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Solid car for sale. Running slant 6 (225). Over $3000 invested in mechanical work/upgrades (i.e. 8.25 rear end w/rebuilt bearings, V8 rad, new brakes all around, new gas lines, new brake lines…). I have a website detailing all work done. Only thing left is to drop in a V8 and paint it up. KMs are estimated. 289-244-6514. Leaving country, must sell. $1700 CDN obo You can read all about it and the work that was on my Project Plymouth blog.
Ok so here it is, 10 months later and the BEST I’ve been able to do is a 3 month contract for work. My wife is now unemployed. So me with some casual part-time work, and even some pure cash deals, cannot afford a mortgage, let alone rent any more. There are no jobs. Oh I see the odd posting but nothing ever comes through. My house is falling apart, leaking from the roof and the basement now. I need to redo the whole of the outside basement wall weeping tiles and I need a whole new roof. That’s somewhere in the ballpark of $30,000. Not gonna happen. I hope I don’t ever run into the previous owners…they knew about the leaking basement. They knew they couldn’t afford the $20+ grand it would take to fix it. They knew. Screw them. So my wife has considered going back to Korea to teach English. This time, I am going with her. I’ll finish up with the house and sell it then I’m gone too. Taxes are getting higher (HST) and a tax for ‘it’s ok not to make recyclable products as we’ll pass along that Gov’t fee onto the consumers” eco-fee bullshit. Screw them. There is simply no end to the bullshit that is going on around here. Companies hire complete idiots because they want someone who is a mindless slave and refuses to think for themselves. Screw them. Why the hell are bus drivers getting paid upwards of $30/hr??? How much education did they need to get the job….oh yeah, that’s right….NOTHING. Yet the technician that is the backbone of the system that supports every single transaction behind the scenes is barely getting $25….if he’s lucky. Most technicians have more than paid for their way…$30K in school debt isn’t uncommon. Welcome to the unbalanced world of “unions can do whatever the hell they want”. Screw them. People with money won’t give anyone a chance, despite the obvious long term benefit to society and directly, the city in which they live. Screw them. So screw you all. If there isn’t a single, decent company out there that can’t address any of these concerns, then why do I stay? I am fully aware of what I bring to the table and that scares the hell out of managers. I see it in their eyes. I see them trying to justify their own measly little existence because they are too scared to loose their own jobs. I see complacent people who think that “nothing will happen to me, I’m too valuable”… surprise suckers, welcome to the next round of “Outsource to India!”. I’ve seen it too many times. One department gets outsourced. As soon as that happens, all other similar departments start looking at the idea that they can save more money and some dumb-ass manager will get a nice, big, fat bonus for saving a few bucks. It doesn’t matter that customer satisfaction will tank. Especially after the brand spanking new automated telephone system that is naught but an endless maze and it takes 20mins to get to a real live person for a 2min question. This is assuming that people have the stamina to wander around such a maze at all. Yup, if you aren’t looking for a new job now, you are going to be sooo screwed when the hammer falls. As for me, I’m outta here. There is nothing left that will allow me to continue ANY sort of existence here. Thanks for nothing Hamilton. |
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