Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Yesterday, and by that I mean Monday. I was online and I decide to check the weather. Weather Network.com to be exact. It's my usual way of checking the weather for the day and the next 3 days. So I go to the page and a pop up asking me to do a survey appears. Since I often go to the site I decide that I'll do the survey. So I click on the pop up and it links to the Weather Network's survey page. I skim the blurb about what it is for and how long it should take, approx. 10 mins. So I go ahead and the first question is what is your occupation or something along those lines. Since I graduated with a B.Sc. 4 months ago and haven't been hired I click unemployed and hit the next button. All of a sudden I'm done the survey. It took me about 10 sec to complete the survey. I click back and choose engineering or computers or something and click next and the following question is about income. And I'm just shocked, just because I'm unemployed my opinion is worth shite to Weather Network.com. And why the hell does it matter how much someone makes. Will does it help determine the weather? Do people with higher incomes experience different weather systems then people with lower incomes? Sure rich people have nice homes that keep them warm and dry and bums have cardboard boxes that get soaked leaving them wet and cold. But either way when it rains or snows in one location where both income levels are located its raining or snowing for both of them. That was just my rant about how being unemployed sucks ass. And about how the opinions of the unemployed don't count for anything. But I maybe a student again, very soon as long as I get accepted. Then my opinion will matter to Weatheer Network.com, since part time and full time student were available options.

5 Comments:

At 10:39 AM, Blogger shaun said...

What are you looking to become a student of? And have you seen Evans'?

 
At 1:42 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

Least they could have done would have been to let you think you were contributing then throw your result out behind closed doors.

 
At 11:36 PM, Blogger Time Measured In Distance said...

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At 11:39 PM, Blogger Time Measured In Distance said...

Exactly Ogre!
But the only problem is that the rest of the questions they asked had to do with nothing but income. And there is the possibility that I could be the unemployed working for the gov't. And by that I mean collecting UI, I mean EI, employment insurance. If I was collecting EI, then I would be getting a form of income and would have been able to participate in the survey had the unemployment button continued to the rest of the questions, instead of just ending the survey.

 
At 3:00 PM, Blogger BraveIrene said...

Don't worry I know plenty of employed people whose opinion is not worth noting. Some of the smartest in this world are unemployed and poverty stricken.

 

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