N.B. For those of you who don’t know, I work in ASDA, the UK’s leading low-price supermarket. I personally hate the place. In the words of Holden Caulfield, it’s full of “phony bastards.”

So I was working away this evening, filling shelves when a customer asks me where to find sugar. I left what I was doing and walked her to where it was. Afterwards she thanked me for my help and said “from what I see there’s not many people in this place who would go out of thier way for you like that, or even give you a smile” then she laughed and walked off.

You see I think this is one of the major problems with the company in general. ADSA projct this image of themselves being super-friendly with excellent service. I do agree that they put alot of effort into thier customer service but then I think people expect too much from us aswell. Just because you see a 50ft high poster of smiling faces outside the store doesn’t mean we are all floating on cloud nine inside too. After all it is a job. Very few people like thier jobs and people who hate thier job do begin to reflect this in thier image.

What I’m trying to say is, cut these people some slack you old bag. We have baggage we have to carry and other things on out mind other than figuring out the best directions to the sugar section. I suppose I was just in a good mood tonight and did everything with a smile. Well that’s just the kind of guy I am.

Every weekend without fail I always seem to get the mother of all hangovers. Nursing a big one at the minute. Going to get sorted out with some food and I will return with some quality material for today.

It’s the occasional nice morning like this which makes me think “I love Ireland, why would I want to live anywhere else?”

Unfortunately the bad weather is never far away and always puts things back into perspective.

I’ve been having a browse through Tumblr for the last hour or so and I must say, it honestly is a welcome change from my only other online form of expression which is Facebook. I guess even saying that word is like committing a cardinal sin around here?

I’m sure we’ve all went through the stage where we spend hours on end on a computer, satisfying our futile addiction to Facebook and everything it has to offer (which really isn’t very much). It is not hard to see that Tumblr offers a much better user experience. There is an endless variety of personalities and styles which from which you can choose to follow as opposed to the torrent of illiterate Facebook users who somehow manage to find a dedicated, daily slot within thier busy lives to let us know what they will be having for dinner. Maybe I’m over-reacting, perhaps I should be paying attention to these important facts?

One thing I truly despise about Facebook is the robotic instinct in so many people to “like” other people’s status’. I don’t think people actually read them, they just go through thier daily ritual which consists of “like, like, like, post something irrelevant, like, change my language to pirate! now try upside-down, creep my teachers, like some more, contemplate logging off … nahh, like, like.” And on and on it goes.

In a nutshell I’m just trying to say that I’m glad I have found a place where people have some meaningful things to share. Hope you guys are catching my drift.

Well recently I’ve been hearing alot of hype about Tumblr and how good it is. I’m not normally one to jump on the bandwagon but I figure I might as well try it out, right? I will apologise for not having a sudden blast of verbal diorheea to amuse or inform tonight, but do give it a chance. As some very perceptive people know, I am a man of few words but the words I do utter have often been described as “pure gold.” Believe it or not but there are also some people who would refer to me as a “bullshitter” but I’ll let you make that decision for yourselves…