And in stupid corporations news..
Boycott Odeon™ if you have the choice of doing such, and even if you can't, damn well express your annoyance at such outstanding stupidity (and by express I mean get your arse down to a local Odeon, and give the staff feedback to send back to their head office to tell them what total utter utter arseholes they're making of themselves.)
Do it, the power of common sense compels you!
Barring that send an e-mail.
Best way is make the trip, don't see your film with them, and go somewhere else to see your film (remember to tell them this).
Anyone fancy writing a few outspoken public letters to the MPAA telling them how such stupidity on Odeon's part will just lead to more pirating? (Don't even get me started on pirating effecting movie sales, rubbish in itself, but hey, that's not the point of this!)
Daily thoughts on..
..job applications So many people put down things such as "hardworking", "reliable", "shows initiative", when surely aren't these things supposed to be implicit in the act of working? (Yes, I know this is not necessarily the reality of the situation, but the very act of a job application should imply these states, whether they are true or not.)
This is the reason I don't see the point in putting them on a job application, sure they're implied in parts of my CV, but then someone else wrote parts of it anyway, and such implications are more subtle than actually saying it outright to an employer, not to mention giving the employer a lot of leeway in saying you bullshitted your application if they don't think you're "hardworking enough", "reliable enough" or "show enough initiative".
Of course such implicit honesty in the process should be a double edged sword; an employer should actually mean that "experience is not necessary", when in fact it is; what exactly is the whole purpose of placing such misleading statements within a job advertisement?
I'm fully aware that they're encouraged to take on placements with training, without experience (if they didn't then noone would ever get any experience and we'd be trapped in a rather vicious circle of inexperience), but should these requirements be advertised even when the opposite is true? Surely an employer wastes their own time 50 times more than any single applicant, by forcing themselves into a situation where by they are answering the phone to 100 inexperienced applicants, who will not fit their requirements because they advertised incorrectly? I presume they do this in the hopes that that they won't get into trouble for taking on only experienced applications (and thus adding to said vicious circle), and that someone with experience will step forward amongst that large rabble of job seekers.
..on buses Buses are the spawn of Satan, from the deepest most fiery pits of of the 7^th^ level of hell (lodged somewhere between modern society's moral conscience and John Prescott's gut); despite this obvious lack of virtue, they are a necessary evil for those without a horseless carriage, or means by which to drive such a contraption, and hence this question: why is it when I want to fall asleep, those times when I'm surrounded by the noisy and in some cases wholly idiotic for a long period of travel, cannot I not fall asleep, and yet when I'm on a short ride home from Andrea's and need to stay awake so as not to miss my stop, I do indeed fall asleep?
Evil things I say, eeeeeeviiiiil.
..on my forthcoming exam Have the date for my first time sitting of the programming exam I missed, it's on the August 25th; I'll try not to miss this one, hey?
It's a good job I'm not going to TOevolt really, although I do already regret not being able to make it, I'm just glad I'll have plenty of other things to do this year; hope anyone who does make it has a nice time. ;)