I Can Do IT; I Must Do it

There's nothing revealing about my posts regarding the training for the position that I have been working on for the past 14 months or so. This note, like any other ones that I have posted so far so far in the past 15 years and few months, are for my own. If someone enjoys reading them, and at times gains information, which might happen, good. If they don't, they don't have to read. 

Having said that, we will have our mid-term examinations next week: Tue. and Wed. We have been working to be ready for them in the past 7 weeks. I'm not very confident but what I know is I can pass them, both because I know my areas of weaknesses and I have time to study for them. I need to manage my time for the studies, and as well, get the necessary material. Then during the practical examination, which will come first, I will have to make sure that I take my time, pay attention to detail and focus. 

We had a chance to practice our written test and I didn't do so well (I got only 69%, yeah you can laugh!) on that but that's not the end of the world. First of all there were areas that I had not covered and there were areas that I had issues with. I know those areas and I will focus on them. Secondly, and this is important as well, I have to focus and avoid skimming! I have to sit to the end of the examination and if necessary, read all questions twice and answer them twice. 

When I was doing my P. Eng. and I failed the Law and Ethics Examination the first time, lacking only 1 or 2 scores, what I did was I read the reference materials, 3 times each and answered all of the practice questions. Then at the end I had 10 extra min.(!) which I spent it on reviewing the answers and of coursed I passed. That will be my strategy here as well. Read as many time as possible, focus on the exam, do not skim and get what you need to get.
(Photo: Nike has been my favorite brand since high school although it was next to impossible to get a product with that brand in those days for a number of reasons, noticeably the time because that was the war time and then they were expensive on that time in the old country considering they were actually made in the US. I think they are expensive even now in the old country although they are not in fact made in the US any more but that's mainly due to the fact that the rate is horrible. Anyways Nike's motto here is the closets to my post's title and that and the reason above are why I used it here) 

A Disastrous and Disappointing Start!

I woke up by a noise early this morning. Not that I had a good sleep the night but when I looked at the clock, the face was blank. I immediately realized that we had a power outage. Looked at the mobile phone and it was past 05:30, I think. I went back to sleep and then woke up by the mobile phone's alarm at 08:00. Still no power! 

Breakfast was available. I had my breakfast and started studying. Then I went back to dining area again to grab a coffee and continue my studies there. Just a few minutes to that, we had a fire alarm! Great. Nobody knew where to go and there was no sign or direction to Master Point as usually is the case in everywhere. We went down and then out and I entered the main entrance and asked the security guy about the situation. He said there was an evacuation but didn't provide more information. 

Fire Department guys came right after that and it took them 5 minutes(!) to go in and then everyone went back in! I went back to the room to see if I could turn the computer on and find out about the outage. As soon as I got connected and found the website, I was about to select the town and the power came back on. I started writing and I guess it was not even 10 minutes that we lost the damn power again! I went back to the website and I realized that no outage or maintenance is mention for the region(!) and then again power came back on! I wonder what that stupid Mouse and Cat Game was! I then logged off before more in and out occurs! 

(Photo: Using this simple animated picture for this post might help to understand how frustrating power outage could be)

Apr. Long Weekend 2019

This evening is unofficially the beginning of the Apr. long weekend. Here more than 80% of the guys are gone home to be with their families. For me it was not only the cost of trip and the hassle of it, but also the long flight. I intend to have a productive time by studying, doing laundry and exercising. 

Today we had an hour of fitness which was turned out to a 40 min. light exercise session by the lazy assess who do nothing but laughing at everything they can. The thing about these guys is that many of them are in their late 20's and still act like teenagers! I guess some haul their stupidity all the way to their grave! A good example of these guys this fella whom his ethnicity is not going to be revealed here because I then would be accused of racism. A total clown. He's 29 and he thinks by telling stupid jokes and laughing hard at almost anything could become popular! Wearing backward hats and shorts with no shoe or socks and beard, make him looks like a total jerk but is he the only one here and generally in the society?! No! The new generation of the guys think of nothing but their cellphone, American Idol and other immature amusements of the time.

However the strangest thing hasn't been that. Today at the end of a class there was this guy standing at the door and giving hug to everyone!! I was actually going to use more exclamation marks but I didn't! I went to university with some classmates for 4 years and never hugged them! In the entire time that I was married, it was only the last 2 years probably, that I would give my wife a hug once in 2 or 3 days!! This freak hugged everyone only after a few weeks of training! What is it that he was trying to achieve?! Buying friends? Reaching arousal? Being nice? You tell me!

(Photo: Nothing represents the Apr. long weekend better than dyed eggs)

A Stinking Piece of Crap Named WestJet!

I've been sitting here on my butt in nasty disgusting Lester B. Pearson International Airport, (not the person himself) of the most disgusting city in North America, Toronto, for the past hour, for my flight to Pierre E. Trudeau International Airport in Montreal but even the WestJet people don't know what the hell is going on! There's no plane and the nasty disgusting weather of Toronto is probably worst than ever. I don't know how people can live in this dump! 

I haven't eaten anything for lunch. All you see in this disgusting shit-hole is Tim Horton, which by the way looking at its items makes me want to vomit and the stupid Booster Juice! The funny thing about these airport stores is not their price (which by the way is twice as much as everywhere else) it's the fact that there's no price tag! So basically they can shove whatever garbage they have all the way up the customers' ass! I know there're many who like it! People here don't even look at the price tags! No wonder the majority of people are in deep shit debt! 

I called my employer but no one gave a shit! There's no one available at this hour I guess. Everyone is sitting like a freaking idiot and plays with his/her stupid phone! Of course why the hell would they be worried! They're not going to start a new job tomorrow! 

This is the second time this fucking nasty garbage, WestJet, is screwing me. The last time I was returning from the US there was a day delay. Who knows what's going to happen today.

Off to Quebec

I'm going to fly to Quebec in less than a 2 hours for the second time in the past two years with the hope that I get the new job. However this is, without a doubt, the worst time that someone could fly!

The weather is miserable. The Daylight Saving started just today and my flight is very early in the morning! In fact I don't know how but I messed up the timing and I'm in YYC one hours early! 

My only issue was my car. In a meeting with the as*hole bastard, cheapskate, The Mumbling Guy, two weeks ago, he said I could park my car next to his home. When I e-mailed him on Thu. and repeated my request, he didn't respond. So I will have a good punishment for him planned and executed later.

Then The Brave called me yesterday after the exam he had written, based on our previous conversation. I met him then at his place and we went and met The King! I paid for the supper, although he didn't much because he had eaten at home(!) and that was because he let me to park the car next to his house. I gave him the key and I'm hoping that the car is in the same situation when I come back but while the registration will be valid, I'm worried about the insurance which will be expired in April. I have to contact him and let him know about that. However I can purchase insurance before the current one expire and just send the paper to him.

The Most Beautiful Work Experience Ever

Four people have been asked to leave and one has left on his own decision since I started this job a little more than 15 months ago. However the most beautiful happened today! So beautiful that I still when think of it cannot stop smiling. Not to mention I laughed really loudly when I was at work! But what happened? The Farm Boy got himself in such a big trouble that got canned!

The first four, first(!):

The first one was a retard, and I'm not being rude or disrespectful, he truly was a retard, who had difficulty performing the simplest assigned task. It was known from the second day but the supervisor decided to keep him on perhaps because he was a Caucasian fella! He was there until he really proved himself as a slow, moron! He even refrained from making telephone calls to service providers by simply stating that he was not comfortable doing that! The interesting thing was that the guy was married and would receive job offers through telephone calls regularly! It's hard for me to imagine the woman whose married to him. The best job for him, I would say, was cleaning and even that should be supervised.

The next fella was a Caucasian as well who seemed to be reasonable and better than the first one. He had done some course in SAIT but because had not been able to find the job he wanted in that field, in the city(!), joined the company, through a recruiting agency. The guy was a martial artist and have traveled to all over Eastern Asia. He could've been a good trip partner for going to, for example, Japan one of the places that I always have wanted to go but just after the company moved to a bigger and newer location, just after he thought that he'd be a permanent team, they kicked him out! He was not a bad guy but his main focus was his training and then he had issues at work such as being slow or simply inactive. Unless you told him what he needed to do, he would wander around. He also was late at times and would overstay his breaks. Nevertheless when the supervisor told me that he would not be coming back, I was quite surprised because I didn't think that his work was that bad. Besides he was Caucasian. I have written about the third one but the last one, the forth one was a really interesting character. He was a Caucasian fella who joined while the third guy was still here! He seemed to know everything. Skilled and experienced but kind of crazy. He was most of the time late and always hyped! Couldn't sit for 2 minutes straight. Eventually after a little more than 1 month he missed a few days and was late for one and that was it. The supervisor asked the related company not to send him back here again!

Then this non-African Black fella guy joined replacing the last fired one. He seemed an understanding and nice guy. The relationship of The Farm Boy was OK with him. However I knew that was only the beginning. The Farm Boy has a nice approach for the first few days and then cannot control himself and shows his real him. So one day that the supervisor was away The NAB (stands for non-African Black) went to the area that The Farm Boy was working to get a tool. The Farm Boy made a big deal out of that and said that safety rules are violated! He then went to the manager and complained about The NAB. This issue was also brought to the attention of the supervisor the next day. It was then decided to have a safety meeting presented by The Farm Boy(!) and issues as such to be brought up to the attention of the team! This truly shows how pathetic the supervisor is because The Farm boy neither is qualified nor had the authority to hold a safety meeting. 

On the day of the safety meeting, in the morning The Farm Boy started his fight right from the beginning of the shift. I and The NAB were discussing two subjects and he went: You guys are doing nothing but yapping! I told him: Why don't you discuss that in today's meeting and invite the manager as well?! He and The NAB had a few other exchanges of words and in the afternoon things got worse. I saw the supervisor was talking to him and then the manager came out and called him to his office. Then after that when The NAB went to get a product from a shelf, he said later, that The Farm Boy had attacked him verbally again! Then I saw the supervisor storming out of the office while saying that he wanted to get some fresh air! The Farm Boy had come back and was doing something! The supervisor said that he could not take it anymore! So when The Farm Boy later asked if we were having the meeting(!) I was quite surprised! Unless you have sever mental issues you would not treat people of your work-place like that and then ask if they would attend your stupid meeting! The supervisor told him that there would be no meeting. I saw him then on the phone and then dressing to go out. The NAB was a little mad and thought that this guy was able to do anything now that he's canned! He told me that if he does anything to his car, which in fact was his gf's car (a new one!) I'd better call the ambulance! He's not a masculine guy but he's tall and has big hands and more importantly he's Black and we all now that they are mostly very strong physically. So when I told him that The Farm Boy was not inside anymore he went outside to check on the car. Fortunately, for The Farm Boy and The NAB, nothing had happened to the car but I would have loved to see what he had done to The Farm Boy, had he touched his car! He later when we all were gathered told us that The Farm Boy had asked him what he was doing " in his area "!! That was the moment that I was laughing so hard! This guy's life has been so miserable that he didn't have a $500 car to drive to work! And now he owned part of the work-place?! 

The other funny thing is he's scheduled for a training in late March and I bet he was so excited to go and enjoy all the free stuff! Now that he's kicked out, he not only has lost his job, but also his dream of a few days vacation is dead! Not to mention that now that he's without a job, he would most likely lose the battle over the custody of his children. The other thing that the supervisor said was that the current marriage of his also is at stake. 

This whole story proved to me one thing: Our supervisor, despite a few good attributes that he has, is an immature, inexperienced and idiot! I had told him on a previous similar situation, when he had done the same stupid things to, that he could not change The Farm Boy. He insisted that he would! And now less than a month he was so boiled inside and fumed that he needed to go and get fresh air! There was the same issue with the retard as well. I knew just after the third day that he would not be able to work to the level of standard that the supervisor wanted but he kept him for as long as a few weeks. And then there was this African guy who left after less than a week. The whole work does not, in fact require as many people that he hires. There are as many as 5 people at this section while it could be easily ran by three. The supervisor simply wants to sit on his butt most of the day and does stupid unnecessary things such as making useless lists that no one even looks at them or because they are not properly made, they don't work.
This was the end of an idiot who I can call him obnoxious, belligerent, stupid and finally a true nutcase!
(Photo: I selected this picture because The NAB used a good analogy when he was describing The Farm Boy: He said he was walking on the edge of a cliff. Now he's falling! He will go all the way and will hit hard)