My Gripe w/ TDBank....

I know everyone is having a problem with TDBank right now, but besides them having my money "hostage" right now because of "Computer Glitches" I've also been experiencing RACISTS like attitudes from them, I've placed 2 formal complaints and still have not heard anything....after having waiting on the phone for 35 minutes the other day for Customer Service I was advised to close out my accounts...wtf TDbank...

Also, I should not be made to feel inferior because I was named after my dead Polish Jewish Grandfather and I happen to be a Person of Color (POC), I should not be made to feel inferior because I come from a mulitcultural family and that these days a "nuclear family" does not always include 2 white parents....

...I've been with TDBank since it was a small bank ONLY in NJ by the name of "Commerce Bank" it's been 7+years I've been with the Bank and to tell you the truth I'm less satisfied with their service and their employees these days than when their staff was probably a quarter the size of their current staff....

I've said it once I've said it twice, "Every since Commerce Bank was bought out by the Canadians things have just been DOWNHILL!!!" (no offense our Friendly Neighbors to the North....

I have a longer account of the racism and the treatment, which I will further add to this post later on..I just wanted to shoot out a quick blurb about my disgust with #TDBank...

Apple Retail Store Employee Revolution???

Woah, Apple Revolution?--eh, probably NOT. I feel Apple will probably pull a Regan circa 1981(?) and do what Regan did to the Air Traffic Controllers that decided to strike and will probably fire the people that decide to "walk-out" (since I assume not "everyone" will walkout, we are after all in a damn recession!!)---maybe if there was some sort of solidarity amongst all the retail stores; but that will be very unlikely in this Market Economy and because people are still drinking the juice--besides RJ came from Target and Target & Apple HATE HATE HATE the idea of employees trying to Unionize, in my opinion....i hate to break it to you kids but Apple is just like all of the other big Corporate Monsters out there....no matter how much you try to fight it....

Attached Linked Article Below...Courtesy of http://www.ifoapplestore.com
Store Discord May Result in Employee Walk-Out
September 22nd, 2009

Apple’s retail stores carry the company’s brand and culture around the world, but really, each location has its own personality based largely on the management staff. Now, staffers at the Alderwood Mall (Wash.) retail store say their complaints about “abusive” management and possible state and federal labor law violations at the store have been ignored by the company, and they are threatening to stage a walk out at 1 p.m. on October 3rd to protest. If it occurs, it would be the first such labor action by Apple store employees. According to insiders, the employees’ complaints haven’t been fully investigated by the company’s human resources department. After reaching an impasse with Sr. VP Retail Ron Johnson over the issue, a group of Specialists, Geniuses and Creatives say they will walk out to bring attention to their complaints, and that several former employees will join the protest.

My Blog vs Facebook...

I feel as if Facebook has taken the place of my blog, all of my random mind vomit immediately gets posted to FB, instead of Blogger, particularly because I've been dissatisfied with Google's swallowing (which also apparently included Feedburner as well) of blogspot and forcing me to use my lame Google Login--but I think the real reason I've resorted to FB is because of the ease and convience of it all from my Lamephone to just easy access, I say Google develop Blogger more and provide a phone apps of sorts....

Why "Phone interviews" are not for me.....

No matter how much time I take to prepare, (example: I made prep notes and practiced my answers to the Questions), I think I will always be not so great at phone interviews, I'm a visual person, and talking through a piece of technology does not help me at all; I always get nervous and begin to ramble and I sound like an inexperienced fool, Oy Vey, I need less phone interviews and more face-to-face interviews, I am much more personable in person than I am on the phone....I am glad I survived that phone interview though, we'll see what happens.....

I feel like one of those "fail cats"...."Epic Fail"


i end up sounding like I'm talking from my bottom....

this just in: BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) to Host next MTV awards?

BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) to Host next MTV awards? I assume it will be the Music awards (September 2009?) that used to hosted in NYC at Lincoln Center, but then were moved to the "Left Coast", in LA to be exact.....

you tell me...

Hoping to get back into the blogging-sphere.

I picked up a Netbook The MSI Wind U100, think EEEpc...I promise to post more about that soon..anyway I'm hoping to revive this blog which has been going "strong" since 2004 (aka almost 5 years now)--I think the only one of us that still consistently blogs is BSOM...on another random side note. my Mother just got back from the Philippines today with her elder Aunt, it should be an interesting time in the household; I'm still trying to figure out how to explain the fact that I do not go to Church and that I don't necessarily do that whole "religion thing." I guess we'll see....

let's jump start this blog back up!!

So CattyShack has been closed recently, I'm on their silly listserv but all I get are weird cryptic mass e-mails---

perhaps it's another sign of the "poor economy" who the heck knows?

Homophobia in the workplace?

How do you distinguish it?

How do you ensure that you're not just being overly sensitive?

How do you combat it? While ensuring that you are not "overlooked" for promotions, because you may seem like a loose cannon?

It's just all so damn sad.