Generally my workplace is pretty good. Over the last few days though I have found myself feeling a little miffed by their policies. Last week they interviewed my sister and she won the competition for the position within my department. But does she get the job? No. Apparently it is a conflict of interest since she is my sister. So why interview her in the first place? They got my hopes up that I would have someone capable and friendly to work with and now I get to be disappointed and wait to see if they choose another clerk as useless as the last for me to train. And now my sister is disappointed. Anyway to borrow a friends new motto, "I'm so not impressed"
Well it's been just over a week now since I got back from my vacation. When I look back it's clear that outside of the normal bumps of any vacation, it was a very pleasant one! My parents and I flew into Puerto Vallarta at around 4pm on Friday July 1. As we stumbled into the crowded airport and attempted to manuever our way through the throngs of sales people, the kissy faces of a number of Mexican men made me suddenly all too conscious of my "Kiss me I'm Canadian" shirt. Oh well, like anyone would dare try with my Mom nearby (she gives off very protective Mom vibes...I think it may be because she's very protective). Anyway after a run in with a sales man who had briefly convinced us he was our Sun Wing Rep, we managed to slump into a nice air conditioned bus that took us the 20 minutes or so to Riviera Nayarit and up to our Resort "Riu Jalisco". It took me a good part of the trip to realize that the "j" is Jalisco is pronounced "h...
Boo! I didn't hear about any of this. ... I'm sorry for how disappointing that this was. You're right though, why have the interview in the first place then?
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