job update

So I went downtown. (It's not a strip club yet. And I just noticed I forgot to write that I was planning on bartending at said strip joint, not dancing-- Hooters I got, but I cannot dance. The strip joint upstairs is opening in a while-- just waiting on liquor license.)

I went after work last night. (The other 2:00 worker, I might mention, came in two hours late and left two hours early, while I worked the entire 8 hour shift and punched out with one minute of overtime. Possibly caused by my zoning out in exhaustion and staring at the time clock trying to work out whether it had been eight hours. I forgot my knee braces and intermittent sciatic nerve pain tormented me all day. It's hard to focus when something's stabbing you in the hip.)

So Z picked me up after work and we went downtown. The bartender greeted us-- I think he's forgotten our names, but then, we only show up every couple months-- that's what "regulars" means to stay-at-homes like us. We show up, have really weird conversations, run up modest tabs, tip excessively, and then vanish into the sunset. We chatted.

The owner came in. He recognized me immediately. "Have you come to your senses yet?" he asked. "Are you coming to work for me?"
"I actually came to ask you about just that," I answered. He laughed, and moved on, talking about that night's plan to the bartender, then prepared to go back out. (There was a major concert going on across the street and they were evaluating what the aftercrowd would be like.)
On his way out he put a yellow sheet of notepaper in front of me, and his card. I unfolded the sheet of paper. It had a schedule on it. Four days. And then the phrase "+ Hockey Games" underlined three times.

Hmm.

unrelated: outsourcing

I can't quite decide how I feel about this.


Citigroup downsizes, shifts jobs to lower-cost economies

Citigroup is outsourcing British jobs to Poland.

It is also outsourcing New York jobs to Buffalo.

Meanwhile thousands of posts in New York City will be shifted to Buffalo in upstate New York near the Canadian border,

(Note that it is a British paper which is why it has to explain where Buffalo is. You all already knew, right? *crickets chirp* Right?)

Buffalo: the Bangalore of the West. My city is now officially so economically depressed that we are where outsourced jobs go to.

All those frazzled Manhattanites would probably be happier if they transferred here anyway. You make less, but you spend less, and dude we got good food here. The water's even safe to drink most of the time.