July 2, 2010
Four For Friday for July 2, 2010
Q1 - Wages & Work: In California, nearly 200,000 state employees could see their pay rate plunge to the minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour if the state controller follow orders from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office. In a letter to the state controller, Schwarzenegger's administration ordered the controller's department to reduce the wages of state workers unless a budget is reached soon. If your employer cut everyone's wages -- for just one or two weeks -- to the minimum wage, would you continue going to work?
Q2 - Sense of Self: If you suffered from amnesia, do you think you could reconstruct your sense of self from your social media profiles and feeds (in other words, would you recognize that person)?
Q3 - Gas Talk: When you're getting gas for your car, do you talk to the other people getting gas for theirs? What about talking on your cell phone... do you ever do that while getting gas?
Q4 - Fashion Trends: Name at least one fashion trend you were once really jazzed about but aren't into anymore?
Posted by Mikal at July 2, 2010 7:40 AM
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Q1 - I'm not sure what I'd do. I'd be outraged. I'd probably be looking earnestly for another job. I'm guessing the DMV is going to be really fun to go to during those weeks.
Q2 - not a chance. I have a next to zero social media presence, which I enjoy.
Q3 - You aren't supposed to talk on your phone whilst pumping. It could blow your ass up. I always act like it's a race. I try to beat the person. I also do this at the ATM and bank drive-thru. HA! I BEAT YOU! I'M SUPERIOR AT LIFE'S MUNDANE TASKS!
Q4 - I used to wear really baggy jeans and I had a wallet chain. The wallet chain was fun, though I was constantly getting hooked onto chairs and railings.
Q1: I probably wouldn't come to work. I'd rather spend my time working on something more important to me than minimum wage...but I feel like there are a fair amount of things out there in my field that could pay me much better.
Q2: No, I really don't share that much personal stuff. Most what I share is making mock and highly sarcastic.
Q3: Getting gas for my car....Ohhh...in that case yea. Sometimes I talk on my cell phone. Usually the only real people I talk to while I get gas are old and chatty.
Q4: I loved the whole ghetto basketball jersey thing back in the day, but its pretty last summer now.
1) Tough question. Without knowing the suggested benefits associated with the temporary pay cuts, it's hard to say (I don't live in CA). But, I'll assume that there is some good that would come from this order, and with it being a temporary situation, I'd be at work for sure. Tough times call for society to work together to solve problems - it seems that today's society expects other people to solve our own problems, but that obviously won't work. So I'd definitely chip in and suck it up.
2) Not at all. I'm a relatively private individual. I'd get a small snapshot at my interests and those who are close to me, but I'd definitely be lost. Reading my email may give me a more well-rounded view of my life.
3) Yes. I'll chat with people while I'm filling up the tank. A few weeks ago someone pulled into the station with a car model that I'm interested in buying, so I chatted with the owner for several minutes about the pros/cons of the car. I rarely talk on my cell phone, so I'm less likely to chat that way when I fill up the tank though.
4) Parachute pants. 1984. Nuff said.
Q1 - Wages & Work: Only if that cut was across the board (President and CEO included). Otherwise I don't think so, my work is worth more than minimum wage, though the same can't be said for many state workers...
Q2 - Sense of Self: All I could come up with aree generalizations about my personality, likes and dislikes, values, etc. But I don't think I put enough of myself into social sites to reconstruct the whole picture. I only put the me that I'm willing to let the world see.
Q3 - Gas Talk: I don't talk on my cell while I'm gassing up, and I don't like to talk to other people. If spoken to I'll carry on a brief convo. Most times I lean against the car and close my eyes, or get back in the car.
Q4 - Fashion Trends: Oh dear God, I used to LOVE wearing short, checkered golf pants. This was way before clam-diggers came back in style. I was ridiculed (that's what 6th graders do), only making me love those pants even more. Now when I see photos I cringe at my taste, but I remember that independent streak with fondness.
Q1 - Wages & Work: I vote for Tanya's answer on this. Although, I was once unemployed for 8 months then took a job for $5/hr 20 hrs/wk. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
Q2 - Sense of Self: I suppose I could. But once I discovered I was a guy who considered life, the universe, and everything to be one gigantic joke, I might be a bit disturbed by what I found. 42 is NOT the answer!
Q3 - Gas Talk: I have this problem. I have to call a sex-talk line when I fill my gas tank. I pay for gas by the minute as a result.
Q4 - Fashion Trends: I used to have crazy hair that required quite a level of maintenance. Then I joined the military and realized the pure awesomeness of having a shaved head.
1. If every person took the cut and my benefits were not disrupted, I think I would do it.
2. I do not post enough personal information about myself. I would just wonder - "who is that person"
3. I only go to full service stations. Too lazy to pump my own.
4. Poodle skirts!
1. For 1-2 weeks I might hang on but I would probably also look for something else. Unfortunately, in this economy having a job is better than none and there aren't many others out there. I have also found that the ones out there don't pay as well as they used to.
2. I don't think so. I have found that I still don't put my full self out there.
3. I seldom see other people getting gas at the same time as me because I get it when most people are working. Don't use our cell phone except in emergencies.
4. The long gypsy shag hair cut.
Q1 -Wages and Work: I would take the cut so long as everyone in the business, including the CEO and entire executive team, did the same; and so long as it was just for a few weeks or less. I tend to look at the long term, not the short, when faced with challenges such as this one. Long term, the cuts are being made for the betterment of the enterprise (an enterprise that stands to benefit long term as a direct result of the cuts), and should provide for a fair wage for a long time. Personally, I have been associated with one organization that had to do something similar to this, and the result was that the cuts allowed more people to have a say in how the organization was run, which ultimately benefited all parties involved, including the customers.
Q2 - Sense of Self: While I now tend to keep a lot of my personal life out of socially engaging online environments, there's enough about that sort of stuff available via the older entries on my blog for me to put Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter feeds together with blog posts to construct a pretty accurate sense of self.
Q3 - Gas Talk: I talk, both on the phone and with others, while pumping gas (not as a practice but when it happens). Usually, if it's with others, the conversation focuses on what they're driving or about an animal in their car.
Q4 - Fashion Trends: I used to love dressing preppy (mind you, back then, I couldn't really afford to, so that limited the amount of 'preppy' clothes I owned); but to this day I still have a lot of admiration for people who can pull it off.
Q1~ Wages and Work: No In this case Work would be a four letter word
Q2~ Sense of Self: I do put a lot out there about myself well in a matter of fact it is usually only positive so I would hope I could connect with myself in that way and stay positive about my amnesia
Q3~ Gas Talk: I usually do say a sweet hello to whom ever is close by and sometimes that leads to a shot conversation .. I rarely talk on my cell texting is more fun :)
Q4~ Fashion Trends: Super tight jeans OUCH!
1. I'm with Tanya. I wouldn't be happy, but I could tolerate it for 1-2 weeks as long as it applies to everyone in the company.
2. There would probably be a general resemblance, but I dunno if a member of my family would think I was the same person.
3. I talk if spoken to, but otherwise i mind my business. As to the cell phone? No. Besides gas stations usually being too noisy, I tend to think that people who talk on their cell phones in public are insufferably rude and won't inflict my conversations on others.
4. Acid washed jeans! What the hell were we thinking?
4.
1. Yeah I guess I can take the hit. I would rather take unpaid vacation for a few days if it were an option. I hear that is what some German companies do as a sort of a furlough when the economy hit a lull. If for only a short time I would be able to float by, maybe sell some of my stuff or do menial jobs on the weekend -- maybe get in on a good cock fighting meet.
2. I guess if I had no sense of who I was I couldn't rightly say what I would do, ya know. I could only venture a guess that I would have a panic attack, similar to when you smoke too much weed and don't know where you are or how you got there. I think I would do just about anything to get my identity intact to try and reassemble a sense of self.
3. Naw I'm too shy to start random conversation usually. I suck at small talk and just come off like I'm trying for no good reason. I would use a cell phone pumping gas...I don't see a problem with that (fire hazard?)
4. OP chord shorts. Thought those were cool until you find your cash and prizes are hanging out the side when you are sitting on bleachers or whatnot.
Actually, this happened to me when I was the press chief for a California state assemblyman. Wages went down to $7 an hour and I stayed. Taxpayers shouldn't pay a lot for state workers, most of whom do what amounts to full-time campaigning for their boss. I'm glad Schwarzenegger is doing something about the budget. The real outrage is how many government workers retire at a very young age with most of their salary, and how many school teachers are incompetent yet can't be fired without a lengthy review process that gives them full salary for doing nothing while they wait. Recently I read of "rubber rooms" for teachers to play cards in or check Facebook. Some of these teachers are people who verbally abused their students with sexual innuendo. And don't get me started on the sheer waste of government, its duplicating agencies and overpayment of contractors. If Mr. A spends Mr. B's money on Mr. C, it's not going to be spent well.
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