Quota @ MindSay 
When one encounters responses that begin to push the limits of rational thought, I think it is reasonable to start thinking that maybe there is “something else” going on that is not necessarily oblivious or above board. An example. Suppose you have been friends with John for a long time. You are a Republican, he is a Democrat, however it really had no effect on the relationship other than some good stimulating conversation. Both of you are fairly politically active in the community. Now, John gets the opportunity to run for a very well positioned office, in line with his party choices. As the weeks tick by you feel like John is pulling away from you. You mention this in a tactful way and various reasons are offered up, none of which have to do with politics. Time continues to go by and the gap widens. Answers are not overly available but the result is unmistakable. The separation is almost complete. Now upon one final Q&A seeking answers, only the ridiculous and all ready mentioned come forth. Now, if you have experience or brains in your head you know what the real reason is for the pull back. Politics to money will cover it…
There are literally countless examples one could create or put forth from experience showing these kinds of processes. Such is the feeling I am getting with my most recent business experience.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/01/31/srcc-certifications-an-unexpected-reality/
The responses are getting so off base and absurd, you have to start asking what is really going on here. Is it monumental incompetence or some other agenda being filled. Rather than create for you all the easy plots which all boil down to money, one way or another, I would like to hear from you on your experiences. What business situations have you found yourself in that the other party had alternate agendas to fulfill, that explained their behavior towards you, even if it involved deception and lying? Please fell free to answer…..
As an old quote from Steven Chow, "if quota is given in the lovership of us, that will be a thousand years." However reality sometimes is cruel. If a 7-quota is given for me and my lover, I would spend all of them to make our dreams come true, and leave the most unforgettable moment in our memories. I would also spend the first couple of days of chatting and mucking around, but start doing crazy stuff that never been tried before in the second half of the quota.
Many things for me to do in first half of the quota will be watching movies, biking, travelling, visiting old schools, go to Rainbow's End, eating one-litre cookies and cream or rasparry and white choc chips ice cream every night while watching "Freinds" and "Family Guys". For the second half of the quota, things that considered have bungy jump, street performing, go to North Pole (same as Small Joe), and New York; also go to out space could be a good choice 'cause you can't imagine looking at our beautiful Earth in a spacecraft with your lover is so amazing... . Although those things can't be done at once, the time to keep trying is definitely enjoyable. So how you spend your 7-day quota with your lover, if you can't see each other any more after that??
I don't know why I have that stuck in my head. How embarassing. Anyway, I don't feel like doing anything other than playing with Leela. I'm horribly sunburnt from yesterday and I can almost swear that its given me cancer. I keep putting aloe vera on my arms, hands, ears, neck, and face. and yes, I did use sun screen on my face. I'm in a lot of pain and I'm lacking a lot of energy. Today I have to go back to Menlo Park and return the other T-shirt that my now former employers gave me, which is stupid. I have six more things on my 10 pass for the train, anyway, so why not? Originally I was also supposed to pick up my pay check for the three days I was there next Friday, but I think today I'm just going to tell them to send it to me in the mail because I'm hoping I'll have another job by then. I need to fill out and turn in that application to Taco Bell and finish the ball-breaking application process to PetSMart online. Go ahead. Apply to one just to see what its fucking like.
So what happened? Well for those of you who missed "So Work...," on my first day there they gave me a packet that had a bunch of rules and regulations in it. Turns out I had to fill a quota in my first three days of signing up two sustainers and I had to raise $140. (It may sound weird, but most sustainers stay on for about seven months. Therefore, if we sign up one sustainer for $10 a month, we multiply that by seven so it comes out to us making $70. I would have needed two of these to fill the quota.) Needless to say, I didn't fill the quota. I can understand why they don't tell people there's one they have to fill when they're hired. It would scare a lot of people away. I was talking to my dad about it, though, (he kept saying, "I'm sorry babe...I mean sweetheart." Mother fucker.) and for once in his life he made a decent point. He said that the people who were scared away by a quota shouldn't be working for them in the first place. I know that if I'd known, I would have said a summer of hell, triggers, and the constant fear that my dad was going to rape me wouldn't have been worth it. And what do you know, I didn't make it anyway. If either of the directors asks anything when I give back the T-shirt today, I have no problem now telling them that that's shady, fucked up and low, and if you want some god damned respect then you would be respectful to your employers and let them know. There's usually a reason why students who go to college far from "home" do so. Maybe I won't be as "rude" as that, seeing as how peope may need to call them and ask about me, but other than that I see no reason why not to be as honest as i fucking want to be. Now I'm going to change out of my sleep wear and into some actual clothes, but on more aloe vera, and set up the living room for Leela to go play in. I hope y'all are doing better.
