just venting, airing out, talking shit, personal beefs, problems, anger management, and etc thread

[jdcnow]

@ borg - yeah my store's on a soft lockdown. We can't keep anyone against their will, but we're locked down.

 

[The Fly]

@ borg - yeah my store's on a soft lockdown. We can't keep anyone against their will, but we're locked down.

It's not much of a lockdown if you can't keep people against their will. Sounds more like suggesting they don't go outside.
If someone left, then wanted to come back, would you let them in?

 

[jdcnow]

It's not much of a lockdown if you can't keep people against their will. Sounds more like suggesting they don't go outside.
If someone left, then wanted to come back, would you let them in?

Our corporate office called my store, and put us on "Black Alert" - our companywide signal for severe weather. In this situation we will enact a "soft lockdown", where all of our employees and any customers who wish to do so go to our designated safe areas for shelter - our produce kitchen, the produce walk-in cooler, the bakery kitchen, and the dairy walk-in cooler. They all stay there until the alert status for our store is lifted - at least the employees are required to.

Customers shopping around are handled on a case by case basis of if they came in before the alert was issued for our store or not, to try and be as fair as we can. We recommend that you take shelter with us. However, the guests who were shopping beforehand are encouraged to checkout, because we need to get our cashier to safety, too. Those who came in after the alert was issued, and the lockdown put in effect are politely informed of the situation and encouraged to stay with us to seek shelter, but we can't run any business and check anyone out while the lockdown is in effect.

I, as a supervisor, basically had to play bouncer at the front door. I politely told anyone who walked up of our situation, and if they'd like to stay with us, they can, but if they do choose to leave or not come in, they're on their own.

However, we won't turn anybody away who wants back in. The weather would have to be so bad that we (my assistant manager and myself) would need to lock the doors and seek shelter ourselves, and there'd just be no one to open the door and let people in.

 

[jdcnow]

News says Dallas-Fort Worth area up to 100 injured, several fatalities. Mile wide tornado.

Thanks very much for the private comment. Yeah, we're all just glad to still be in one piece after last night.

If you were to look on a map at the immediate Dallas/Fort Worth area, Dallas is on the east half, Fort Worth is on the west. Directly south of Fort Worth, the next county over would be Johnson County, Texas - specifically the town of Cleburne. Cleburne's Mayor, Scott Cain, today confirms to local TV news station WFAA Channel 8... Three DIFFERENT tornados, all of them EF-3s, hit Cleburne last night.

Courtesy of WFAA reporters Jason Whitely and Jim Douglas...

Survivors said they could feel the pressure change, their ears pop and walls begin to move in and out before they ever heard the tornado that touched down in the southwestern corner of the city.

"When my ears started popping, when I started feeling the pressure, I knew it was time to go ahead and get in the closet," said Roy Holland, a Cleburne resident.

During an afternoon news conference, Mayor Scott Cain said three tornadoes ripped off roofs from homes, overturned vehicles, sucked out metal garage doors, snapped trees and sent residents in the Winchester subdivision scrambling into interior bathrooms and closets at about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

On Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service said preliminary results show that the tornadoes were rated EF-3, which meant they brought winds between 136 to 165 miles per hour to this town roughly 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

"I was actually standing outside on my front porch and watched the tornado come across," said Robert Barnett, another resident. "I've seen tornadoes before, I've chased them, but I've never seen one like this. It freaked me out."

"Fortunately, we have not had any fatalities or serious injuries," said Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain.

He declared his city a disaster area just before the county judge did the same thing for Johnson County overnight which automatically begins requests for state and federal assistance.

In all, Mayor Cain said 600 homes suffered some kind of damage and at least two dozen were destroyed by the tornadoes. The widest funnel stretched a half of a mile. Paramedics transported nine people to the hospital with minor injuries, Cain said.

At sunrise, first responders will begin a house-to-house search in the hardest hit area to make sure no one is trapped or injured. Mayor Cain said City Hall suffered wind and water damage, including some minor issues in the city council chambers, during the severe weather

Cleburne ISD canceled classes on Thursday as it assesses damage, too. Gerard Elementary and Smith Middle schools have missing roofs and water damage in some areas, Mayor Cain said. A dusk to dawn curfew will be in effect starting Thursday night.

The mayor said Oncor hoped to restore power to affected homes by Friday.

Darrin Vasquez lost part of the roof on the duplex his family rents on Hyde Park Blvd. near Country Club Rd.

"I didn't think it hit so I went back outside and saw stuff flying by and said 'It's here! Let's go!'" Vasquez recollected.

He dragged a queen-sized mattress into an interior bathroom where Vasquez, his son and 18-month-old grandson all sheltered.

"It was just very loud and very violent," Vasquez added.

With a hole ripped open in his roof, rain poured into his attic causing the ceiling collapse inside his home. Trees block streets, shingles and roof decking litter them as well. A dishwasher sat on a sidewalk along Hyde Park Blvd near Murry Dr. A few blocks south a doghouse had been blown into a fence.

News 8 counted roofs gone on at least a dozen houses overnight. As the sun rises, the damage will become clearer.

One vehicle sits overturned next to a house.

At midnight, sounds of chainsaws were heard as lightning flashed and thunder still rumbled. The city began moving debris out of the way to allow access through the hardest hit streets.

Mayor Cain said police will be checking IDs in the hardest hit areas and only allow in residents on Thursday rather than sightseers.

 

[G-Lexington]

Nothing compared to the above, but since this is the place to bitch...

It's one of those things where you can't really complain about the people involved - it's just the situation makes things frustrating. I have a slot open on a performance. I need to book somebody for it. But I can't book more than one, or MAYBE two, for that slot. So it goes like this.

* I put out a call - "I have this slot open".
* I get a bunch of responses. Let's say twenty.
* I explain to the twenty what it entails, and ask if they're interested/available.
* Most say yes - let's say fifteen.

I then can only contact TWO of them with an offer, because I can't extend an offer to three in case everybody says yes...at which point I'm overbooked and have to rescind. So I offer two of them the gig...and then wait for them to get back to me. And wait. And wait. And finally I say "I need to have an answer"...at which point they invariably decline. I technically could accept "no response" as a "no" - it never runs the other way - but I feel weird chasing after the next name on the list before knowing the previous name is definitely not going to do it. So it ends up that I have one (or maybe two) slots open, and upwards of fifteen people interested...but it still takes tons of time and messages before I end up with somebody who can do it.

I'm trying to come up with a way to expedite this. Maybe adding a "Please respond by Xpm on Y date" at the end of that message...but even so, it's just gives me a SPECIFIC time to wait until having to move on to the next one. I just wish it were easier/quicker to sort through the candidates.

Lex

 

[The Fly]

Nothing compared to the above, but since this is the place to bitch...

It's one of those things where you can't really complain about the people involved - it's just the situation makes things frustrating. I have a slot open on a performance. I need to book somebody for it. But I can't book more than one, or MAYBE two, for that slot. So it goes like this.

* I put out a call - "I have this slot open".
* I get a bunch of responses. Let's say twenty.
* I explain to the twenty what it entails, and ask if they're interested/available.
* Most say yes - let's say fifteen.

I then can only contact TWO of them with an offer, because I can't extend an offer to three in case everybody says yes...at which point I'm overbooked and have to rescind. So I offer two of them the gig...and then wait for them to get back to me. And wait. And wait. And finally I say "I need to have an answer"...at which point they invariably decline. I technically could accept "no response" as a "no" - it never runs the other way - but I feel weird chasing after the next name on the list before knowing the previous name is definitely not going to do it. So it ends up that I have one (or maybe two) slots open, and upwards of fifteen people interested...but it still takes tons of time and messages before I end up with somebody who can do it.

I'm trying to come up with a way to expedite this. Maybe adding a "Please respond by Xpm on Y date" at the end of that message...but even so, it's just gives me a SPECIFIC time to wait until having to move on to the next one. I just wish it were easier/quicker to sort through the candidates.

Lex

Could you contact people you've worked with before, or those who have been most conscientious about notifying you whether or not they can fill a slot the quickest?

 

[G-Lexington]

I've been asked to use a "variety" of artists for this, so I'm usually dealing with a brand new set each time around. There are a few that I have called in to do this more than once, but I try to keep using them to a minimum, simply because they don't like seeing the same names again and again.

Lex

 

[The Fly]

Wellll......I got nothin'

 

[whitedavo]

You could do it like job hiring. Tell everyone they're accepted but that they must reply by a certain date and time. Whoever doesn't is out. Then you pick from who is left. That way you have options instead of hunting.

 

[G-Lexington]

Doing it that way means that people who DID respond on time then don't get the gig. And that would make them disinclined to want to throw their hat in the ring for the next one.

I don't think I'm doing it "wrong", per se. I just think I need to man p and accept that it's an unpleasant but necessary part of it.

But on a positive note, the slot is filled.

Lex

 

[G-Lexington]

The gig went very well, but was sparsely attended. Pissed as hell at one performer who cancelled after showing up to the gig! He apparently thought the crowd wasn't worth his time, and just left...without even saying anything to me. He just sent me a FB message - "sorry, had another gig". I don't believe that at all, but Jesus, even if you did, you couldn't tell me in person? I was right there in front of you.

I'm determined not to let it get me down, though. Next gig will be even better.

I was looking forward to sleeping in...until the marathon runners started jogging by at 6am. Damnit, was that today?

Lex

 

[rareboy]

When it comes to your back...you need to protect it better. Next time, withdraw earlier....no one will think you are pussing out if you explain that your back is killing you.

 

[jdcnow]

@loki - Hugs... Yeah, back pain is kinda nothing to play with... Get some rest!

 

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There... boy I feel better

 

[frankfrank]

Loki, I also hope your back gets to feeling even BETTER than merely better - now.

Take it off.

My God, Benderboy, if he takes his foot off, he will need to have surgery, because I don't think he can do it himself, then he will need to be fitted with a prosthesis.

 

[CowboyBob]

Fucking sonofabitch mother fucking shit

<snip>

Fucking sonofabitch mother fucking shit

There... boy I feel better

Having a bad day?

 

[jdcnow]

Fucking sonofabitch mother fucking shit Fucking sonofabitch mother fucking shit...

Believe me, you don't even want to know how much I can actually relate, right now.

For someone who was originally scared shitless to the point of actual panic attacks at the prospect of surgery - of being put under anesthesia, of having my breathing temporarily pharmaceutically stopped and assisted for me, and of having a portion of my body literally cut open... Well, leave it to my supermarket job, and my first night back from days off, to push me to the point where I'm almost tempted to walk into the nearest hospital - right now! - walk up to a nurse's station and politely ask, "Would you like me to start the IV line myself?" /frustrated to the max...

If I'm going to have this surgery, frankly, it needs to happen rather quickly, within the next few weeks, or else, there is an outside chance I might actually stand to lose this opportunity entirely altogether. OK, I speak with one of the night assistants, my bosses. The male overnight assistant says, I could have the surgery at any time, as long as I just let him know when. I could have it tomorrow if I wanted, just let him know today, for example. OK, fine - I'm going to the doc's Thursday, and was going to try to see if he's open to Next Monday, the 27th.

The plan was - have the surgery Next Monday, be off for 3 weeks, and come back in mid-June. Heal up good, because in July, I have a mandatory math class I have to take - that's a special situation all together. The algebra class I just got through taking was "Developmental Math" or DMAT Version 97. The DMAT classes are for those whose math skills aren't quite up to college level yet, so the DMAT classes bring them to up to that college-level standard. There are 3 stages or levels of the DMAT courses - 97, 98, and 99. I passed DMAT 97 with flying colors - a 92.4, an A, if I recall. My next class to take would be DMAT 98. But here's the catch - Because the Texas Education Agency (the division of the Texas state government that oversees all accredited schools and colleges in the state) got a wild hair up its ass sideways, and got in the mood to start penny-pinching, starting in the fall of this year, DMAT 98 - the course I need - will no longer exist in its current form. What they've done, in order to cut costs, is fold 97 and 98 together into one course.

So, if you're like me, and took DMAT 97 in the spring, you non-negotiably MUST take DMAT 98 in either the June or July semesters - OR YOU WILL BE FORCED TO TAKE THE NEW 97/98 COMBINED COURSE before being allowed to advance to DMAT 99. The 97 half of the new course will basically be remedial, and the tuition and book money you spent on taking DMAT 97 in the spring - Well, you just flushed that money down the fucking toilet. But like an infomercial - "But wait, there's more!" Furthermore, if you're just like me and live in the city of Dallas, but technically not in Dallas County - because 75287 is the one bitch-ass zipcode that's technically out of county, and therefore out of district, and your out of district tuition is DOUBLE the in-district tuition, well you just flushed about $450 bucks in tuition and book costs down the toilet - damn near a whole paycheck for me. How do you like them apples? /pissed...

If I don't take this summer course in July, all of the 19 and 21-hour days I put in this spring, all of the pushing myself harder and harder, and harder still, will literally have all been for nothing. Just gone to pot. All of the nearly running myself into the ground was all just a waste.

So back to the topic of the surgery - So I find out from talking to my female overnight assistant manager, that I have to wait until they get an overnight cashier trained to replace me while I'm gone. Trouble is, she doesn't start until the latter part of next week - when I had planned to already be gone. So now, not only is my surgery delayed, I have to push it back a whole week to June 3rd, at the earliest. I have to allow 3 weeks for recovery and healing time, which would put me at somewhere around June 21st. If I am forced to wait until the week of June the 10th, which is the middle week of June - that is actually my last shot at this, because then I won't be back until the end of June/beginning of July - right when this course begins. The summer semesters are 5-day-a-week courses for 4 to 5 weeks, with a test every Friday. If you fall behind in these classes, you're fucked. If you think I don't get any rest at all now, just wait. Coming back from being on recovery for over a half a month, immediately back to 5-day/wk supermarket job, plus my 5-day/wk housekeeping/personal assistant job, plus 5-day/wk college class. I would be screwed six ways from Sunday. I'd have to be up almost around the clock for a whole month.

And the at-least week delay in having this surgery, means another week added of all of this stress and strain weighing down on me, and weighing on my mind.

God, I can't break, but I feel like I'm about to.

I have to have this surgery done, but I don't know... I really just don't.

And here's another reason why I specifically need this surgery done now - the way this doctor thinks he can swing the paperwork - I might just get this surgery done for FREE!!! Seriously - all I'd have to pay for is the doctor visits and physical therapy. This is a several-thousand-dollar operation I'm basically getting for a song.

I just hope my store can get its shit together so I can finally go on medical leave and get this done. /facepalm...

 

[jdcnow]

So friggin' frustrated!!!!!! My chest pain feels like it's coming back...

 

[frankfrank]

Hang in there, pal.

I seriously hope it all works out on a schedule which works well for you, including also being able to take the "98" course while it still exists in its current format this summer.

 

[jdcnow]

Thanks. I got the FAFSA for a Pell Grant sent in electronically, so, we'll see what happens.

Also, I need Thursday to hurry up and get here, so I can schedule this surgery, and get on with it.