Let the Suckage Begin

[mbarrick]

Funny how, even as an independent contractor working from home Mondays still suck ass. I had an e-mail waiting this morning from Expedia that there was a "SIGNIFICANT change to my itinerary" (all caps is theirs) and to call their 1-800 number. So I called the 1-800 number and waited. Then the guy said, "Oh, are you Canadian? You have to call our 1-888 number." OK, so back on hold. Wait. Wait. Wait. And the "SIGNIFICANT" change? My return flight leaves JFK fifteen minutes later and my connecting flight leaves Seattle one minute earlier. My trip home is now, theoretically, sixteen minutes shorter.

Then in the next round of suckage I had to deal with Revenue Canada (that's our equivalent to the IRS). As I'm sure you can imagine that just couldn't possibly be a good thing... "Oh, Mr. Barrick, we've realised the error of our ways and have decided to repeal the income tax act of 1917 retroactively effective November 11, 1918 since it was originally promised to be repealed when the war ended. We'll be issuing you a cheque for every penny of income tax you have payed in your life as well as every penny paid by your father and his father. Sorry for the inconvenience." Yeah. Right. Bunch of fucking theives - it's more like "Cough up several thousand dollars that we have arbitrarily decided you owe us or big men with guns will take you away." Tell me that isn't extortion. What difference does it make if the collection goon is wearing red serge as opposed to a pinstripe suit with a white tie?

Ivana is choked at me for precisely the reason I was distracted on Saturday, so I am feeling all sorts of rotten things about that whole situation. Basically I'm in a position where I am guilty for keeping a promise. Yes, I admit and that I personally feel that my priorities were in the wrong place, but how the hell am I supposed to set priorities when I don't even know where I stand with her? After eleven months it still a "I say, 'I love you.' She says, 'That's nice.'" situation. Before all this started I was determined to never put my heart on my sleeve again. I'm choked about being mistrusted. I'm choked about being depended on with no support in return. I'm not going to feel guilty about having feelings of my own.

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the government sucks

[cheaza.livejournal.com]

i have to wait another 3 weeks for to get 600 a month instead of 510 a month off of welfare cause the SIN card office is backloged and it's gonna take twice of long to get my card 9which i need to get my full welfare) All this shit for 90 bucks. Fuck man why dont they just come out and say it "Go push drugs, deal crack, do porn, peddle sex, anything cause we are not hear to help you disabilities person" ANARACHY! And just think how much its gonna get with the whole "war" thing. Hey Micheal how does a double suicide sound? ;o)

Re: the government sucks

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I'd rather go postal in the tax office.

I swear, if the people working in the civil service didn't sit on their fat asses all day and actually worked we'd only need about half of them to do what needs to be done, and our taxes would be lower because we wouldn't be paying for all the inefficiency. Sack the lot of them and start over with people who give a shit.

Re: the government sucks

[cheaza.livejournal.com]

i totally get you on this-- plus they are like ANGRY at having the job they have. I mean the peopl ein the social services office treat me like SHIT! Like I am so sorry that you feel like you cant actually take charge of your life enough to get a job you li,e but dont fucking take it on me, cause this is my only source of income-- perfect example, my welfare worker didnt call me back at all today even though i phoned her first thing in the morning. Like thanks bitch i can just sit here and wait for my medication...

Re: the government sucks

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Not to mention if the damn rules were simplified we'd need even less of a civil service. They are all fucking mental... for example "This letter is to notify you that your GST credit has been calculated as $79, and is being applied to your income tax arrears." OK. So first off everybody with a business (including me) has to collect GST on behalf of the government or the men with guns will come, wasting the time of millions of people and feeding an army of accountants we shouldn't need. Then, if you don't make enough money by their arbitrary standard they'll give some of the GST back, this is figured out by an army of civil servants who effectively counteract the collection efforts of the business people and cost tax dollars to pay. Then some other civil servant applies that money that I shouldn't have had to pay in the first place to a the debt that some other civil servant has decided I owe, which I spend probably about a week a year figuring out only for them to figure out again and correct.

Forget about suicide, how about a revolution?

here's my secret wish michael....

[cheaza.livejournal.com]

i want this war to abolish our corrupt polluted bureaucracy ridden soceity and cause us to have to revert back to community, tribal living, the way human beings are biologically designed to live. Biological anarchy, the necessary fall of the Amercian empire, ala the fall of the romans. Its predestined to happenif you look back at history-- no dominating colonizing force can rule all for everthe way the captailist melting pot of Amercian consumerism and plasticisty has crept like a festering disease over the globe for the last 100 years. Time for the Americans to take their dose of Karmaand become another page in history.