It could be worse...

As seen on Fubiz, these are my faves: :)

Creative Home Engineering specializes in designing secret passageways for your home. How cool is that! ...No longer the realm of Ugly Betty's office. :P

I am SO buying this 'scoop'! ...makes it easy to dig into even hard ice cream, and pops out these fun cylinders of fatty goodness.

Well, this is how you use it...


P.S. All technology should come with naked training videos by hot Playgirl models. :D

I came across these 3 McDonald's stories or campaigns that I thought were brilliant:

1. (Not) Racist.
First the ad--

Then the fine print-- :)



2. Open Late
An ad you see only at night?



3. Makeover, makeover...
McDonald's UK redesigned their interiors, but didn't stop there--the staff have new uniforms, as well.

So somewhere between February and July, I've squeezed the equivalent of 42 extra work days (that's a month and a half)! I love my job, but can't say that I'm not disappointed with the compensation--the low salary for the workload, quality I'm producing (I'm not gonna lie or see a need to be humble about it), and the stress I'm under (I have to worry about things getting done on my evenings, weekends, and holidays...sometimes even in my sleep?). Top it off with negligible benefits... and thus far, failure to properly compensate for my overtime (I've taken 7 days off to make up for that 45 so far) as per my contract which states 1.5 hours for every hour I work overtime.

Is it a function of working for a small, start-up? Or is it providing cheap labour, and just being ripped off? I've yet to figure that one out.

I've sent a letter expressing my concerns, so we'll see what happens. When I submitted my overtime this week, apparently everyone was shocked that I'd been working so much (um...okay...) and I was told that perhaps we can come to a compromise because they can't afford to give me 35 days off on top of the remaining holiday days I have left. ...to resubmit my overtime hours only with what was 'essential' and 'required' overtime. (Because, you know... I love working for fun in all of my spare time).

35 remaining overtime days = 7 business weeks (5 days each) = almost 4 paycheques, and we'll call it even?

*sigh* As you can tell, I'm kind of over blogging. So much effort, and I just don't have the time to browse my RSS feeds anymore, let alone time sitting down to blog about it myself. Still, sometimes things are so good / fun / interesting, that you just can't resist documenting them. I guess that's what I'll be blogging about now.