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I Hate My Job... Old post recycled from 8/24/14 AKA The ugly truth about customer service over the phone

I know no one wants to hear me complain about my job, so this is your only WOB warning. This is a major rant. So major I wrote in in word before I copied it to Blogger. This is why I hate my job. I used to love helping people; my job makes me feel bad about it now. I sit in a cubicle, in a row of twelve cubicles, staring at a small monitor, connected to a slow running machine, in a warehouse filled with these same rows. The only change is the daily move from row to row so you never sit in the same place twice in a week. This is supposed to be meant for moral, so we don’t get bored with our jobs. They constantly upgrade the software we use to make our jobs “easier” and “more efficient”, when in reality all it does is make it harder to attain these high standards they set because they refuse to spend the money to upgrade the hardware required to run the software. This is what we as reps must maintain for goals daily, weekly, and monthly: Average Handle Time (AHT) – no more than 530
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This is what I should be focusing on...

I have a writer's blog called "I Think Therefor I Write" , and truthfully, this is where my attention should be. I want to write more... in fact I will start uploading things I have written for writing classes up, so maybe check it out for updates. My early poetry sucks... but I will be posting some more recent poetry within a day or two, as well as some more short stories.
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Heroine... or Villainess... Chelsea Manning

I read the entirety of Chelsea Manning's Wikipedia page  and I don't know whether or not I can decide if she is the heroine, or villainess of her story. Manning had a hard life for sure, two alcoholic parents, being born in the wrong body, suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome, the list goes on. I think a lot of her issues stemmed from feeling like she couldn't be who she was, and while in the Army, being forced to be something she wasn't. Being bullied because some men felt so threatened in their own masculinity, that they couldn't let her be who she was. Toxic masculinity at it's finest folks. But, we as Americans deserve to know what is going on within our own country, and what our government is doing in these wars drummed up by people who themselves refuse to (or fake bone spurs to get out of) serve/ing in. I mean, after all, it is OUR money that pays for these wars, so why shouldn't we be privy to the ugly details? Was she really putting innocent pe
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First post in a few years... A Re-Introduction

I guess it's time to dust off the old blog and reintroduce myself to everyone. Hi Bloggers, I'm Micha (Mikki, Micaela, evil sister... lol jk) I don't post very often (every couple of years or so) but since I am finishing up my bachelor's degree (Finally, damn it's taken a while) I am dusting off the old blog for a class assignment. Trust me, if I didn't want people to read the dirty deets, I would have created a new blog, but I like this blog, and don't really care who reads it, I'm an open book. Ask questions, I might answer, or I might not. Depends on my mood, always does. ;) I started this blog almost 10 years ago now, thought it would make me write more, but by the time I get done with work and making dinner, and hanging out with my kids, I just don't have the energy. Not to mention I am STILL trying to write some awesome fiction novels... I will try harder to write more here, maybe take time off all the Facebook, and the Insta and the twitter...
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Is Cultural Appropriation Just One More Way for Whites to Segregate People of Color?

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     It’s that time of year again, time for scary movies, trick-or-treating, fun Halloween parties, and getting dressed up in costume. The time of year, however, that we’re all starting to dread for obvious reasons. Halloween used to be fun, I loved dressing my kids up every year, I created most of their costumes because, in all honesty, I was too poor to actually buy them one. Now they’re older, and I believe last year they decided that would be their last year to dress up and trick-or-treat, which sucks, but I get it. Too many adults ruined it for them last year by saying, “aren’t you a little old for this?” Why? Why can’t kids of all ages go trick-or-treating and get free candy? Now that the grown-ups have ruined trick-or-treating for the teens and pre-teens, who I would frankly rather have them out trick-or-treating than going to parties getting drunk, or high, now they want to ruin it for the little ones too. “No sweetie, you can’t go as Mulan because you’re white/black/Mexican b
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The Solution That's No Solution At All Approach For Disable Student's and Their Parents

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I am writing this in response to a news report on the situation at Lindbergh Schweitzer Elementary School, and their response that they are “working with Mrs. Wesley”, and the truth behind their statements. I am a friend of Alexis’, and I have been following this story since LAST year when the transportation department decided that after providing her with bus service, they were going to stop doing so because she “opted-in” to the school. I don’t know why, after all they had been providing it for her despite the fact that she had opted-in, but now they want to deny her children, and many like hers, the opportunity to get the same education as everyone else. This school is so much more than a school to her kids. It’s a community. As she has stated, many times over, the school is more than 30% disabled children. That is a community that makes her kids feel welcome. The school provides her children with a safe learning environment, which in these days, seems hard to come by. Current
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Been a while...

...Since I wrote here. I've been busy keeping my life put together. It hasn't been easy but Scott and the kids and I are doing well. Trying hard to keep our heads afloat, but things are falling into place as they should be. I've been really sick since last Wednesday, but other than that I am good. Will write more later. Mahalo Mikki
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