Are you on Fire for Kindle?

Amazon Introduces the Kindle Fire!

I must say that seeing this is definately something that I would like to get myself. After reading what it will do I am thinking this will make Ipad drop their price. I did predict this a few months back, and I knew it would have to be an Android tablet. This would greatly increase their market share and also get more and more people to buy their Premium Service and that will make it that much easier for people to watch their streaming media also.

Will it Succeed??

I don’t know if it will but I am certain it will make a big impact on what happens in the future. I do hope that the $199 version will allow me to stream on the road without a wifi signal but I can only wait to see. I would guess that if not Amazon would start to offer services for this also probably through Sprint or Verizon since they already have deals with them on their Wireless Amazon Website but then again I could be wrong. Even though I have played around with the Ipad 2, I am still trying to figure out if it is really worth the money to buy it.

This is Eye candy!

I must say just looking at this tablet makes me want to pre-order it now but I will wait a little while before I start buying it because of the price. Maybe in the next few weeks they will drop the price because of the high demand of this tablet. They will make a killing on people buying it just to watch their favorite movies where ever they are without having to boot up their laptops or computers. I can am curious if they will let you download your amazon movies or shows to the tablet so you can view them while on the road or other places. I will definitely have to see in the next few months what Amazon has planned but that would be a nice feature to be able to take my shows and movies with me either on a SD cardor on the internal memory. Although I suspect that is in the design somewhere, I am hoping they do have a card reader on this device if not they should add that for people like to make even more space available for it. I can’t wait to see all the reviews of this and how people like it. I wouldn’t mind getting one of these myself to test and explore even more.

Have a Good day!

Paul Sylvester

Four Reasons why Labor Ready should be avoided!

The Back story!

I’ve been unemployed for the last few weeks and thought I should have some kind of income come in while I look around for a job. I’ve been working at a local branch for quite some time and I thought I should point out why you should go somewhere else to find a job. I will say in a pinch if you need money then it will do but don’t expect any long term commitments. If you don’t get anything else from this post then here it is "Labor Ready is a joke most of the time!"

Waiting there for Hours!

This is one of those reasons why working for Labor Ready should be avoided. You are basically getting up at 5:30 am in the morning and sitting around at the branch until they have work available for you to go to. Some of these locations that they sent me out at were OK but I will talk about the other points in the reason why. Just because you show up doesn’t mean there will be a job and that you will work you full 8 hours. Some jobs are a 2 hours but you get paid for 4 hours, so you never really know what to plan on each day you go in. It isn’t anything like I am the only one complaining because you can read all about it on the Indeed forums.

Minimum Wage is the normal for them!

Now not to say that is a good thing but to remind people that they COULD be paying there workers even more. I have yet to see a job that I went out to do that was more than 8 dollars an hour. They advertise they have 9 to 12 dollar jobs but yet have done any of them. You could say I have very little reasons for people to take these assignments professionally. Nothing I have seen of this place has made me believe they will ever be anything but a stop gap. I also know that there are some people who also just get Minimum wage and that is. I’ve read forums about what people get paid and they also get Minimum wage.

Customer Services Reps!

The Customer Service Reps or CSR’s are constantly sending people out they like and some times not others. It doesn’t mean if you don’t have transportation that you will automatically not work but you will have to hope they want you. If they don’t they will go for someone else because they have their favorites. I know sometimes they don’t want to walk out side to ask people who are smoking or talking waiting for a job. They would rather pick someone who is already inside the building waiting for a job then outside.

Work Ethics!

Now I know I am hard worker but that doesn’t mean that others are. I’ve seen people sent out who had no such work ethic and would not really that hard and still get paid for the job. I guess it is because of the Minimum wage attitude towards the work they are doing. They get what they pay for, and that means they will get poor quality of works and poor quality of customers. I know that some of this isn’t the company’s fault but I have to believe if they would take a stand there would ultimately get better quality by paying more.

I’ve pretty much said what I will say but I encourage others who have worked for them to comment and tell me your experiences. I’d like to know if anyone actually get hired, or what you story is and let’s chat.

Have a Good work week!

Paul Sylvester