Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Wanted: Feminist Uprising in Forster
This morning I was thinking about what I should write on my blog today, i decided that I'm in need of a good spiel on feminism. I had lots of arguments planned, but screw that - i'm going to talk about the day I was fired.
Actually. I better not say that because My "boss" called last night and left a message, I have to call her back in a bit as she needs to talk about my roster and available times. Which I don't think will be good as in my first interview the man told me that my availability wasn't really what he was after. so hmmm. I might be unemployed again in an hours time. woo!
Anyway, today I got fired from forster small instrumental. Which in retrospect (is that the right word?) is actually a good thing, as I have 3 other bands with rehearsals almost everyday of the week and I was stressing about how I could fit in another 2 rehearsal times. Anyway, thats not my issue i am trying to discuss.
I told Katherine & Paul (house leaders) that I was fired and they seemed pretty cut at the fact, im not sure why because at the time I was fine with it. Sure I was slightly dissapointed, as small instrumental is really fun but hey! Now i get a sleep in on friday mornings!
So they went to get a reason as to why i was fired, and also as to why they weren't informed of the culling. I'm pretty sure if they did have a say in it they would have picked me over Joss... but well... it's Joss.
Put simply, the reason I was fired was because I am female and because I'm not related to Joss.
Joss' sister was cut too, so they didn't want it to seem as though they were getting rid of the "Terrel" family. So woo! Did it occur to them that they were getting rid of the entire "Steel" family? Their second reason is because they needed an equal number of males and females. Hello! I am the most equal you can be when it comes to being male and female! If it was just me on stage you'd have an equal number of males and females!
I'm also quite appalled at the fact that they didn't consult Paul or Katherine. The main reason why I was "upset" is because I thought that Paul and Kat fired me over Joss. But now I am in the official hate Ms Cawthorn club.
Hmmm. so I have to call my boss person now. That's going to be super scary. Two firings in one day. Thats brilliant. Oh well "destiny was never up to me, and it's not my fault"
- Em xoxo
p.s I will post my feminist post soon. it's going to be great.
