Anger Thread v2

[mhtwins113]

haha, luckily it wasnt me driving. my insurance wont go up but my friend emma's will. lets just hope my parents dont find otu since they absolutly hate me driving with my friends.
Considering that if you were in CA, you wouldn't be legally allowed to drive with anyone under 21 for a year, maybe they should move back here. :p

[prymetyme]

that is true, but the age turns out the same because you get your permit 6 months earlier :p

but yes. i'd rather be back in CA, the rain isnt stopping out here in new england. I dont get how people can live here and not go crazy. Its rediculous.

[benni...]

Im disappointed that my job is full of a bunch of young women, who are either pregnant, or just PMSing, and have an attitdue. The women are actually above me, so I have to deal with that shit. But the women on my level, are pretty cool. They all smoke weed to. Well most of them, so thats a plus.

Also Im the youngest....again.

[billyireland]

that is true, but the age turns out the same because you get your permit 6 months earlier :p

but yes. i'd rather be back in CA, the rain isnt stopping out here in new england. I dont get how people can live here and not go crazy. Its rediculous.
Try Ireland, AKA God's urinal.

[mhtwins113]

Try Ireland, AKA God's urinal.
74 degress F both yesterday and today, nice little breeze going on, absolutely perfect out here. I went to the beach yesterday, but the water was slightly chilly so I decided to just chill out with my friend and gawk at the beach babes.

:p

[holytoledo]

even up here it's been unusually warm, with the exception of the streak of rainy days the last week, 50s and 60s in april, and this next couple weeks it looks like 60s and 70s are in the forecast...which means we'll probably still get a blizzard.

[billyireland]

74 degress F both yesterday and today, nice little breeze going on, absolutely perfect out here. I went to the beach yesterday, but the water was slightly chilly so I decided to just chill out with my friend and gawk at the beach babes.

:p
I spent a good deal of yesterday walking around in a supermarket with a very sore foot (blister under my heel), facing off the toothbrush and baby food aisles. For those who don't know what facing off is, it is basically bringing the stuff from the back of the shelves to the front so things look tidier and are easier for the customer to find. It's fine when you have the wine, drinks or toilet/kitchen roll aisles since they are big and easy to organise. Doing the aisles with tiny babyfood jars and toothbrushes that are held in place and thus take forever to move is a f'n nightmare however, and takes forever.

[holytoledo]

I spent a good deal of yesterday walking around in a supermarket with a very sore foot (blister under my heel), facing off the toothbrush and baby food aisles. For those who don't know what facing off is, it is basically bringing the stuff from the back of the shelves to the front so things look tidier and are easier for the customer to find. It's fine when you have the wine, drinks or toilet/kitchen roll aisles since they are big and easy to organise. Doing the aisles with tiny babyfood jars and toothbrushes that are held in place and thus take forever to move is a f'n nightmare however, and takes forever.

:eek:
oh god, the facing. i work at walgreens(drug/convenience store). i feel for you man, when the rep comes around im giving it to you, cause i have been/am still there. the worst is when you get chewed out for not facing well enough. do they really think i give a shit? is the blank look on my face not enough of a clue? oh well, i could rant about that terrible place all day. hang in there sir. tell them that their facing off can go ******** off.

[billyireland]

:eek:
oh god, the facing. i work at walgreens(drug/convenience store). i feel for you man, when the rep comes around im giving it to you, cause i have been/am still there. the worst is when you get chewed out for not facing well enough. do they really think i give a shit? is the blank look on my face not enough of a clue? oh well, i could rant about that terrible place all day. hang in there sir. tell them that their facing off can go ******** off.
It's not so bad right now, because we just switched floor managers yesterday and the new guy is only about 24-ish by the looks of it, and lives a 2 minute walk away from me; seems pretty cool. He said he recognised me, and I certainly know him from somewhere a few years back... he might be mates with my nextdoor neighbour come to think of it. The handy bit there is that I get the easy aisles for facing. I also just took the job up recently (just finished my back week), and bumped into the store manager recently who said I got a good report or something along those lines, which is handy since staying on their good side is the best way to avoid facing toothbrushes in future.

The worst two things are facing an aisle you don't know too well, because you are GUARANTEED to have at least 4-5 people asking you where things are, so you've got to go interrupt the manager - it's ALWAYS for middle-aged women as well. I don't mind if it is something like what happened yesterday where it was somebody looking for contact lens solution (her eyes were almost purple, poor woman looked in bits), but when people ask me to go back and look for shit like blank A4 paper, specific types of hair gel, etc... then I find myself needing to take a deep breath and count to 20. I mean, even if I go to the back, down the lift, search around the cages for ages and get the right stuff, I'll get in shit with the manager unless I stack the entire crate, and if I stack one crate I have to do the entire cage, but then get in shit for not doing my original job. Of course, even if I were to go to all that trouble, the person will have left by the time I get back up. Frustrating!

That and moving the cages (not sure if you use cages over there; basically a 7ft cage on wheels filled with the crates of whatever you are stacking) to your aisle when the place is busy. The middle-aged women and the few men you find walking around are actually quite handy here, since they will *usually try to get out of your way. I have to say though, that the elderly are about as ignorant as can be in that regard however. Yes, you are older and so on. I'll stand up and give you my seat on the bus if there is nowhere else to sit, I'll even do it to save you the walk up the stairs... so please, PLEASE, stop walking in my way, refusing to move when I politely ask you to while you stare at the shelves for minutes on end, leaving your trolleys right in my way, and sometimes even trying to play chicken with me rather than just turning into an aisle for a second when we are on a collision course in a narrow section.

*Usually most people get out of your way, but some women are always on a warpath in supermarkets. I remember the other day when I was bringing down a cage with a broken wheel (very irritating) and case upon case of wine (so it was not only extremely heavy - 160kg's or thereabouts, but also quite fragile) and the walk on the way down to the wine aisle was blocked by a lot of other cages (a delivery truck had just come) with just enough space to squeeze a trolly or cage through. So I was about to go through the gap when somebody went through, I pulled aside and let them obviously. Then I had almost got the cage back in the right way to get it through (angling those things when there is so much weight on them is tough, doing it with a broken wheel is a 2-3 man job, but the floor was understaffed that day), when all of a sudden some woman comes barging through, but pulls back as if she is going to let me through. I finish getting the cage in position, and just as I am about to push it through, she decides to go forward anyway. I politely asked her to step back for a second, and her reply was along the lines of "you work here, you pull that back so I can get through". I asked why she didn't just go through earlier when I gave her the space, and she decided to hit me with "I gave you the chance but you took too long slacking off". I explained the weight of the cage and the broken wheel - again, calmly. Her reply? "Just get it out of my way and quit slacking off, you're in a real job now". Then the clock caught the corner of my eye: 8pm... the time the floor staff get a 5 minute communal smoke break. "Well, it's 8pm now" I inform her "if I don't take my smoke break right now, I don't get it until I'm off in two hours. Had you let me through this situation enver would have arisen, but such is life. If you watn to try wheeling it out of your way, feel free". I gave her a smug grin and took my break, and when I came back it turned out that she had reported me to the boss. As she stood there, probably hoping to see some young lad just trying to earn some honest money for the summer get fired, my boss said he would have 'stern words' with me in the office in 5 minutes. I went into the office thinking "oh shit" but he had just told the two security guards in there, and they were all laughing their asses off. He told me to try and avoid those situations in the future, but knew exactly where I was coming from and wished he had done that sometime when he worked on the floor. :D

[Leto]

I suddenly appreciate my job so much more.

[billyireland]

I suddenly appreciate my job so much more.
LOL, what do you work as? Strangely enough, besides facing the toothbrush/baby food aisles, and pulling the cages on busy days, working in Tesco is not nearly as bad as people make out. :o

[mhtwins113]

I talk to angry Asian moms with barely discernable English over the phone, trying to explain why their kid didn't get 2400 out of 2400 on the SAT and why whippnig them will not produce better results.

[Howard Zinn]

I talk to angry Asian moms with barely discernable English over the phone, trying to explain why their kid didn't get 2400 out of 2400 on the SAT and why whippnig them will not produce better results.


What do you tell them? :D

[mhtwins113]

What do you tell them? :D
After I waste 10 minutes or so trying to calm them down and getting them to accept that their kid doesn't deserve to commit suicide for tarnishing the family honor by "only" getting 2200, then I recommend them for more classes, which they promptly plunk the money down for.

[Sapphire]

blah blah blahOMG, Billy. The only thing more boring than facing is reading a short novella on facing on this forum. ;)

[Sapphire]

I talk to angry Asian moms with barely discernable English over the phone, trying to explain why their kid didn't get 2400 out of 2400 on the SAT and why whippnig them will not produce better results.Wait, did they change the SAT?? It's still just 1600 max, right?

[Stud83]

Wait, did they change the SAT?? It's still just 1600 max, right?

They changed it last year. 2400 is max, and I doubt it's reachable by normal people.

[bestbecks]

I am so glad I don't need to take the SAT.

[holytoledo]

me too, just the act for me. those tests are still a pain though.

hey look at the time! where are my manners, im not supposed to be sober!
toodles! :D

[littleman]

They changed it last year. 2400 is max, and I doubt it's reachable by normal people.

Are you sure?

I know that SAT II is 2400, because you need to take 3 papers. But as for SAT I being 2400.. hmm. But as for that Asian attitude, I'm well aware of that. I scored 1460 (or 1480..) for my SAT I and I was very, very unsatisfied.