Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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@auspice it’s so disrespectful, geez.
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@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
5 min from closing, kitchen is almost clean, everyone's wrapping up.........
Big party walks through the door.
You can bet there's a raging kitchen staff when you do that. Don't be those people.
One of my first jobs was at a kitchen in a restaurant, it was like two weeks after I started and all the kitchen staff was out taking a smoke break (This is also the job where I started smoking because smokers got two extra breaks) before clean up. We just got out there when we see a tour bus pull in less than 10 minutes from close. We ran back inside and and quickly got the clean up on the grills and oven started so we couldn't cook. Not my finest hour as an employee but I do not regret it.
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My husband likes to do the whole 'but they're open another half hour!' bullshit, because he does not get this, and it drives me crazy. I've managed to educate him out of most of it, but still have to remind him much more than I'd like. There's a reason I steer him toward the 24 hour diner a lot.
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My husband likes to do the whole 'but they're open another half hour!' bullshit, because he does not get this, and it drives me crazy. I've managed to educate him out of most of it, but still have to remind him much more than I'd like. There's a reason I steer him toward the 24 hour diner a lot.
I've known a few people in my life similar. I've never worked in the food service, but I've worked enough customer service (retail, call centers, etc.) that I know.
That last person in the store.
That guy that calls 5 minutes until the end of your shift and you're on the phone for an hour.Don't do this shit (I know the last one isn't really something in your control, but the others are). It's just rude.
I knew a woman who would purposefully go to CostCo right before they closed because it's their policy not to make people leave. She did it because 'oh it means I have the whole store to myself!'
This is the woman who, when Walmart first began trialing 24/7 hours around Christmas season....... I once went along with her and her kids so I could get some Christmas shopping done (my mom didn't want to go out that day) and found myself stuck in walmart for EIGHT FUCKING HOURS.
So you can imagine what her CostCo trips were like.
Those poor fucking employees.
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Weird. Places I go, close the door when they want to stop taking orders. You are often welcome to stay 30-60 minutes after that. They'll let you know when the kitchen is closing.
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@misadventure the couple of kitchens I worked at were similar. Cleaning didn't start until the doors were closed and locked.. but those people coming in at 10 minutes to closed weren't getting table service. Take out only.
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@misadventure said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Weird. Places I go, close the door when they want to stop taking orders. You are often welcome to stay 30-60 minutes after that. They'll let you know when the kitchen is closing.
Places I've worked, people are, of course, allowed to come in right to the very second of our posted business hours and stay as long as they like.
Because the people who set these policies are more than happy to toss another hour of minimum wage at the people who actually have to stay another hour away from our, y'know, families to deal with That Guy.
If you want to see passive aggression embodied, behold the wage slave who isn't actually allowed to kick That Guy out because it's closing time.
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I used to have a job in a department store for 5.15 an hour. Regularly, I'd have little old ladies come in 5 minutes before closing time and stay for -over an hour at times-. I was told specifically I wasn't allowed to rush them or harass them and could only offer service.
I found out they were all from the same social circle, and they always -loved that the store would stay open just for them-. They had zero empathy for the fact that I was staying over at least one night a week on account of them or people like them. Just me and my supervisor who always slept in her office. No co-workers because they were shopping primarily in my department so I was the one who always had to stay over. Fuck working in the department selling housewares, knicknacks, and assorted crystal gewgaws.
And fuck people who go to a business right before closing. Fuck them right in the eye socket. It shows a lack of empathy. If you have a friend or loved one who, after -being informed of the suffering they are inflicting- keeps on doing it? Your friend or loved one is either a malevolent asshole or an inconsiderate asshole. The asshole part is certain.
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Acid flashbacks.
They're not scary anymore, they're not even all that bizarre, they're just really disorienting and kind of annoying to wait out now, all because my ex and I thought doing acid one time was a super great idea, like almost five years ago now.
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I'm getting tired of our Office Martyr. Seriously, if they would stop complaining and do their work, they'd be done their work and would have time to complain about how they're out of things to do. This week, I heard them complete the 40 minute story about how over worked they are to every single person in the office who isn't a supervisor. That's 400 minutes(yes, I timed the speech, sue me) they could have spent doing their two hour task instead of complaining about it. Yes, I also know how to sort 40,000 items. You go to the data tab in excel and click sort, you're not moving mountains here. And stop 'working through lunches,' nobody is tricked by this except the new hire who thinks that's what we do. Ugh.
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@wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Acid flashbacks.
They're not scary anymore, they're not even all that bizarre, they're just really disorienting and kind of annoying to wait out now, all because my ex and I thought doing acid one time was a super great idea, like almost five years ago now.
That sucks.
I'm glad they at least aren't frightening.I did acid once (about seven? Eight? years ago?( and I've not had that happen thankfully. Honestly sometimes I kind of wanna do it again because the whole "orange juice is absolutely insanely amazing" thing is true. >.>
But then I remind myself that a) I'm in my thirties now, b) it could all go wrong a second time.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice Back in the 90s, friends of mine thought it would be entertaining to see what would happen if they slipped some to me for my birthday -- only mentioning this after they had done so.
I spent several hours totally fascinated by the bathroom tiles playing hopscotch and the shower curtain breathing and wouldn't let anyone in the bathroom for like... five hours.
They weren't as amused after that, since the house only had the one bathroom.
They finally pried me out of there by reminding me that my computer had an animated fractal generator on it, which resulted in my very first case of qwertyface.
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@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I did acid once (about seven? Eight? years ago?( and I've not had that happen thankfully. Honestly sometimes I kind of wanna do it again because the whole "orange juice is absolutely insanely amazing" thing is true. >.>
But then I remind myself that a) I'm in my thirties now, b) it could all go wrong a second time.I wouldn't ever do LSD again, it was waaaaay too intense for me. I didn't have a bad trip or anything, I was very aware the whole time that I was hallucinating and that it would eventually be over, and parts of it were either really funny or really enlightening or both in a way that is still with me, but I was also very aware of how easily things could possibly go bad, and that they would go really bad.
I still wanna try shrooms again though sometime, haha. >____>
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I smoked a joint for my 40th birthday, but that is the extent of my recreational non-alcohol drug use, unless you count diet coke. I've never gotten high from the edibles I've tried since, though they do make me just go to sleep after a certain point. I think I'm just one of those un-fun weird metabolizers of substances where I don't get high. The only think that remotely has made me feel high at all is prednisone. I'm always excited to get the 10 day course around my first bad upper respiratory infection of the season (those trigger my asthma/reactive airway, which is why I get the prednisone), since I know that if I make a list of all the special organizing/house cleaning projects that I've wanted to do but haven't made the time for and post it on my bulletin board, I will get them done pretty much in the first 48 hours on the drug. Of course, I also won't sleep for 48 hours either, but I'm usually cheerful and happy until I crash!
It almost (almost) makes me wish that diet pills/dexatrim/speed was still available OTC, for when I need to get more housework projects done. I guess calling that shit Mommy's Little Helpers in the olden days was the real deal.
Hubby says mushrooms are like pot like whoa. (For those of you who know him, no that's not a verbatim quote, just my paraphrase). If shrooms actually tasted like mushrooms I would be all over that shit at least once, but sadly I guess they don't really taste like anything, because unless you are stupid, you're getting just a little bit.
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shrooms, sadly, don't really do much for me. I've done them a few times. Though, it might be because I made them into a tea because, well. The taste. Most people I knew would put them on pizza to help. I tried twice and had some visual hallucinations, but no more than salvia ever did so it was like, eh. Whatever.
But like with all recreationals: ymmv!
MDMA is the one I really like because it's the perfect 'body high.' Hours of being wonderfully pain-free. >.>
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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I just wanna go live in a place where marijuana is legal again. I've never really had a desire to try anything harder (except maybe ecstasy, there's a tiny curiosity but I'm not about to actually do that, ever). I miss edibles and feeling sooo relaxed. Or that weird feeling of my eyeballs and face being slightly numb. >.>
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It's been a few months - single and Canadian, and probably will be still in October. (Home delivery will be an option...)
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Haven't been at work even an hour, so it's too soon to take a break.
So I'm just sitting here doing my damndest not to cry.
I haven't wanted to cry at work in a long time. -
What the hell, Steam?
High School: bisexual experience
Since you wish for Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Seriously, what the hell?
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You do the shrooms with the MDMA. Hippy flipping. It is wonderful.
