Deal with it, folks

Fueled with internet rage, most of you will enter the voting booths on Tuesday, raring to vote. People to seem pretty enraged these days with the choices. No matter what candidate you choose, please know this

I DON'T CARE

I don't care for the reasons you vote for or against a candidate, as most of them are probably complete bullshit. Vote for whoever has the prettiest hair,  fuck if I care. If you are registered one party and voting solely because your candidate is that party your reasons are completely invalid, much like the hair vote method. 

Why I don't care about your reasons is simple; if you don't take facts (real ones) and use them to analyze your decision, I don't care what you think anymore. Simple as that. As someone who believes in logic, what's infuriating is the enormous lack of it during an election. Only the bits of actual, thought out and verified fact are what I try to listen to. Otherwise, my mind would melt and pour out of my ears. Selective hearing is what some may call it, I call it the Mind Firewall. Posting on Facebook that Obama is a Socialist Job Killer or Romney supports Rape as birth control, then guess what my friend...you just earned a spot on the Mind Firewall block-list.

Now sometimes something so idiotic appears that I have to say something. Not because I wanna win an argument, but because I want to clear up something. No matter who get's elected, the same things will eventually have to occur. No more of this Team Edward, Team Jacob bullshit anymore. Our country has had both sides run the show, and have failed. Now's the time for mutual agreement so things can be done. 

This country has survived something that could of been extraordinarily worse. There's a reason why this recession was called "the worst since the Great Depression", because the worst WAS the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, people lost all of their savings when banks completely closed shop overnight, brokers committed suicide in droves, unemployment reached 25%, Hoovervilles full of tents of the homeless popped up, and people generally lost their minds. Wanna know why Great Grandma was so frugal? Well it's because she probably had to scrounge during the depression to live. 

There was a lot that was done during this depression that saved us from being like that. The auto bailouts did work, and some of the government protections put in place did help the economy for collapsing. The Dow Jones reached 6500 in 2008, and now is sitting at over 13000. We spent our way out of it, and we are dealing with debt that is above our GDP. We've only reached this after WWII, and guess what has to happen next? We need to spend less!

Both sides of the fence have to realize this. We can't pick and choose anymore what to fund more and fund less, I'd say if we cut anything, it's all spending across the board equally. Nothing special about it, no magic recovery plan needed, there are no favorites. Spend less and take in more.Simple?

Since we've been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, and ending our involvement with Iraq, this is to be expected that spending was so high. To top that, historic tax cuts, bailout programs and recovery acts similar to the New Deal took place, so that is why spending is so high and why our debt is so large

Now's the time to do exactly with what we did after WWII, drastically cut spending. It's gonna suck folks, but either candidate needs to do it. The good news is that history seems to show a trend the end of wars showing a reduction of debt and overall improvement of the economy. We just need to get over the hump. We have been growing in jobs, our unemployment rate has been continuously dropping for the last two years, and is finally below recession numbers. 

Point of the matter is either candidate has an equal shot of making things good. No policy is right all the time in every situation. You can't give tax cuts forever in a depression and make things better. You also can't bail out everything, but both had their places at certain times and worked. Wanna debate them? Sure, but bring facts. Do they work all the time? Probably not. That's the policies we have to adopt, not everything we believe in will work all the time. 

Notice how i'm not giving a specific candidate the "seal of approval." There's a reason, because who I vote for is between me and God ( and maybe my wife). As it should be, not posted on my lawn or on my Facebook page. Keep it in your pants, folks...

Internet politics at it's finest

Politics. It's everywhere and anywhere. You can't wake up and check your email or Facebook anymore without getting a blast of political nonsensical arguments. Whether it's Obama supporters spamming your inbox, or friends tagging your in Glenn Beck posts on Facebook, you literally can't go 5 minutes now without seeing slanderous and hate-filled comments.

To all these people contributing to the mass downfall of modern day courtesy, let me briefly state the obvious:

BOTH PARTIES ARE TERRIBLE, AND HAVE CAUSED HORRIBLE THINGS TO HAPPEN TO OUR COUNTRY. SHUT UP AND WORK TOGETHER. DON'T LIKE EACH OTHER? TOO  BAD.

Congress has seen the lowest approval rating in modern history (12%) and it's because of the lack of fucks being given by the Congressmen and women regarding any of today's true problems. Want an example?

Recently, in the news, Chick-fil-a's CEO was asked if he opposed same-sex marriage and was quoted to say "Guilty as charged." This of course caused massive campaigns to boycott the chain. The mayors of Chicago, San Francisco and Boston went online with them, and blocked the chain from city limits (because apparently that's legal or something?)

On the opposite side, Congressman Mike Huckabee rallied a mass of people online to man the battle stations and go in droves to the chain, and they did. Chick-fil-a recorded record of sales because of the backing of congressmen and senators wasting time on frivolous stuff, claiming it was protecting the rights of those oppressed. Let me give you guys another hint and this is from a guy who typically sides to the right (me)

GAY PEOPLE GETTING MARRIED DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE OPPRESSED, IT MEANS FREEDOM OF RELIGION IS ACTUALLY IN PLACE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE ITS OK

Freedom religion means that everyone who is a christian can practice their beliefs, so much as it doesn't harm the lawful rights of others. This also means that people who aren't christians (they do exist) can practice those beliefs in the same way. They believe gay marriage is hunky-dory? Then guess what, it's allowed. End of discussion, that's how freedom works.

However, most of the folks who lined up at the chicken shack think this way

So the ultimate irony of this entire situation is both sides claiming victories for rights did the exact opposite. The left denied the freedom of speech and oppressed free trade by banning the chain from major cities, and the right claim they protected the freedom of speech and religion, but really just took a big dump on it and ate a bunch of chicken sandwiches.

All this while we have a government so dysfunctional that it can't decide on the budget, spending $14 on a muffin, allowing 2,000 guns to be sold to Mexican cartels, and passing into law provisions that allow the indefinite detention of american civilians in the NDAA 2012. Something seriously needs to stop here.

As part of the hip and happening generations of youngsters that literally grew up with technology, it almost seems like another thing ruined by politics. It's haste in the 21st century. People are harassing each other with Tweets and Hash tags. If George Washington was alive today, he'd total change his prediction that political parties would ruin the country to a Tweet

George Washington @TheRealG-Wash

OMG These guyz are totes lame lol #SMH #BOTHSIDESARESTUPID

Yeah...uh, fill this out

The internet is full of wondrous and mysterious things. One of these things are Job boards, because nobody fully understands how the work or how useful they actually are. I call them the abyss, because no matter how many things you throw in them, you'll never see them again.

If you decide to post all your personal information online, you'll more than likely get calls from recruiters across the world, each offering one completely terrible position after the next, in the hopes that you are willing to relocate to Wilmington, Delaware for that "golden opportunity" of a job at Wal-mart as a retail consultant.

What's most frustrating is by far the software used to upload resumes. First, businesses, use ONE type of job posting software. And if you do, make it so you can share login info with others, so I don't have to create an entire profile EVERY SINGLE JOB POSTING I SEE

Second, you're resume scanning software is absolutely atrocious. Stop using it, please. If you are scanning jobs with this software, god help you. Nine times out of ten I always have to scrub the randomness your software attempts to read. To the point were I usually just copy-paste stuff from my resume in the boxes your software failed to read.

After the rigamorale of creating a profile, uploading your resume, redoing everything the software messed up, and submitting it, your application is whisked away through the tubes of the internet to the company's email. Where, most likely, it is either forwarded to account that is no longer in use or is forwarded to someones junk mail because it is marked as spam. Your application never gets read, ever. Thanks for spending 30 minutes filling it out!

However, recently I received news on a position I applied for about 2 months ago. In the mail, they sent me a note saying they received my application and that I should fill the following forms out to be considered for  the process. What they sent me you may ask? ANOTHER APPLICATION, this time in paper form!

So after doing the online equivalent, and attaching my resume, cover letter, and references, they want me to fill out a paper application, print out my resume, cover, letter and references and send it back to them. Keep in mind, the application asks you everything that would be on that resume, but just to be safe, they want you to scribble it down, in case they loose the other two things that already have that. I didn't fill out the paper version, because I figure if they are that backwards with recruitment, then possibly they would be in every other way.

So, I have a suggestion for the perfect job posting, so businesses listen up!

Here's what SHOULD be on the website:

Job XYZ

Email at yada@blah.com your resume to be considered. Don't send a cover letter because they are useless.

Requirements (that we will actually use to grade you, not make believe ones after you apply to discredit you and make you feel bad)

Education (that we will actually use to grade you, not make believe ones after you apply to discredit you and make you feel bad)

Salary: PUT THE SALARY RANGE HERE!!! YES, WE WANNA KNOW THAT !!!


Here's what I'd send in an email:

Dear Herp,
 Enclosed is my resume for Job XYZ. ***COPY-PASTE COVER LETTER CRAP HERE*** (Because folks, cover letters are memos, and nobody sends paper memos any more. Emails are electronic memos, and people have been using them for like 20 years).

Sincerely,
Herpty Derp

PS: I put a read flag on so I'll get notified when you read this email. So i'll be looking forward to that in 3 months


And that's it folks!
No more wasted money on terrible job screening software or wasted time filling out crappy applications. Use the best tool to screen applicants! Your eyes!