....But Not Hard Enough, Apparently

After a pleasant weekend, I came into work this morning and got fired. I'd half-expected it, as you can see by my earlier posts, but I'd thought I was getting better. I guess I didn't improve soon enough. At least it wasn't a job I had a strong emotional connection to - but I shall miss (a) getting paid, and (b) my parents not being worried about/disappointed in me. Also, it's incredibly depressing to find myself a failure at reading work orders and reformatting text to ASCII characters, which was all they were asking me to do. The BPB (who's been stable and supportive all day, thank goodness) says big companies usually hire more people than they know they're going to need, and then fire the ones who fall just below their standards, so I'm probably not so incompetent as all that - it was just cutthroat competition. It sounded more reassuring the way he said it.

At least I did some sketches on the weekend; they remind me I'm good at something.

Canadians

The CBC finishes up its Greatest Canadian contest this week with a documentary on each of the ten finalists and a deciding vote by the country. I can't help notice that all the finalists are men - I mean, I certainly wouldn't vote for someone just because she had the same number of x chromosomes as myself, but there's got to be a few Canadian women worth mentioning - L. M. Montgomery, anyone?

I can't really fault any of the candidates they did pick, though - except perhaps Don Cherry - he's colourful, but is anyone really going to remember him in a couple of generations? I certainly don't think he's in the same league as Banting or Pearson. Also, I'm puzzled by Sook-Yin Lee's reference to Terry Fox as "the only great Canadian known internationally." It seems to me most of our greats left an international legacy - Pearson, the peacemaker; Bell, who made long-distance communications possible; Banting, discoverer of insulin; Béthune (not on the list) is revered in China; Montgomery would probably be the first famous Canadian to spring to the mind of a Japanese citizen. We export greatness.