WELCOME refugees! ...... or terrorists?

Canada is a Country built on immigration!

Yes it's that simple, but what isn't simple is the way the immigration simple works!

Basically you apply from a consulate in your home Country expressing your wish to emigrate to Canada and make it your home, you then pass a little quiz to see whether you qualify, the government checks you over for months and sometimes years, and MAYBE you'll be allowed to call Canada home. Now I wish the system worked as well as that, but the "point" system they use often disallows good people for the dumbest reasons while letting in less than desirable people. What's happening more and more though is people are bypassing the system by claiming refugee
status even is everything is fine back home.

OK so you may wonder why this is bad for Canadians?? Well while they are here getting processed we pay for everything they have, medical, dental, housing, food ..... AND THEY AREN'T EVEN CITIZENS! You've also got the problem with letting people that are simply "jumping the Q"(:) forget how to spell Q) because they know they won't qualify under traditional rules..

SO that brings me to a recent event off the West coast of Canada ..... you've all heard about it, 492 migrants come on a boat from Sri Lanka and claim refugees status.

What's odd about this situation isn't a boat, it's the stories that have come up since, with the biggest one being;

"According to a secret government survey reported by QMI Agency Sunday, 71% of Tamil refugees in Canada who responded to the survey traveled back to Sri Lanka for vacations, business, or to sponsor a family member, bringing into question the legitimacy of their refugee claim." QMI agency

And here's another interesting point, it appears a small portion of these refugees are Tamil Tigers(a recognized terrorist group), and the $ paid for by the others was put into the Tamil Tigers Coffers

Tom Godfrey, QMI agency

TORONTO - ""Some die-hard Tamil Tigers fighters allegedly snuck into Canada on the ship that brought 492 migrants to British Columbia, according to a pro-Sri Lankan government website.

Their goal is to start a chapter of the dismantled terrorist group in Toronto, said LankaWeb, which runs a pro-Sri Lankan government articles from around the world.

The purpose of the MV Sun Sea journey this month was to raise money for the Tigers, which is considered a terror group in Canada, and smuggle fighters to Toronto so they can establish a cell, said an article on the website, which was attributed to Sri Lanka United National Association of Canada.

The journey was "to gather the remnants of the Tamil Tiger fighting cadres in an asylum-granting liberal democracy such as Canada, and pursue the objective of carving out a separate state of 'Eelam' for Tamils in Sri Lanka," said the article.

"The Canadian pro-Tigers diaspora is the largest and most active segment in the world."

It alleged the group's supporters in Toronto will profit from the journey, which they helped set up by enlisting migrants who paid up to $50,000 for the trip. ""

The story is that this seems to be simply a probe of our defenses, looking for a weakness, so they can tend a ton more ....... no need for coming through the proper channels EH!

What are your thoughts?? ME? send em back! and recent polls agree, see http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/08/19/15080536.html

Another work post !

Really, I've never been a person that believes "numbers" tell you everything, sure they can give you a good overview but they can't give you the whole picture.

So, my store has gone from 24 hours to m-f 7a.m.-midnight, and sat and sun from 7-11.

I'll tell you why they did this ................. NUMBERS!

I guess these people never think, they simply use those little punch cards to enter data into that "room sized" computer and believe that what shoots out is the "Gospel"

Well let me tell you 2 weeks ago between 11p.m. and midnight I did about $700 in sales, where were the #s there?

What about pissing off the regulars that shop a little later? What about the early morning customers that want a few items for work? What about those people buying a ton of food for a big event that wait until the day because they don't have room at home?

Now I will say that I hated the thought of going 24 hours but in the last 10 years I've come to understand the love some customers have for late night shopping, what I recommend is an extra hour hear and there, but why would the # crunchers EVER talk to the people that work those shifts?? What a silly thought!

How about m-f 6a.m.-1a.m., and sat, sun 6a.m. to midnight??

Brent

Are U f-in kidding me

Jeesus was I pissed off a few weeks ago!

You'd be correct if you were to tell me that stocking shelves is a simple job, it doesn't take a lot of
brain power but it does take a certain person. Now you may ask "what type of person does it take to stock shelves", so let me tell you, it take somebody that able to take abuse even when they are working their asses off, never hoping to get a thank you(it's simple and is good for motivation), and have the ability to watch people all around them f around all night/day, take long breaks, and take absolutely no pride in their work.

I'm not one of those people, I work hard, I take all of my breaks at the end of the night so I can get more work done, I rarely take my full hour and put up with more abuse than anybody should..... This is coming from a union member ....believe it or not!

So a few weeks ago 3 of us were scheduled for a Friday midnight, a girl on cash, a guy on the "floor", and me in the freezer ...... Well she had booked the night off WEEKS ago so she didn't show up, the other guy decided that morning to simply no come in(besides leaving every other day that week early!) ......So that left me ALONE. Now what that allows me is the ability to do NOTHING, I'm not supposed to work alone, so I could have simply locked the doors and sat their, I also could have locked the doors and gone home and I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN PAID!

Well I end up staying all night, doing a full nights work including cash and receiving and didn't even get a thank you in the morning!!

You'd think that was enough wouldn't you? NOPE, the same girl was working with me on Saturday night so I was to be alone Saturday too. So they found a way to keep a girl their until 1a.m.(leaving me with 3 skids of ice-cream to work in 3 hours, probably a 4-4 1/2 hour job), that was helpful, and I was thankful, I would have preferred she did ANYTHING other than bug me for 3 hours, but I had some help on cash so I said nothing Now they had a ass manager that was to drive the girl home, come back for a few hours, go home for a few, come back to lock up that evening. So I told her I was fine working alone(it was 1:30a.m. when she left, and somebody was in at 5a.m.) for a few hours and her schedule was silly.

SSSOOOOO, Pat(Manager in charge), the guy that set up this interesting weekend, comes in Monday and actually gives me shit for sending her home "If anything happened I could have lost my job" BBOooo f-ing hoo. Are you kidding me??

I never got a thank you for putting up with this bullshit, never got an "I'm sorry" for a brutal scheduling f-up, and actually get in shit for saving an Ass managers sanity!

Some times I wish I didn't have such a strong work ethic!