The Just Venting, Airing Out, Talking Shit, Personal Beefs, Problems, Anger Management, and etc Thread for 2015

[jdcnow]

My wife smacked up my car last night, and since i can't yell at her, I'm posting here. So hold on...

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING! HOLY FUCKIN' FUCK FUCK! YOU WERE IN A FUCKING PARKING LOT, HOW FUCKING FAST WERE YOU GOING. GO BACK AND GET THE FUCKING PIECES! HOLY FUCK, COME ON. I CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING FUCKIN NICE WITH OUT YOU BREAKING IT. COME ON, FUCK! IT WAS FUCKING NEW! WAAAAA HAAAA HAAA! FUCK ME!!!

Thank you for listening. .

I've got my own rant. I strive to be the nicest guy you'd ever meet. But I'm also a flawed human. So yes, I am that one crazy bitch who's SUPER nice, until I'm pushed one step too far. And then, I turn into Bernadine from Waiting To Exhale...

And you never quite know about me, when I've had my fill, and am about to just click. Last night and this morning was as close as I've come to full-on, "Burn this fucker to the ground!" mode in literally years.

My overnight assistant manager and I bust our hides night in and night out. Since my job also entails being the cashier, being "the face of the store" for customers (helping them, offering advice when I can, etc.), and watching out for shoplifters, I can't do as much work as my overnight manager can. But together, on our rotation, we carry that store. We do the bulk of the slave-labor donkey work of the store - stocking, building features, working the truck shipments. If you're reading this wondering where are our day and evening people to help out...well, we're wondering that, ourselves. In fact, the other overnight rotation (that gives my manager and I days off) doesn't do hardly shit else, either. Favoritism and laziness has gone on for way too long in my store.

Even our regular customers that frequently shop there notice it - hell, they come back and report to us on what they see go on, on mine and my manager's week off. In short, not the hell much. I'd lay money on it, that my particular store location is headed for the chopping block, eventually, if my manager and I leave, and the favoritism and laziness isn't dealt with.

What that store really needs is somebody who isn't afraid to come in and break their foot up some people's asses, and deal with the bad fruit.

So the other overnight cashier came in and we told him about all the stuff my manager and I have noticed isn't getting done when my manager and I aren't there. We might have well been talking to a telephone pole. My manager talked to him about the cooler and freezer not getting filled. Almost every week, when we come back from our days off, our cooler and feeezer look so empty and bare, it literally looks like our store location is already going out of business.

The other overnight cashier was with a regular who knew all of us who work at the store. We had a casual conversation in front of Photo Lab, and I was telling the other cashier about all the stuff we notice is never getting done, and it always comes back on my manager and I.

The other cashier flat told me, "Well then, if the job sucks that bad, then, why don't you two just quit?"



'Scuse me?

/looks behind me on one side, then the other...

On the outside, I was like...

But let's just be real, you know how I was inside...



That comment came from the other overnight cashier. It was him, our regular customer, and myself in front of Photo Lab, with my overnight manager inside the cooler, stocking the cold drinks, so he didn't hear.

After they'd left, I'd told my overnight manager what the other cashier had said. My manager's chin literally hit the floor, followed by this question - "Why didn't you knock the hell out of him?" I'm not fucking kidding, y'all! This man is my boss, my immediate supervisor. He can't write me up or fire me, but he can recommend such. And this man - my boss - is literally asking me, why I didn't slap the shit out of the other overnight cashier. Yes, you read that last sentence right - MY BOSS IS ASKING ME WHY I DIDN'T GET INTO A PHYSICAL FIGHT WITH A COWORKER OVER SAID COWORKER TALKING SHIT TO MY FACE!!!

I told my manager, because the conversation was on-camera, and the fact that I do need this job. I understand that everyday is not going to be sunshine and roses. But every single day isn't supposed to be a valley of tears and misery, either.

My therapist can't understand why I'm so overwhemingly Eeyore negative all the time. I don't know, anymore, I really don't...

"Why don't you two just quit?" he says. Why don't you and every other asshole in this store start pulling your own fucking goddamn weight, and stop using the senior overnight manager and senior overnight cashier as a fucking bailout and a get-out-of-work-free card.

Get up off your sorry motherfucking asses and do some damn work!!!!! Quit stealing the company of the wage money they're paying you for the jobs you call yourself doing!!!

Bitch!

 

[jdcnow]

^ I'm sorry, but I've just had enough. Enough!!!

 

[dpnice]

Deep breaths now...............1, 2, 3,.....................................10

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

On my lunch break and even though today is actually going pretty steady I had one guy yell at me because I told him he can only use cash for a prepaid card reload.

Also when I was using a marker on the bills he did give me, he informed me that he isn't a criminal, "only black people are criminals."

The stupidity here is mind numbing

 

[GreyUnderscore]

I appreciate the good wishes guys but I didn't get the job

I applied at another place today. I have a good feeling about this one.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I missed the days when our Delivery Trucks were always early and on time. Them coming 2pm in the Afternoon is such a pain.

 

[jdcnow]

I missed the days when our Delivery Trucks were always early and on time. Them coming 2pm in the Afternoon is such a pain.

OMFG, do I ever get where you're coming from. One Wednesday morning, we had a perfect storm of various vendors at 4am. Our guy that goes from store to store and professionally cleans the floors came in. He always wanted to work on and wax the floors. Trouble is, he speaks Spanish, and I only speak very broken Spanish. So communicating to him that now might not be the best time to wax the floors, was a challenge. Why? Because our McLanes shipment (candy, grocery, and cigarettes) was due in. The guy could never understand why my manager needed the grocery section to not be waxed - waxing the floor means you can't get to where the floor is being waxed. So you can't go over there and work shipment out, either. Which means work that you are directly responsible for getting done can't get done, because you can't get over there.

So one night, the floor cleaner guy finally saw what we meant. While he went around the store with his walking Zamboni scrubber...

...In comes the McLanes vendors with dollies one after another of stacks of boxes and totes, and they have damn near the whole front section of the store blocked off. And of course, since they also bring the frozen food and cooler-storage food merchandise for grocery - that merchandise has to be worked out immediately, because, obviously, if it thaws or warms to room temperature, it's officially damaged and gone bad. That's why our grocery section non-negotiably has to be cordoned off, to allow my manager to go over there and work out the frozen food and cold food merchandise as quickly as possible.

And then the magazine vendor right behind the McLanes vendors. Since my store's magazine rack is right beside the checkout stands at the front of the store, the magazine vendor has his cart and totes of merchandise out, too.

And you see this completely lost, dumbfounded look in the floor cleaner guy's face. Now, he comes every Thursday, instead of Wednesday.

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On a separate note, regarding my store, I'm always this mix of somewhat bemused, and somewhat perturbed when guys come up to me and ask me about if I know anything about Plan B or Take Action (the "morning after" pill - emergency birth control). I always politely chuckle and come back with, "Well, I have had the good fortune to never have needed that, so I probably couldn't tell you."

While it's not the best thing to say, I figure it's a hell of a lot better than, "I'm sorry sir, but I'm gay. I like guys, and I like dick, myself. So I've never done bareback with a girl to where I could have actually gotten her pregnant, so...yeah...that..." /awkward...

 

[jdcnow]

While I am happy for the person over in eastern Collin County who won last night's Powerball, I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't the teensiest bit envious. I wish them well, though. They'll need it.

 

[mikey3000]

^ I love when you post, jdcnow. Sam Mikulak is freakin' adorable!!!

 

[JPGhost]

People who say this and that about Tiger being petted and loved by Buddhist monks

monique 7 hours ago 5 3
Regardless of the treatment of any animal in captivity, it is WRONG to keep any wild animal in captivity unless it is only with the intent to rehabilitate and release . Animals do not exist for our human entertainment, companionship, or financial benefit. What happened to the core Buddist belief of Sila (which includes that all living things are equal). Keeping tigars in captivity and in chains so tourists can come take their picture with them is sick and wrong.

MntnMan62 7 hours ago 0 1
They are all chained to the ground with very short chains. I don't see that as a particularly animal friendly environment. I gather they may only be chained for short periods of time but that is merely supposition.

Pat 2 hours ago 0 0
Tigers belong to the wild. Tourist attraction should not be the goal for the temple to keep hundreds of tigers in captivity and I hope it's NOT.No matter how good the intention of the temple monks are, the media or some opponents would find ways to discredit the intents. These exotic animals should be free roaming in their own habitats.

...are not my friends. They disgust me.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/the-tiger-temple-1423764669-slideshow/

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

They don't disgust me and I agree with them. They are there to draw attraction and nothing more it seems. But I will add that I have no idea how it is over there "In the Wild" for the Tigers, so I can't really comment further than that.

 

[jdcnow]

^ I love when you post, jdcnow. Sam Mikulak is freakin' adorable!!!

Isn't he, though? I'm so glad I found that gif on my tumblr feed. A nice chest and nice arms are the first things I notice on a guy. So when I saw him, I was like holy shit! But yeah, he's so adorable with that swagger...

Not looking forward to tonight at my store. There's so much drama and bullshit that I should probably start selling popcorn and concessions.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Plus you have to deal with Valentine shoppers. I have a half hour left, good luck to ya.

 

[jdcnow]

Plus you have to deal with Valentine shoppers. I have a half hour left, good luck to ya.

Last night was actually not too, too bad, despite us being slammed from 10pm, when I got there, until after 2am, at the least.

After my manager tried to step away from the front to go to the salesfloor to get some of his assigned work done, I did have one incident where one woman tried to line jump. After I ring her first item, she realized she doesn't know where her money is. So, she steps to the side.

I ring the next customer up, take his money, and send him on his way. Afterwards, she finds her money, and wants to jump in front of the next guest in line. I'm polite about it, but I'm like, uh, no?!

She proceeds to argue with me, but then, the next customer, and the woman behind him both let the front woman go and cut, and jump the line, anyway, which makes me look like an idiot, and an ass, even though I believe I was right - if you don't have your shit together, it's not only not my deal, but neither is it the problem of the other customers in line, even if they did let her go first.

I don't give a damn what the reason is - if you step out of line, and then, 10 or 20 people decide to show up in a flash mob all at once, you're not being fair by line jumping, even if it's for, "just a minute". Go to the back of the line, like a mature adult, wait your proper turn again, and suck it the fuck up.

Neeexxxxtttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Outside of telling people there is one line when it comes to having 2 people at the register or someone deliberately trying to cut in line, I try to let people handle that kind of stuff. It's a paint in the ass having to try and babysit adults already, I try to minimize it as much as possible.

I had a similar incident where a guy left the story to walk a person to their car. I didn't ask him to get out of line to do it, I didn't say I would save his spot or anything. I just kept ringing people up as they came and he came back in pissed, yelling an calling me "faggot" and such. Thankfully a Police Officer was there from an existing incident that was going on and he kicked the guy out.

 

[JPGhost]

Can I be genuinely friendly, affectionate and warm toward white guys without them to degrade me in some level?
No they aren't, how do I know?
When I stepping 10 steps toward openness..some threads from unknown trolls (with questionable background) made me pull back 5 steps.
If that cut my chance ..so be it. I rather be invisible than becoming annoyance cheap ass. Dont you fucking dare treating me like that.

 

[GreyUnderscore]

It's 0 degrees F right now. I stepped outside and I immediately thought of you jdcnow. How much you would love today

 

[jdcnow]

It's 0 degrees F right now. I stepped outside and I immediately thought of you jdcnow. How much you would love today

I do and will forever have an undying respect for peopl who can live comfortably in places where it gets and stays below freezing often.

I. Could. Not. Do. It.

My hats off to you folks up there!

Welp, that puts another rotation in the books at my store.

My manager and I couldn't be more thrilled to be rid of the place for another week. The store has a visit walk from the higher ups tomorrow. Let the shit hit the fan, let the bodies hit the floor while we're long gone! The favoritism, the laziness, enough, all of it!

My manager has a job interview with a company on the way home today, and he has a BIG interview with a truck stop/convenience store retailer known for how well they pay. They want to hire him on as a district manager. They're heavily expanding, opening new locations across Dallas-Fort Worth. My manager is going to see if they'd want to hire me as a store manager.

It would be a life-changing, future-altering pay raise - from $900 per month after taxes and health insurance, to $60K a year, plus bonuses. I would literally go from the pit to the palace! Fingers crossed. It's a long shot, but dear friggin' god, would that ever be nice! I'd work all day, everyday for that kind of money!

 

[Beachguyj]

Pissed off at a flaky friend who called me to go somewhere, didn't show up, said he overslept and would be there in a short while and never showed up. I hate inconsiderate flakes. It's not a huge deal cause I was gonna go anyway, but this is the second time he's called to go somewhere and didn't show up and didn't bother to call to say he wasn't coming.

 

[jdcnow]

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