Finally got a permanent contract!!!

After working for 5 years for the same company with a project contract (it means you're contracted for a project only. When it's finished you're fired. Basically, it means they contract you untill they no longer want you, at which time they decide the project is finished and they have to pay you nothing to let you go), today they called me to ask me to go in and sign the new (permanent) contract. This new contract means I'm hired for the company indefinitely. If they want to fire me they have to pay me an ammount proportional to the time I've worked for the company (the salary equivalent to 45 days per each year I've worked for them).

There was a law by which after 3 years working under this type of contract, you were immediately considered as permanently contracted. However, a loophole also allowed them to pay you an amount (which, of course was taken off the bonus part of my salary) and pay off this law (they didn't change the type of contract).

This way, they kept workers in a precarious situation by which they could fire anyone anytime they pleased to do wo without having to pay a penny. They only had to say "well, sorry, but the project is finished", no matter what you were working on at the time.

Thanks to a new law (brought on by our 3-year-old left-winged government), the loophole has been eliminated and this type of contract MUST be transformed into permanent after a year and a half in the company. Companies are now forced to contract us decently and assure us at least a compensation ammount if they want to get rid of us (which they can still do whenever they please... but paying up!).

... and they still ask me why I want a left-winged government. I have no further questions, your honor.

Boredom

Boredom is bad, specially for the soul... And since I had never tried, I started to build up a ball made ONLY of rubber bands. It's still going on, so check on updates! (as if...)
Enjoy!

Mother Nature is pissed

If you ask me, the reason behing the flooding in my town (plus all other nature disasters happening around the world) is simple: Mother Nature is seriously pissed off with mankind. Wouldn't you be?

Here's a cuple of reasons:

Iceland has started whale hunting again. First piece? an endangered species: the fin whale. Greenpeace says this [LINK]

Korea joins the Nuclear Community. They have started testing (that is, EXPLODING) nuclear devices. Didn't we already have enough nukes to blow ourselves up to kingdom come!?

... I give up. Humankind really sucks!! If you ask me, we deserve everything Nature has to throw us...

A few drops

This is the result of a few sparse showers that may have fallen in my community. It rained torrentially for about 5 to 10 minutes. I have no idea how many liters per square meter fell, but the water reached halfway to the step of the front door. Those of you who know my neighbouthood you know of the houses down from me. There was almost a meter high of water flooding the garages there. The firemen finally left at around 10pm, after spending hours baleing water out.

As you can see, in my garage, the flooding was less important, and, thanks to the pumps we're supposed to have, it didn't go over 7 or 8cm deep.

Thank God for the weathermen who always warn us of these contingencies... or not...