTA, January 20th ( Octahedron, 2009 )
THEM CROOKED VULTURES, January 26th ( S/T, 2009 )
Pretty fucking excited, if you ask me! 
I’ve run out of smart things to say.
Posted December 4, 2009 by KatieTagged As: !image, !random | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
( hatredcopter )
Posted November 2, 2009 by KatieTagged As: !tv | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
Finally got Windows 7 installed, pretty happy with it. It’s so much faster than Vista ever was, and it starts up so fast now. Yay.
Also, for those of you living under rocks, Metalocalypse is the best show ever. Joel & I discovered this while hanging around waiting for our EP to be mixed. Awesome.
( dear centerlink )
Posted October 29, 2009 by KatieTagged As: | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
Why must you insist on wasting my time? I actually preferred the old job network system, I’ll take anything over the new one. Yes, I am looking for a job, and, no, I haven’t had much luck. Which means that I’ve been on Centerlink for a certain amount of time, in which they believe they need to take further action to make me look harder for work. Okay, fine. I actually want to work, and I’ll do whatever you want me to. But, making me do 60 hours of volunteering IS NOT going to help me, AT ALL. In fact, it’s a complete, and utter waste of time.
The job network that I go to also happens to be full of incompetent half-brains, which really helps the situation greatly. How is them telling me “Oh, just keep doing what you’re doing.” going to help me, either? And when the lady called me up and told me about my “Employment Pathway Plan”, I was less than impressed. She told me that I’d have to do some sort of activity to keep receiving the mediocre amount of money I get every fortnight, and I was expecting it, having been on Centerlink before. But, when she said that I could choose what I wanted to do ie; volunteering, job search training etc. I was confused. And when she set up an appointment with me, she didn’t tell me anything else. When I attended said appointment, I was yelled at for not organizing my own activity. She never said that to me, if she had, I would’ve done it! I know that these people deal with bludgers, and people that don’t want to work, but I am not one of them! I genuinely want a job, after my rent is paid, I only have $40 to live on, for TWO WEEKS. How the fuck could I want to live like that? I want out of this rut I’m in, and I’m getting no fucking help from these people. They only seem to care about where their paycheck is coming from, not about the people they work with. Nothing they’ve done has helped me in any way at all. I’m tempted to either, change job networks, or write a letter of complaint to the government. This is fucking ridiculous.
( moby dick )
Posted October 15, 2009 by KatieTagged As: !image, !random | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
How fucking cute is this? Look at it’s little ship-destroying smile. Aw.
