Hotel stuff

I got big news... After hard work on carrying furniture on favela I got a new job. In hotel here in Gavea. It's luxury and close to my house. Salary 1000 BRL. Tomorrow I will start at 7.30.

With this job helped me my old boss and some girl called Rachel who was working in that hotel before me. I carried a bed for her house with owner of store and he mentioned for her that gringo here needs a better job because he speaks other languages and this job could do 95% favelados of Rocinha. :D And she told us that she works in some little hotel where owner is a french and for sure needs someone who speaks english.

Yeah I met with that guy and he said ok that I can start work on monday. What is ironic that the girl who helped me got fired for money robery in hotel. Life is in circles :D

Job in favela Rocinha

Hey there, I got a job here in Rocinha. In a furniture store where we bought bed and some other stuff. Owner is good man who knows all that stuff about giving workers 30 brl per day for carrying realy heavy things and deliverying in their homes. But in a country where is minimal salary around 625 BRL per month (300 USD) is this realy good.

For someone it's difficult to deal with it because it's the worst kind of job that you can get it here, worst paid and after 10 hours shift you are completely broken. It's not like czech expats in USA because in USA even with minimal salary can live with european standards. Here is favela. Nothing here  reminds european standards. And it's way beyond brazilian standard.

But as I noticed inside of their favela's houses there is lot of comfort of middle class like plasma TV and airconditioning system and Xbox :) But of course there's a lot of poverty when people has nothing and they are living in shanty houses.

When you carry furniture you will get attention of people because they never seen white man with blond hair and blue eyes doing this kind of job.

And other news: as I wrote before there is many police officers with submashine guns. One night I was in local bar drinking beer and police was checking on me. With a serious face I had to pull off my T-shirt and they checked my balls :D

Dot-com bubble 2.0 called Facebook

I want to share with you my pervert point of view on ongoing dot-com bubble 2.0. As you could  notice, there was an IPO (initial public offering) of Facebook and it was overpriced. Who certainly has profited was Mark Zuckerberg - CEO of company and other employes who has been given so called employes' shares. IPO was priced at 38 USD, but according other analytics the real price was something around 28-29 USD for share.

No wonder, Zuckerberg just used oportonity to gain more money. After previous IPOs of social media related companies such as LinkedIn and Zynga which prices climbed up rapidly after market-opening, overpriced Facebook wasn't too confidential.

This kind of stock like Apple, Google and now Facebook are so called cool stock - every of retail investor must have it. And retail investor usualy doesn't know how to calculate price of stock. Upcoming IPO of Twitter will be probably much more difficult than previous.

Another side of this business is an institution that is in the role of guarantor. In this case was Morgan Stanley - American multinacional financial services corporation (not only investment banking). The Facebooks' IPO was a great example what this company is doing for living. Take money from dummy "investors".

But on another side it is problem of people what to do with their savings and one of the simpliest way is to get rid of the money - usualy unconsciously. They trust their stock market broker or in this case multinational financial services corporation with Name and after expected decline they will sue them. But getting rid of the money is what people usualy do in their lifes. We are working like slaves in our jobs and than we spend all salary for buying useless stuff like home theatres or in advanced case Lamborghinies for feeling a little freedom in our lives but who profit from this are only those big multinational financial services corporation and they're making of us more slaves that we are willing to admit.

And Facebook? There are two ways what company will do with money "gained" in IPO - free cashflow to firm and free cashflow to equity. They have now 4 bilions USD. What with them? Buy 4 Instagrams? Buy back or dividend are too far and right now too unreachable. But who knows. 

Homeless in São Paulo returned 20.000 BRL to owner?

Lately, a Brazilian mass media showed up story of homeless couple living on the street who found stolen money from robery. And guess what. They have returned money for owner of the robbed restaurant.

For those of you who can speak portuguese http://g1.globo.com/sao-paulo/noticia/2012/07/moradores-de-rua-encontram-r-20-mil-e-os-entregam-para-pm-em-sp.html

It seems like urban legend, huh? Or Brazilian TV Globo doesn't have enough topic to talk about in Jornal Nacional? Do you guys think that Brazilian people are too good? Or TV are just trying to "educate" people, that normal Brazilian would return money?

It's almost impossible describe how Brazilian medias are making too much noise about it. And just for the record, according all information Globo and other BR TVs are private.

Reconstruction of the favela house

I have delay of writing my blogposts almost because of reconstruction my (ex)girlfriends' house here in Rocinha. This is something that I never did except wall painting so I'm a bit slow. I was without internet connection and used internet only for important things like doing some SEO for my other websites.

So about that house reconstruction, i will post photos when i will have more time. My (ex) girlfriend has house in Rocinha, but it was occupied by tenants. But since she is in Brazil more than 7 months she asked her house back.

House was totally broken and I've been told that I can fix it. I didn't hasite and did whatever I could. I took almost 3 weeks but I'm "proud" of me...

Yeah and for the record, tomorrow I'm going to Ipanema again ask for new job. Wish me good luck ;)

Waiter in Ipanema

Yeah, i finally get a job and i was actualy working in one bar/restaurant in Ipanema. For 3 days and 36 hours of netto working time my boss decided that she will try other person. Yeah bad luck. 

I think that she didn't call me because of my portuguese. I have things mixed up right now. I wasn't physically capable to work alone in that restaurant for 3 days. I feel like a loser again :-) Something is happening with my head. But for nextime.

Have to search for another job right now. Valeu

Job in Rio de Janeiro #3

Hey guys,
after never ending searching for job in Rio de Janeiro I started believe that I'm going to die here in my place full of rats and cockroaches. It was realy the worst situation I've ever experienced but not as that worst like working as stock broker.

I accepted that I'll maybe not be able to find a job here and get some money for surviving. I totally accept that I may have go back to my country with a shame of loser that I certainly am just like all of us. But what ust happend was awesome.

I just got a job!!

Yesterday I was in some interview in small restaurant in Ipanema. I explained to a proprietor that I'm here without carteira de trabalho (any work permission) and she hadn't any problem with that. I'll be doing waiter there and I'm starting today at 5.30 PM. It low classes work but I find that really better that calling to my clients that we just lost money in "our" portfoilio during the Greek election.

Reality helped me after I accept the worst scenario can happen. This is Brazil for me. It's fucking carusel.

So let's get a work!