Damn dilemma

[Devanshu]

A week ago, I was broke an unemployed. Now...I have a second interview w/ blockbuster(will probably get the job) today and a job waiting for me at a dental school. I'm trying to find room for both jobs plus summer school in my schedule. The way it looks right now, I'll have to say no to blockbuster becuase the dental school would be better for my resume when I apply for medical or dental school but I cant say no all those free rentals! Has anyone here worked @ blockbuster before? If so, please tell me somthing to make my decision easier.

[Guest]

If your schedule is packed,when will yopu watch al of those free rentals?
Go with the dental school. Wouldnt u rather have free nitrous?

[pacmania_2001]

They are a big faceless multi-national corporation like MTV that stems the development of a diverse range of movies thus promoting the mainstream crap that Hollywood produces these days whilst recording record profits for their shareholders and putting smaller local video stores out of business, all whilst screwing over their employees for the almighty bottom line.

Will that do?

Not that I neccesarily agree with all that is being said in that (rather long) statement but it will help you in not taking the job with them.

[Capmaster]

A week ago, I was broke an unemployed. Now...I have a second interview w/ blockbuster(will probably get the job) today and a job waiting for me at a dental school. I'm trying to find room for both jobs plus summer school in my schedule. The way it looks right now, I'll have to say no to blockbuster becuase the dental school would be better for my resume when I apply for medical or dental school but I cant say no all those free rentals! Has anyone here worked @ blockbuster before? If so, please tell me somthing to make my decision easier.

Congrats! I hope the dental school job works out. I agree with Pac that working there would be a much better stepping stone towards your goal, free rentals aside.

[Cobra]

Personally, I would go for the dental school because it's a job that:

- Looks (and IS) great on your CV
- More interesting in its own way - you'll learn a lot more
- You won't have to put up with some of the flak Blockbuster staff have to endure (at my local one anyway)
- It'll prepare you a little for practice in medicine
- You'll get to play with novocaine - (2-(diethylamino)ethyl 4-aminobenzoate hydrochloride)......

Why not ask Blockbuster if you can temp with them? I temp with Sainsbury's (supermarket) and I can say at the start of the week "I want loads to work" or "Nothing this week" and they work with me. That way, you can work with the dental practice primarily, and suppliment it with a couple of shifts a week at Blockbuster.

That's what I'd do, so you may wish to do the opposite!

Cobra

[Devanshu]

Why not ask Blockbuster if you can temp with them?

Thats what I'm going to do...I found a few more things that tipped the scale toward dental school. It's a work study program and I get $1700 in tuition money per semester for only 10 hours a week!!! AND it's incredibly flexible because you can make your own hours. So basically, I can come in anytime, do the work, and leave whenever I please. I'm gonna talk to blockbuster and see if they'll let me work friday-sunday and wednesday (dont have classes that day).

[Cobra]

It's a work study program and I get $1700 in tuition money per semester for only 10 hours a week!!! AND it's incredibly flexible because you can make your own hours.

Nyyyaaarrrgghh!! Grrrrrrrrr!! Mmmffff!!!

(Uni is damned expensive in the UK)

[Devanshu]

(Uni is damned expensive in the UK)

It's expensive here too...especially if you go to an out of state school. In that case you better be crapping money.

[RabidDog]

you'd have to be mental to take the rental over dental! I'm not sentimental, dental will be instrumental , whilst rental is incidental. Coincidental, how much do Sainburys pay? (uk)

[Cobra]

RabidDog,

That's easily one of the finest posts I have ever seen on these boards!

I got £5.46 per hour temping, although it's a crap place to work. I intend to go back in the summer to earn as much money as I can.

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

bah, you earn more than me! although the price:work ratio is probably a bit different

[Cobra]

Trainee accountant, flan? I'd say it's a better job, and definitely more difficult - there's no way I could do what you do! All that maths...

All I do is solve the same type of problem over and over again. The only hard thing about my job is to resist knocking some customers out.

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

hahaha, i had that problem when i worked in a theatre, customers droning on and on about absolute shite till you want to poke out their eye with a spoon. then i did customer services for a while, that was even worse, people screaming at you for 8 hours a day....

The maths is actually pretty easy, you punch numbers into sage and it goes "tada!" you hit print and it all looks very fancy. hopefully i can make some better money once i have a couple years experience with sage. it's actually dead easy to use, learned it in about a week. but it's the same old thing, managers will pay good money to someone else so they don't have to learn how to use their own software

[Cobra]

customers droning on and on about absolute shite till you want to poke out their eye with a spoon

Finally, someone who understand precisely how I feel!

I can't understand them. I am 6' 2" and 17 stone. Would you bait me to breaking point?

As for management, I believe that there are two types of of manager. Those who can manage and those who, in the words of Blackadder, are "Monkeys who are placed in a suit, then strategically shaved"!

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

there's a great episode of dilbert
"our company name? well, last week we were called pathway electroncs, then we merged with E-Tech management, so i guess we're called Path-e-tech management."

The worst is when someone is telling how they were -going- to come in yesterday, but then their dog was ill, so they took the dog to their mothers house, because her mum is good with dogs, and cats too, she has a lot of cats - but anyway, she was so busy talking to her mum, who's just had a hip operation, that she forgot, which is funny, because her friend came right past and tried to phone her, but because she was out she didn't get the message, but when she got home so got it and tried to ring, but we were closed so she left a message on our answerphone saying shes coming today, which is funny because she doesn't usually use answerphones, she doesn't trust because one day her brother..............

and all the while there's a queue of 60 people behind her, and your eyes are saying I DON'T CARE, while placidly nodding and smiling...

The absolute worst was a guy who could not tell the difference be tween me and a female co-worker, charlie. he would walk right up to my face and shout "hello charlie!"
"i'm not charlie. she's not here"
"hahaha. very funny."
that guy was nuts, and once followed me round town for about 15 minutes.

[tgpo]

Blockbuster is a satan worshiping conglomerate* to carters to the every need of the MPAA. Down with Blockbuster and their fascist way.

[Devanshu]

Had my second interview yesterday...she's now going to call references and then call me back to do the paperwork. Surprisingly...they offer medical, dental, and vision for even their part-time employees.

[Capmaster]

Had my second interview yesterday...she's now going to call references and then call me back to do the paperwork. Surprisingly...they offer medical, dental, and vision for even their part-time employees.

That's great! Those things are very valuable ...anyone who has paid a hospital bill knows that

Sounds like a plan, my man 8)

[indolikaa]

Damn! Maybe I should move to the UK.


I'd work for peanuts in exchange for affordable health insurance. It's nonexistent in this country anymore...

[flaninacupboard]

hospital....bill... means nothing to me

[Guest]

Damn! Maybe I should move to the UK.


I'd work for peanuts in exchange for affordable health insurance. It's nonexistent in this country anymore...

[Capmaster]

Damn! Maybe I should move to the UK.


I'd work for peanuts in exchange for affordable health insurance. It's nonexistent in this country anymore...

My buddy in Helsingborg Sweden tells me that they have a 25% sales tax there Even our most heavily taxed city, New York, has only a 9% or so sales tax. It all has to come from somewhere - either you buy it on your own or the government will just take it. I personally would rather be given the choice and not have socialized medicine. Look at how badly our pseudo-socialized medicine experiment turned out here in the states (HMOs).

[pacmania_2001]

Whats this thing you call a hospital bill?

[Capmaster]

Whats this thing you call a hospital bill?

It's from a $1,000/day room, not all that nice, and includes regular rectal insertions

[indolikaa]

Damn! Maybe I should move to the UK.


I'd work for peanuts in exchange for affordable health insurance. It's nonexistent in this country anymore...

I guess the comment I should have made was, "will you have any money left to spend when they dock you for health insurance?"

[flaninacupboard]

in the UK sales tax (or Value Added Tax ) is at 17.5%. i also get deducted from my wages about 12.5% for tax and about 12.5% for national insurance. and of course when i buy petrol i pay something like 600% tax. and when people buy cigarettes or alcohol they pay 300% tax.

[indolikaa]

in the UK sales tax (or Value Added Tax ) is at 17.5%. i also get deducted from my wages about 12.5% for tax and about 12.5% for national insurance. and of course when i buy petrol i pay something like 600% tax. and when people buy cigarettes or alcohol they pay 300% tax.

Go down to your nearest harbor. Throw some shit from a ship into the water and make a general nuisance of yourself. Complain about your taxes, and how the world would be a better place if the nobility would just piss off.

Hey, it worked for our tax problems a couple hundred years ago...

I personally would rather be given the choice and not have socialized medicine. Look at how badly our pseudo-socialized medicine experiment turned out here in the states (HMOs).

I'd take socialized medicine in a heartbeat. I'd rather have something than nothing.

Then again, Lovelace never did me wrong.

[flaninacupboard]

Edited:

Changed my mind.

[Capmaster]

Dolly's Bitch wrote:

[gmatov]

All those Socialized medical insurance countries pay nearly 14 % of their Gross Domestic Product for that health care.

So, Americans are better off. We only spend 14 % of our Gross Domestic Product to buy health insurance and pay the part of the bills the carriers say is your responsibility.

We pay 3 times what the rest of the world pays for drugs, and have a law which forbids the largest buyer of drugs in the world, Medicare, from dickering the price down to Canadian levels, courtesy of the present administration.
If this is shot down as political, I'll appeal, as TGPO has gone Religious with the RIAA and Blockbuster being tools of Satan. If he can get away with that ref, I should be forgiven this one.

The 25 % tax in Sweden (was it Sweden?) covers a multitude of taxes that we 'Murricans pay in nuisance taxes. My takehome is about 55 % of my gross, so I don't think our European brethren are getting their asses kicked.

The really, really rich want a National sales tax to replace the Income Tax, as a 22 % tax rate on the welfare sector of our population, and the working sector would equal the present tax take. A corporate exec making 100 million on a stock option would pay no tax, in that scenario. He would pay 22 % on the price of a new yacht. And, anything else that he bought. But, they don't spend 100 million in that year. They never DO spend it, just pile it higher and higher, and ask you, at 30,000 a year to pay your fair share.

Medicine is just one tip of the iceberg. And, we seem to have a bunch of youngsters here who think it would be cool to be Republican.

Remember, the definition of Conservative is one who wishes to keep everything he has. Screw all the rest of yunz. Only the little people pay taxes, as Leona Helmsley said.

Cheers,

George