It was after midnight and I had just gotten home… ready to blog up a storm about all the occurences that have happened to me in the past few days. Some bad, some good, but mostly random and just plain weird. Then I fell asleep on my massage table. So after a good morning bike ride, run, and swim let me try to spill my thoughts on this little old keyboard and get my devoted readers up to speed… Oh and by the way today’s blog post is shamlessly sponsored by Sin City Chamber of Commerce. If you see brazilian babe Jade there tell her Shimmy referred you. Now onto posting…
The American Workplace
I usually work several part time jobs in addition to my porn biz. Acting gigs as male talent come and go (hahaha) and when you’re doing your own films and websites you do need to finance them somehow, as girls don’t work for free and neither does the crew or equipment. So to make this story brief I took on a telemarketing fundraising job in downtown San Francisco. It was for a charity to save California’s forests. Hell since I am no longer working for them I will spill the beans, they are called “Forests Forever“. Anyhow I don’t really give a shit about any trees except for palm trees, which I find to be beautiful and exotic, and my job was to phone canvas old supporters and beg them for money in this tough economic crisis. It went something like
“Hi this is Shimmy from Forests Forever…. did you know that clear-cutting is still going on at an alarming rate in California?? Blah blah blah yada yada yada for 3 minutes, then beg for their credit card number… for only $200 per year you can be a sustaining member blah blah blah blah. It was some slick shit. And I’m not really down for doing slick shit, but these are people who love trees that we were calling. I did my best to inject passion into my voice but it just wasn’t genuine. The first day I made over quota, the next 2 days I didn’t, and I was let go. But this is not what bothered me, as business is business… it was this particular person that worked there. And this is where it gets hairy. And I’m going to step on some toes and tell you what is wrong with the American workplace today, in my opinion…
On the other side of the office, well out of sight was this middle eastern woman, dressed head to toe in a burka. She was my “trainer” the other day. You could not see anything but her glasses peeking out of a pile of fabric. Reminds me of those ghosts that used to chase pac man around the maze when I was a kid. Now I’ve seen people in sheets before but never in a corporate office, in a fucking skyscraper building, in downtown San Francisco, talking down to me as if I’m some house nigger that barely comprehends Engrish. She actually resembled cobra commander from GI Joe now that I think about it. But this is the workplace after all, so I’m respectful of diversity until lines are crossed. I took a little humor in the moment as I watched this taliban chick crack open a diet soda, and lift up this little fucking flap in her sheet to take a drink. The can just kinda of dissapeared and reappeared. I almost had to bite a hole in my goddamm lower lip just to keep from laughing and falling on the floor. So after my little pep talk about how not to use my sales talk experience to make sales (huh?) I went back to my desk, made fewer donations, and was canned for not hitting quota. Okay I thought, no big deal… its hard to frown when you get to bang pornstars and make dirty movies for a living. But here is where it gets really fucked up and I feel that I have to speak out on this, and I hope you sane people that work there and even you the sheet lady are reading this right now (though I highly doubt she would be caught dead looking at a pornographers blog site, her hubby would probably cane her and wash her eyes with acid to cleanse my ‘filth’, of course only after to whacking off to me rawdogging a hottie POV style) as this is where the line of decency was crossed. And thats why I’m fucking with your sand-nigger ass.
Little known fact is that my grandfather was from Saudi. I found this out when I was about 20 years old. I had only met him a few times but he was a cool dude. Spoke little English, and I don’t have the full details on the geneology but the birth certificates don’t lie. So this isn’t really a race issue, its a respect and personal boundaries issue. And I didn’t bring it up because a few days ago I actually valued having another job in this fucked up economy. So here it’s time for my 15 minute break, and I walk across the street downtown to the drug store to get something to boost my energy. I had ran 5 miles and swam earlier, and also rode my bike to work. I noticed this black kid selling candy for charity on the way in, and I turned around and said to myself, I need to support this kid, he reminds me of myself, both in past and present. So instead of buying some snacks at Walgreens I walked outside and gave this kid 2 bucks and congratulated him for what he was doing. He was very well dressed, perfectly groomed, and all of about 12 years old. And mind you this is downtown san francisco. He looked better in his suit than I did in mine. Like this black kid should be in commercials selling shampoo or cereal or something. And his charity was to save his parents home from foreclosure… and he had the nuts to be on a streetcorner, with nothing but a smile and a box of candy. And there are all sorts of creeps and freaks in downtown san francisco at night. Did I mention this black kid had nuts to be doing what he was doing. I actually admired him, and had I had more cash I would have given him more. Shit if I had my Nikon I would have done my best to make him famous. And here is where it gets trippy…
My break is almost over, I’m crunching on some of this kids candy, and cobra commander bitch is standing outside of the building and says to me “You really shouldn’t support people like that… he is out there all the time and its not even a real charity it’s for his parents. He should be home doing his homework blah blah blah bullshit bullshit bullshit… I have a daughter and her job is school to get an education blah blah blah bullshit bullshit bullshit.“. She gave me this self-righteous rant about herself and her daughter for the rest of my break. And you don’t know how comical it must have looked to passers by having a loud mouth bitch in a sheet, dressed like an ewok druid from star wars lecturing you about buying candy from a black kid who’s trying to save his own home. There are never any stones on the street when you really need them. Would she be happier if this lil’ young nigga just robbed her point blank?? I mean come on now this kid had limited options (Like myself and many others) and he was trying to hustle his ass off in a respectful way. And it doesn’t get any more “American” than that to me. That boy almost made me cry I’m not shitting you. And I don’t cry, and haven’t in years. So yes his passion for life touched me in a sensitive spot in my mind, thats why I’m taking this all so personal. So I swallowed my pride and went back to my cubicle, and proceeded to save some trees. By sending people junk mail, from a charity to save trees. California is fucked up. And that my friends is what is wrong with the American workplace.
This kind of bullshit would not fly in any other country in the world. You cannot place your so-called values on people, frame them up, and expect to get away with it. And here I am, well groomed, dapper, looking all dipped and buttered and shit in my fresh from the cleaners Nautica suit and Steve Madden shoes, and I’m taking shit both inside of and outside of the office from a pile of walking laundry. What the fuck.
The Sun Still Shines for Shimmy
So after I didn’t make quota at this organization I got some more job offers I lined up a while ago call me up for 2nd and 3rd interviews so I’m not high and dry. It’s like keeping backup girlfriends for when your main lady wants to act funky. And I have some more acting gigs and auditions lined up. So it was still a good day. I cashed the tree-huggers check and got enough scratch to get myself the Canon 3CCD video cam I’ve been drooling over for the longest too, so it was “mission accomplished” so far as I’m concerned. My main objective with work out here on the west coast is to get cashed up enough to get my cams, equipment, model pay, etc financed for making some adult flicks this summer on the east coast, and everything is moving along right on schedule, if not ahead of. So “F U” to all the haters, I’m still pushing forward, full speed ahead.
More weird shit happening at the gym
I don’t like it when motherfuckers recognize me, especially in public. I was last at Sahara buffet in Vegas in January, eating some orange chicken and some dude came up to me and said he thinks he recognized me. I denied it… as that only meant he’s seen me in porn, or on this blog site. And more likely the porn… so I was just like no I’m another random negro. But he made me, and I told him the truth and he went on his way in 2 minutes. It was weird. But not weirder than last night. I had a late nite swim and hot tub after getting my new camera, and went in to shower. Not realizing some dude was ‘watching’ me a little to close. So I get dressed as normal and he motions me to come over to him he has something to tell me…. “brother, young brother… where are you from? I’m from here motherfucker I tell him, not in those exact words. And he shakes my hand and asks me if I’m “funny” (gay) and laugh it off and then he gets serious and asks me why do I “shave my private parts” in those exact words. The laughing expression on my face changed to a fucked up facial expression that suggest something like “nigga why were you even staring at my dick-region long enough to even notice something like that”. The little hairs on my arm stood up… creepy as fuck. I don’t think the dude was homo as if he was that would have made it a little less creepy. Straight normal looking guys watching me from a distance wash my balls in the shower… *sigh* did I mention California is fucking weird??