Financial Forecast & Bizarro

Right now across North America workers are winning a million dollars. I saw a piece on the news last night about a giant shopping mall north of Calgary that had a job fair that offered 3500 jobs to the local residents.

It should be interesting to see how many of these potential employees stay with these jobs and reach the million dollar goal.

Retail is not for everyone, believe me I know. My BBS experience has hardened me towards the public. These 3500 workers will be tested. It doesn't matter how smart you are, how talented, how quick, how funny or caring.



Once you are working in a retail centre in any position people will look at you differently. The vast majority will be good to deal with, but a large number of these people will treat you like third class citizens. You are nothing to them almost sub-human. You will learn to appreciate the good people and put up with the assholes. When you go shopping you will be a wonderful patient customers that knows how to actually use the stores system to get what you want.

Right now, seniors whose retirement income has been cut, unemployed industry workers, labourers and thousands of other out of work people as well as graduating students will be hoping to win that million dollars. Hopefully they will start at $10 an hour or more so that it will take them less time to reach the million mark.

Once I have recovered from surgery I will be back at the BBS on the hunt for my own million.It's just to bad that every 25 years or so we have to grow through this kind of economic nightmare. Really this isn't new, just go through the archives and you will see the trend. Get ready for the next "down turn" and slide some of you bucks into that mattress, the next "market adjustment" might be worse.

Thanks to Bizarro for hitting what I think is a reality nail right on the head.

Poor Reporting

Due to a lack of things to do on Sunday and a poor TV schedule, we had the misfortune of watching Global National Sunday Evening News.

What a horrendous waste of time. I watch a lot of news and I think like any good story there should be a beginning, a middle and an end. Somebody should point this out to these guys. They seemed at least this past Sunday to be more interested in the lead in headlines than the stories.

They also tended to push out the most outrageous headline prior to a commercial in an effort to keep you tuned in and then didn't follow up after the break until three stories later.


The topper for me was one of those "Breaking News" pieces. Sunday's breaking news story was the killing of 2 boys and beating of their mother and the death of their assailant . I"ll check my facts and update this later, I'm on a roll.

Global Nationals' Breaking News' headline before the break was "Two teens believed killed and mother injured in attack details after the break." After the break they came back with "Two teens, believed killed, mother injured in attack in greater Vancouver suburb." and that was it. What kind of reporting is that?

I'm not that media savvy but really why not just fill the time with a complete story about puppies or something. Give us something with a beginning, a middle and an end. If you don't have enough facts to do a proper story shut up until you do.