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Movies, work and school; my week
chris lin posted in Personal, School, Work on August 3rd, 2004

Man, blogging seems like a chore again. Maybe it's because I have been so…active this week and I didn't really feel like telling anyone about it. Or rather, write an entry about it; I don't mind talking, that takes less brainpower.

Grace and Elise came down last week and stayed down until yesterday. Little Elise has grown a lot since I have seen her. I went to the my aunt's house where they were staying last Sunday and Elise didn't even recognize me when she saw me. Oh well, I need to give it a couple more months. She does however speak though; not fluently of course but it's really cute when she is trying to talk. I took some pictures of her playing in the sprinklers which was so cute since she gets all excited when she touches the water. Beto called it the poor man's pool or something along that lines.

That Sunday I also went to watch The Bourne Supremacy with my cousins; it was SO FREAKIN GOOD. Ignore what the people say about how you need to watch The Bourne Identity before this film, it is a really good standalone film. You should watch The Bourne Identity when you have time though, that is a really good film but never got that much hype.

Work. What to say. Oh, it sucks. Who the heck likes to do their job anyways? And if they do like it, they probably aren't making that much money. If they are making a lot of money and loving their job, 95% of America envies them. I just don't see how our boss could be so cheap. Yes, he makes a lot of profit but at the same time he probably has the highest turnover of workers per year compared to all the other Coldstones. Which is why we all hate him. He needs to realize that his workers are important and provide better care of us. He works us like dogs and he pays us minimum wage.

I can promise you if everyone got an immediate increase in their wage his profit would go up higher since we care more about keeping our job and making our boss happy. Since you can get any other minimum wage job anywhere else, there's no incentive in working hard. Look at In-N-Out, most of their workers are always hard working and happy and that's probably because everyone wants to keep their job which starts around 2 dollars above minimum wage excluding the benefits they get. I don't know, I hope I can own a business one day and test out my theory.

I know Ford did that when he started his mass production line by paying the workers 200% higher than any minimum wage job for doing something so simple. I bet all his workers wanted to stay there and worked hard trying to keep their jobs. Anyways, a little off topic rant -.-

School is over this Friday and I get one week before I start my Fall session. What the heck is that. You figured the school would give me two weeks of rest before starting but I only get one. Study well in high school kids or you will end up like me, taking 19 units of Honor classes just to get into a good UC.