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#we wanted to call ourselves ‘lions’ but apparently that was the name of an lgbt society in the area that was important to him
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I am once again sad that a person I bonded with in a dream is not real
#ALEX. where are you and who are youuuu
#okay so the dream was crazy. like.. coherent by my usual standards but still ridiculous
#i was back at high school but was the age i am now & i was attending a class in ‘business and employment’ which was supposed to help us all
#get jobs and learn skills. but in reality the vast majority of the people in the class (including myself) were in mlm schemes
#(multi-level marketing before anyone gets confused with the acronym)
#myself and the entirety of my high school friend group (about 8 or 9 people) formed the largest faction and we were selling fragrances
#for exactly the sort of company you would expect. anyway. i’d been elected manager even though someone else in the group (who actually sells
#this shit irl lol) had recruited me & another person’s mom had invested money into it so that none of us had to actually buy inventory
#and i was so uncomfortable and ashamed. i was like ‘okay i’ll just do this for a month and then bounce so i can at least get work/management
#experience’. so i was very much checked out when everyone was brainstorming ideas for how to come up with a brand & sell it
#the only thing i did notice is that there was this guy named alex who was pretty much reporting us whenever we breathed. an example would be
#we wanted to call ourselves ‘lions’ but apparently that was the name of an lgbt society in the area that was important to him
#so he complained to the teacher/facilitator about us and we couldn’t use lions. and our whole group was complaining about him
#but i was thinking ‘fuck i hope he gets us shut down’. he seemed like a nice guy and the stuff people started saying was borderline
#homophobic so i had to be the one to shut them down like ‘hey i’m bi as well and i’m your fucking manager. any more of that and you can find
#yourself a new job’
#so anyway. next thing that happened was the facilitator was like ‘okay we seem to have pretty much been taken over by mlm schemes BUT here
#is a list of people in the class who do not want to be recruited & their reasoning. just so you can take note’ and she does a presentation
#of course it starts with alex and his ideological opposition to mlms; but there are other people like a girl who has a large academic
#workload. but it becomes apparent that alex is the one who rallied them all together to spread dissent. so i went over to talk to him
#(for some reason he was now hiding in a tent) and i was like ‘yes alex!!!! can i shake your hand?’ and he was puzzled but he let me
#then i stood up and said ‘can i just say something. everyone has great reasons for not wanting to be recruited and as a manager; i want to
#say that if i catch any of my employees trying to recruit anyone on the do not recruit list for any reason; you will be fired immediately’
#of course this causes a schism. but it also causes me and alex to end up having a heart-to-heart where he’s like ‘why are you even part of
#one of these things’ and i’m like ‘honestly i just want legitimate work experience’ and he’s like ‘i can think of so many more legitimate
#jobs. including like. fly-tipping. i’d rather have that on my cv than scentsy’ and i was like ‘you’re so right’
#and then i woke up thinking ‘god i’m going to have to go door to door selling this shit’ but then i realised i actually didn’t
#and i was so happy
#it has motivated me to go back to job-hunting though because my god.
#that five minutes when i thought i was going to have to traverse the neighbourhood dressed like an idiot and selling wax melts? bleak.
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