To all the little angels out of school for the summer. Panhandling is not a summer job. —Senor Campana
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Si Senor!
My son has been looking for a job since he was 16 and he is now 18 and still no job. It isnt easy to find a job in this city.
I can smell the little bastards a fucking mile away. They’re the ones with better footwear than most of us.
Anyone know what the story is with this man with a cane standing near the Common with a sign that says: “In a very desperate place”? Whenever I drive by there, he is there.
He has been looking for a job for 2 years and hasn’t got one, Bon?!?! WTF he’s obviously doing something wrong!
it really is hard to find a job in this province unless you have a car, I moved back here 6 months ago and still haven’t found a job and im just looking for a job at clothing stores and that kinda of thing, this city is really hard to find employment, I left my last job here because they just payed you whenever they wanted to
LOL @ VOR! =D
Thanks NGF! I suppose she could pay him to call in her driver complaints to Metro Transit.
some of these fucking people haul in over 500 bucks a day, all fucking tax free. the only thing they have to pay out of that, is their rent, for the space they panhandle at. buddy gets about 50 bucks a day for that one. who says capitalism is dead in n.s.
I’ll accept panhandling and squeegying as “legitimate occupations” when these little bastards start filing tax returns. Until then “Yob Tvoyu Mat!”
My friend has this rule about panhandlers. If the panhandler has nicer shoes than he does, he won’t give any money. My friend is horrible at taking care of his shoes.
Bon I guess McD’s or Tim’s or the others aren’t good enough for your kid.
Don’t forget Wendy’s. They seem to be always hiring.
If people would stop giving them money, they’d naturally die off. NEVER give anything to panhandlers.
WTF Coast! My voice_of_reason account no longer worked so I had to become voice.of.reason
I have known Bon a long time and she has held the same job now for over 15 years and her husband has
been a MT driver for 17 years. Their son has a handicap therefore making it difficult for him to find employment.
Oh hello, yeah there is plenty of info in your post for a person to figure out who Bon’s family is, if they wanted to.
Now all it takes is someone asking a metro transit employee if they know a driver with a disabled son.
Random stalker: “I can’t think of buddy’s name, I was talking to him the other day and he was saying his disabled son was looking for work but I can’t think of your colleague’s name but I need to touch base with him to offer some assistance.”
Co-worker: “Oh yeah, you mean Joe Busdriver, he works XX run from XX time to XX time on XX days.”
You gave more than enough info to indentify someone’s family even though she is posting under a nickname.
No one at MT knows that Bons husband has a disabled son. Still drive the #60?
LOL not from the other end of the country. The #60 here in Calgary is a much more sane route to put it nicely 🙂
Don’t be so sure nobody knows it. If her husband has ever made use of the medical benefits offered under the collective agreement and especially if it was for services or prescriptions for the kid then I can 100% guarantee that people at both management and union levels will be aware of their situation. Does that mean they should talk about it to the public? of course not, but people do slip up in scenerios like I mentioned.
When I was last employed by a unionised company I had a meeting at the union hall one day. Left unattended on the secretary’s desk in full view were stacks of xerox’d bluecross claims and the supporting documents. If someone wanted to be nosy then that would have been the perfect time to dig up dirt on co-workers. The secretary was out for the day and one of the shop stewards, out of habit, left the papers in the usual spot. You could have walked out with them and nobody would have been the wiser.
Vor, I just got off the phone with Bon and she told me that you insult everything she says on here including telling her you hope she is not on the #60. She is not stupid, lazy and thinks the world revolves around her. Her and is not an idiot for marrying her like you have told her before. She has her own medical plan at work and YES she does have a job.
I meant her husband is not an idiot for marrying her like you told her before.
children, behave yourselves, or no din din for either of you. and no treats either.
I wonder if hello mentioned to Bon that she has disclosed her husband’s occupation and her son’s disability. All hello had to do was ask the moderator to withdraw her comment just in case there was too much personal information. Why does everyone have to be right all the time? Can’t anyone be mature enough to admit their faults, mistakes, or slip-ups anymore?
“Ah Kirk, my old friend. You are familiar with the old Klingon proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold. It is very cold in space.”
This apropo of nothing much in particular except that “Wrath of Khan” is on telly and I never pass up an opportunity to watch the best fracking movie ever made.
Why don’t you tools and scum who like to blame the young citizens for this disaster of a country go screw each other in the back room of some tax-credited, upper-class hell hole. cocksuckers.
And which flavour of pepper spray to you prefer, chipotle or habanero. Drop us a postcard form Gitmo, I mean Toronto
Yeah, Toronto is a good place to send him for garbage removal and window replacements. The idiots causing shit in Toronto are lucky the cops were restrained. I hope these idiots go to South Korea for the next meeting. The cops and army there won’t be so nice.
BTW for the peaceful demonstrators, way to go. Sorry that the assholes took the media time away from you.
I’m sure we’ve all disclosed enough information on here that, if someone wanted to, they could find out exactly who most of us who post here regularly are. But really, who cares? Which is why I don’t tend to worry too much.
VOR, lucky you drive in Calgary. Just about every route here in Edmonton seems fucked in one way or another with drivers getting their asses kicked by some drunk/high idiot. I love the transformation on the LRT too, heading north between Central and Churchill station the typical passenger suddenly transforms from a relatively normal person who showers regularly and actually has a job to some dirty bum with a bag of cans, screaming single moms, or gangsta wannabes. “Next stop: Churchill Station” (ohh shit, better get off here or I’ll get stabbed!).
qpm…. I don’t drive transit here in Calgary but I do drive motorcoaches up in Ft. Mac and then do some charter work in Cgy on my off weeks if I want a few extra bucks. The work has been on and off up north so I’m taking any extra I can get at this point.
I applied with transit here but I’d never pass the city knowledge part of the process as I haven’t explored much of the city yet.
Ft. Mac certainly has their fair share of crackheads as well. I often drive into town an hour before my route starts and park across from the 7/11 so I can watch the crackheads, whores and drunk natives battle over who gets to sleep in the dumpster that day. Its a sad sight really, but I don’t get home in time to watch Jerry Springer most days so it makes up for it.
qpm, I agree with you mostly about personal information. However, I believe that OTHER people’s personal information isn’t ours to disclose, on purpose, without permission. It is bad enough that Facebook and other social websites disclose all sorts of personal information about everyone and anyone without your permission. I guess what I am trying to say is, it won’t hurt to be cautious nowadays with all the creeps on the web.
v.o.r…my friends used to live there. I guess when you have young people living in a small town with nothing much to do, they turn to drugs. Very sad indeed.
You can easily get a job, even if you have a disability, at a fast food change or with some kind of cleaning company. It doesn’t take two years to find a job for a 16-18 year old just looking to do some kind of minimum wage job.
Actually if you go to most Sobey’s or Superstores, they usually have some disabled on staff and some of them have been there long term.
A couple of years ago we hired a pair of deaf ladies to work in the gulag warehouse. Great girls and terrific employees both. Any potential safety issues were completely unfounded. Compared to the usual grade 10 dropouts and parole jumpers who quit after 2 weeks, we’ll take people with 4 good senses working overtime than Jerry Springer types who’ve allowed all 5 to deteriorate to amoeba level.
Pavillion my son has applied for alot of jobs but due to the nature of his disability he cannot work in fast food. One manager called and cancelled the interview one hour before my son was supposed to be there and gave no reason. Maybe it is easy for you to get a job but there are people out there who find it difficult.
So are you going to sue them, Bon? Show them a lesson?
Bon:
Perhaps try reaching out for your son? As was mentioned earlier in the thread Sobeys and Superstore do hire disabled people which I think is sweet. You could also maybe try a locally owned small business? Chain fast food/retail might not be the best for someone in your son’s state; cause most sane people can’t handle that BS…. Seriously, jus read some threads on here… you’ll get it.
I’m pretty sure the OP was talking about students who are well-bodied, and well-abled to get a job, but are just too lazy and suckling on mommy’s teet