Would anyone be opposed to an anger venting thread? What with all the stress and general crap happening around the world everyday I would imagine that a lot of people feel as pissed off at the end of the day as i do. Possibly even more so! I could come home every night and just vent in my room to no one in particular, but feedback from enlightened individuals is a lot better. Of course it wouldn’t just be me. I honestly would not mind hearing about other peoples problems as well. If its a stupid idea let know. If not……….rage on, tomorrow is a new day.
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More extreme frustration than anger. I was at work today and a customer walks in. She was coughing a bit into a paper towel, nothing unusual there. I sold her whatever it was she wanted and she left. As I was walking away from the counter I saw a white paper towel sitting there. It looked like one of ours so I grabbed it to throw it away. It was then that my fingers encountered a gooey substance and I remembered that the woman had walked out empty handed(sans auto parts). REALLY?! You’re just gonna leave your nasty towel there for someone else to pick up? Possibly catching whatever you have in the process? It was disgusting on an instinctive level and I hurried to wash it off. Other than that it was an okay day.
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Vent away. Look - someone’s even listening!
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So I’m at work and we have about ten customers in the store, most of them are in line. There are just two of us working the counter and the other guy is going really slow. So most of the customers are in front of me. I get one impatient guy who buys a locking gas cap and then asks if I can show him how to install it. I ask him to hold for about five minutes while I help the other PATIENT customers. He looks at them and says “its gonna take you longer than five minutes to help all these people”. I say “yes sir, and the line is not getting any shorter”. Then he asks “so is that a no?” I reply “No sir, that is NOT a no”. He then throws the air freshener in his hand at me and storms out. Like IM the jerk! One of the other customers called him a dick on the way out but he didn’t turn around. Angering but actually pretty funny in hindsight.
P.S.: He bought a gas cap AND an air Freshener.
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Frickin bureaucracy!!! So the other day I receive a letter from Texas DPS stating that I will not be able to renew my license next month due to outstanding charges. Well this is all news to me! So I go online to find these charges. Turns out that the IDIOTS at the county courthouse can’t file paperwork correctly. (Big surprise). Apparently six or seven ago I got two traffic tickets in a week. One for expired inspection one for expired registration. The thing is……only the inspection was bad. My dad had let it go ELEVEN MONTHS OVERDUE! But we had just renewed the registration and had gotten new plates. So I go to the courthouse and present my case as it were. The cop had made a mistake when he wrote expired registration. I had my paperwork to prove it. They said they would drop that ticket. I still had to pay the other one. Fast forward to today. I find out that they DIDNT drop the ticket, but a warrant has never been put out for me. I have been pulled over since for burned out tail lights and nary a word about this problem. I owe $208 apparently. I called the courthouse the next day and they said there was no record of ANY outstanding fine and that I needed to call a 1800 number to “find out more” then call the courthouse back. I called the number and they told me there was no fine listed. So I called the courthouse and somehow in the previous 5 minutes the phone menu inexplicably changed! I could not find my way back to the proper department. Frickin bureaucrats!!! The old plumbers saying is true. The more you fix the plumbing, the easier it is to clog the drain. Gonna have to go up there personally and have a talk with them.
Sorry about being so long winded.
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If possible, Record the Message about your Lack of fines for the 800 # message board,
Then return to the courthouse in person. Tell them this time If They don’t fix THEIR
clerical error, Your Attorney will do the talking for you After that.
If possible, let them know you intend to file Criminal & Civil complaints against them.
That is what I would do.
If they Can’t Fix their own errors, They Do Not deserve to be there!!!
Settle Out of court with those Not about to Do the job being Fired.
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Worst day so far.
So my manager quit today. Yep, right out the blue! Now most people would sterotypically assume this to be a good thing, and it would be…………if my manager had been a douche bag. He wasn’t though. To be honest he always seemed to be the most stable and level headed in the whole store (no surprise considering his job). He didn’t say anything to anyone. Just came in early, wrote a note left his keys and was gone. NOT ONE GOODBYE! The reason this bothers me at all is that it put me off balance for the rest of the day. A day FULL of douche bags. Including a guy who chewed me out for helping out a girl before him. WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULDNT WALK AWAY FROM THE COUNTER WHEN THE STORE IS FULL AND EXPECT TO GET YOUR SPOT BACK!!! That combined with several thefts and a slow Co worker made it a day of pure soul demolishing hell. Upside? I just got paid.
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Its just rumor at this point. But apparently it was a take it or leave it kind of deal. Meaning he had to make a decision then and there or they would give it to someone else. From what I heard he is going to be a district manager for Long John Silvers. Of course, its just a rumor, but its a strong one. I would imagine he’s going to get paid A LOT more money. He also has to pay child support, so its kind of noble.
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Damn you Tommy Wiseau!!!
I just got done watching “The House that Drips Blood on Alex” starring Tommy Wiseau, and it was just like The Room, so unbelievably stupid it was hilarious.
It was so hilarious in fact that I lost my balanced and rammed my head into the blunt circular area of a can of diet coke and cut myself. Let me say that again, I cut myself with a blunt object.
DAMN YOU WISEAU!!! 
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The best customers ever (insert sarcasm here)!!!
So I opened at work today. Its nice to get out when the sun is still up and I usually get more sales. There’s one problem though. Quite a few of our early morning customers are hung over and some are still drunk. The worst part of that is the STANKY, NASTY, HORRENDOUS morning breath!!! Most of them lean on the counter for support so they’re practically in your face. Oh, and there are varying degrees of intensity! Yes there are!!! With one guy I had to hold my breath everytime he spoke, and of course the smell is still there. You just hope its diluted somewhat by the time you’re forced to breathe. But the very worst was a few months ago. He came in and asked for some part and I walked out from behind the counter to show him where it was. As I was presenting it for his inspection he leaned in and asked me a question…………….and I GAGGED!!! Audibly! He gave me the strangest look. Apparently he was unaware of his oral hygiene issue. It smelled like fresh turds mixed with mayonnaise and currie topped with rotting posseum. To this day it ranks with the worst things I’ve ever smelled and lived to tell about. He did buy two batteries for his truck though!
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Disrespected in two languages, at least I think….
Today we had a customer walk in and wanted me to help him with his car. He had come in the day before and bought a radiator cap. The problem with this guy was that he only spoke Spanish and I only speak English. Its not an uncommon problem where I live. Usually we have someone around who can translate. Anyway, he remembered me from his first visit and came right over. Something interesting to note is that his left arm is in a cast. He comes over and starts speaking rapid fire Spanish to me as though he’s forgotten that I couldn’t understand him the first time. (We had a translator). He gesticulates a lot and seems to be describing something in great detail……to which I can only respond with a dumb look. We finally get another customer who can speak Spanish and he proceeds to help us. The man says he wants a radiator stop-leak. But he keeps changing it from that to an industrial adhesive(j-b weld). The other guy leaves and I STILL can’t speak Spanish. We end up going to look at his car and I can finally see what he wants. His radiator has a gaping hole and he wants something to seal it with. No problem, except that it has a GAPING HOLE IN IT! I try to explain that we don’t have anything to cover it but he looks at me with incomprehension in his eyes. Well he was determined to try the stop-leak. So I’m back to helping customers and he’s at the back of the line when another patron asks him what happened to his arm. The man then told him IN FRICKIN ENGLISH!!! He had hurt it at work. QUE?! (Spanish for “what”) Oh so he DOES speak English. Not very well, but passable. He gets up to me again and its back Spanish. We end up getting another translator who stays till the man leaves 45 minutes later. He insisted on fixing his car in the parking lot and proved me right about his problem. He spoke Spanish the whole time, except when he thanked me profusely in English for all the help I gave him.
P.S. I do not have ANY problems with Hispanics or Mexicans……….at all. I just can’t speak Spanish, yet.
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Not a fair trade.
So I’ve been wrestling with a conundrum for the past two weeks. To stay or go. Let me explain. My assistant manager just got his own store. Its a bigger store than the one he is working in now, however it makes about half the money. He has been managing my store since our manager quit a few weeks ago. Its good for him because he wanted a store and the company decided to give him one that had less stress attached to it. At least……that’s how they see it. When he goes to that store he has to take someone else with him as the new manager for MY store will be bringing his assistant manager with HIM. He chose to bring me as I am apparently a good employee(not bragging, just stating). Ordinarily I would be honored! Except that I like the store I’m at. I would get a two percent raise for going to the new place but that REALLY isn’t saying much. We also get commission on our sales, again not much, but worth the crap we put up with. I have good coworkers and SOME awesome customers and the store is located in a great spot! The other place is hard to get in and out of, has almost no business and is 45 years old, and it shows EVERY year. The employees have the hardest time meeting sales goals(not their fault). So I reason that I can stay where I am, not get a raise and make up the difference with commission sales. Add to that the other place has pidgeons and massive rats living in it and is constantly having technical issues. The. MAJOR problem here and the real reason I’m upset at all is that none of my coworkers want to go either. Well when the changeover happens there will be a forced transfer and someone WILL go. Guess who that will most likely be? If it does happen that way I imagine I will be in here more often. Well at least I got to open today. Got out before the sun went down!
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A few quickies since this thread seems to be so convenient for it.
D&D-
I hate it when I start a game, and I give the players a bunch of plots they could go after and they decide to just bullshit around and basically do -NOTHING- in the game for over two weeks.
Dentist-
I’m so sick of my dentists making fun of me for my facial features or my blue hair or whatever. Even worse, I hate it when a dentist talks to you and asks you questions while they’re prying your mouth open giving you a shot right in your gums.
Job-
I NEED A FUCKING JOB! Preferably one that doesn’t have bi-polar, passive agressive, scheming managers.
And finally, one long rant-
JRPG’s-
JRPG’s are extremely addicting to me and it’s becoming more and more frustrating to deal with. The endless pursuit of finding perfection in a Japanese RPG despite them never actually being RPG’s is kind of maddening. Final fantasy 5 has an awesome system but it gets broken with ninja + ranger dual weapon/rapid fire, final fantasy six has an amazing plot but much to be desired in the combat system, final fantasy 8 has excellent cinematography and nothing else is even remotely worth while, Star ocean 3 has an amazingly engaging free-roaming combat system but the plot is such a huge ripoff of The Matrix, final fantasy 9 has a great plot and great combat system but is fairly tedious at the best of times, final fantasy 10 has easily the best combat system I’ve ever seen in a final fantasy game but the story and the main character are so god awful it’s almost not worth it, final fantasy 12 has introduces a new, albeit unrefined free-roam combat system but two of the main characters, Penelo and Vaan, are useless tag-alongs to the story, serve no purpose and can easily be removed without changing the plot, Star ocean 4 has a much better plot, and an engaging combat system but at least five of the 9 main characters are so god awful annoying and the supporting cast is even worse, Eternal sonata has a really beautiful system and story but a combat system that really can’t hold my interest, Infinite Undiscovery is, well its a tri-ace game like star ocean that I come back to for fuck knows why, Last Remnant has the greatest tactical experience in any combat system I’ve seen to date but the plot has more holes than an overused prostitute, Final fantasy 13 is laughably stupid and boring until chapter 11 and then barely entertaining beyond that, final fantasy X-2 has a rather awesome and fast paced combat system that I REALLY like but the JPop-ified girly bullshit, terrible story, terrible acting and terrible everything make it a migraine waiting to happen, Final Fantasy 4 The After Years has a few good ideas but is mind numbingly boring with the way it switches stories, Valkyrie Profile 2 is innovative but it fails immensely at that despite a fairly decent plot, Star ocean 1 and 2 have some pretty fun combat systems but the plot is so bland and characters are impossible to get behind or empathize with, final fantasy 7 had a great idea with the materia system but is so overly science fiction as opposed to fantasy or even a decent blend and has such a whiney bastard of a character that it’s really not fun to play, Magna Carta 2 has pretty graphics and that’s about it, final fantasy 4 has an amazing plot but a five person party is very difficult to manage and the plot is only amazing until you ride a fucking whale to the moon, final fantasy two had a great idea with a “Get better at [insert attack or skill here] as you use it” but had such a bland plot it was forgettable, Wizardry Labryinth of The lost Souls has an infinite level dungeon with an infinite level-up system for characters which is basically fan service, Kingdom hearts has a very compelling story, a great ensemble of characters and a challenging but not impossible combat system but it’s not a JRPG, kingdom hearts 2 has just as good a story as the first but was way too easy to beat, kingdom hearts birth by sleep is a great game with a great plot but virtually no majesty, suspense or mystery to it considering it’s a prequel and one of the characters looks strikingly similar to the main villain of the first game, thus basically spoiling it right away that he’s going to become Xeohnort (or however it’s spelled), Romancing Saga has a good idea making a sandbox for a JRPG but the characters are too undeveloped to relate to or have a story with, Legend of Dragoon had a darker plot than normal JRPG’s but it was undeveloped and the combat system just flat out sucked, Xenogears came close with pretty much amazing combat, graphics and everything except for the inclusion of mechs in a feudal china-like setting,
and DESPITE all that, I still go back to playing more and more JRPG’s, many of them the same games.
Lost Odyssey is probably the closest I’ve ever come to having a perfect JRPG but if its one thing I love in a JRPG, it’s an epic save-the-world tale and Lost Odyssey aint it.
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…wow i think you more or less named every single major ‘JRPG’ that exists…
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Fixme
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Not to be an enabler or anything…but you should check out Radiata Stories. Now that’s an RPG.
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There goes another pair.
At my work we have a dress code. Its a simple one and its relatively easy to follow. Close toe shoes, blue jeans and the uniform shirt. I like wearing blue jeans. I LOVE working at a job that requires them. No khakis allowed! The one real rule about jeans is that they can’t have holes in them. If they do you can get a “corrective action”(written up). What I HATE is buying a new pair of wranglers and then having to write them off two weeks later because SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE I brushed up against a surface that was coated with battery acid and now there are holes in my brand new pants!!! I know wranglers aren’t the most expensive jeans in the world but there’s no reason I should have gone through FOUR pairs in seven months! I’m even really careful around batteries, more so than when I started. But four pairs a year are more than I ever bought before working there. Of course the company won’t reimburse you, but I don’t blame them. Its my fault. And its not like you know you have acid on your jeans, get it on your skin and that’s a different matter altogether. You usually find out after you wash them and the holes magically appear. That being said, I don’t throw them away. They’re still good, just not for work. I really hate buying new work jeans all the time though. Breaking them in sucks! At least I live close to Walmart.
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I did a count and I have fourteen pairs of blue jeans. All bought this year. Not that big of deal to keep buying blue jeans when you work somewhere industrial. We don’t have a dress code where I work. We can wear shorts, non-jean pants, or even skirts and dresses, but I wear blue jeans because I usually get coated in oil and don’t really want to get it on my skin. I could buy Dickies, but Walmart jeans are cheaper than clothes made just for people who work. Even though holes are not against the dress code, I don’t wear jeans with holes to work. Then again, my jeans rip when the fabric gets weak.
I have jeans for non-work purposes as well. I don’t wear them to places that have machines that spray oil.
I don’t know if that is battery acid causing the holes. They used to wash jeans in acid back in the nineties and sell them like that. They didn’t have holes. Maybe they are catching on something in your washer. Try zipping up your jeans before washing them. That is what I do. The zippers sometimes catch on the material and rip the jeans or at least weaken the fabric places.
Really, breaking in a pair of jeans sucks? One, you can’t buy jeans that aren’t already worn out and broken in. As a child my mother bought me dark blue jeans that felt like cardboard when new. I don’t know where she bought them because now jeans are already faded. I know that there are various degrees of fading of Walmart jeans, but too many jeans are pre-treated. I miss that new jean feel.
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@Write and Left
Well my biggest issue is that four pairs of blue jeans used to last me TWO YEARS before I had to buy new ones, barring any major tears that might occur. I’m also a mechanic and have spent my fair share of time getting absolutely disgusting(especially when working on my own truck). Luckily Spray and Wash works miracles on oil stains! Though I did end up washing my jeans a lot. In the past I didn’t have a job and couldn’t pay for new pants. That’s since changed and maybe I’m still in my old mindset. As for the holes, I’m pretty sure its battery acid causing them. For a couple reasons: The hole are pretty distinctive, there’s never just one. Its always three or four in a small area, usually indicating a splatter pattern. Also I never had holes like them before I started work. And last, I’m not the only one who has these problems. All my other coworkers report the same thing, in varying degrees. I’m not surprised of course, we have some sorry looking batteries come in. Many of them leak and and we’ve even had a few that had blown up and were missing parts(obviously). Its always a juggling act to get them into the acid-proof bags that we ship them in. So getting acid on your clothes is inevitable.
I do remember when new jeans used to feel stiff and would chafe. It always drove me nuts! Though I’m not sure how far back you’re talking.
P.S. In case you hadn’t noticed I haven’t yet figured out how to quote certain parts of a post. I did it once and then completely forgot how I did it. Lol.
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I had a job interview at a new Marco’s Pizza that is opening soon two Wednesdays ago. I was told I was hired and someone would be in touch to tell me when training was and such.
Instead, I got a phone call from a guy I’m assuming is an owner asking if I could come in for a second interview. I said that was fine and I did the interview. At the end of the interview he said he would call me by Sunday night(the interview was Saturday morning) and tell me if I was hired or not. I gave him my home and cell numbers and advised him that I was going away on vacation next week, but he could call me on my cell phone.
I still haven’t gotten a phone call.
Fucking douche nozzle. If you tell someone you’re going to call them by such and such a time, at least fucking call them. I would’ve been fine if you had called me and told me I didn’t get the job. Then I could stop waiting and start looking for another job.
Now I’m trying to decide if I want to waste my time drafting an e-mail to send to their corporate office telling them how unprofessional their franchisee is.