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20 Jan 2013, 10:02 pm

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And let you have the last word? I think not. It's just that we've expended anything useful to say to one another.. so if you want to waste your time on pointlessly arguing with me.. go ahead.. I still would prefer you stop coming in and ruining my thread though.

Ruining your thread? In your first post you asked how this was legal, and why you were being punished. You asked a question, and I tried to answer it.

Don't ask the question if you don't want the answer.


You're not, and haven't answered the question though. You just came in and spouted a bunch of crap and expected me to accept it.



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20 Jan 2013, 10:33 pm

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How is not giving a sh** about civics equating to me being "Lazy"? You're just making stuff up to feel better about wasting your own time "Helping" people.

If I had all the free time to go do charity work, know what I'd do? I'd get a second job, or learn a new skill to improve myself.. cause you know what Corporations like better than people who Close? People who can close in 3 Languages.


Sigh...first off, I never said that not volunteering implies you're lazy. What I said was that volunteering shows that you're not lazy. There are many people who are not lazy who choose not to volunteer - and you may very well be one of them. However, nobody who regularly volunteers is lazy - that is an inarguable fact.

That's why companies will give preference to these people - because they can be 100% certain that they aren't hiring someone who will only put in minimal effort out of laziness.

You're idea of getting a second job or learning a skill is a fine idea. Just like volunteering, learning a skill also looks good on the resume. It is absolutely true that companies like people that can speak more than one language. I don't see how that point contradicts anything I've said.

Canaspie, you might as well give up arguing with this idiot, he'll never pull his head out of his a**.



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20 Jan 2013, 10:37 pm

And volunteering you can learn very good and important skills. I learned advanced first aid for my CERT team, I'd say thats an incredibly valuable skill to have, no?



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21 Jan 2013, 12:34 am

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And volunteering you can learn very good and important skills. I learned advanced first aid for my CERT team, I'd say thats an incredibly valuable skill to have, no?


I'm gonna pass on getting some non-certified medical training.



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21 Jan 2013, 7:14 am

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And volunteering you can learn very good and important skills. I learned advanced first aid for my CERT team, I'd say thats an incredibly valuable skill to have, no?


I'm gonna pass on getting some non-certified medical training.

Non-certified? You idiot, its certified. Its called Advanced Medical First Responder. It's first aid, but I'm also trained in things such as oxygen administration and writing Patient Care Reports. It was a course from Saint John's Ambulance that I got for free, although it would normally cost $350-$500 dollars.



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21 Jan 2013, 11:22 am

That's nice, call me an idiot for something I had no way of knowing. I don't live in Canada, so I have no idea how your certification systems work. Nor do I care.

But generally speaking, if some one wants to give you something for free in the US, it's a scam, or a rip off.



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21 Jan 2013, 5:22 pm

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That's nice, call me an idiot for something I had no way of knowing. I don't live in Canada, so I have no idea how your certification systems work. Nor do I care.

But generally speaking, if some one wants to give you something for free in the US, it's a scam, or a rip off.

There's nothing wrong with not knowing something, but if you don't know whether it's certified or not, don't say something like this about it:

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I'm gonna pass on getting some non-certified medical training.


If you don't know, say so instead of making up facts, and you won't be called out on it.



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23 Jan 2013, 12:06 pm

My high school required students to complete 50 hours of community service to graduate (10 hours each for freshman and sophomore years, 15 each for junior and senior years). And I'm glad they made me. I hated it and complained about it then but now I love volunteering. I've volunteered at a nursing home and now I volunteer at a transition program for young adults with cognitive disabilities. I'm sorry you don't enjoy volunteering, but I don't think it's unreasonable for community service to be a class requirement. I also think that it is silly to drop a class because you don't like a requirement. That's just giving up credits and making it harder to graduate. But that's your choice.



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23 Jan 2013, 12:23 pm

This thread has degraded into a series of personal attacks and name-calling, and is being locked as a result.


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