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HRH Albha

What can I say? Some women... ><

I doubt we're bigger than Tesco. If you have a small GAME store near you, it could probably fill up 1/4 of our store. It's not a HUGE store, but I don't consider it tiny either. We have thirty members of permanent staff (might be lower at twenty-six now... I know of at least four/five who've left in the last month). As for temps, I was told they hired forty, but it seems a little smaller at around thirty. So we've got sixty members of staff give or take for a store that works fine with thirty (would have been amazing if we all had full time hours too). Full time for just over a month for everyone would have filled the need to hire THAT many temps.

Honestly? I don't know. I don't have a problem if someone doesn't know English - the problem is only with people who make no effort at all to learn or understand it if they plan on living or working here permanently or semi-permanently. The equal opportunity in some stores is disgusting - KFC, for example and pardon me saying, never have white people working in them (so that advert with the happy white guy showing how they prepare the chicken is inaccurate). The employees are always middle eastern/asian, and barely understand the orders you try to make there.

They took on way too many in my opinion, and too much time was spent on selecting and training them. Some of them are really thick too - we have a girl who believes she'll find unicorns in South Africa. I honestly thought she was trolling me or some shit, but she really believes it. Quite a few sound as though they couldn't sell bread to a starving family, and some really do their best to **** up. And because there's so many, you can't really see who's the one messing up.

We have a girl helping David with delivery every morning who just about knows enough English to get by, she's timid as a mouse, and slow as hell. I've had the displeasure to work with her on delivery twice now. She constantly wants the knife in her hand, she wonders off now and then to sit down, complains when asks if she could do something, etc. David has complained and I have too, but "she's been employed for the very purpose of delivery" which is a weak reason not to do something about it in my opinion.

They've hired more guys, but the guys are, quite frankly, annoying. We have a loud-mouth football fan, a dipshit who doesn't know what a bin looks like, a chilled out skater boy, a miserable yuppy, and a young-teenager with no respect for elders. There's only three guys I like who actually work hard, but I bet they won't be taken on afterwards. As for the girls? The only temp girl who knows her stuff as well as me has a tough time covering her boobs, flirting, knows (again) just enough English to get by, and bangs on about her studies in game design. Another temp girl hides out in the toilet so she doesn't have to muck in with the cleaning at the end of the day, and on THAT note, the girl's toilet is a filth packet now - I don't want to know what half their homes look like. Someone doesn't know how to flush, clean the seat if they drip (or wipe, if they can drip in the first place), someone doesn't know how to use the waste bin or replenish the toilet roll holder.

I have my favourites out of them, who really do work hard and know their stuff, but damn. If they'd employed less temps, and given everyone more hours (like the guys who only do 4-8hours a week), we'd have a better, dedicated team. They wouldn't have spent weeks training people up.

/rant

What's the logic in wasting money on him when you can just turn invisible in the first place though? Then again I suppose Jessica Alba has more money than brain cells...

Hah, I suppose. Okay then, what if Voldemort is chasing you and Harry's hogging the invisibility cloke?

Well if you're at a club and some weird, drunk, 40 year old man comes up to you asking to buy you a drink 'cause he thinks you're good looking, you can turn yourself invisible until he goes away.

Aww shit, no, she isn't stretchy. That's her husband right?

Do you really need to send them cards if they're just gonna die though?

On the bright side as Jessica Alba you're a super heroine with super stretchy limbs.

Well do you enjoy solving crimes and writing novels? lol

Well your name is Albha, and it sounds like Alba as in Jessica Alba. So you're Jessica now.

rofl <3

I know (knew) my Chinese tutor. But the last time we had any contact was six years ago. He taught me for two years (until I graduated high school). Then I continued my studies on my own since then (six years).

I assumed you were coming up behind me. I guess it's a good thing we don't have our powers yet. I might have summoned something to hurt you. Or we could, uh, make a you-know-what in the you-know-where. I don't think P and Q would mind.

I honestly don't know any people of Asian descent. So, I wouldn't know if they change their names.

As far as MSN goes, whatever works for you. We can always communicate through PMs about our characters.

It translates to King. Lan (se) means blue. So, my name is literally Blue King. Wang is also what they call the Internet, using the same tone as they do for King. Basically, because the Internet is like a king, able to watch over all its subjects. I think I know what you are getting at, but I didn't think that until just now. Probably because I think what the word actually means.

You have a dirty mind.

Anyway, it looks like we are going to be journeying together. Sounds like fun. I guess we'll be talking more. Feel free to add me to MSN if you want.

Hey, Jessica.

It is.