Sorry everyone. I know it's been some time but I do have to go to class along with attempting to find a job to support the outrageously high prices here. But anyways, everything so far is becoming routine. For the most part, school is interesting but definitely not the same. Well, no crap Kolin, really? School in Australia is different from school the States? I would reasonable think meh, maybe not by much. Nope. Wrong. Let me explain...
I am an opinionated person. Yes, this may come as a shocker, but I always have an opinion.... just about everything. Where it comes from, not to sure. And yes, while in school I have an opinion that I wish to convey to my professors, especially when they are teaching something that is, for a lack of a better word, dumb.
In my Organisational Communication & Leadership communication course there was a slide presented with this:
How Organisations compensate for problems with this structure
- Remove the competition
- Get Government protection
- Diversify into stable environments
- Rely on information and communication technologies
- Relax rules about following the chain of command
- Subordinates can build redundancy into communication networks
Now, lets examine. If anything I have taught myself (and I mean this in the sense of reading about economics from mises.org, or the Austrian School of Economics which denounces Keynsian Economics from the sense of well, fractional reserve banking and government intervention, essentially why America is in the financial mess we are at right now) those first two bulletins go against Capitalism. Well maybe not so much the first one, but in the context this women phrased it, it was a bit "dodgy." Fair enough, nothing compares to how she said the second point. She looked down to the floor and kinda paused, swooped her hand through her hair embarrassingly and said, "or seek government protection." Now, we are not talking here the government protects you from some other entity stealing from you but rather, if you're failing, ask for money, they are a great place for loans. Upon this whole situation I immediately said, those first two bulletins go against the basic tenets of capitalism. To which she replied, "Well I mean this isn't necessarily what is right but what happens."
.....?
Then why are you teaching it likes it's gospel? I don't know, when I had made my statement she retracted and went into diplomatic mode, as if arguing something was forbidden. I didn't really wanna make her head spin and go into how with government intervention you suspend the ability to be innovative because of the bureaucratic nightmare the follows but oooooo Bureaucracy, that was slide 6, so whatever, I guess it works. This was just one of many observations I have made with teaching methods....
Another fun one:
"How many people here support the right of people to have guns?"
-Me, sole hand raiser
Girl sitting in the front row: "Like ummm for when dad goes hunting?"
Teacher: "No no no, just in general."
Girl from east coast: "Well... I mean, like... if no one had guns then like, there would be no problems. I don't see where the issue is."
Epic fail indeed...
Kolin: "Yea, I just wanna say, first off, there is a reason it is America's second amendment. I am sorry guys but I don't want a gun to go.... hunting. I want a gun to protect myself, my family and property. And I especially like the right to bear arms because, I don't like the government when it starts to invade my home without consent or like the phrase goes, 'Governments like defenseless citizens with pitchforks.' The reason we have the second amendment isn't to go hunting and be sporty, it's to protect ourselves from the government."
Teacher: "Well it's apparent Kolin has strong feelings toward the first amendment." (and no I didn't mess up, she accidentally recited the wrong amendment.)
Kolin: "hah, amongst other things."
She later said something like, "Maybe everyone in Kolin's family has a gun."
Me: " hahahaha no...?"- I mean honestly though, what an assumption? I think we own a shotgun? I just like having all the rights I am constitutionally permitted. Sorry dawggg.
These are just several occasions where you challenge and the teachers kinda back away. They wish to talk about something but never want to cross the line where people come out and say, "Well I am challenging that thought process with this evidence." It's kinda hard to explain but you would understand if you were in class.
I spoke with a girl that is in a couple of my classes and she said the same thing. The teachers are not keen on debating. That's cool, just how they roll I guess... rollin lame ooooooo, burnnn
You're probably asking yourself, job huh. Found anything? Well, let me tell you, I tried my hand in telemarketing. Not a good idea. Probably the most demoralizing job ever. Not only is it 100% commission, but you could work for almost 5 hours and make nothing. I am/was (I have already decided on not coming back as I type this) selling some kind of phone plan that hooks your phone to the internet and works quite well actually. It's called VOIP or something, the company is BSMART. It's a lot like how skype works and is pretty cheap compared to other plans, but no one wants to hear all this bull shit. O and there is also the nice people who answer:
"What? Nah nah nah nah, the last bloake tried selling me crap. Why are you doing this?"
"Mate, listen, Im gonna hang up and then you hang up, we both know you're trying to sell me something that I probably don't want and lets just go our ways."
"Umm not too sure, me dad's not home. Im just the kid."
"Ummm, o dear, uhhh well I am not sure Kevin's at touch football." (Yea, like I know who the hell kevin is... O yea, get Kev in on this!)
"Who is this? Edward?"-Yea Kolin and Edward sound like the exact same if you say them quick? no.
"Not interested." -Followed by a slam dunk in yo face, particularly the ear region.
"Go to hell."
"You called three hours ago."
"I'm not too sure, hows your day? Yea, my son just left, I hope he comes back."
A lot of the calls go to old people and they are so nice and remind me of Grandma. They just wish to talk to someone that doesn't normally come around. Some will give you their life story. Quite moving but after 3 hours of calls, I am just thinking, "Please buy this stupid shit so I can make $30 for the 3 hours of work I have put in."
.....?
Then why are you teaching it likes it's gospel? I don't know, when I had made my statement she retracted and went into diplomatic mode, as if arguing something was forbidden. I didn't really wanna make her head spin and go into how with government intervention you suspend the ability to be innovative because of the bureaucratic nightmare the follows but oooooo Bureaucracy, that was slide 6, so whatever, I guess it works. This was just one of many observations I have made with teaching methods....
Another fun one:
"How many people here support the right of people to have guns?"
-Me, sole hand raiser
Girl sitting in the front row: "Like ummm for when dad goes hunting?"
Teacher: "No no no, just in general."
Girl from east coast: "Well... I mean, like... if no one had guns then like, there would be no problems. I don't see where the issue is."
Epic fail indeed...
Kolin: "Yea, I just wanna say, first off, there is a reason it is America's second amendment. I am sorry guys but I don't want a gun to go.... hunting. I want a gun to protect myself, my family and property. And I especially like the right to bear arms because, I don't like the government when it starts to invade my home without consent or like the phrase goes, 'Governments like defenseless citizens with pitchforks.' The reason we have the second amendment isn't to go hunting and be sporty, it's to protect ourselves from the government."
Teacher: "Well it's apparent Kolin has strong feelings toward the first amendment." (and no I didn't mess up, she accidentally recited the wrong amendment.)
Kolin: "hah, amongst other things."
She later said something like, "Maybe everyone in Kolin's family has a gun."
Me: " hahahaha no...?"- I mean honestly though, what an assumption? I think we own a shotgun? I just like having all the rights I am constitutionally permitted. Sorry dawggg.
These are just several occasions where you challenge and the teachers kinda back away. They wish to talk about something but never want to cross the line where people come out and say, "Well I am challenging that thought process with this evidence." It's kinda hard to explain but you would understand if you were in class.
I spoke with a girl that is in a couple of my classes and she said the same thing. The teachers are not keen on debating. That's cool, just how they roll I guess... rollin lame ooooooo, burnnn
You're probably asking yourself, job huh. Found anything? Well, let me tell you, I tried my hand in telemarketing. Not a good idea. Probably the most demoralizing job ever. Not only is it 100% commission, but you could work for almost 5 hours and make nothing. I am/was (I have already decided on not coming back as I type this) selling some kind of phone plan that hooks your phone to the internet and works quite well actually. It's called VOIP or something, the company is BSMART. It's a lot like how skype works and is pretty cheap compared to other plans, but no one wants to hear all this bull shit. O and there is also the nice people who answer:
"What? Nah nah nah nah, the last bloake tried selling me crap. Why are you doing this?"
"Mate, listen, Im gonna hang up and then you hang up, we both know you're trying to sell me something that I probably don't want and lets just go our ways."
"Umm not too sure, me dad's not home. Im just the kid."
"Ummm, o dear, uhhh well I am not sure Kevin's at touch football." (Yea, like I know who the hell kevin is... O yea, get Kev in on this!)
"Who is this? Edward?"-Yea Kolin and Edward sound like the exact same if you say them quick? no.
"Not interested." -Followed by a slam dunk in yo face, particularly the ear region.
"Go to hell."
"You called three hours ago."
"I'm not too sure, hows your day? Yea, my son just left, I hope he comes back."
A lot of the calls go to old people and they are so nice and remind me of Grandma. They just wish to talk to someone that doesn't normally come around. Some will give you their life story. Quite moving but after 3 hours of calls, I am just thinking, "Please buy this stupid shit so I can make $30 for the 3 hours of work I have put in."
I Don't think I have a bright future at BSMART communications. (I don't have a future, I just quit in my head) My opportunity cost was to call trying to sell BSMART and be annoying to people across Australia in hopes to make maybe 60 bucks or go meet the soccer team and make friends. Yea, not a good choice...
Here in this beautiful place, the culture is laid back.... Perhaps toooo laid back. Things open at 9am and close at 5pm. Understandable... for places places that do commercial business. Everything shuts down at 5 pm. What the Hell is that? O the weekends...overtime. Friday, over time (last time I checked that's not the weekend) but I guess, a casual, such as myself is not complaining when the starting wages are around 17$ an hour.
For some reason there is a stigma that Americans are lazy. Where that came from, I am not too sure especially around here. Yea, some of us are fat, and eat a lot, but at least we go to work on the weekends and don't demand overtime pay from some employer like Mackers (MacDonalds) just because it's Friday. It's insane to even think about that. $17 an hour and then overtime just because it's the weekend? Overtime to me is going over 40 hours with the exception to Christmas, Easter and a few select others. But at ESI, the greatest business in the world, no such thing. We bust ass everyday of the week.
"We be doin fineee Work."- Mr. Koppy
O this reminds me... a lot of people rip on the US for being fat and lazy. Meh you got us for being fat. But wait, efficiency...
O, hah, I forgot, we have the highest GDP in the world as a sole country. God damn, capitalism is just so like.... Awesome.
MORE TO COME...
next I go to a soccer match and skydiving on Valentines Day.
(Sorry Mr. Koppy, didn't wanna kill the job on a single entry ; 0)
Stay fresh kids.
-KOLIN
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