I AM FRUSTRATE also something weird happened today

[la_belle_laide]

Here's a weird thing that happened today. Okay, a little backstory: When I used to be doing Hula shows like, a few times a month or so, this one guy hired me for some parties. They weren't his parties; he was subcontracting me. I was glad for the work, but didn't like the subcontracting because he was actually taking a large chunk of my money. Or actually what he really did was to take a small chunk of my money and then ridiculously overcharge the clients. (I normally get about $100/hour. This one time, he gave me $85/hour and charged the clients an extra hundred and fifteen on top of that, hello, wtmff.) And he said things to me that I thought were quite unkind, like "Well it's so and so kind of party, so make sure you wear lots of makeup because people like that" and other kinds of stuff. I mean, as if I don't have enough hangups already, right?

I think I only danced for him twice, but still. The last time, he sent me to this place where the people were really rude to me. At the end of the show, they declined to pay me in cash and would only give me two checks.

When the guy who hired me called me up, he started harassing me about not having gotten cash; said he couldn't cash checks. It turned sort of ugly.

So thereafter, whenever he would call to hire me out, I'd just not answer. I'd rather work for myself anyway.

Well. Last week he came into the store where I was working for my company, and said, "Hey! Aren't you that dancer?" I told him that yes, I was, but I am currently back in school, out of practice, really busy, and not dancing much lately. (All of which is true, more's the pity. I do wish it were different.)

He obviously didn't hear me because he said he still had my number and would be calling me soon.

So, no sooner do I walk in my door that day than he's calling me up, trying to get me to do a show again. I thoroughly ignored his message and forgot about it.

Aaaaand cut to today. I go into work, and this adorable boy who also works there comes up to talk to me as he usually does. We talk about guys we like, what we did over the week, etc. and then he says, "Oh, I have to ask you something! Do you dance Hula by any chance?"

O_o

I'm like, "Err... yeah. Why?"

"Because this guy called here looking for you. He wants to hire you or something?"

Okay, now seriously? Am I the only one who finds it creepy that he called the place where I do business, looking for me? After he called me and I didn't return his message? I mean, that's overstepping, right? Or am I being hyper-reactive? Because I know I can be.

Ugh, just, UGH. That is a little weird and, I thought, intrusive.

Well, anyway. So that's the wacky thing that happened to me today.

Oh, you know what else, totally off topic. I have been peeking at hitRECord and I really like what they've got going on there. I really want to contribute something to this ongoing project that I quite like. But I don't know how to get started! There doesn't seem to be a community board where you can PM people who know wtf they are doing and be like, "Give a noob a hand?"

Not only that, but my computer is running so slow it's almost going backwards. And this is a frigging Mac, so what the hell? Both browsers are dragging ass, sometimes even timing out. I can hardly even load a page sometimes!

WTFFFFFFF I AM FRUSTRATE!



Yeah I totally don't even know what that .gif is from either but it alternately intrigues and amuses me*, all the while thoroughly summing up how I sometimes feel, GRRRRR ARRRGH.










*And might eventually-potentially upset me too depending on the context.