Wherein I Hate on Wal-Mart Again

By Jennyjinx | Published: April 30, 2009

I was going to write about a post I saw recently that started an uproar in the “mommyblogger” community. I was going to write how I can’t stand the term “mommyblogger” and why—including the evolution of the term as I’ve seen it happen online. And I was going to explain that I’m against telling anyone what to write on their own blog and will just not read it if it doesn’t interest me. Then I was going to mention that I’m a mother and I blog which should make me a “mommyblogger” but this inclusive term refers to an exclusive club.

Then I caught site of a Twitter conversation that involved the hashtag #letsfixdinner. I have nothing against that specific hashtag, mind you. I was just paying attention to one blogger who happened to be using it.1

In response to things Deb on the Rocks was saying I retweeted:

RT @debontherocks Throw in a little child slave labor 4 ur chocolate, &Stouffers/Nestle adds up 2 #letsfixdinner on the backs of Africa kids

I think I picked up a follower with that because of the use of that hashtag. Well, I don’t ever blindly follow someone on Twitter2. If I did that I’d be following a bunch of SEO folks and some serious teabagging wingers. So, I checked this new follower and went to her website. She’s proudly blogging for Wal-Mart.

Now, anyone that has followed my blog knows that I hate Wal-Mart. With a passion. I worked there a number of years ago and learned enough about them to initially dislike them. Then I researched them more and that’s when the hate started. I have nothing good to say about the company or it’s practices. And I can in no way support what they’re doing, not even by following one of their “eleven moms” on Twitter. No way am getting suckered into clicking a link that might lead to a post in support of Satan’s favorite mega mart.

By the way, I don’t give a shit if any of those bloggers are paid by Wal-Mart or not. I don’t care if they’re doing it for free stuff or out of the goodness of their hearts. I am morally and ethically opposed to Wal-Mart’s business practices and the way they treat their own people.

Wal Mart doesn’t care about women and specifically doesn’t care about mothers. So why do women bloggers—especially “mommybloggers” support them this way? The reason they’re reaching out to bloggers is so that they can try to change their image, without actually changing their practices. You say “Well, they’ve got good bargains/prices/blah” I say “What’s the real cost of those bargains?”

What do you mean you don’t know? Or do you mean that you don’t care?

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  1. I do have an issue with following a link to a website, looking for a list of sponsors, partners and contributors and finding blank pages. [↩]
  2. Meaning follow back just because they follow me [↩]
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Because Someone Asked

By Jennyjinx | Published: April 29, 2009

My good friend asked me (via Twitter) to tell her what’s going on in my life. So I came here to see if I’d done this anytime recently. Except for my post about Biff, I guess I haven’t. My life is pretty uninteresting nowadays and most people that read this blog don’t give two hoots about what’s happening with my job.

Now, I did think I had a draft about my shitty employer (but thank the gods I have a job and am making some dollahs1 where so many people are not working) but I seem to have deleted it or maybe I didn’t save it or whatever. Doesn’t matter. It’s not there. Spooky…

Anyway, about my life…

!!CAUTION: Whining and Bitching ahead!!!

The Finances

I told some people somewhere that TheMan has been laid off. I’m pretty sure it’s on this very blog, but I’m not looking. So, he got laid off temporarily in January and then permanently at the end of March. That meant that we were going to survive on his unemployment and my tips (and sorry ass $3.65 an hour). So, we went to the Employment Source website and followed their sorry instructions on how to reopen the claim. We couldn’t figure the shit out so he called their number and spoke to some woman who gave us the wrong fucking directions. That led us to being denied for that week—which we appealed.

A couple of weeks later we get an extra payment deposited in the bank. This means that our appeal was granted and we were allowed to have that money. Right? WRONG. Big fat fucking wrong.

Two days later2 we get some mail from those shitty motherfuckers. Our appeal was denied and we were to pay them back that money. If we thought we were getting screwed then, of course we could appeal and we also could call them to set up payment installments so as not to lose our entire week. So, we appealed. But we couldn’t call.

Because we got the fucking notice on Friday after their offices were closed.

TheMan calls on Monday to set up the arrangements until we hear about our newest appeal. Guess what? Those shitty motherfuckers had already taken this week’s check. They didn’t even give us enough time to arrange a repayment schedule. So now we don’t get paid this week either. Motherfuckers.

But wait, there’s more…

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With Friends Like This…

By Jennyjinx | Published: April 26, 2009

I went out last night with my friend, who I will refer to as Biff1, but I haven’t been out since February and felt guilty. Because of my flare, I didn’t drink anything harder than a diet soda last night. I was stone cold sober all fucking night long.

For those of you who had access to my other blog, you’ll recognize her as the blonde in the picture with my sister and I. You’ll also remember a picture I posted with a certain band member and myself from an outing in October or November (can’t remember the date right now). For those of you who didn’t have access, my friend is tall and blonde and relatively cute. The band is a local band that seems to be gaining in popularity and is releasing a CD in May. Anyway, I’m not exactly a striking beauty and I’m a little on the thick side (and I’m short), which is also important for the story.

The first time I went to see The Band I was separated from my philandering husband and was determined to make an ass out of myself. So, I flirted with the cute-as-a-button lead singer. He took it all in stride, having just received his final divorce decree, and we had fun bantering back and forth. There was nothing more to it. Harmless, really. I couldn’t have taken him serious if I tried and I’m sure he felt the same way about me. I did get a pretty decent picture out of it, though, and hopefully it’ll be worth something if they ever hit the big time. Anyway, about last night…

The last time I went out with her to see The Band there were lots of pictures taken of all of us together. I had a great time teasing the guys and they seemed to have fun joking around with me. One of the guys in The Band said I was his favorite fan (though I’m not technically a “fan” as I just go to accompany Biff) because I’m just “so damned weird”. I didn’t flirt with the guys, but we did play around and most of that was caught on camera. TheMan and I had reconciled and he was at the bar with us. He was impressed that The Band thought I was bomb-diggity and wanted to hang with me, but Biff was a little irritated. After all, she’d been following this band for years.

Apparently whoever does their MySpace page thought the pictures of The Band and me were funny, so they posted them in their fan album. I no longer have a MySpace2 so I didn’t see these pictures. But Biff did. Biff didn’t appear in any of them. She was livid. Her theory was that The Band leader’s girlfriend was jealous of cute girls (read: her) and so refused to put pictures of any pretty girls in their fan album.

Read that last part again.

The implication there, of course, is that I’m on there because I pose no threat to the girlfriend as I’m not pretty enough3.

As she continued on with her ranting, she went on to say that short, fat girls4 dominated The Band’s fan album and that it wasn’t fair that there were no pretty girls on there. Now, I didn’t start saying such things as “I can always get cute, but you can never get smart” or “Maybe they prefer self-confident people with personalities” though I did think that stuff. She was just being her usual thoughtless self and, well, I’m just used to that from her. She’s incredibly insecure and thinks because she bleaches her hair, tans every single day and has legs a mile long that she’s about the most gorgeous creature on Earth. I happen to think that tanning makes you look old (and have stopped because I developed a wrinkle) and that brains and personality count for something. But what do I know? I didn’t go on about how shallow she is or that she can improve in a lot of different areas because in this particular case I don’t believe in what’s good for the goose is what’s good for the gander.

But I was getting fucking pissed that she kept going on about this MySpace page. I had nothing to do with it, chick, so don’t tell me about it. I told her to mention it to The Band and maybe they could fix it for her. Nope, she just wanted to keep bitching at me about it. Finally, they played their last set and I went to say something about.

“Who does you MySpace fan album?” I ask Tony. He wants to know why I want to know. “Because Biff over there is pissed as hell that I am in your album– mulitple times — and she’s not in there at all. Apparently, whoever does the album doesn’t like cute girls.”

He blinks hard a couple of times. “Well, I don’t do it. You can ask ‘Carol’5. I don’t have anything to do with that.”

At this point Biff has joined us and is telling Tony why she should be in there. I walked away, because I already knew what she was going on about. Pfft.

I go to Carol and ask her about the page. She, too, blinks hard a couple of times.

“Well, I don’t know who people are, I just put pictures on there.” She tried to explain her methods. I didn’t care.

“Just take my pictures off, will you please? If I have to hear her bitch one more time about me being on there and she’s not I think I might fucking kick her in the forehead.” Carol seems confused. “Apparently you’re jealous and don’t like cute girls.” She still looks confused. I imagine she was pretty drunk and couldn’t figure out what the hell I was trying to tell her. Hopefully, she’s irritated enough with me that she yanks every image they have of me off their album. Hopefully Bob reminds her today about who I am and helps her out. I was serious about the kicking in the forehead part.

I just wonder how patient one has to be with a friend like this. Besides the ranting she did about a stupid MySpace page, she likes to tell me that my illness just isn’t that serious– in fact, she’s said her yeast infection was worse than my flare. Yesterday (prior to going out) she told me to “just take a vicodin”. When I told her that I take two to three of those a day she said “It can’t be that“– to which I replied “I swear to fucking god, I’m going to beat you down with a board the next I see you and then you’ll see what it fucking feels like.” So, that combined with the thing about the MS page really got my ire up. Sorry if this post sounds shallow, but I really wonder how much patience I’m supposed to have with a friend like this. Honestly, sometimes I really do want to kick her in the forehead after I’ve beaten her with a board.

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  1. My best friend of 21 yrs, which I think qualifies her as a BFF– hence the “Biff”). I didn’t really want to go out with her because I was still recovering from a recent flare ((Induced by the tequila I accidentally ingested on Wednesday, I’m sure. [↩]
  2. I had one for about a month because Biff insisted and I didn’t really care at the time. [↩]
  3. Some folks have access to my FB page and I’m sure they can tell you I’m not exactly vying for ugliest chick on the Intertoobs. [↩]
  4. I’m a woman, by the way. [↩]
  5. Not her name. [↩]
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“We Didn’t Start the FlameWar”

By Jennyjinx | Published: April 23, 2009

I haven’t posted a video in a while, but today I found one worthy of your limited attention (and craving for complete nonsense).

It’s set to the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and, yeah, I LOL’d. Heh.

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Why Do You Hate Ohio?

By Jennyjinx | Published: April 21, 2009

Ohio is set to receive some of the $8 billion set aside for a high speed transit system. Our portion of the rail line would run through/to Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo. Building that line would created thousands of jobs for Ohioans, boosting our tax income and taking the state away from the brink of economic disaster. We are 49th in the nation in economic outlook and jobs. According to the linked article Ohioans are migrating from the state in droves:

The council’s study, “Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index,” is a guide for economic recovery based on state policies that have a proven impact on growth.

The study found that net migration from 2000 to 2007 hurt Ohio, where it ranked 5th worst, losing 397,900 people.

But the vocal minority that lost the last election are screaming mad about a rail line. They want no part of it, no part of the stimulus money. Even though work has stopped on some infrastructure projects because of lack of funds– putting more people out of work — these imbeciles are screeching to stop the money. It’s infuriating.

We have already lost money here because we were mollycoddling the losers. I spoke to a friend a couple of weeks ago and she told me that her job load (intake worker for the Department of Jobs and Family Services) has increased by about 8% in the last year, but that the state has a hiring freeze and that they are going to be laying off workers at the JFS. So, there are more people applying for (and qualifying for) food stamps, but there are going to be less people to take care of the needs of neglected children, neglected elderly folks and the poor in our county. Because the state is hurting.

But these fucking teabagging idiots would love to see the state lose more citizens and likely become the laughing stock of the nation1 . Why? Because their guy flushed this country down the toilet and their party lost the election because of it. Now, because Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh say so, they will screech like pissed monkeys at any kind of progress out state makes.

I have lived in Ohio my entire life2 and have a little bit of state pride. We have some excellent destinations in our state, beautiful landscape, and a rich history. We invented football, for gods’ sakes. But every day there are more foreclosures in the paper, more jobs lost– 834 people applied for a school janitorial position recently. Still, the vocal minority screams and wails and gnashes their teeth that money for jobs is coming to Ohio.

Instead of all the good workers and intelligent minds leaving this state, I wish these flippin’ hick-ass people would high-tail it down to Texas and help them secede. Then we could build our own state back to what it used to be. Before the idiots realized Fox News was the be-all and end-all and started polluting the newspaper’s comments with their bloviating. Here is an example of someone with their head screwed on straight. And what about the comments? Well, of course, they cry “Who’s going to pay? US! The taxpayers!”

Fuck off. Those still left working aren’t going to have their taxes raised. But there are plenty of people that have had their taxes cut: those that have lost their jobs. Most would gladly pay a little more in taxes to be able to support themselves and their families again. Most would gladly take the stimulus money and go straight to the bank– to pay past due fucking mortgage. I am deeply ashamed of the people in my state who have nothing better to do than to take away from those that need it most.

Food pantries are running bare. Charitable donations are down. People are struggling to pay their electric bills (which just went up for most of Ohio). Low-income/free clinics are seeing their patient numbers rise. More people are applying for food stamps. Hospitals are cutting staff. Our schools are losing dollars left and right. And the fucking teabagging brigade just keeps pounding that we don’t need no damned money. Who needs money from the goddamned liberals? Certainly not our state.

Fuck them all. I hope that the loudest among them fall victim to this economy. I hope that one day they sit at their kitchen table and have to make a choice about whether to buy food for their children or pay the electric bill. Their leaders, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, won’t have to worry about where money for food will be coming from, that’s for sure. But I certainly hope those that screech the loudest that Ohio should reject stimulus money sure find out what it feels like.

That’s bad, I know. But I’m sick of hearing the talk at work, reading it in my newspaper, listening to my goddamned inlaws spout it. You ask them “What about jobs?” and they just keep repeating the mantra “Who’s going to pay for it?” Who’s paying for anything when they don’t have a job to make the money?3

We’re all paying for it right the fuck now. When our neighbors can’t make ends meet and our communities are struggling to fill fucking potholes and our churches have nothing else to give to the poor we are all paying the price. I am done listening to this bullshit being spewed wherever I go.

From now on my stock response will be “Why do you hate Ohio?”

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  1. Thank the gods we have Texas and Alaska to take the spotlight off of us for a while. [↩]
  2. Save for about a year when I ran away to Florida, but that’s a whole other topic. [↩]
  3. Full Disclosure: My personal income has dropped significantly since the first of the month because of more layoffs in my area. [↩]
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