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[clairegirl]

oh gosh PUKE PUKE

Expected hours to work 30-45 hours.

30 * 6.40 = $194

omg i can work on sunday at kmart for 5 hours and get $135

ALSO your expected to pay for your own housing! Oh gosh, how do they expect u to pay for housing with $194 wage.

I had a looksie through the website.. and it seems like all a big ploy to get cheap labour under the disguise of a "college internship"

 

[iambored]

But that's American money isn't it? So it's really about $10 per hour. Still crap pay. And their costs are about the same as ours aren't they, just in American $? Meaning that in America they are still making the equivalent of about $6.40 per hour.
So yes it's slave labour in disguise

I searched Sears pay and got this, http://www.retailworker.com/node/24967
everyone is compaining about their crap pay of $6.50

 

[marchetta]

Hmm, it sounds pretty interesting... but then being an internship, places are going to be both limited and competitive.

 

[clairegirl]

hehe i dont

i rekon they'll accept any joe blow that can speak english and thats doing a degree

they need ppl to sweep the floors and clean toilets and dress up in costumes and its a massive place, i rekon they'll only not take u.. if ur GPA is like less than one lol and don't laugh lol i know a few people who have a GPA of 0.7ish

the internship that goes for SEVEN months :s... claims to give u work experience skills... lol you can get that here in australia from working at maccas, woolies, retail lol

Im being extremely negative and need to be slapped lol coz i could go on!

 

[clairegirl]

On the bright side, you can dress up as donald duck and legitimately 'hug' (read: feel) as many chicks as you want all day (but then again, you will have to hug those morbidity obese american women just to counter any suspicion).

Seriously though, Anne, you have nothing to worry about in Mexico. You have to put it into perspective. The places that you would be going to in Mexico are probably the better parts (a university isnt going to be in the middle of nowhere, in some lawless desert) Although i am just assuming this, its likely that its in the better parts of Mexico.

If i were to think of all the terrible stories ive heard, most of them are actually from North America, not Mexico, and nobody seems to be making a big thing about going to America because some of its places there are violent as hell. So this fuss about not going to Mexico because some parts are apparently bad isnt really making much sense.


Now, if it were Iraq you were going to....

yay thank you jamie!

 

[xeuyrawp]

princesses don't grope little kids

Yes we do. [/obligatory gay joke]

know a few people who have a GPA of 0.7ish

How is that possible? Do they do accounting or something?

I'd still go to Mexico over the US - like I said in the other thread, the cultural similarity between western countries really means that going to the US is the same as going to another part of Australia.

 

[boinkBOINK]

oj and i are gonna go TJ
ull see us on Spring Break - Boys Gone Wild

 

[pb]

On the bright side, you can dress up as donald duck and legitimately 'hug'

what a fun job (.. and i would not 'feel' lil girls lol)
but dressing up in those big thingies and hugging ppl... awww... lol
i always liked those big dressed up ppl.. so big and huggable
except that one time... barney rubble... just coming after you with his big non-moving happy face.. that was scary! lol ... he hugged my sister.. i hid lol

... i mean the yellow haired flinstones guy... i forgot his name.. i think its barney rubble

 

[sukiyaki]

imagine dressing up in those suits in the summer -_-

 

[*hopeful*]

im so down for a real cancun type of holiday,spring break, wateva... that'd b a lot of naughty fun

 

[clairegirl]

Yes we do. [/obligatory gay joke]



How is that possible? Do they do accounting or something?

I'd still go to Mexico over the US - like I said in the other thread, the cultural similarity between western countries really means that going to the US is the same as going to another part of Australia.

very easily

this one guy in his year of uni

Pc pc fail fail

next sem

pc pc pc pc

he does e business

 

[xeuyrawp]

very easily

this one guy in his year of uni

Pc pc fail fail

next sem

pc pc pc pc

he does e business

Oh dear.

e-Hugs to him.

Does he realise what 5 or less marks in all those PCs would have done for his GPA? Lazy or just in the wrong course?

 

[glitterfairy]

what a fun job (.. and i would not 'feel' lil girls lol)
but dressing up in those big thingies and hugging ppl... awww... lol
i always liked those big dressed up ppl.. so big and huggable
except that one time... barney rubble... just coming after you with his big non-moving happy face.. that was scary! lol ... he hugged my sister.. i hid lol

... i mean the yellow haired flinstones guy... i forgot his name.. i think its barney rubble

I've been a Wandering Character (read: Lynn finding an excuse to dress up as a fairy princess) for the Teddy Bear's Picnic before. It's cool!

However, my friend was in the REAL full-body suit. They can only stay in there for max 20mins because it's too hot otherwise (even if there is a fan built into the suit). Basically what happens is that the suit person manages to walk about 20m in the space of ten minutes, because mothers keep on blocking the path by parking their strollers RIGHT in front of the character, so you have to stop and greet their kids. For the next ten minutes, the same thing happens... except you're trying to get back to the changing room so you can take off the suit!!! lol

On a side note, I was always scared of the full-suit wandering characters as a kid because they looked so big and scary. When my friend put on this big dog suit at the TBP, I got freaked out and asked him to at least talk to me (wandering characters in full suits are supposed to be totally silent), or take the head of the costume off so I wouldn't be so scared. What does he do? Stays silent, puts his arms out like a zombie, and chases me as I run around the changing room in fear


Oooh and another fun story - there was this dud suit another guy wore (off topic: omg he was soooo hot when out of the suit!!!) where the ventilation wasn't so good and the costume had glass-covered eyes, so within 2 mins of wearing the suit the 'eyes' fogged up and the poor dude in there was totally blind hahaha! (good thing they have 'wandering character minders )

 

[Cyan_phoeniX]

On a side note, I was always scared of the full-suit wandering characters as a kid because they looked so big and scary. When my friend put on this big dog suit at the TBP, I got freaked out and asked him to at least talk to me (wandering characters in full suits are supposed to be totally silent), or take the head of the costume off so I wouldn't be so scared. What does he do? Stays silent, puts his arms out like a zombie, and chases me as I run around the changing room in fear

haha. what would be more freaky as a child. seeing a big fluffy character, or seeing it walk with its head off, and seeing this little human head chatting, where the characters brain should be?

 

[glitterfairy]

The former. Even if a child can see a human head (paticularly if they can hear it talking, this is why I asked my friend to take the head off so the notion that it was just a human in a costume could be re-inforced), they can associate it with human-ness and thus won't be scared of it as much. Size is intimidating to children unless they're physically above the scary object (such as in their parent's arms).

Of course, this is the Lynn theory. However I'm 99% sure that your textbooks will support this theory

 

[yenta]

Payrate of $6.40 at current exchange rate = $8.62 AU. What a rip off, although depending on what job u do I spose u could get tips....but stilll what a crappy payrate.

 

[clairegirl]

i knoww!!
thats what people used to get at maccas 10 years ago!

 

[Orange Juice]

oj and i are gonna go TJ
ull see us on Spring Break - Boys Gone Wild

mate the dvds will sell like crazy. i told ya its better than going into any business type job.

 

[clairegirl]

Oh dear.

e-Hugs to him.

Does he realise what 5 or less marks in all those PCs would have done for his GPA? Lazy or just in the wrong course?

hey pwar,

yeah he's in the wrong degree, its really stupid though coz he transferred from a diff uni into e biz here... hoping to get a commerce degree. Whats really :s is that its been 3 years since the HSC and he's still not in the degree he wants

 

[AsyLum]

Claire, he doesn't have to do cores, if he doesn't want to, he could've done ISYS123 etc