Rant Thread II - Page 241

honeythorn · 06-19-2011, 04:17 PM

Mr Doobie's rant is the reason I do not and have only once worked in a job involving serving people.

That was a part time waitressing job, and to be fair it was the best job I've ever had. The regular customers were a laugh, all the staff would have a fairly good time every night, even on large functions and weddings. There were very few bad customers to be honest. Sadly the restaurant closed down when the owners son took over and ran it into the ground . I really miss that place.

I refuse the customer is always right rule. I would be willing to lose a job over it to be honest. Because no one should be allowed to treat you that way full stop, customer, manager, owner or otherwise. Before now I have ponted out to other customers when shopping, that they have been wrong when being a twat to an employee. No it's none of my business, but I will sure as hell make it my business if I can see that the customer is wrong and being a cunt about it.

Grausamkeit · 06-19-2011, 04:50 PM

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Ah WalMart...most fucked up summer job I've had. For starters, they couldn't give us a constant shift. No, your hours changed every day. You might be working till 10 one day and getting there at 7 the next. Needless to say, it wreaked havoc on my sleep schedule.

The bad part though, was the one co-worker. No, not just your ordinary run-of-the-mill ass. This guy was a serious pervert. Every single women who had worked with him had filed a complaint. He'd describe in detail what he wanted to do to them. It was at the point where I wouldn't go into the back room unless someone else was working there (we were in a small section with our own back room). I also got treated to a general discussion between several employees (including our manager) of the inherent instability of non-heterosexual women. Management just didn't care.

The customers were actually nice, for the most part. There was the occasional entitled dumbass, but 98% of the people were decent. I did notice that the dumbasses were 100% white, 80% male, and generally over 50. Never had any problems with the teens or young people. Had the occasional problem with a little kid, but that counts as the parents being idiots - the kids were just being kids. Still, I was glad to get away from that environment.

Heh, the conversations you can't get involved in because you'll be shouted down by the 'right' people. Don't you just love it when they start saying dumb shit like "homosexuals are so slutty!" How the fuck do they know? Our next assignment in Psych is filling out this 'Heterosexual Questionaire' that has a bunch of hilarious and insulting questions like 'what do you think caused your heterosexuality?' and 'If you've never slept with someone of the same sex, is it possible that all you need is a good Gay lover?' 'why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyle?'

I wonder how many people will find it acceptable to ask those questions of the gay community, but not of the heterosexuals?

Saya · 06-19-2011, 05:02 PM

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Heh, the conversations you can't get involved in because you'll be shouted down by the 'right' people. Don't you just love it when they start saying dumb shit like "homosexuals are so slutty!" How the fuck do they know? Our next assignment in Psych is filling out this 'Heterosexual Questionaire' that has a bunch of hilarious and insulting questions like 'what do you think caused your heterosexuality?' and 'If you've never slept with someone of the same sex, is it possible that all you need is a good Gay lover?' 'why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyle?'

I wonder how many people will find it acceptable to ask those questions of the gay community, but not of the heterosexuals?

Quite a few, and not even people you'd think would think of themselves as homophobic. I'm only recently becoming more open about being queer, I came out to a few people when I was 18 and got branded a slut, or as one girl (WHO IS BISEXUAL) told me I was just saying it for attention because I'm too much of a prude to like girls. And not to mention guys thinking that meant that I'm totally up for threesomes and letting them watch me be with girls.

Grausamkeit · 06-19-2011, 07:44 PM

I hate that shit! Just because two girls get together it doesn't mean they need a dick to come between them.

BlacKat · 06-19-2011, 09:02 PM

That incident also generated a lovely case of Things I Wish I Had Said. In particular to one of the guys: "You know that second date you were looking for? It's never happening." Wish I'd had the courage at the time to say why, but I was pretty stressed at the time and didn't have the extra mental energy.

Grausamkeit · 06-19-2011, 09:29 PM

Don't get me started on Things I Should Have Said. I'll be berating myself till dawn. I always think of the best things to say hours or days(weeks?) later. My brain is slow and all its juices(what there are) are being expended on school.

BlacKat · 06-19-2011, 09:45 PM

Don't we all. Although I think this is more a case of things I would have said if there hadn't been Consequences. Already feeling shitty at work + management clearly doesn't care = not a good time to come out.

As an only semi-related note - what is it with people that think they can tell random people to smile? Makes me want to slap them and then see if they start smiling.

Grausamkeit · 06-20-2011, 09:19 AM

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Don't we all. Although I think this is more a case of things I would have said if there hadn't been Consequences. Already feeling shitty at work + management clearly doesn't care = not a good time to come out.

As an only semi-related note - what is it with people that think they can tell random people to smile? Makes me want to slap them and then see if they start smiling.

I told one of my Catholic bosses that I was a Pagan(well, I thought I was till I quit believing in illogical shit). She almost had a conniption right there.

I find that if you're a woman, people think that it's okay to tell you to 'smile' because 'you're pretty when you smile'. It's just outdated, sexist bullshit. I've yet to hear of any number of men complaining of women telling them to smile so that they look pretty. We have a vagina so it must be our duty in life to smile, look pretty and please men, right?

BlacKat · 06-20-2011, 09:55 AM

Of course! Although I've found it also gets combined for me with ridiculous notions about childhood (along with some plain misreading of my age). People assume a young woman can't possibly have anything in her life worth being upset over, and thus any displays of negative emotion are insignificant and easily blown over. Not sure how much this affects young men - I suspect there's some gender difference, but I don't know how far.

Mr.Doobie · 06-20-2011, 12:08 PM

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I told one of my Catholic bosses that I was a Pagan(well, I thought I was till I quit believing in illogical shit). She almost had a conniption right there.

I find that if you're a woman, people think that it's okay to tell you to 'smile' because 'you're pretty when you smile'. It's just outdated, sexist bullshit. I've yet to hear of any number of men complaining of women telling them to smile so that they look pretty. We have a vagina so it must be our duty in life to smile, look pretty and please men, right?

Well, I once had an old man tell me (upon seeing me with my hands in my pockets) "WHY DO YOU HAVE YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS! YOUR HANDS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FREE! LIKE A HAPPY BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!! *flaps hands like a moron*"

Grausamkeit · 06-20-2011, 12:29 PM

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Well, I once had an old man tell me (upon seeing me with my hands in my pockets) "WHY DO YOU HAVE YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS! YOUR HANDS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FREE! LIKE A HAPPY BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!! *flaps hands like a moron*"

That's extremely odd. Is that like the pants on the ground guy? Maybe they could sing a duet about weird shit olde people say?

Fuck-fuckity-fuck-fuck, I'm gonna have to drop my Math class for this summer. It makes me feel like a failure, but the teacher just confuses the hell out of me when I ask her something or acts like I'm an idiot becdause she failed to put some pertinent(like when the quizes are due) into the syllabus. I also had to spend $200 on a fucking book packet with video lectures that don't even work on my laptop or PC. Doesn't matter which version of quicktime I install.

BlacKat · 06-20-2011, 12:54 PM

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Fuck-fuckity-fuck-fuck, I'm gonna have to drop my Math class for this summer. It makes me feel like a failure, but the teacher just confuses the hell out of me when I ask her something or acts like I'm an idiot becdause she failed to put some pertinent(like when the quizes are due) into the syllabus. I also had to spend $200 on a fucking book packet with video lectures that don't even work on my laptop or PC. Doesn't matter which version of quicktime I install.

I suppose there isn't some sort of help center or tutoring service available? I know my school had a learning center where you could go and get things explained to you.

In terms of the completely trivial: Why can't they make a strapless top that actually stays put? It's taking me forever getting this thing I bought fixed - it's a lovely top, but at this point I could probably have made one from scratch for less effort than it's taking to modify it to stay where it's supposed to be in the first place.

Grausamkeit · 06-20-2011, 01:28 PM

They have tutoring services available at the learning center, but my husband's work schedule just shifted and they won't look too kindly on him if he has to start rearranging it further for my school work. He's already had to change it and has to be late some days for the kids summer classes. I just freak out over school things. Im going to drop it and take it again with a different teacher this fall.

BlacKat · 06-20-2011, 01:34 PM

Let me guess, only one car and no public transportation? That sucks.

honeythorn · 06-20-2011, 02:46 PM

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Why can't they make a strapless top that actually stays put? It's taking me forever getting this thing I bought fixed - it's a lovely top, but at this point I could probably have made one from scratch for less effort than it's taking to modify it to stay where it's supposed to be in the first place.

I have the same problem with strapless bras. I have yet to find one that actually holds my tits up and keeps them up. All the ones I've tried on simply end up shuffling down, and putting the swingers back into pendulum mode

Ben Lahnger · 06-20-2011, 03:46 PM

I notice the account FakeAccount is gone, and all threads and posts by said entity appear to be wiped as well. That was fast, but predictable.

I suppose he will be back, or is already back in another form.

BlacKat · 06-20-2011, 04:47 PM

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I have the same problem with strapless bras. I have yet to find one that actually holds my tits up and keeps them up. All the ones I've tried on simply end up shuffling down, and putting the swingers back into pendulum mode

I finally gave in and bought a cheap waist cincher and am in the process of sewing bra cups to it. Devilishly hard to pin the things in place when one doesn't have help, but it will keep the bra up by simple virtue of nowhere to go.

Ben Lahnger · 06-20-2011, 07:40 PM

I used to watch the British television space-opera Blake's 7 when it was airing on PBS here in the United States (typically after an episode of Doctor Who). I'd forgotten about it for a while, and then while doing some Brit-TV research, I stumbled across it. And I'd like to watch it again.

But PBS doesn't show it anymore. In fact, no one does. It's not on Netflix or any other such on-demand service that I'm aware of. There were VHS tapes released and the whole series came out on Region 2 DVD's, but never Region 1 so that renders those useless unless I buy an unlocked player specifically to play them.

*sigh* I'm just a little annoyed. I know it's a little old, but you can still watch the twilight zone, the original Battlestar Galactica and a ton of other old sci-fi that wasn't as good as B7. (Okay, much of TZ was very good.)

It shouldn't be that hard to watch a show in this day and age.

Versus · 06-20-2011, 11:58 PM

I hate freakishly large bugs. I found a beetle the size of my thumb crawling on me last night.

MissCheyenne · 06-21-2011, 05:17 AM

^ Ugh, bugs in general creep me out. Especially centipedes and earwigs. Too many legs for my liking. UGGGGGGGGGGGH.

Fruitbat · 06-21-2011, 06:13 AM

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I hate freakishly large bugs. I found a beetle the size of my thumb crawling on me last night.

Fuck it! I've been found out... shit.. what am I going to do now???

Crapola... a bat one week and a freakish large bug the next.. the things I do......

*wink*

honeythorn · 06-21-2011, 10:14 AM

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Especially c********s

SHHH! DON'T SAY THE NAME !

I hate them I hate them !

They are one of the few creatures that will make me scream like a little girl , and run away flapping my hands madly before stomping up and down upon any possible unseen ones that may be in the area

Murder.Of.Crows · 06-21-2011, 10:19 AM

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SHHH! DON'T SAY THE NAME !

I hate them I hate them !

They are one of the few creatures that will make me scream like a little girl , and run away flapping my hands madly before stomping up and down upon any possible unseen ones that may be in the area

Aww honey thorn. So I take it that this would scare you?

(I was gonna be mean, but I decided to make a link and be nice. Well kinda nice.)

Grausamkeit · 06-21-2011, 10:38 AM

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Aww honey thorn. So I take it that this would scare you?

(I was gonna be mean, but I decided to make a link and be nice. Well kinda nice.)

You are evil, I like that.

Valhalla · 06-21-2011, 11:03 AM

I can't stand spiders with freakishly long legs, or earwigs. I've never seen a centipede in real life, but that picture grossed me out enough to confirm I wouldn't like them either.