Job fairs

Welcome to AboutPaula and her views. Today I will be talking about a job fair that I went to yesterday. It was in a London hotel. I was applying for a job as a receptionist but I have a feeling that I didn't even get a consideration for it. Here I'll explain why.

Well, the day started off a bit rickety as I wasn't feeling very well. I was half decided whether or not to actually go to the job fair or not. After a few hours I decided to try it and got dressed up in my smart clothes and headed off to a hotel in Tower Hill. The hotel was very smart and I immediately felt a bit out of my depth. The receptionists and bell hops were very smartly dressed and I had a feeling that even if I had experience as a receptionist, I might not fit in well here!

Anyway, I asked for directions to the conference room and made my way up there. The room was packed out with people of all nationalities. Some of these people were reading or having a drink at the back of the room and it was obvious that they had already been here a couple of hours. I wasn't wrong about that as I found out later on. I hovered at the desk near the door waiting to be told what to do but nobody came for the ten minutes that I was there so using my initiative, I grabbed an application form and sat down to fill it in.

After another 15 minutes after filling in the six page form, a woman comes to the desk to call people in for an interview. They are doing four interviews at a time at half an hour a piece. In other words, it is going to take a long time to get through the people waiting! On hearing this news, I wait in line of about five people asking questions and ask the lady how long it will take to get to my name. She tells me that they will not be able to see me today but will phone tomorrow to invite me back. Since I cannot change that, I give my details hoping that they will call me back. They didn't!

Now, I have a gripe about this. It isn't the big deal that I didn't get the job. That really wasn't a surprise. My gripe is the fact that they were taking the people in on the day without having the time to look over there application forms, for an interview but because they looked over mine, I presume, they decided not to call me back. I think that it is unfair to treat half of the applications at face value and then the others just by there applications. Many people do not get jobs because they haven't been able to explain there applications. Like I said, I may not have got the job even if I had had the interview but I would have given it a good go!

OK, that completes my rant for today. Hopefully I will have another one for you tomorrow!

Paula

Take responsibility for your actions

Welcome to AboutPaula and her views. In this blog I want to discuss topics that are out there in the world today and I want to start doing something about it. I think everyone who writes something, wants it to affect people in some way. Now, I don't want to offend people, in fact, I want to make people think about things and if moved in some way, leave comments and feelings about that subject. Now, before you start leaving comments that say that I suck or whatever, I want you to know that these are only my opinions. They are not backed up by anything (if they are, links will be left) so if anything is wrong with what I say, please by all means link me to the stories and research that shows it.

Now that I have made that clear, I can start on today's subject. Today I want to talk about how people who commit robberies, murders, muggings, car thefts etc. blame it on the fact that they played it in a game. I'm sorry but I have to think that anybody who plays games like that should know the difference between real and a game. Using what you have 'learnt' within a game is just being stupid and if a certain person who does think they can thief cars because they done it in grand theft auto, for example, they should not be allowed to play games like that.

Like I said at the beginning of the post, I am not a professor at anything, I do not claim to know anything about the affects on the human mind but if I knew that I could have stopped something from happening by not letting somebody play games, then I would be seriously disgusted at myself. Now, I have a six year old niece and for Christmas, she got her very own DS Lite. She loves it and sometimes we cannot get it off of her but we make sure that the games she plays on it, are appropriate for her age. At the moment she is playing a game based on the show Scooby Doo. She loves the program and knows that it isn't real. She can tell the difference between something that somebody made to have fun and something that is real. She knows that spooky houses/funfair's are very unlikely* and also knows that the characters who play monsters/ghosties are in fact people and those meddling kids always find them out.

I just think that if she ever started to really believe that she can take a gun/car/ghost in real life, she would start to show signs that she believed that and then we could prevent her from playing/seeing things related to the thing she believed in. People who cause murders and accidents and then say that the game made them do it, need to take responsibility for what they have done. The game did not put them in the car or give them a gun, they did that. Yes, it may have given them the idea to do it, I am in no way denying that. People get ideas like that from the littlest things but when someone say, kills somebody with a knife, the game or tv show did not make them do it, it did not force them to go into the kitchen, pick up the knife, hunt down the person they stabbed and hurt them. It just didn't. Whether or not it may have broached the subject that you can do it, does not mean it actually forced them to do it. Also, just because it is a game, does not mean that it is the only way of them getting the idea to hurt/rob/kill somebody. You see it in films and in real life more and more these days and again, this does not mean that the people who do these bad things can blame these shows, they did not force them to do it. They did it on there own free will, nothing else.

Now, you may wonder why I have bought this up. Well, it is simple really. More and more people who do killings are blaming games for the reason of why they did it and they are being accepted as the reason. The latest thing to have happened was the shootings at Idaho University. This was a very bad thing and as of yet, I do not think they have a motive for why the killer decided to take in four guns and kill himself and five innocent people. My Dad watches Fox News. Even though we are in the UK, we get it over here on Sky. Anyway, for those who don't know, they have people come on the news shows and discuss what the killer was thinking and why he could have done it. Now one of the people who came on there was called Jack Thompson and he is apparently, a person who knows all about shootings in Colleges. I may have that wrong but that is how it was labelled on the video! So, he came on the show and had said a bit about the killer and then he said 'we think he played games, which could be related to this'. Now, like I have been saying, this is a ridiculous motive for doing a shooting. Playing games is in no way like real life and as everyone knows, you cannot reset real life once you have died or have done something very wrong. Playing games did not put the gun in his hands and force him into that classroom.

So, to wrap up what I have said, Games do not actually force people to go out and kill/hurt people. They do not give them the real guns/cars/weapon of choice and they do not put them where ever they are when they hurt people so stop using them as a excuse. If you decide to go out and kill people, take the damn responsibility for it.

Please leave comments and hopefully we can put this discussion out there. Thank you.

Paula