Finals/Final Projects

AHHHHHHH

The stress of finals is definitely getting to me. The week before finals has barely begun and already I have two exams and two final projects due this week. The idea behind finals has good intentions, to ensure that all students were able to understand the topics covered in the course and that the material has been retained throughout the semester, but I feel that the stress from finals is such that finals truly are just a test of last minute memorization and seeing who can survive through the stress. I appreciate final projects over final exams any day, but when multiple final project all assigned around the same time due around the same time come out of nowhere, that is just as (if not more) stressful than cramming for final exams. Either way, I wish everyone luck surviving through finals week and I hope you wish me the same. I'll need it.

Working in Service Part 2

As a follow up to my last post, I recognize the opposite side of the argument. There are a great deal of service workers who have become lazy and can be unkind to their customers. To work in the service field one must constantly have a bright smile on their face to seem approachable and kind, and with workers who seem to not want to be there and do not appear to be happy or courteous in their approach, many customers may feel put off or act unkind to the worker. From experiences like these, I can understand why many customers may be rude towards workers. What those customers need to understand is that one experience is not going to be the same everywhere you go or every time you go somewhere. There are a great many service workers that love their jobs and will do everything they can to help a customer.

Working in Service

When working in service the customer is always right. Except when they're wrong and then you have to find a way to tell them so gently so that you don't lose their business. Anyone who has worked in service can attest to the many stories of many customers that treat you not like a human, but instead like a road sign with a mouth. These people think it's alright to treat employees like garbage because they're getting paid for it. But that is not the case. More often than not, these workers are getting paid minimum wage or barely over it, and have to know many skills on how to skirt around subjects to avoid angering the customer. They must have an active smile on their face, and answer any questions with what the customer wants to hear or risk losing their job. In today's day and age, though the service field is growing, the job seems to become more and more difficult as people lose the courtesy to treat workers like actual people.

Expressive Arms

I have begun to notice another little pet peeve of mine. When I talk to someone, I may make small gestures to indicate how I feel about a certain topic or to elaborate on something, but there is a difference between the small movements I make and throwing out a shoulder to simply say something. A small point in a direction is one thing, but moving a fully extended arm in a full circle is a bit much. If I can very explicitly see large body movements across a room, it may be time for that person to reserve their movements before they hurt someone, for often it gets very close.

Wait, what are the words again?

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with quietly singing along to a song that you may like. I do it myself and it helps to alleviate some of the stress I may be feeling at the time. The problem I do have is when I introduce someone to a song, and they try to sing along to it. First of all, they don't know the song, how the hell are they supposed to sing along if they don't know the words? Second, I am showing them the song for a reason, often because of the complexity of the lyrics or the possible meaning behind them. You can't listen to the lyrics if you're mumbling over them with words that aren't even there. So please, my one simple request: don't sing along if you don't know what you're singing.

Changing Themes

The theme of this blog started as a very aggressive rant space to vent about the minor troubles that bother me in my everyday life, but seems to have changed. If anything, it is living up more to its own name, for instead of being so aggressively angry, it am only a tad bit so. Which brings me to the topic of this post: changing themes. Obviously I am coming from an extremely hypocritical standpoint when I say that that is one of the most irritating things about blogs, but for myself it definitely is. When a blog starts with a certain theme, it should be able to stay that way, for that is what the author picked to write about. In a way though, that makes me wonder about the permanence of anything made by humans, for we are such fluid creatures in regards to our mind.

Autocorrect

Of the many different advancements of the twenty first century, none are quite as taken for granted as our beloved autocorrect. With each new smart phone update there seems to be a new variation of it, always finding something to improve upon. Yet, with these newest update for apple systems, the autocorrect has some new problems. The creation of the suggestion bar has been useful in some ways, however if you click just a little bit too high up when reaching for the top line of letters, one may find a word there that they did not type. The new system may become useful once people begin to alter their minds to fit the technology put before them, but for the time being it can become tiresome very quickly.