Posted on: October 11, 2007 | Filed in: Personal
Out of boredom and waiting to start employment (I start training on the 23rd), I have come across quite a few forums. I was browsing on a parenting forum today, more like a public lynch mobbing opportunity. On one post a twenty-year-old woman said she was ready to have a child, had been with her partner a year and was marrying soon. She asked for advice on how to prepare herself for pregnancy, I was very surprised to notice people were more concerned about her being twenty, being “too young” to have a child. This is very WTF-worthy, in my opinion. Someone piped up saying she was way too young for children and that she needs to “live her life” first. She didn't get any advice in the end.
Since when did it become unacceptable for a young adult to have a child? Probably since sixty-something-year-old women started conceiving, but that's beside the point. This majorly pisses me off, this whole notion of, “if you're under twenty-five, you're a crap parent/will be a crap parent”. Also, what's with this “children are a burden” society we have? I'm sorry to sound like a mad Christian zealot, but children should not be treated as a consumer product, they are human beings. I fully support choosing to have a child when you're ready, or to not have children at all, however I get sick and tired of people seeing children as a hitch in their lives, the thorns in their side, a burden. You don't want a child until you're forty? Fine, but don't cram your beliefs down my throat.
I get told I'm too young for children all the time, it's quite annoying. I get these older women looking down on me because I'm a young woman and obviously haven't “lived” yet. I see people asking young people to consider what they'll miss if they choose to have a baby. This point always comes up:
“When you have a baby, you will not be able to go out every weekend and get drunk!”
Right, so I'm supposed to miss getting so drunk that I puke in dark ally ways, piss in public and moon every passer by, while pickling my liver and having to suffer from a bloody bad headache the morning after? Right. Just because I'm young, you automatically think I spend my weekends doing this. Far from it! In fact, I never get drunk. The last time I was drunk was probably when I was seventeen. Never again! It's not worth it. I don't even like drinking much, it's rare I drink alcohol.
No wonder kids are having kids, they're being told it's wrong and not to do it. Of course they're going to rebel and try to prove you wrong. However, this doesn't mean I condone children having babies. Constantly, people are being told what they can and cannot do especially by the older generation. People are being picked on and judged for the choices in life they make. If I want to be a young mother, I shall be. I am married, I am employed, my husband is employed. We pay our taxes, we comply with the law. I wouldn't be missing out since I have no life anyway (well people say I don't). I am less selfish than most people, I don't always put myself first. I don't have a “me, me, me!” attitude. I am here for others, then myself. If and when I do have a child, they will be my top priority not my “career” or hobbies. Once a child arrives, I will become even less selfish. I am happy to do this, I want to see any children I have as a blessing and not see them as a burden in my life. We'll live life together and take whatever it throws at us together.
Posted on: October 10, 2007 | Filed in: Personal
Seems my horrid ex-boyfriend got caught out stealing at his workplace, so he has a little rant about the place on his website. I have censored out full names due to privacy. Check the site out if you want to see the names so badly.
WARNING from Sarah: Buggery of the English language below:
Well What can i say about this store in Telford, Lets begin that the Manager called Mr H is such a big loser, who has no life and thinks his head is up his ass, which is true. He Sits his fat ass on his chair day by day, what a lazy ass hole when there is people like myself getting top degrees and earning real money.
I think Primark has to be the most rubbish store in history, you know we have a fucking policy of Health and Safety and they train us, what the fuck for, you got out of date rails that fall apart and you have to get a hammer to fix them, what cheapos buy new equipment, which they dont as the company are tight ass holes, you got Mr H putting and i may add all our rails in front of the main fire exit, that man needs to be sacked fucking not following any policy
The Store is not fit to work in, with all the heat, does primark give a fuck no, for 7 years, we had complaints by customers, but we dont listen do we primark, you need a ear check spend some of that money and get air con it may blow the build up of your ear wax stuck in your ear.
Now we come to the staff, well i think primark has become the most child work placement in the whole of Telford, the fucking store is a joke, the handbook to every worker is a piece of toliet paper to them, as ive seen eating on the shop floor, tongue bars in certain members of staff, abuse, jokes and harassmemt but do management do anything no fuck all, I hope someone reads this because all this is true facts and cannot be argued in any way.
Gaz is such a loser at times, which he dont understand his actions what he says and does, he aint no friend has never been one since 5 months ago, i dont care what people say or anything but i did not take anything of his at all, how could i when me and him went in the same time and on the same break, well Gaz work at primark for the rest of your life, i be earning lots next year, primark was not long term for me anyway.
The Only person who even cared and supported me was Ross, ok we had a few runs ins but at the end of day she was doing her job and i was being a idiot, but 9 out of 10 we got on well, as for the supervisors well this is a tricky one, you got bossy Toni, Lazy Louise and Moaning Trish, odd bunch aint they, dont know which one i got on most really. And to be honest i like say im sorry for being such a pain the ass towards them on most times.
I have always been a hard worker and yeah i know at times ive been found talking at work but you got to do something to keep you going through the day, well i got a job offer working 24 hours a week, im not letting the most saddest store put me down, bye for now i add me later.
Overall i have to say Primark needs alot of changing.
Note from Sarah: Still with us? Good, it's over now.
I have no words, I can't stop laughing at this. I'm sorry, I can't help it. He got what's coming to him, I'm guessing he got the sack when they found out he was a thief. Now he is bitter about it. Funny he uses that “I'll have a better job and more money than all of YOU” rant each and every time someone calls him out on something. He's used that with me. Should I feel sorry for him? Nah, not in the slightest.
My grandfather was absolutely correct in saying what goes around, comes around. My granddad rocked.
