THE ANGRY URINAL!!!

Well, as promised back to the more light hearted here at the pub tonight.

I feel there is nothing more comical than everyday life, the most funny things (in my opinion) are not fabricated or thought up they just happen to normal everyday people like you and I. Now when you get to witness one of these happenings first hand, well you can't pay for better comedy. Now if the happening is actually happening to you, then perhaps it is a tragedy and not so much comedy for you! My spin on this is....if I was the one who had the misfortune of one of these events happening to me....everyone else would laugh, that's just the way it goes, so when it happens to someone else I laugh, it's funny cause it's not me!!! :)

So enough with the prelude on with the tale of the ANGRY URINAL!!

Today I happen to be in need of a washroom break during my work day. Seeing as I am on the road 99% of my day, Tim Horton's seems to be the rest stop of choice. So we pull into the local Tim Horton's and I go in to use the facilities. Now without going into to much detail, let's just say during this event I was seated....nuff said.

While I am attending to my business I can't help but think that the washroom smells like someone has pissed everywhere but in the urinal. Still, there was a reason I was there so I decided to just carry on. Another gentleman enters the washroom a moment later and goes to the urinal. Now all I can see of this person is his feet and after a moment he decides to flush the urinal, not once but twice. Let me tell you, he will NEVER flush a urinal more than once ever again in his life!!!
After the second flush there comes this odd noise from the urinal and then SPLOOSH a tidal wave of water comes barrelling all over his feet and running into the stall where I am. I don't know if he was stunned or what, but he just stood there for what seemed to be quite a long time before he reacted with JESUS CHRIST!!! LMAO, then he jumps back and exits the washroom. I of course was ok, just had to pick up my feet and watch where I stepped upon exiting the washroom. I could hear him out of the washroom complaining to someone.

Needless to say it made me laugh to near tears, even now....really because it wasn't me, wish I had been able to see his reaction though, would have been priceless.

Oh ya, and I figured out why the place smelled that way, guess the urinal had been plugged, wonder how many others chose to flush twice prior to this. LOL.

Cheers,

Call Centre Crisis

So today we hear of yet another local call centre calling it quits.

First Beauty Rock closes it's doors, then suddenly Teleperformance (MCCI) also closes down (temporarily or otherwise), and today word that Tele-Tech in Trenton is done as of the end of August.

This is the sad reality of the recession that we are in. Call Centres, just like every other business, are all about the bottom line and when the profit margins are just not there it is time to close up shop or relocate to an area with much cheaper labour and overhead costs.

Being a veteran of the call centre industry, I cannot say that much of this comes as a surprise.

Well prior to the recession the writing was on the wall. The lure of a low Canadian Dollar is no longer there (even though the dollar dropped back to the 80 cent mark for a while). The rise in minimum wage has also tightened the margins. Now throw in the recession and customers cutting back on non essential spending and you have less need for tech support, customer care, etc.

Sadly, a lot of good people will be out of work. You know who you are. Sorry but if you are one of the ones who had to call in sick at least once a week then....no you are not one of the good people. To those good people I wish you all the best of luck. Remain positive, take advantage of the government training available to you. Update your skills and believe in yourself. There are companies out there that do value hard workers, those with a work ethic and those willing to learn. Keep working hard.

Now to the others that were always calling in sick or coming in late, or complaining that everything sucked....you are in NO POSITION to complain....in a way, you kind of got what you wanted....didn't you??? Really, if you had a hard time going to work everyday and hated what you did, don't you think life just did you a favor? Not saying that I have liked every job I have ever had, far from it....pretty much hated all but a couple. But I managed to come to work EVERYDAY, sick or not!!

So to those of you out there that came to work everyday, put in a good days work and kept the complaining to a minimum who currently find yourselves out of work or soon to be out of work - my thoughts are with you, remain positive and use this opportunity to find something you enjoy doing. Life has a funny way of giving us gentle (or not so gentle) nudges in the right direction.

In my humble opinion you will start to see a lot more home based remote agent type jobs become the common place. It makes sense, you can reward the agents by both allowing them to work from home and by their productivity in the form of high wages for higher performers. Companies will save a fortune by cutting out most of the overhead costs and management. Until that time.....do not fret...it's just another bump in the road of life.

To my many followers ;) - I promise, back to the more amusing and comical posts tomorrow.

Cheers,

You can't park there!!

So, to those of you out there who have at least one bi-polar or psychotic neighbour this is for you.
Now as a disclaimer I want to say that I have no issue with anyone that is afflicted with any of the aforementioned neurological disorders - except for the couple that live on my street.

We have this fence that separates our property from our neighbours, now the fence that is "our fence" is a four or five foot high standard wooden fence. Not the greatest fence but not a terrible fence. At the end of this fence there was another fence, an old chain link fence. It completed about the last 6 feet that separated the driveways.

Now about two weeks ago, I suggested to my wife how I would like to clean that area up and get that old, bent, falling over, dangerous eye-sore of a chain link fence out of there and put up a brand new wooden fence to replace the entire thing. We agreed that it seemed reasonable, and that our neighbour would have no issue with it considering we would be upgrading both properties and to the neighbour's benefit....at no cost to her.

Well, won't that learn us for using common sense and good judgement. Who and the hell do we think we are, walking around with this air of common sense about us......no wonder our very stable neighbour SNAPPED.

Literally she stumbled right off the deep end, and fell right into a very important conversation with those that have the power to rectify....a group of young boys(average age 11). Telling them that she was very upset and that it was her fence that we took down and that the contract this and the frickle frackle that.....oh and then throws in that she would rather deal with me as I am more level headed than my wife.

Now I don't know about you, but that last statement, there after the frickle frackle.....dem's fightin words. At least if you are any red blooded Canadian woman.

So the next day my wife does the honorable and neighbourly thing......starts staking out where the fence should run, making sure that we keep our fence on the "sane" portion of the block as well as on our side of the property line, cause god forbid that the new fence (that did I mention she doesn't have to pay for but will increase her property value) should cross into her land of Narnia or whatever they call it. Although if it was really Narnia, that would be cool.

So then the neighbour decides that she should come out and talk to my wife......what a novel concept!! Now, understand....she did get clearance from the boys....I think....either way, the conversation doesn't go well and the result is the same. We are going to put up a safer, nicer, new fence that will improve both properties at no expense to her. After blogging about it, I can see now why she would be upset, my wife and I truly are presumptuous a**holes that run around improving things and helping people out, that would piss off the Pope himself. Guess perhaps I am the one that forgot to take MY meds.

So ends another happy day of blogging. Stayed tuned for the next episode......someone picks up the garbage that has blown down the street from her house....AGAIN...CAUSE GARBAGE DAY IS THURSDAY NOT SUNDAY NIGHT!!!! ONLY FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS!!

Cheers,

WOO HOO A FOLLOWER!!

I have my first follower, right on. Now truth be told it is my wife, and whether she did it because she really wanted to or just because she loves me......either way I will take it!
As for the label of follower, kinda has a cult like spin on it. Hmmm, me the leader of a cult....... sure why not. Except I am not so keen on the way most cults disband...mass suicide....so I guess it is best to keep it as a "following". Guess now I have to work on getting my second follower, perhaps another family member or friend could be swayed. Perhaps if I put some thought provoking blogs up and see what happens.

Well the thought provoking blogs will be forth coming, I promise, figured I would celebrate my first cult member, uh, follower.

More later...

Avery's Pub is now open!!

So here we go, I finally take the leap into the world of blogging.

Not quite sure what the goals are here, but figure this will give me a spot to share my warped view of the world with anyone that is willing to read it.

Will blog about anything and everything, sports, world events, food, booze, family, friends, etc.

So hopefully I will get better at this as time goes on.

Welcome to the Pub.