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Have you ever been to a retail store, or restaurant where you were treated poorly by the employee? For this free choice blog entry I am going to be talking about bad customer service. Bad customer service has been a topic that has been on my mind lately because I feel like I have experienced many bad customer service experiences in the span of a few months. There are a variety of things that make an employee a bad employee. Whether that is that they are rude to customers, they aren't attentive with the customer's needs, or they just don't do their job properly. As a retail store employee I try my best to satisfy my customers the best I can, but I have noticed that at other places the employees don't do the same for me. It makes me wonder why those people even have a job in the first place. Now, I don't mean to sound like i'm better than everyone else, but it can be very frustrating when employees treat you in a rude manner.  Things like improper training, poor c...

Hello everyone, I hope all is well! In today's blog I will be discussing the topic of hashtags. I have known of hashtags for quite some time now, i've been seeing them ever since I started using social media. I always thought that hashtags were used in a more fun and joking way. Normally I see people use it for the word slay, or even ootd (outfit of the day). Hashtags are normally really big on instagram, x (formally known as twitter) and TikTok. I myself don't use hashtags because I don't really feel the need to, I post random stuff that doesn't need to be put into a certain category. One thing I have realized is that hashtags can be used in different ways. Hashtags have been around for as long as I could remember and they have come a long way since then. Nowadays people tend to rely on hashtags a lot because they are powerful and can make improvements. Political hashtags have had a great significance with everything that has been happening around the world. In The...

 After Covid-19 happened, many people stopped traveling in order to remain a good health and reduce the chances of getting sick. It's been a few years now since the pandemic struck and it is safe to stay that things have began going back to normal. One of those main things being traveling. Many people have started traveling again although some ticket prices have increased. I consider traveling important because depending on where you go, you can experience different cultures, see new faces, and see different trends. But did you know that there are many mental health benefits that come from traveling? Traveling can do such things as lift your mood, reduce job burnouts, and lower the risk of depression.  I would say that one of the funnest things about traveling is planning. It is said that the anticipation people get from traveling can help lift their mood. Knowing that you have something to look forward to, whether thats a few weeks or months from now can boost your happiness ...

 After graduating last year, I realized that a lot less students were planning on continuing school after high school than I thought. Not many people I knew were motivated on going to university/college because of the expenses along with other reasons. After reading the Doug Ducey article I realized that his Achieve60AZ attainment is a great idea. As a college student there is nothing I want more than for other people around my age group to be in school, studying something they like as well. As mentioned in the article, those with college/university degrees get paid more, which would lessen our poverty. It is very important for the future leaders of our society to become successful, and education can be a very crucial step to becoming successful. I also really liked that Ducey was even considerate of the low-income families, because many times, money is what stops teens from going to college/university.  Source:  https://educationforwardarizona.org/progress/indicators/att...

 It has come to my attention that many people are trying to start petitions to implement age restrictions for entry into Sephora stores. I have been viewing many tiktoks about this argument but I never really paid much attention to it until I realized how right their reasonings were. Last weekend while I was in Sephora, a group of kids came into the small, almost like an entire classroom worth of kids, and the atmosphere changed very quickly. The teenagers began running around the store, they were very loud, and all of the employee's along with the customers were just starring at them. I looked around to see where their supervisors could possibly be, but there was no one in sight. That was when it hit me, maybe kids under the age of 15 shouldn't be allowed into Sephoras.  A petition I read online argued that many kids have been destroying makeup products at Sephora's. Which doesn't only make the company lose money, but the employees get extra work by having to clean the...

 There are many news articles out there that show a lot of signs of slanted reporting, but sometimes we may not even realize what they are doing. At times, authors can be pretty good at inserting slight signs of bias without scaring the reader away. For today's blog, I watched a short video on the Sky News channel on youtube that discussed Elon Musk's Neuralink company and what they are working on. Neuralink is developing a device that would be embedded in a person's brain, where it would record brain activity and potentially stimulate it. Tom Clarke from Sky News showed slight signs of bias throughout the video. I was expecting for Tom Clarke to show the benefits along with the downsides of what Neuralink is trying to accomplish, but instead he made it pretty clear that he was all for the idea. Tom used pictures to show the viewer how the surgeries are performed. He did this to try and convince the viewer how successful the surgeries have been lately, and how there is not...