Daylight Savings Time is Drawing Near, Get Your Hoe Ready!

OK, so Daylight Savings happened really early this morning, but who's complaining? It gave me another hour to play Super Mario Galaxy. :)

In the 1780's Benjamin Franklin proposed to Parisian that in order to save money on candles they should go to bed earlier and wake up earlier, thus his famous phrase "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise". It would be until early in the 20th century that a man named William Willett would propose daylight savings time that the US finally adopting in 1918 during WWI.

Please disregard this blog!!! Daylight Savings now happens on the first Sunday in November. My VCR lied to me. Now I'm late to church!

If I bag it, I should get it cheaper.

A few years ago I had my first encounter with this infernal machine. I hated it. I even had a friendly employee try to walk me through it, but it still took 3 times longer than if said employee would have just grabbed my groceries and did it herself. I just felt that when I go get food I should at least have someone efficient help me be able to buy it. The only positive thing about those stupid machines is that it has allowed me to buy certain things discretely without worrying that the cashier was going to give me a silly smirk or glaring glance. Flash forward a few years to today and I'm able to whip through the self checkout lane in no time flat. And then it hit me, I am working for the company I shop at and I am not getting recompensed for it. I'm working for free, and that's crap! The self checkout machines are ways that these companies get to show their uncustomer service and just have you do their work. For that reason I think that if I am going to scan and bag my own groceries or whatever I buy and have to do everything myself I should at least get a discount. Even 1% off would be appreciated. I had to go through hours of training and learn their systems to gain the proficiency that I have now, but I am not getting rewarded, no salary, no bonus, no 401k.